Butler, Jenna
Summary: "After five years of working with bees on her farm in northern Alberta, Jenna Butler shares with the reader the rich experience of keeping hives. Starting with a rare bright day in late November as the bees are settling in for winter she takes us through a year in beekeeping on her small piece of the boreal forest. Weaving together her personal story with the practical aspects of running a farm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home ButlerSummary: Set against the stunning vistas of the Alberta Rocky Mountains, a sprawling family drama that follows teenage horse whisperer Amy through the highs and lows of life on a horse ranch. Season 16 of Heartland finds Amy and the rest of the family making bold strides toward their futures. For Amy that means taking the blinders off and looking at her life with renewed hope and focus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This annually updated travel guide to Alaska and Northwest Canada is a must-have resource for travelers to these areas. "The Milepost" provides maps, diagrams, photographs, and an almost mile-by-mile travelogue of what to expect along the main roads.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morris Communications Company, LLC 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This manual represents a comprehensive resource for new and existing Saskatoon berry growers. It delves into the biology of the plant, both from a basic, whole plant level through to a detailed examination of how the plant will respond to practices such as pruning. The process of propagation is outlined, including a comparison of seedling versus vegetatively propagated material. The manual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634 SASSchultz Nicholson, Lorna
Summary: "The biography of Canadian Joey Moss, a man born with Down syndrome who worked with the NHL Edmonton Oilers hockey team, and was an inspiration for neurodiverse people and an advocate for inclusivity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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Summary: Describes the environment, history, industry, tourist attractions, arts, sports, and cultural groups that make Alberta unique.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weigl 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 971 GOLSummary: "Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family".
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Heartland 2011Hempstead, Andrew
Summary: Canada resident and avid outdoorsman Andrew Hempstead offers his firsthand advice on experiencing the Canadian Rockies, from rafting on the Bow River and hiking Lake O'Hara to staying in a remote log cabin. Hempstead includes unique trip ideas, such as A Week Under the Stars and Exploring the Canadian Rockies with Children. Complete with details on escaping the crowds at Lake Louise, viewing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Travel 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.1 CANLovegreen, Kevin
Summary: The moment has come for Luke to put all his skills, determination, and luck together to make the stalk of his life on the old drop tine buck, a legendary monster mule deer. Join Luke and his dad as they travel to Alberta, Canada, for their first mule deer bow hunt. This adventure is another amazing journey where new friends are made, life lessons are learned, and exciting hunting action is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucky Luke, LLC. 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LOVNiven, Catherine Simmons
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Deer College Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVSummary: "Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family"--Www.tv.com. The complete second season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Heartland 2010Beaton, Kate
Summary: Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn and Quarterly 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEATON, KATE BEAFredrickson, Olive A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.1 FREShaben, Carol.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2013
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.124 SHABelcourt, Billy-Ray
Summary: "A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy-Ray Belcourt's unnamed narrator chronicles a series of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELSummary: While some journeys end, others are just beginning. Season Fourteen of Heartland finds horses healing Amy as much as Amy heals horses. While Amy struggles with a life-changing challenge, the entire town of Hudson will have to deal with an unexpected disaster that threatens to derail Lou's first term as mayor. But, the family will pull through together and be stronger as a result. Family is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SDS 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HEAJohns, Jessica
Summary: A young Cree woman is tormented by vivid dreams from before her sister's untimely death and wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands before returning to her rural hometown in Alberta seeking answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHJenkins, McKay
Summary: Their fate, and the fate of the people they hoped to teach about God, was about to take a tragic turn. Three days after reaching their destination, the two priests were murdered, their livers removed and eaten. Suddenly, after having survived some ten thousand years with virtually no contact with people outside their remote and forbidding land, the last hunter-gatherers in North America were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 JENLes Becquets, Diane
Summary: "On a conservation study in northern Alberta, field technician Marian Engstrom found her true calling: training rescue dogs to help track endangered or threatened wildlife. Under the tutelage of experienced handler, Tate Mathias, Marian felt her future opening up before her... But after Tate is killed in a bear attack, Marian finds herself questioning the man she thought she loved. Growing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LESTubbs, Anna Malaika
Summary: "In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 TUBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 TUBOke, Janette
Summary: In Alberta, the star-crossed romance between Martin Forbes, a young white missionary, and Running Fawn, an Indian maiden. She is one of his most promising pupils, but so is Silver Fox and it is he who gets her in the end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKEKunkel, Angela Burke
Summary: In Bogotá, Columbia, young José eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by José Alberto Gutiérrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutiérrez's life and Bogotá.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 GUTWilson, Lambert
Summary: Based on a true story, eight French Christian monks choose to stay in their Muslim community in Algeria despite the growing threat of terrorism by an Islamic fundamentalist group.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN OFAdimi, Kaouther
Summary: "Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto 'by the young, for the young', discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020