ALBERTA BOOKS FOR SCHOOLS

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19 August 2022
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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 October 2019 English

M is a bylaw officer, living with two brothers, in their parent's old house. While investigating a suspicious yard sale, M discovers a red chesterfield sitting in a ditch. Looking …


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 17 March 2017 English

The Burgess Shale is a geological formation discovered in the Canadian Rocky Mountains that contains the fossils of many weird and strange early life forms, different from but not unrelated …


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 25 April 2019 English

Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier’s small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary’s …


FRHD: Freehand Books · 2018 English

In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria -- just before the Syrian civil war …


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 2017 English

In March 2010 the Canadian Literature Centre hosted award-winning novelist and storyteller Eden Robinson at the 4th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture. Robinson shared an intimate look into the intricacies of …


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 26 May 2014 French

Writing about belonging is not a simple task. Esi Edugyan chooses to intertwine fact and fiction, objective and subjective in an effort to find out if one can belong to …


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 30 September 2018

Working within a postmodern style, this rhythmic and melodious bilingual collection of poems originally written in Slovenian by Cvetka Lipués and translated here by Tom Priestly, blends the real with …


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 2 April 2019 French

In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations. Figuring out how to dance between them is a murky business. …