This oral autobiography of two remarkable Cree women tells their life stories against a backdrop of government discrimination, First Nations activism, and the resurgence of First Nations communities. Nellie Carlson and Kathleen...
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.
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Auteur:Carlson, Nellie, Steinhauer, KathleenSommaire: - Auteur:Sommaire:
The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America's leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks...
- Auteur:France, M. Honoré, Rodriguez, Maria del Carmen, Hett, Geoffrey G.Sommaire:
Canada is one of the most diverse nations in the world. As counsellors increasingly deal with people from many different cultures and backgrounds, there is a need to shift from Eurocentric counselling theories and methods towards an...
- Auteur:Hett, Geoffrey, Rodríguez, María del Carmen, Holder, Place, France, M. HonorâeSommaire:
A uniquely Canadian approach to multicultural counselling. In a country as diverse as Canada, a multicultural counselling approach provides an essential starting point for working with people from different ethnicities, sexualities,...
- Auteur:Mohan, SuruchiSommaire:
Set in the historic Indian city of Lucknow, rich in its classical musical and cultural traditions, this novel weaves in, exquisitely, the themes of spirituality and sensuousness, the divine and the carnal, decay and regeneration. The...
- Auteur:Pirk, WendySommaire:
They are four-legged, furry, and possibly a little drooly, but you'll be happy to know dogs in action are on the job when things get rough! From sniffing out bombs or chasing down criminals to finding lost people, these working...
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Most pets' main job is to provide companionship to their human companions. But many dogs have other, very important jobs as well. Dogs' keen sense of smell, their intelligence and willingness to learn and their strong dispositions make...
- Auteur:Rice, RobertaSommaire:
Across North and South America, Indigenous people play a dual political role, building self-governing structures in their own nations and participating in the elections of settler states. Doing Democracy Differently asks how states are...
- Auteur:Neil, DanialSommaire:
It is 1917, and a rather ruthless world of war and men. Women find themselves overwhelmed by the despotic nature of men. And in Edinburgh, it is no different. The war rages in Europe and the poverty at home fouls the cobbled streets....
- Auteur:Reiff, TanaSommaire:
This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Leena's children are older, so she goes back to school. All goes well until Omar, her husband...
- Auteur:Noble, CharlesSommaire:
Charles Noble’s long poem playfully connects autobiography, narrative, philosophy, history, and satire and experiments with language and structure in a way that pushes the limits of contemporary poetry. Noble leaves no leaf...
- Auteur:Bradley, DougSommaire:
Introducing classic stories from the original masters of horror, this ebook includes all of the stories from Volume One of the Spinechillers audiobook series as well as Doug Bradley's special introduction, available for the first time...
- Auteur:Bradley, DougSommaire:
Volume 4 is a feast for crows with such tales as Lost Hearts, The Damned Thing, Poe's famous poem A Dream Within a Dream, and a man's descent into madness with only his black cat to keep him company. This ebook contains all stories from...
- Auteur:Bradley, DougSommaire:
Introducing classic stories from the original masters of horror. This eBook includes all of the stories from Volume Five of the Spinechillers audiobook series as well as Doug Bradley's special introduction. These stories include: The...
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Doug Bradley's Spine Chillers, Volume 2, presents four classic stories from the masters of horror literature. It kicks off with Charles Dickens' friend and collaborator Wilkie Collins' eerie tale of a man's dream of his own murder that...
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This collected volume starts with the famous M. R. James story of occult revenge, "Casting the Runes", about a slighted occultist out for murderous revenge using his diabolical black arts to achieve it. It was adapted into the equally...
- Auteur:Bateman, DavidSommaire:
Discover the difference between living a life and simply enduring on in this cross-campus, cross-country comedy of manners, queerness, poetry and HIV. Stephen is middle-aged. He's gay. He's content, except when he isn't. Stephen is a...
- Auteur:Ladouceur, LouiseSommaire:
Translation is tricky business. The translator has to transform the foreign to the familiar while moving and pleasing his or her audience. Louise Ladouceur knows theatre from a multi-dimensional perspective that gives her research a...
- Auteur:Williams, Donna GleeSommaire:
By the time she's sixteen, the town's Dreamer has long ago given up her own life. She only dreams for others now, every morning delivering up to them the divine guidance that comes to her in the night. In exchange, they treat...
- Auteur:Edugyan, EsiSommaire:
Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention.. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean...
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