Spring into New Alberta Books
Grab a new book, a cold drink, and settle in for a nice sunny afternoon reading.
Shout Kill Revel
By Jarret Hartnell
In Renegade Arts Entertainment’s new graphic novel, the Undrowned Order rules the land. Their horrific plans dance to the whims of ancient cosmic entities, fuelled by the fears forced upon every soul in sight. It is believed that the young woman Helmina is their messiah, that the darkness lurking within her will one day unleash an unimaginable horror upon the earth. As that day approaches, Helmina, after a lifetime of wrestling with her cosmic affliction, must do more than run and hide from the cultists, her own mind, and the world itself to put an end to the madness. The Wild West is over. This is the Dark West. Remain fearful.
Shout Kill Revel Hartnell Jarret
Published: Apr 17, 2024 by Renegade Arts Entertainment
Hartnell Jarret 
Published: Apr 17, 2024 by Renegade Arts Entertainment
ISBN: 9781988903910
Beyond the Park
Edited by Ángel Mota Berriozabal
There are more immigrant voices added daily to conversations on the environment and climate change in this country, and yet, there are lots more to add. Editor Angel Mota has expertly curated each of the pieces in Beyond the Park into a compelling collection about the authors’ connection to natural spaces through olfactory experiences. Most of the contributors are immigrant settlers, with their own mother tongues, embracing either English or French, depending on where they settled. The untranslated pieces, written in English or French, complicate the cultural and linguistic idea of the “Two Solitudes.”
Beyond the Park: An Anthology of Ecological Experiences: An Anthology of Ecological Experiences Diego Creimer
Published: by Laberinto Press
Diego Creimer , Antonio D'Alfonso , Marie-Denise Douyon
Published: by Laberinto Press
ISBN: 9781777085957
Half-Light
By Amy Kaler
Braiding together personal, collective, and historical explorations of what it means to “go west,” Amy Kaler’s Half-Light: Westbound on a Hot Planet offers deep reflections on the meaning of life, middle age, and climate catastrophe. Her memoir weaves together three strands: living with the knowledge of one’s own aging and mortality; the slow-moving catastrophes of climate change; and the human history of the North American settler west, especially locations that hold traces of vanished pasts. Moving from meditative to sobering in compelling and measured ways, Half-Light shimmers with urgency and suggestion.
Half-Light: Westbound on a Hot Planet Amy Kaler
Published: May 30, 2024 by University of Alberta Press
Amy Kaler
Published: May 30, 2024 by University of Alberta Press
ISBN: 9781772127409
Dare to Bird
By Melissa Hafting
Showcasing some of Melissa Hafting’s most stunning bird images from the continental United States, Hawaii, and Canada, Dare to Bird explores the joy that birding and photography has brought to her life and how both have allowed her to foster meaningful connections with young birders from diverse backgrounds, along with the conservation community, eco-travel advocates, rare bird enthusiasts, and ethical wildlife viewing practitioners. The magical imagery of birds is unparalleled in this inspiring collection, and Hafting helps the reader to understand why – as she believes – birds have the power to both save and heal us amid many of life’s challenges.
Dare to Bird: Exploring the Joy and Healing Power of Birds Published: Jun 18, 2024 by RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
Published: Jun 18, 2024 by RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
ISBN: 9781771606547
Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees
By Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Michael Frishkopf, Reza Hasmath, and Anna Kirova
Refugees face distinct challenges and are often subject to dehumanization by politicians, media, and the public. In this context, Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees provides urgent insights and policy relevant perspectives to improve refugees’ social well-being and integration. Taking a transdisciplinary approach, scholars from the social sciences, arts, and humanities, alongside practitioners and refugees, explore what it means to experience dehumanization. They consider how refugees’ experiences of dehumanization inform both epistemological and practical approaches to humanizing (or re-humanizing) refugees before, during, and after resettlement.
Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees Published: May 28, 2024 by Athabasca University Press
Published: May 28, 2024 by Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 9781771994101
The Game of Giants
By Marion Douglas
Rose Drury has just learned that her son, Roger, is below average—at the third-percentile rank, according to the pediatrician. Co-parenting with her partner, Lucy, in a 1980s Calgary only just starting to accept same-sex relationships, Rose works to unearth her own desires from the quagmire of directives from others, while she grapples with the implications of Roger’s developmental delays. In this sparkling and empathetic novel, Marion Douglas digs into a young mother’s uncertainty, fear, and hard-won wisdom as she and her son—an odd and lovable giant of unpredictability—forge a path forward.
The Game of Giants Marion Douglas
Published: May 01, 2024 by Freehand Books
Marion Douglas
Published: May 01, 2024 by Freehand Books
ISBN: 9781990601644
Journalism for the Public Good
By Kim S. Kierans
For fifty years the Michener Awards have honoured outstanding and unbiased Canadian journalism that results in positive change for the public good and recognized the important role of free media within democracy. Journalism for the Public Good is the story of the Micheners as told through the award-winning reporting they have celebrated since the 1970s. It traces how journalism has evolved, influenced, and been changed by Canadian society over the past half-century, and it explores the challenges journalists working in a multi-platform world face today.
Journalism for the Public Good: The Michener Awards at Fifty Kim S. Kierans
Published: May 25, 2024 by University of Calgary Press
Kim S. Kierans
Published: May 25, 2024 by University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 9781773855356
All That’s Left
By Lisa Guenther
Following her gripping debut Friendly Fire, Lisa Guenther skillfully picks up Darby’s story a few weeks after the dramatic finale. Building her life anew, Darby makes new friendships and connections with recently found family members, and begins to make a name for herself on the Canadian music scene. Still haunted by the violence hidden in her past, Darby must find a way to live at least partially in the public eye, as her music career takes off, and her Aunt Bea’s art and story become more and more well known. Guenther’s second novel is a pressing account of a life wrecked by trauma, and rebuilt brick by brick with joy, love, and friendship, and asks important questions of privacy, safety, and the vulnerability of artists in the public eye.
All That's Left Lisa Guenther
Published: May 01, 2024 by NeWest Press
Lisa Guenther
Published: May 01, 2024 by NeWest Press
ISBN: 9781774390962
Goddess Alpha
By Jessica Theroux
Goddess Alpha: Directions Home is a textile compendium of embroidered images and stories about goddesses. Each of the 26 goddesses provides guidance on homing in on our direction in life, as well as on how to creatively undertake tasks of invention and inspiration. Furthermore, the stories of these goddesses lead to insights that help us discover our own soulful nature and the profound truths residing within our innermost being.
Goddess Alpha: Directions Home Jessica Theroux
Published: Jun 01, 2024 by Durvile Publications Ltd.
Jessica Theroux
Published: Jun 01, 2024 by Durvile Publications Ltd.
ISBN: 9781990735448
Popular Day Hikes: Jasper, Mount Robson, Valemount, Yellowhead Highway
By Ben Nearingburg
Popular Day Hikes is a series of bestselling guidebooks written for visitors and locals looking to hike scenic trails from well-established staging areas. This volume describes 34 routes and trails spanning the width of Jasper National Park, Mount Robson Provincial Park, and the area surrounding Valemount, British Columbia. These popular day hikes are sure to kindle an appreciation for the natural landscape of the Canadian Rockies and set the stage for a lifetime of adventures to come.
Popular Day Hikes: Jasper: Mount Robson, Valemount, Yellowhead Highway Ben Nearingburg
Published: May 21, 2024 by RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
Ben Nearingburg
Published: May 21, 2024 by RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
ISBN: 9781771606950
On Othering
By Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines
On Othering examines the process of othering from an international perspective and considers how it undermines peacemaking and is perpetuated by colonialism and globalization. Taking a humanistic approach, contributors argue that celebrating differences can have a transformative change in seeking peaceful solutions to problems created by people, institutions, ideas, conditions, and circumstances. Touching on race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and our relationship with the natural world, this volume attends to the deep injustices brought about by othering and recommends actions for mending the relationships that are essential to renewing the possibility of peace.
On Othering: Processes and Politics of Unpeace Published: May 14, 2024 by Athabasca University Press
Published: May 14, 2024 by Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 9781771993869
Limited Verse
By David Martin
At the close of the twenty-first century, a prison population awaits transport to a world where their memories will be Cleaned, and where they will be Harmonized into the language of New English, made up of only 850 words. One person, knowing of this inevitability, secretly translates poetry into this limited tongue, a gift to a self who will no longer be able to understand the literature they love. Inspired by the real-life restricted language Basic English, a project of linguist C.K. Ogden, and by the work of George Orwell, H.G. Wells, and Jorge Luis Borges, Limited Verse is an uncanny collection of familiar poems made newly strange, wrapped in a fascinating speculative mystery.
Limited Verse David Martin
Published: Apr 30, 2024 by University of Calgary Press
David Martin
Published: Apr 30, 2024 by University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 9781773855318
Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics
By Wayde Compton
Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this personal and thoughtful book, award-winning author Wayde Compton explores how we might collectively develop a poetic approach that makes space for diversity by doing away with universalism in both lyric and avant-garde verse. Poignant and contemporary examples reveal how white authors often forget that their whiteness is a racial position. In the propulsive push to experiment with form, they essentially fail to see themselves as “white artists.” Noting that he has never felt that his subjectivity was universal, Compton advocates for the importance of understanding your own history and positionality, and for letting go of the idea of a common aesthetic. Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics offers validation for poets of colour who do not work in dominant western forms, and is for all writers seeking to engage in anti-racist work.
Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics Wayde Compton
Published: Feb 22, 2024 by University of Alberta Press
Wayde Compton
Published: Feb 22, 2024 by University of Alberta Press
ISBN: 9781772127430
The Harvesters
By Jasmina Odor
When Mira takes a trip to Paris with her nephew, Bernard, she expects to ride bicycles through the picturesque streets and admire the parks and courtyards. But the trip takes a different turn when the two travellers try to rescue an injured pigeon from the sidewalk, and their journey becomes one of addressing the losses that define their lives. Thoughtful and witty, The Harvesters is infused with subtle beauty and the magic of memory.
The Harvesters Published: May 01, 2024 by Freehand Books
Jasmina Odor
Published: May 01, 2024 by Freehand Books
ISBN: 9781990601613
Îethka: Stories and Language in Stony Nakoda Country
By Trent Fox and Valentine Fox
Îethka: Stories and Language in Stony Nakoda Country features the Stoney Nakoda First Nation language in context and in action. The book contains a collection of stories and teachings by Trent and Valentina Fox, ranging from memories of grouse hunts to the desperate challenges of residential school. Each chapter culminates in a learning quiz to assist in nuances of the language and the book includes audio components as web links.
Iethka: Stories & Language in Stoney Nakoda Country Valentina Fox
Published: Jun 01, 2024 by Durvile Publications Ltd.
Valentina Fox , Trent Fox
Published: Jun 01, 2024 by Durvile Publications Ltd.
ISBN: 9781990735455
Where We Live
By Karen Hofmann
The third and final novel in the Lund sibling series, Where We Live, continues the story of four Vancouverites, separated in childhood, reunited and now middle-aged, as they navigate urban life, work, relationships, and parenting in the late 2010s. With their familial bond shaped by their divergent adult experiences as well as their shared early childhood in a rural West Coast community, the lives of these siblings cross, separate, and rejoin yet again, in paths informed by nature and by nurture. Subject to the pressures of their environment and remembered or forgotten family history each sibling struggles to realize their aspirations in their search for a true home.
Where We Live Karen Hofmann
Published: Mar 15, 2024 by NeWest Press
Karen Hofmann
Published: Mar 15, 2024 by NeWest Press
ISBN: 9781774390887
Spirit Gifting
By Elmer Ghostkeeper
Respected Elder Elmer Ghostkeeper takes readers on a journey of rediscovery to gain a new perspective on the world taken for granted, as he tells the story of his attempt to reclaim and reawaken to his Indigenous worldview on his own terms with his traditional knowledge intact. As Ghostkeeper returns to his roots, he shares the series of natural signs that have guided his family through time and shaped their ceremonial activities in living with the land rather than off the land. He reveals how to follow the natural ebb and flow of nature with its spiritual exchange of precise and well-thought-out duties and giftings.
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By Bill Slavin
Quid, Pro Crow, the second book in the Modecai Crow trilogy set 100 years in our future in a climate-ravaged world, follows Mordecai Crow as he continues to search for his long lost family. With his young friend Podd, Crow follows the trail deep into dangerous Luddite territory. There, new allies offer hope for Crow’s quest, but that hope is accompanied by grave risks. Not only are their lives in constant danger from Luddite attacks and the treacherous dystopian landscape they must traverse, but their friendship will be strained to breaking point.
Quid Pro Crow Bill Slavin
Published: May 15, 2024 by Renegade Arts Entertainment