Alberta Books for the Life Long Learner

We’ve rounded up seven incredible Alberta books for the life long learners on your holiday list. This list has something for the local history buffs, amateur chefs, out-door adventurers, and the people who just love an interesting read. Check out all the great titles below.

Elements of Indigenous Style 2nd ed by Gregory Younging

Cited in The Chicago Manual of Style, this second edition of Elements of Indigenous Style continues Gregory Younging’s groundbreaking work with updated, Indigenous-led best practices. Trusted worldwide, it offers clear guidance on accurate, collaborative, and ethical projects involving Indigenous Peoples. New content includes advice on author–editor relationships, identity and terminology, Indigenous citation, Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer identities, digital issues, and more.

Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples

Gregory Younging

Published: Jan 13, 2025 by Brush Education
ISBN: 9781550599459

Best Day Hikes in Banff National Park by Brian Patton

In Best Day Hikes in Banff National Park, Brian Patton, co-author of the best-selling Canadian Rockies Trail Guide details 39 easy walks, short hikes, and day trips in one of the world’s most spectacular national parks. Each trail is described in detail and accompanied by easy-to-understand symbols, a walking map, and colour photography.

Best Day Hikes in Banff National Park

Brian Patton

Published: May 01, 2024 by Summerthought Publishing
ISBN: 9781926983660

Love & Rules by Lee McLean

From Canada’s best-selling horsewoman comes a collection of essays on love, fear, winning, loss, aging, growth, illness and recovery — all through the medium of horsemanship.

Love & Rules: Life Lessons Learned with Horses

Lee McLean

Published: Nov 18, 2022 by Red Barn Books Inc.
ISBN: 9781989915080

Within A Child’s Heart by Craig Leibel

Parents have you ever wondered what your child really feels during a divorce? Empower yourself as a parent with the insights needed to nurture, comfort, and guide your child through one of life’s toughest transitions.

Within a Child’s Heart

Craig Leibel

Published: May 01, 2001 by HummingByrd House

ISBN: 978-0968374214

Beyond Touch Sites: an Anthology of the Tangible edited by Wendy McGrath

From award-winning Laberinto Press comes their latest anthology, Beyond Touch Sites. This multi-genre volume addresses how touch can heal and harm, comfort and confront, catalyzing the other senses and carrying us to distant places. The modalities of touch addressed by the authors in this collection range across cultures and forms of contact: reparative, retributive, gustatory, familial, ritual and ceremonial, from Brazil, the Philippines, or Colombia, to the Prairies. With acute sensibility, McGrath has harnessed the many touch sites proposed by the contributors and made this volume the ultimate tactile map.

Beyond Touch Sites: An Anthology of the Tangible

Published: May 01, 2025 by Laberinto Press
ISBN: 9781777085964

We Made It All Up by Paul Blinov

Edmonton’s longest-running improv company has sent countless audiences into fits of laughter, vaulted a few actors to Hollywood, and emerged as a leading force of Canadian spontaneity. For the first time, We Made It All Up documents that 40-year trajectory in unparalleled detail: drawing on more than 70 interviews with players, alumni, technicians, board members, and the greater arts community. It traces the company’s growth from a water-testing weekly show to an acclaimed jewel in the global improv scene

We Made it All Up: Forty Years of Rapid Fire Theatre

Paul Blinov

Published: Jan 31, 2022 by Folklore Publishing
ISBN: 9781773110271

First Nations Recipes: a selection from coast to coast by Gregory Lepine

The First Nations communities of Canada are a rich tapestry of cultures and cuisines. The diversity of the land is reflected in the customs of the people who lived off of it. In this collection of 32 recipes we capture some of the most prominent meals from across the country. The recipes are inspired by traditional Native cooking, combining ingredients that were used historically with ingredients commonly available today. Smoked salmon, venison, bison, fiddleheads, wild rice, berries—Aboriginal peoples based their cuisine on foods that were readily available in their surroundings. The recipes in this book include these key ingredients in a sampling of dishes from Aboriginal cultures from coast to coast

First Nations Recipes: a selection from coast to coast

Alberta Books for the Life Long Learner