Spanning the years 1880-1930, this book sheds light on the significant roles ranch women played in the evolution of the Alberta agricultural industry. The book encapsulates an era of change on the Prairies, from the time of large cattle operations covering thousands of acres to f...
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Alberto Díaz
In the small Alberta town of Tomorrow, young Arthur yearns for a larger life. His father prefers the love of horses and good books, while his mother is guided by practicality and her faith. Bev, his rough-edged brother, chooses action over thinking. Among them is the solitary Art...
Gateway, Alberta, 1911. The coming of the railroad to the Canadian Rockies has brought a parade of newcomers to the Bow Valley, including poacher Herbie Wishart, who has reinvented himself as a trail guide. Herbie becomes outfitter for a fossil-hunting expedition headed by a prom...
Due West is a compilation of short stories, put together to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of prairie publishers Turnstone Press, Coteau Books and NeWest Books. The editors have showcased some of their best-known writers, proving that the Canadian west has not only produced ...
Alberta, mid-1800s. The perspectives of a Blackfoot woman of the Blood tribe and of a young Irish/English woman who comes west with her family reveal a time of great change, disruption and loss. It was a time also of resilience, renewal and determination. The novel gives a pictu...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be . Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the ...
Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel's sister. The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel's family, and the wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist workin...
In 1959 Ray and Daisy Cook and their five children were brutally slain in their central Alberta home. Ray Cook's son, Robert Cook, from his first marriage, was convicted of the crime, and became the last man hung in Alberta. Forty-six years later a character Betty Jane Hegerat's ...
An account of a deadly commuter plane crash that took place in northern Canada in 1984 involving a pilot, a politician, a cop and the criminal he was escorting. 2017.
Growing up in small-town Alberta, Harnarayan was like many other kids who dreamed about a life within the sanctum of the game they idolized. There was only one small difference--he didn't look like any of the other kids. And when he sat down on Saturday nights to tune in to Hocke...
"In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Strai...
A young Canadian Indian returns to his hometown outside the Blackfoot Reservation and recovers his lost heritage among a varied cast of characters, including and all-Indian basketball team, a marriage doctor, and a world traveler.
A young Blackfoot girl comes of age in 19th century Alberta in this tortured love story. She is chosen along with the chief's son, Silver Fox, to attend a Catholic boarding school in Calgary, and runs up against loneliness and despair when Silver Fox shows more interest in white ...
When Will returns to Medicine River, he thinks he is simply attending his mother's funeral. He doesn't count on Harlen Bigbear and his unique brand of community planning. Harlen tries to sell Will on the idea of returning to Medicine River to open shop as the town's only Native p...
A memoir of growing up in Alberta early in the 1900's. These stories, about trips to the general store, school, working a farm, and the occasional falling cow, were told to the author by her father. Filled with details about pioneer life, each story is tinged with the perception ...
A tale woven over the course of four days and fifty-four years, based on the relationship between bees, angels, spirits, and one Franco-Albertan family. 2018.
On the eve of Christmas and a proposal, Natalie Appleton discovers she doesn't want to settle for sevens, and starts over. So, she abandons everything in Alberta for Bangkok. Along the way, Natalie unpacks the past that caused her to flee: cheating hearts, small-town suffocation,...
On the night of October 10, 2008, Johnny Altinger was heading to his first date with a woman he had met online. He was never seen again. Two weeks earlier, aspiring filmmaker Mark Twitchell, with a devotion to the television series Dexter, began a three-day shoot for his latest s...
Set in the Canadian province of Alberta a little before World War I, this is the story of brother and sister Christine and Henry Delaney, adopted children who strike out from their parents on new courses. Christine finds a clerical job in Edmonton, while Henry, a Mountie like his...
"First published in 1990, Pourin' Down Rain is a coming-of-age memoir about growing up in prairie communities with small Black populations. It thematizes the family, civil rights, and the learned art of Black Canadian storytelling. She drew much of the material from an unpublishe...