Read Alberta’s Fall Reading List: New Alberta Books We Recommend

With perfect reading weather fast approaching, it’s a great time to pick-up a new book from a local Alberta publisher. Find new releases, including non-fiction, poetry, mystery, horror, and more, to cozy up with this fall!

The Art of Making by Jared Tailfeathers

The Art of Making: Rediscovering the Blackfoot Legacy is a captivating entry into Jared Tailfeathers’ journey of cultural reclamation. Accompanied by his family and loyal dogs, Tailfeathers delves into his Indigenous heritage through hands-on, land-based exploration. The book traces the evolution of the Blackfoot Confederacy, examining its trade routes, resources, and interactions pre- and post-1800s.

The Art of Making: Rediscovering the Blackfoot Legacy

Jared Tailfeathers

Published: Oct 01, 2024 by Durvile Publications
ISBN: 9781990735547

Available as an accessible audiobook

Bronco Buster by A.J. Devlin

After a lumberjack games competitor is found floating face down in a pool with an axe buried in the back of his head, former pro wrestler-turned-P.I. “Hammerhead” Jed Ounstead is on the case. Investigating the Colossal Cloverdale Rodeo and Country Fair with his ne’er-do-well cousin Declan, Jed finds that he will need all of his skills to find out what happened to a man they’d just spent the previous night drinking with.

Bronco Buster: A "Hammerhead" Jed Mystery

A.J. Devlin

Published: Oct 01, 2024 by NeWest Press
ISBN: 9781774391020

Available as an accessible eBook

Stories Left in Stone by Troy Nahumko

Author Troy Nahumko has lived in the old town of Cáceres, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, for over a decade. His journey starts at the Cave of Maltravieso, where prehistoric art stirs a profound curiosity about the city’s rich tapestry of past and present. Amid the dazzle of cobbled medieval streets, 12th century Moorish walls, fortified palaces, and 60,000-year-old handprints, Nahumko asks how locals characterize their city and leave their own marks. Through personal narrative and interviews with locals, expats, and experts, he shares sociological, archaeological, and historical insights.

Stories Left in Stone: Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain

Troy Nahumko

Published: Oct 01, 2024 by University of Alberta Press
ISBN: 9781772127744

Available as an accessible eBook

Hockey on the Moon by Jamie Dopp

Fantasy and reality come together in sports and Jamie Dopp argues that nowhere is this blurring of the borders of reality more evident than in Canadian hockey. Using imagination as a unifying theme, Dopp offers in-depth analyses of key texts of hockey literature, with a focus on how these texts reveal the imaginative possibilities of the game.

Hockey on the Moon: Imagination and Canada’s Game

Jamie Dopp

Published: Nov 26, 2024 by Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 9781771994132

Available as an accessible eBook

Juiceboxers by Benjamin Hertwig

Drawn from the author’s experiences as a soldier in Afghanistan, Juiceboxers traces the story of four friends from their youth in Edmonton, to the battlefields of Kandahar, to the oil fields of Alberta, braiding together questions of masculinity and militarism, friendship and violence, white supremacy and identity, loss and trauma, ideology and innocence.

Juiceboxers

Benjamin Hertwig

Published: Sep 17, 2024 by Freehand Books
ISBN: 9781990601712

Available as an accessible eBook

The Loom by Andy Weaver

Andy Weaver led a life of quiet contemplation before becoming a father at the age of 42. Within three years he had two sons; two small, relentless disruptions to an existence which had, for a very long time, been self-sustaining and tranquil. The Loom is a book about love. It is a book about frustration, confusion, crying, and being sticky. It is a book about doubt, unreadiness, fear, sleeplessness, and pressure. It is a book about parenthood. Here, Andy Weaver shares the beauty of parenthood, and it’s unexpected frustrations, and the surreality of an experience that is at once deeply universal and completely unique.

The Loom

Andy Weaver

Published: Nov 15, 2024 by University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 9781773855837

Available as an accessible eBook

Roth by Richard Van Camp, Christopher Shy

They were meant to stay undisturbed, their dismembered limbs scattered, frozen under the permafrost, but as is always the way, the greed of industry has unburied them once more. Now, the most feared, the Wheetago, have returned, using their powers to call back the Na acho, cannibalistic giants once banished by Dene deities. The revered hero known as the Child Finder who is fighting to cling to his humanity after a Wheetago attack, a mother and her young son, and a desperate band of convicts, form an uneasy alliance to survive the Wheetago horrors now awakened.

Roth

Read Alberta’s Fall Reading List: New Alberta Books We Recommend