Alberta Book Awards

Below find selected winners of the Alberta Book Awards.



Products - 11 in this category - showing 1 through 11

Damselflies of Alberta: Flying Neon Toothpicks in the Gras - trade paperback
By John Acorn - $29.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2005 Alberta Book Design Award for Best Book Design.With iridescent blues and greens, damselflies are some of the most beautiful flying insects. Naturalist John Acorn describes the tw...

 

Dot to Dot in the Sky: Stories of the Moon - children's paperback
By Joan Marie Galat And Lorna Bennett - $16.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2005 R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature.Throughout history, the Earth's closest celestial neighbour has inspired and intrigued. People around the world have looked up in a...

 

Heck Superhero - children's paperback
By Martine Leavitt - $9.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2005 Children's Book Award.Thirteen-year-old Heck is a pretty normal kid with some artistic talent and a distinctive, hyperactive imagination. Life with his mother has been hand-to-mo...

 

Mean Boy - trade paperback
By Lynn Coady - $21.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Georges Bugnet Award.Earnest, small-town Lawrence Campbell is fascinated by his poetry professor, the charismatic and uncompromising Jim Arsenault. Larry is determined to escape ...

 

Mwakwa Talks to the Loon - children's paperback
By Dale Auger - $12.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature.Discover Dale Auger’s world of myth, magic, and human experience in Mwâkwa—Talks to the Loon: A Cree Story for Children, which fea...

 

Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books - trade paperback
By Ted Bishop - $22.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2006 Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction.English professor and motorcycle enthusiast Ted Bishop is taking one last ride before fall term when his bike vibrates out of control and ...

 

The Garden of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor - trade paperback
By Don Kerr - $29.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2005 Saskatoon Book Award.Winner of the 2005 Alberta Book Design Award for Best Book Cover.Elegant, surreal, erotic, ecological, autobiographical, perpetual, populist, comic! These ar...

 

The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books - trade paperback
By Thomas Wharton - $27.95 - add to cart

Shortlisted for the 2006 IMPAC Dublin Award.Winner of the 2005 Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Fiction."The particular volume I''m looking for is nameless, lacking a cover, title page, or any other ...

 

The Madonna List - trade paperback
By Max Foran - $24.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2006 Trade Fiction Book Award.Rome, 1221. On the death of Dominic Guzman, founder of the Order of Dominican Friars, a list of three names is locked away with the depositions attesting...

 

The Pochsy Plays - trade paperback
By Karen Hines - $18.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2005 Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama.A trilogy of blackly comic plays featuring Hines' kewpie, acid-tongued creation. Beckett meets John Hughes.

 

Where the Land Gets Broken - trade paperback
By Walter Hildebrandt - $18.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2005 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry.The poetry in Where the Land Gets Broken looks to the margins of society to discover the forgotten stories, those tales that lie outside t...