topic:"Canadian Rockies " found 4 records - Research Collections

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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Icefields

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Fiction; Canadian Rockies; Jasper National Park; Survival

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

Collection: Archives Library

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Summer of lies

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

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

Collection: Archives Library

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What about me?

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

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

Collection: Archives Library

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