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The boathouse question
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20128
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1978
- Author
- Gould, Jan
- Publisher
- Sidney, B.C. : Gray's Pub.
- Call Number
- 05.2 G73t
- Author
- Gould, Jan
- Responsibility
- Jan Gould
- Publisher
- Sidney, B.C. : Gray's Pub.
- Published Date
- 1978
- Physical Description
- 207 pages : portrait ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Abstract
- “The Boathouse Question is an exciting collection of entertaining stories set in a special corner of Canada – British Columbia’s beautiful Gulf Islands. Against the colourful background of small villages, forested shores and sparkling seascapes, the author weaves a bright tapestry with the lives of many interesting characters. Fishermen, artists, radical youths and retired majors all appear, in stories flavored by the fragrance of towering firs and the salt tang of the sea.”
- Contents
- The boathouse question (pg. 1)
- Crab traps (pg. 29)
- Smile for the crying basket (pg. 43)
- The glories of Greece (pg. 75)
- Oh, that virgin hair hair (pg. 95)
- The latest island news (pg. 123)
- An early morning message (pg. 151)
- A temporary arrangement (pg. 171)
- Notes
- The abstract has been taken directly from the publication itself
- ISBN
- 0888260733
- Accession Number
- 3069 a
- Call Number
- 05.2 G73t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Five little Indians
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25242
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Good, Michelle
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Harper Perennial
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 05.2 G59f
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- Author
- Good, Michelle
- Responsibility
- Michelle Good
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Harper Perennial
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 293 pages
- Subjects
- Fiction
- First Nations
- Racism
- Abstract
- Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn't want them. The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission. Fuelled by rage and furious with God, Clara finds her way into the dangerous, highly charged world of the American Indian Movement. Maisie internalizes her pain and continually places herself in dangerous situations. Famous for his daring escapes from the school, Kenny can't stop running and moves restlessly from job to job - through fishing grounds, orchards and logging camps - trying to outrun his memories and his addiction. Lucy finds peace in motherhood and nurtures a secret compulsive disorder as she waits for Kenny to return to the life they once hoped to share together. After almost beating one of his tormentors to death, Howie serves time in prison, then tries once again to re-enter society and begin life anew. With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of these residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward. (from publisher's website)
- ISBN
- 9781443459181
- Accession Number
- P2020.7
- Call Number
- 05.2 G59f
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Goth girls of Banff : stories
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25732
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- O'Neill, John
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : NeWest Press
- Call Number
- 05.2 On2g
- Author
- O'Neill, John
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : NeWest Press
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 202 pages ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Banff
- Canadian Rockies
- Short Stories
- Fiction
- Abstract
- John O'Neill's gothic short stories, set in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and humans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters are surprising, bent, but also empathetic. Their survival is tenuous. A two-sister team of goth tour guides offers guided excursions up switchback mountain trails; a paroled convict thumbs his way into the life of a family driving west; and an animal pathologist, while performing a necropsy on a grizzly bear, has an unusual encounter with both technology and humanity. Goth Girls of Banff is a superb collection, sharply written, with plot turns as consequence-laden as those on an iced-over mountain road. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- What is written or Talking to keep the bears away -- Athabasca -- Attacking the bear -- Rudy -- Three places -- Marilyn in the mountains: nine poses -- From Castle Mountain -- Goth girls of Banff -- Natural selection -- The book about the bear.
- Notes
- Includes discussion questions.
- ISBN
- 9781988732954
- Accession Number
- P2023.16
- Call Number
- 05.2 On2g
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Harking : a novel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25264
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Mercer, George
- Publisher
- [Canada] : George Mercer,
- Call Number
- 05.2 M46h
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- Author
- Mercer, George
- Responsibility
- George Mercer
- Publisher
- [Canada] : George Mercer,
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 282 pages
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Bears
- Bears, Grizzly
- Abstract
- After her parents’ divorce and the discovery of a series of cryptic notes left behind after her father is killed in an avalanche, Harking Thompson struggles to come to her own understanding of love, loss and what really matters. Caught up in a battle to save a mother grizzly bear and her cubs, Harking’s fight to protect the wildlife and wild places she loves teaches her a brutal truth: sometimes saving a life might mean losing another you love even more (from Good Reads website)
- ISBN
- 9780987975485
- Call Number
- 05.2 M46h
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Author's website
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Wharton, Thomas
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : NeWest Publishing
- Call Number
- 05.2 W55 2021
- Author
- Wharton, Thomas
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : NeWest Publishing
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 336 pages
- Abstract
- In 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slips on the ice of the Arcturus Glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slides into a crevasse, wedged upside down nearly sixty feet below the surface. As he fights losing consciousness, a stray beam of sunlight illuminates the ice in front of him and Byrne sees something in the blue-green radiance that will forever link him to the ancient glacier. In this moment, his life’s purpose becomes uncovering the mystery of the icefield that almost was his tomb. Along the way, he encounters similarly fixated individuals, each immersed in their own quest: the healer and storyteller Sara; the bohemian travel writer Freya Becker; the entrepreneur Trask; the poet Hal Rowan; and Elspeth, greenhouse keeper and Byrne's lover. First published in 1995, Thomas Wharton’s Icefields is an astonishing historical novel set in a mesmerizing literary landscape, one that is constantly being altered by the surging and retreating glacier and unpredictable weather. Here—where characters are pulled into deep chasms of ice as well as the stories and histories they tell one another—is a vivid, daring, and crisply written book that reveals the human spirit, loss, myth, and elusive truths. -- From the publisher
- Notes
- This updated Landmark Edition includes an author interview with Smaro Kamboureli and an Afterword by award-winning writer Suzette Mayr.
- ISBN
- 9781774390368
- Accession Number
- P2023.16
- Call Number
- 05.2 W55 2021
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- Archives Library
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The Jackson route
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1307
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1978
- Author
- Herzog, Gerard
- Publisher
- London : Collins
- Call Number
- PZ3 H4
- Author
- Herzog, Gerard
- Publisher
- London : Collins
- Published Date
- 1978
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Call Number
- PZ3 H4
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Mnogedu timansbi = Little Bear goes on summer holidays
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8761
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1973
- Author
- Kaquitts, James
- Publisher
- Morley : Stoney Cultural Education Program
- Call Number
- 07.2 K14 Pam
- Author
- Kaquitts, James
- Publisher
- Morley : Stoney Cultural Education Program
- Published Date
- 1973
- Physical Description
- 24p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 3069
- Call Number
- 07.2 K14 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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La montagne (roman)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1022
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1970
- Author
- Fontanet, Jean-Claude
- Publisher
- Paris : La Table Ronde
- Call Number
- PZ3 F6
- Author
- Fontanet, Jean-Claude
- Publisher
- Paris : La Table Ronde
- Published Date
- 1970
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Call Number
- PZ3 F6
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Mount Analogue : a novel of symbolically authenic non-euclidian adventures in mountain climbing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue814
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1974
- Author
- Daumal, Ren
- Publisher
- Baltimore : Penguin
- Call Number
- PN3435 D3 Pam
- Author
- Daumal, Ren
- Publisher
- Baltimore : Penguin
- Published Date
- 1974
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Call Number
- PN3435 D3 Pam
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Native air : a novel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25656
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Howland, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Brattleboro, Vermont : Green Writers Press
- Call Number
- 05.2 H84n
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- Author
- Howland, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Brattleboro, Vermont : Green Writers Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Mountaineering
- Abstract
- In a debut novel from Green Writers Press by Jonathan Howland, the austere beauty and high exposure of mountain adventure provide the context and the measure for what it means to be alive for climbing partners Joe Holland and Pete Hunter--until one of them isn’t. When the book opens, it’s the mid-80s. Joe Holland, the novel’s narrator, is a climber and a seeker, but mostly he’s Pete Hunter’s shadow. The two meet in college and spend the next ten years living at the base of any rock that appears scalable, most of them near Yosemite and California’s High Sierra. The joys and strains of their friendship comprise the novel’s first half. In the second, the bare bones--obsession, grief, love, and repair--come into stark relief when Pete’s grown son Will calls Joe back into climbing, into the past, and into breathless vitality -- Front dust jacket flap
- ISBN
- 9781950584901
- Accession Number
- P2022.14
- Call Number
- 05.2 H84n
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Banff Mountain Book Competition Grand Prize Winner, 2022
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Summer of lies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26192
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Baker, Barbara
- Publisher
- Airdrie, AB : BWL Publishing
- Call Number
- 05.2 B17s
- Author
- Baker, Barbara
- Publisher
- Airdrie, AB : BWL Publishing
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 311 pages
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Literature
- Canadian Rockies
- Young Adult
- Abstract
- Fourteen-year-old Jillian as no idea who her dad is but uses her banishement from summer parties in Toronto to isolation in Banff National Park to track him down. But it's not easy. A reclusive log cabin, a grumpy aunt, few trips to civilization and seriously--no cell phone reception? When she's not searching for her dad, Jillian pursues an elusive girl, Mika, who lives on her own in the wilderness. Together they track down a poacher and Jillian reunites Mika with her family. All should be well -- but it isn't. Big secrets in Jillian's family surface, Jillian's boyfriend ditches her, and her dad wants proof he's her dad. Like she's make this up? -- From backcover
- ISBN
- 9780228615767
- Accession Number
- P2023.17
- Call Number
- 05.2 B17s
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- Archives Library
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Watershed : a novel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26271
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Vanderstoop, Doreen
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : Freehand Books
- Call Number
- 05.2 V28w
- Author
- Vanderstoop, Doreen
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : Freehand Books
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 355 pages ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Science Fiction
- Climate change
- Fiction
- Abstract
- Watershed is a contemporary dystopian novel set in a near-future southern Alberta, which has been ravaged by desert-like conditions, as opposed to the northern part of the province, which is warm as well as green and lush thanks to a water pipeline from the ocean. The province's former oil and gas pipelines are being converted to carry desalinated sea water, and the north and south are at odds because of it. The protagonist, Wilma, is desperately trying to hold onto her dying family farm, while her son, Daniel, takes a job for the enemy: the big water pipeline corporation. -- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9781988298597
- Accession Number
- 2024.03
- Call Number
- 05.2 V28w
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- Archives Library
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What about me?
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26191
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Baker, Barbara
- Publisher
- Airdrie, AB : BWL Publishing
- Call Number
- 05.2 B17w
- Author
- Baker, Barbara
- Publisher
- Airdrie, AB : BWL Publishing
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 336 pages
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Literature
- Canadian Rockies
- Young Adult
- Abstract
- Jillian has to start grade 10 a month after the semester begins in a new school where everyone knows everyone's business. And it totally sucks. She loves her Opa but moving from Toronto to Banff to help Aunt Steph take care of him was not Jillian's idea. As she navigates unfamiliar hallways, bear attacks and strangers she makes choices which impact relationships and a potential boyfriend. Will the last choice Jillian makes be the right one? -- From backcover
- ISBN
- 9780228622833
- Accession Number
- P2023.17
- Call Number
- 05.2 B17w
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