YYC POP is the legacy project by Calgary Poet Laureate, Sheri-D Wilson. A collection of poetry written by current and ex-pat Calgarians, the works contained in the collection celebrate ordinary and extraordinary Calgarians. She asked...
Alberta
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Author:Summary: - Author:Strange, KathleenSummary:
Mrs. Strange was thrust, unprepared, into hard farm life on a Canadian ranch, with a background of London, gentle upbringing, a bit of the rough with the smooth in her war experiences, but with no training for hard labor and domestic...
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Author:Lottridge, Celia BarkerSummary:Winner of the IODE National Chapter Violet Downey Book Award. This sequel to Ticket to Curlew finds eleven-year-old Josie well settled in her new home, but she's never had a friend her own age. So when a girl named Margaret moves to the...
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Author:Trainer, Mary, Antonson, Brian, Antonson, Rick, Evans, DonSummary:Everybody has a train story. Whether it comes from a distant relative who worked on the railways or from a family train trip that formed a lasting impression of the Canadian landscape, trains inspire a sense of wonder and nostalgia....
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Author:Barnard, J.E.Summary:2016 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel — Winner When a phantom stalker targets her friend, Lacey McCrae’s crime-busting skills are tested to their limits. With her career in tatters and her marriage receding...
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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:Schutz, FredSummary:
A collection of articles from Fred Schultz’s weekly column which appeared in the Rimby Record between 1954 and 1997. Filled with enchanting observations of both natural and human history, West of the Blindman reminds us of the beauty...
- Author:Alexandra ZabjekSummary:
In Canada, a woman is killed by her intimate partner every six days. Alberta has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the country. Starting in the 1970s, Alberta women's shelters have assisted women in crisis. Much more than...
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Author:Ellis, Jim, 1964-, Calgary Institute for the HumanitiesSummary:Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West brings together artists, activists, conservation groups, and scholars to illuminate the diverse issues surrounding water in Alberta. Examining the human right to water, the effects of resource...
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Inside this book you will find the words our Nakota Sioux Nation people use to refer to each other as family. Some terms may not be used very often anymore, but we hope these are some of the first words our babies and children hear and...
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Author:Peers, Laura, Brown, Alison K.Summary:In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not...
- Author:Taylor, CoraSummary:
Victoria Callihoo was born before Canada was a nation, and was a grandmother by the time Alberta became a province.*She traveled with her family on the buffalo hunt on a Red River cart when the herds were so numerous they resembled a...
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Author:Packer, John, Gould, A. JoyceSummary:Packer and Gould have provided an invaluable service for anyone interested in western North American botany by creating a simple, user-friendly and portable key to the Alberta species found in the 30-volume set of Flora of North America...
- Author:Kaler, AmySummary:
In Until Further Notice, Amy Kaler records a personal account of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. She documents a series of jolts to her thoughts, perceptions, emotions, and habits-an internal seismograph of living...
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Author:Gordon, JonSummary:"Sustainable development is, for government and industry at least, primarily a way of turning trees into lumber, tar into oil, and critique into consent; a way to defend the status quo of growth at any cost." —from the Introduction In...
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In Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions, Jon Gordon makes the case for re-evaluating the theoretical, political, and environmental issues around petroleum extraction. Doing so, he argues, will reinvigorate our...
- Author:LeBlanc, AmySummary:
In Snowton, Alberta, secrets flourish like the crocuses in spring. When Louise Till lets herself into a neighbor's home using a surreptitiously copied key, she discovers more than she ever wanted to know about her small town and herself...
- Author:Jaques, CarrolSummary:
Looking back over the past half century, Jaques recounts the tumultuous history of the Alberta farm organization Unifarm. This book documents Alberta farmers’ quest to increase control over the forces that have had such an impact on...
- Author:Clark, JudithSummary:
One more year. That’s all Gunnar has to wait until graduation. More importantly, it’s one more year until he’ll feel safe to come out.
Gunnar has kept his sexuality a secret — only his twin sister knows he’s gay. Coming out now... -
Author:Jennings, Neil L.Summary:Uncommon Beauty explores the wildflowers and flowering shrubs of a large area including Jasper down to Cranston, over to Glacier National Park in Montana, and up to Lethbridge and Edmonton. Extensively researched by author and outdoors...
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