Super Explorers brings you all the weird fish, mammals and other strange creatures that inhabit the deep, deep ocean: the Frilled Shark is a strange-looking prehistoric shark that swallows its prey whole, the Japanese Spider Crab has...
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A partnership of the Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) and Alberta Municipal Affairs’ Public Library Services Branch (PLSB) launched the Alberta eBooks Collection, with a copy of over 1,000 books coming to NNELS from 24 publishers.
- Author:Hartson, TamaraSummary:
- Author:Butler, JennaSummary:
Jenna Butler draws on her own experiences of her grandmother's disappearance into senile dementia to reassemble a sensual world in longpoem form that positively crackles with imagery and rhythm. Identities and memories flow and...
- Author:Asnong, JoceySummary:
Jocey Asnong's vibrant and whimsical illustrations take readers kayaking through Cowichan Bay, surfing with starfish and sea otters at Tofino, and swimming with sea wolves in the Great Bear Rainforest. From carving through fresh powder...
- Author:Howard, BarbSummary:
"Roadkill stuffed and presented as art, an OB/GYN appointment gone horribly wrong, and government spies with a weakness for salmon bagels and Timmy Ho’s.Tender, satirical, and occasionally absurd, Barb Howard’...
- Author:Elmeligi, SarahSummary:
A lavishly illustrated book that explores the complex behavioural characteristics of North America's largest land carnivores by examining the bear-human relationship from the bear's perspective. From the first moment Sarah Elmeligi came...
- Author:Dawson, Michael R. W.Summary:
What Is Cognitive Psychology? identifies the theoretical foundations of cognitive psychology-foundations which have received very little attention in modern textbooks. Beginning with the basics of information processing, Michael R. W....
- Author:Ball, Krista D.Summary:
A Fantasy Lover’s Food Guide. Equal parts writer’s guide, comedy, and historical cookbook.
- Author:Crozier, LornaSummary:
A collection of poetry about aging, grief, and the eccentricities of the natural world -- a cockroach, an eggplant.
- Author:Greenwood, ThereseSummary:
Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was devastated by one of the worst wildfires in Canadian history. As the flames approached, they had only minutes to pack, narrowly...
- Author:Gainer, TerrySummary:
Drawn from Terry Gainer's personal memories and experiences from his years living and working at the legendary Banff Railway Station, this entertaining memoir and important historical record beckons the reader into the golden age...
- Author:Sarah, de LeeuwSummary:
Finalist for the 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards--Non-Fiction!
Finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize at the 2018 BC Book Prizes!
Where It Hurts is a highly charged collection of personal essays,... - Author:Kain, ConradSummary:
He brought glamour and imagination into the sport of mountaineering as few guides have done before him. Recalling his personality and amusing stories one should not forget that his approach to mountains was first and foremost an...
- Author:Law, Lucas K., Mak, Derwin, 1963-Summary:
All emotions are universal. We born, we dream, we strive, we die...Where the stars rise? Stories that bind us together regardless where we come from or where we are going-on Earth or in space. Futuristic Istanbul. Kerala waters. Cebu...
- Author:Wiebe, RudySummary:
“The problem with writer longevity can be a complicating, even contradictory oeuvre. Hopefully.” Where the Truth Lies collects forty years of essays and speeches that award-winning author Rudy Wiebe has crafted throughout his career. In...
- Author:Maylor, MichelineSummary:
Whirr & Click is derived primarily from the writer’s own experiences of love, sensuality, family, and bereavement, but perhaps the real subject matter is the exhilaration of finding perfect words, perfect structures; as...
- Author:Soop, AlexSummary:
Following the immense success of his debut collection of horror stories, Midnight Storm, Moonless Sky, Blackfoot storyteller Alex Soop once again scares the wits out of readers while uncovering overlooked social anxieties and racism...
- Author:Cooper, CatherineSummary:
Physician Richard Berringer, his wife, Ann, and their thirteen-year-old son, Torquil, have abandoned their home in Nova Scotia and moved to Sierra Leone, despite warnings that the West African country is in a civil war. Two months on,...
- Author:MacFayden, LaurieSummary:
Laurie MacFayden navigates love, longing, lust and loss with deft wordplay and disarming wit, plumbing our most intimate relationships – those entwining family, friends, lovers and exlovers. Her rich imagery, combined with an...
- Author:Mitchell, W. O. (William Ormond)Summary:
"Available for the first time as an ebook, this illustrated edition of W.O. Mitchell's prairie classic Who Has Seen the Wind is a delight to discover again -- or for the first time.Since its publication in 1947, Who Has Seen...
- Author:Gainor, ChrisSummary:
A fascinating examination of the international politics, pressures and personalities behind one of the most controversial decisions in Canadian history, the mothballing of the incredibly sophisticated jet fighter, the Avro Arrow.