Art takes many forms. In this selection of Asian court attire, dating from the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), the phrase "you are what you wear" resonates. Vollmer journeys back to the thirteenth-century Chinese Empire, where...
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:Vollmer, John E.Sommaire: - Auteur:Leslie, RosellaSommaire:
Emma Phillips is a 35-year-old divorcee with an undemanding job, a rustic old house, and a friend who provides all the benefits she needs. She's comfortable, complacent, and accustomed to getting her own way – until she...
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Hans Blekansit, estranged father of the young sorceress Driftwood Ellesmere and ruthless businessman, is aggressively logging the Stoltmann Wilderness Area. AsDriftwood and her friends fight to defend the land near Camp Magee, she is...
- Auteur:Davidge, JamesSommaire:
The amazing origin of our heroine is learnt as Driftwood and her friends grapple with a monster that creates evilly hypnotic video games.It was during a normally quiet day on Ellesmere Island that Old Bart was interrupted by a pregnant...
- Auteur:Davidge, JamesSommaire:
Angering the Inuit sea goddess Sedna brings about powerful visions and overwhelming abilities for the young sorceress Driftwood Ellesmere. Giants created by Hans Blekansit continue to spew Blekan-Marts all over the world. Odin, Thor and...
- Auteur:Davidge, JamesSommaire:
To increase profits, Hans Blekansit is threatening to bring the world into a horrible war. Meanwhile, Driftwood struggles with the rigorous magic instructional the Regimental Conservatory of the Order of the Good and True but gets...
- Auteur:Fabijančić, TonySommaire:
Since childhood, Tony Fabijančić has travelled frequently to Yugoslavia and Croatia, the homeland of his father. He spent time with his peasant family in the village of Srebrnjak in the north and escaped to the Adriatic islands in the...
- Auteur:Relke, Diana M.A.Sommaire:
The Star Trek franchise represents one of the most successful emanations of popular media in our culture. The number of books, both popular and scholarly, published on the subject of Star Trek is massive, with more and more titles...
- Auteur:Bell, E.C.Sommaire:
Marie thinks solving Eddie's murder will be a piece of cake. All she has to do is ask him who killed him, but he isn't at his murder site. Of course. There's never a ghost around when you want one.
- Auteur:Galler-Smith, Barbara, Langston, JoshSommaire:
For over 1000 years, Celts rule Europe. The most revered are the Druids: bards, healers, judges, and seers. A special few protect the secrets of ancient Earth magic, including a healer from Iberia, and a seer from Belgica. Rhonwen, the...
- Auteur:Evans, C.D., Shyba, L. M.Sommaire:
Ducks Redux is a YA RomCom about Maeve Wong, an environmental science graduate who gets caught up in a bizarre revolution with unscrupulous lawyers and oil barons who plan to take over the government of Oil Land. One love of Maeve’s...
- Auteur:Wallace, StoneSommaire:
The smoke had barely cleared from the booze-fueled gun battles of Prohibition and the Roaring 20s when a new breed of gangster stepped onto the American stage. Unlike the slick mobsters of New York and Chicago, the new outlaws were...
- Auteur:Schroeder, AndreasSommaire:
In this new edition of a prairie classic, Andreas Schroeder fictionalizes the true story of Tom Sukanen's wild scheme to build an ocean-going ship in the middle of a wheat field in Saskatchewan. Set during the hardships of the...
- Auteur:Sutherland, ChristineSommaire:
Christine Sutherland, co-founder of the Sutherland-Chan School of Massage Therapy, teaches the basics of palliative massage to allow medical professionals, hospice volunteers, and the family and friends of palliative patients to ensure...
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An anthology featuring creatures of the element Earth.
- Auteur:Vaz-Oxlade, GailSommaire:
This high-interest, low-vocabulary money management book is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Wish you could find a money book that doesn't make your eyes glaze over or your...
- Auteur:Kelly, SandraSommaire:
Patsy Keane survived her childhood, and some days that's all that matters. As the child of an alcoholic mother, Patsy is not prone to nostalgia. She lives in a world of her own creation, where Beverly Keane's maternal...
- Auteur:Bedford, K. A.Sommaire:
Watching HMS Eclipse through the geosynch spaceport window, Officer James Dunne, a newly minted graduate of the Royal Interstellar Service Academy, thinks his first assignment will be routine . . . an easy going excursion on an aging...
- Auteur:Sandford, Robert W.Sommaire:
Ecology & Wonder makes several remarkable claims: The greatest cultural achievement in the Western Canadian mountain region may be what has been preserved, not what has been developed. Protecting the spine of the Rocky Mountains...
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