"When young Sharon Lacey travels from Canada to England in the spring of 1940 in search of the father she never knew, she finds herself called upon to participate in a much larger and more dangerous mission. For at eighteen, she is...
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:Ryan, GarrySummary: - Author:Bastien, BettySummary:
Blackfoot Ways of Knowing:The Worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal story of "coming home" to reclaim her identity within that culture, Betty...
- Author:Glatt, JaneSummary:
Caroline Morris, along with her brother Jack, needs to form a team for the Endeavour, the magical competition that happens every fifteen years. The Endeavour is dangerous, and the days leading up to it will bring out the worst, or best...
- Author:Lang, C.A.Summary:
Capra Jorassian is a fugitive, thief, con-artist... and the best hope for a city besieged by oil and magic.
- Author:Bel&#x;Harold, AvivaSummary:
Brittany used to be a normal teen. She ate like one. She slept like one. And she even had typical mood swings. But finding her best friend dead changed everything. Grief could explain her loss of apetite and her lack of sleep. It might...
- Author:Kishkan, TheresaSummary:
Using the richness of braided essays, Theresa Kishkan thinks deeply about the natural world, mourns and celebrates the aging body, gently contests recorded history, and considers art and visual phenomena. Gathering personal genealogies...
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"In 2019, the United Conservative Party, under the leadership of Jason Kenney, unseated the New Democratic Party to form the provincial government of Alberta. A restoration of conservative power in a province that had seen the...
- Author:Cooley, DennisSummary:
The body may be feared. It may be a site of philosophic and theological weakness, a place of fear and contamination. The body may be weak. It is ephemeral and impure compared to what is supposed in an abstracted world of pure intellect...
- Author:Evernden, DerekSummary:
Collecting the best of Bogart Creek, Derek Evernden's laugh out loud funny, single-panel comics of absurd and dark humour. Similar in style to The Far Side, Bogart Creek is a perfect book for washroom reading.
- Author:Evernden, DerekSummary:
Collecting the latest and funniest of Bogart Creek, Derek Evernden's laugh out loud funny, single-panel comics of absurd and dark humour. If life scares the hell out of you one minute and cracks you up the next, you'll feel right at...
- Author:Evernden, DerekSummary:
Collecting the latest and funniest of Bogart Creek, Derek Evernden's laugh out loud funny, single-panel comics of absurd and dark humour. If life scares the hell out of you one minute and cracks you up the next, you'll feel...
- Author:Allan, ChantalSummary:
Canada and the United States. Two nations, one border, same continent. Anti-American sentiment in Canada is well documented, but what have Americans had to say about their northern neighbour? Allan examines how the American media has...
- Author:Priestly, MelissaSummary:
With a history dating back to our early settlers, Canadian winemaking has truly come of age. Now more than 500 wineries offer highly praised vintages such as our famous icewines and recently developed exotic varietals: * The world's...
- Author:Ryan, David L.Summary:
In many commodity-based economies, rollercoaster boom-and-bust cycles have come to be viewed almost as an unavoidable characteristic. Framed mainly in the context of the Alberta economy, the articles in this volume explore a wide range...
- Author:Warner, GlenSummary:
This hilarious collection of jokes is written especially for all those Baby Boomers fast approaching their senior years. These jokes will keep you laughing for hours, that is, if you can remember where you put your reading glasses! *...
- Author:Heasley, LynneSummary:
Declining access to fresh water is one of the twenty-first century’s most pressing environmental and human rights challenges, yet the struggle for water is not a new cause. The 8,800-kilometer border dividing Canada and the United...
- Author:Schmaltz, EricSummary:
Beginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the conventions of writing and poetic meaning by fusing their practice with strategies from visual art, sound art,...
- Author:Vitaris, MarkSummary:
The book is a photographic discourse on the country that straddles the forty-ninth parallel from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains to the grasslands of Saskatchewan and to the western Dakotas. It depicts the land metaphorically...
- Author:Fabijancic, TonySummary:
Tensions leading to World War I brewed for years, and were brought to a head by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. But who was the assassin? What was his plan? Not many people know the name of Gavrilo Princip. Tony Fabijancic...
- Author:Chatterjee, AyeshaSummary:
A collection of poems reflecting insights and experiences gained from the author's cultural roots and travels and homes in Asia, Europe and Canada.
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