When a mysterious attack leaves them all stranded in an uncharted system, Luta and her crew must decide who to trust.
Read Alberta eBook Collection
A partnership of the Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) and Alberta Municipal Affairs’ Public Library Services Branch (PLSB) launched the Read Alberta eBook Collection to make Alberta-published eBooks available to readers across the province and country. Titles are added quarterly.
- Auteur:Ramsey, Sherry D.Sommaire:
- Auteur:Broad, Barry, Mendelson, DrewSommaire:
Madness and murder engulf a floating oil platform. A remote deep-sea oil drill blows apart, pushing the cash-strapped energy company that owns it toward bankruptcy. Madness and murder engulf the oil platform. A probe shows intelligent...
- Auteur:Belyea, BarbaraSommaire:
The fur trade was the impetus for much of the exploration and discovery of North America. Like rolling storm clouds, the expanding enterprise of the fur trade moved relentlessly west to explore the furthest reaches of the continent....
- Auteur:Hayward, AmberSommaire:
To the world the international cult leader Caldos Moriera is a saint and a healer. His healing touch has made him famous and allows him to charge whatever price he desires for his service. But the money and gratitude lavished upon him...
- Auteur:Mackenzie, NadineSommaire:
In 1842, in the midst of a current for tartans and all things Scottish, two brothers published Vestiarium Scoticum, a replica of an ancient catalogue of ancestral clan tartans that they claimed to have been found in a monastery in...
- Auteur:Smith, Michelle, Smith, MichelleSommaire:
By turns joyous and adventurous, melancholy and nostalgic, Michelle Smith's debut collection of poems showcases a wide-ranging fascination with places, people, and story. Smith's limpid and humane handling of an array of...
- Auteur:Banks, SydneySommaire:
Liza, an orphan girl living on the cold streets of London in 1834, is able to rise above her squalid surroundings to bring joy to the lives of others. Although only 11, she displays amazing courage as she cares for a younger child and...
- Auteur:Hill, LawrenceSommaire:
Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes...
- Auteur:Noble, CharlesSommaire:
"Noble's work has always engaged, in its own way, with the Western Canadian tradition of poetry as intellectual experiment grounded on local experience.… Death Drive marks a counter-turn in the work of one of...
- Auteur:Acorn, JohnSommaire:
Alberta is well known for its fossil treasures, and author John Acorn is as keen on the long-dead creatures of Alberta as he is on the living. Here, John features 80 of the most noteworthy fossils, fossil locations, and fossil hunters...
- Auteur:Scott, ChicSommaire:
Hans Gmoser (1932–2006) was the most influential mountaineer in Canada of the last fifty years. Through innovation, hard work, perseverance and an appetite for adventure, Gmoser evolved from penniless immigrant to mountain...
- Auteur:Braune, SeanSommaire:
Text surrounds us. Text is everywhere, all the time, and the contemporary world is a codex to be deciphered and disassembled. In Dendrite Balconies, Sean Braune harvests the language that surrounds us-pieces and shards from other...
- Auteur:Phare, Merrell-AnnSommaire:
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies. First Nations are facing some of the worst water crises in Canada and throughout North America....
- Auteur:Rennie, GordonSommaire:
Officially, it's the Department of Cryptozoology, Mythological Studies, Parapsychology and Fortean Phenomena. But to the rest of the students and staff at the Dunsany College, baffled by the cloak of secrecy...
- Auteur:Rennie, GordonSommaire:
Gordon Rennie, PJ Holden, Steven Denton and Jim Campbell return to campus with the next instalment of cryptozoological adventure. Sabbaticals picks up after the events of Monsterology 101, with several team members pursuing their own...
- Auteur:Delisle, Jennifer BoweringSommaire:
Deriving explores infertility, motherhood, and family, while troubling the colonial legacies of the English language and Canadian identity. A feminist exploration of ancestral and etymological origins, Jennifer Bowering Delisle's...
- Auteur:Bateman, DavidSommaire:
Designation Youth by David Bateman continues the writer’s experiments with Rococo prose-poetry on themes of ageing, puzzlement, lovers past, and objects of desire.
- Auteur:Donahue, TopherSommaire:
Thirty years ago a frustrated physicist from Seattle named Ron Gregg was retreating from an aborted attempt at a new alpine style route on Denali. His partner had been evacuated by helicopter, but Ron chose to ski back to the highway...
- Auteur:Bartlett, CathieSommaire:
Story of a young British immigrants experiences as she comes to Alberta, Canada.
- Auteur:Napal, RajSommaire:
The handbook covers the essential grounds for detention, the legislation, the case law and the procedural protocol of the Immigration Division. The case study of Alfred Blake provides practical insight on all the preparation work that...