In 59 Glass Bridges, an unnamed narrator travels through a maze that is at once mutable and immutable: walls fall to vine-filled forests, hallways to rivers, bridges to lamp-lit boats. What remains is the desire to escape. He is led...
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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Author:Peters, StevenSummary: - Author:Rosen, Jurgen von, Rosen, Martha vonSummary:
Baroness Martha von Rosen, a Baltic German aristocrat, and her memories of the last year of the Second World War and the diary of her late husband, Baron Jürgen von Rosen, taken prisoner by the Allied forces during the war, together...
- Author:Nugara, Andrew W.Summary:
Following the success of his first snowshoeing guide, Snowshoeing in the Canadian Rockies (RMB, 2011), Andrew Nugara has now written the ultimate guide for those finding themselves on snowshoes for the first time. A Beginner’...
- Author:Hansen, VivianSummary:
Begin in Denmark with a strange birth, experience the life of Anne turned Arne, a hermaphrodite. Journey then to Alberta where Vivian Hansen hears her ancestors and the remarkable story of Anne. This intricately braided long poem is...
- Author:Hofmann, KarenSummary:
A Brief View from the Coastal Suite, a sequel to What is Going to Happen Next, follows the lives of the four Lund siblings who are now in their 30s and 40s, as they navigate careers, relationships, parenting, and creative work during...
- Author:Vester, Christina, Sealock, RickSummary:
Rick Sealock has been creating wild and wacky illustrations for clients as varied as Rolling Stone, Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, Natural Health Magazine, and GQ Magazine. His work has been used to skewer politicians, fitness...
- Author:Klassen, Henry C.Summary:
Businesses large and small have always been an integral part of Alberta's identity and growth. Exploring the evolution of business growth in Alberta, A Business History of Alberta is a comprehensive and unique study which examines...
- Author:Graham, E. MaudSummary:
As the South African War reached its grueling end in 1902, colonial interests at the highest levels of the British Empire hand-picked teachers from across the Commonwealth to teach the thousands of Boer children living in concentration...
- Author:MacLennan, DavidSummary:
All the weird and wacky jokes about Canadians. Do those Americans tell jokes about us? About how we all live in igloos, about how dumb we are (even though we know we are smarter than them), about how we don't have running water or...
- Author:Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, Pennell, JosephSummary:
A peasant in peaked hat and blue shirt, with trousers rolled up high above his bare knees, crossed the road and silently examined the tricycle. “You have a good horse,” he then said; “it eats nothing.” —from An Italian...
- Author:Campbell, Claire ElizabethSummary:
"... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and...
- Author:Fairweather, Joan G.Summary:
Geographically, demographically, and politically, South Africa and Canada are two countries that are very far apart. What they have in common are indigenous populations, which, because of their historical and ongoing experience of...
- Author:McCharles, RandySummary:
Sam Sparrow was a lousy cop. He's a worse private eye. But when the magician Merlin magicks him away from Hartford Connecticut to work cases in King Arthur's Court, it may be just what Sam needs to address his trust issues while at the...
- Author:McCharles, RandySummary:
"Sam Sparrow's search for a retired general's missing companion takes him to Sherwood Forest where he reunites with old friends from Camelot to help rescue Robin Hood and Maid Marian from the evil Sheriff of Nottingham....
- Author:McCharles, RandySummary:
Sam Sparrow, PI, is once again drawn into the distant past: this time to the days of Shakespeare's "Scottish Play" and General Macbeth's machinations to become King of Scotland.
- Author:Power, MichaelSummary:
Books and articles on instructional design in online learning abound but rarely do we get such a comprehensive picture of what instructional designers do, how they do it, and the problems they solve as their university changes. Power...
- Author:Hughes, MatthewSummary:
He calls himself Farouche, after a character from legend, but his reality is that his memories and identity were stolen from him by a secret enemy. In a far-future world of wizards and walled cities, he finds himself trailing a wealthy...
- Author:Colarusso, JohnSummary:
This is the first comprehensive grammar of a non-Indo-European language from the Northwest Caucasian family in a language other than Russian. Kabardian is complex at every level. The language treated is not the literary standard, but...
- Author:Smith, Gordon W., Smith, Gordon W.Summary:
Gordon W. Smith, PhD, dedicated much of his life to researching Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic. A historian by training, his 1952 dissertation from Columbia University on “The Historical and Legal Background of Canada’s Arctic...
- Author:Merrett, Kathryn ChaseSummary:
Kathryn Chase Merrett celebrates 100 years of the Edmonton City Market in this groundbreaking local history. Richly textured with archival photographs, drawings, maps, and anecdotes by vendors and customers of the city market, this book...
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