Central Beauty: Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs of the Southern Interior of British Columbia is a follow-up to three previous volumes on wildflowers written by Neil Jennings and published by Rocky Mountain Books. It is being published...
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(s):Jennings, Neil L.Summary: - Author(s):Perry, Beth, Park, Caroline, Melrose, SherriSummary:
Many of today's learning environments are dominated by technology or procedure-driven approaches that leave learners feeling alone and disconnected. The authors of Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals...
- Author(s):Felske, Lorry W., Rasporich, Beverly JeanSummary:
The frontier reality of confronting new conditions, adapting cultural inclinations, and dealing with a volatile environment in an effort to establish and nurture new communities is central to the western Canadian experience. It has...
- Author(s):Whyte, BertSummary:
Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a...
- Author(s):Reiff, TanaSummary:
This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Mel is happy making sidewalks and going out for a beer with the boys. He's a good worker, but...
- Author(s):Grant, AlanSummary:
A slick and sleazy chat show host gets more than he bargained for when he channels an ancient source of evil, unleashing terror and carnage upon the world. Originally released digitally as a four issue comic series and created by one...
- Author(s):Smith, Hilda ChasiaSummary:
Drawing upon wisdom and teachings of the Torah, Pranayama yoga, and her own virtuosity for living a peaceful life, Hilda Chasia Smith's guided meditations and inspirational words take us on journeys of calmness and joy. From Pranayama...
- Author(s):Reiff, TanaSummary:
This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Charlie is a chef for a fancy restaurant. But Charlie is not as happy as the people she cooks for....
- Author(s):Mountain, AntoineSummary:
Antoine Mountain follows up his previous memoir From Bear Rock Mountain with the book Child of Morning Star: Embers of an Ancient Dawn. Child of Morning Star is a poetic collection of stories that draws on Antoine Mountain's travels and...
- Author(s):Garebian, KeithSummary:
Keith Garebian’s most personal book to date, Children of Ararat, is the poignant recollection of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. It is part of the Dektet 2010. Children of Ararat is made up of 56 poems broken into four parts...
- Author(s):Ingelson, Allan, Mahoney, Mike, Scace, RobertSummary:
A trail book unlike any other, Chilkoot: An Adventure in Ecotourism is a richly woven insight into the Chilkoot Trail and the region straddling the American-Canadian border in the Alaska and British Columbia. The authors present the...
- Author(s):Kelly, MichaelSummary:
Canada’s maestro of the macabre, Michael Kelly, brings you CHILLING TALES: In Words, Alas, Drown I, an all new collection of nightmares that will perturb and torment you. Tales that will leave a frisson of fear and raise a quiver of...
- Author(s):Jeffery, CorinneSummary:
Choosing, book three of Corinne Jeffery’s Understanding Ursula series, concludes the heart-wrenching story of five generations of the controversial and secretive Warner family. Become reunited with Amelia and Gustav, meet...
- Author(s):Martineck, Michael J.Summary:
Secrets: some feel freed having them out. Others will kill to keep them. On May 5, in a flash of pain, every man, woman and child on the planet receives a second set of memories. A new name, a new language, a whole new life slips into...
- Author(s):Cullum, J. A.Summary:
Home to nine races of humans and near-humans, the world of Tamar lies on the brink of total war unless the living crystals known as the karionin find young wizards capable of attuning themselves to the magic of the stones. In “...
- Author(s):Rowe, Rebecca K.Summary:
A tale of two unlikely companions cast together in a mystery, and a mission to save the planet. Noah of Domus Aqua, an environmentalist and the son of extreme wealth, is a fugitive suspected in the high profile murder of his long-time...
- Author(s):Harkness, KevinSummary:
Garet's life is forever changed the night his Midlands family is attacked. Garet is taken to the city of Shirath to become a Demonbane. But the ancient city isn't a safe haven, it's a death trap
- Author(s):Harkness, KevinSummary:
Mysterious masked figures roam the city at night--but are they here to fight Demons or the Demonbanes?
- Author(s):Otter, A.A. denSummary:
In this collection of essays, A.A. den Otter explores the meaning of the concepts "civilizing" and "wilderness" within an 1850s Euro-British North American context. At the time, den Otter argues, these concepts meant...
- Author(s):Hubbard, Lee DanielleSummary:
“Wounds of the body heal swiftly in comparison to those of the mind.” In the center of the Marble Tower, in the center of the City, there hangs the Radiance, a mystical object of prayer and devotion. When the Radiance suddenly...
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