Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending July 5, 2026! #ABbooks @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

Beneficiary by JoAnn McCaig begins with an interesting premise. We meet Seren in a local shop where she declines the purchase of a lottery ticket. “Don’t you want to be a millionaire?” prompts the clerk. “I already am.” Beneficiary reviewed at the Miramichi Reader: buff.ly/nWABs3b

"The overarching structure of the book is determined by a feeling we are by now all too familiar with; that of plummeting headlong down the infinite rabbit hole of the internet." @kyleflemmer.com talks The Wiki of Babel at @49thshelf.bsky.social: buff.ly/ASi3n6k

Seren’s story of a ‘poor little rich girl’ aches with its contemplative look at power, privilege, good intentions and careful choice making. The intersection of wealth, class and status is treated with respect delicacy and discernment. Beneficiary reviewed at the Miramichi Reader: buff.ly/nWABs3b

Weather it's subconscious or intentional, people are always thinking about money. Six books to challenge your perception of wealth - including JoAnn McCaig's Beneficiary - at River Street Writing.

Rag Pickers is shortlisted for the High Plains International Book Awards! Author Blaine Newton brings his experience as a playwright to these short stories with crackling dialogue and sharply drawn scene. Rag Pickers is a short story collection not to be missed!

"Marvel Lake: Losing Blue" by Leanne Allison is the latest featured excerpt from Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project & a Century of Change in Western Canada (November 2025), part of our Canadian History & Environment series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/07/01/m...

Calgary’s Bestselling Books for the week ending June 25, 2026! #ABbooks @shelflifebooks.bsky.social @renegadeartsent.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social : What Is Broken Binds Us, by Lorne Daniel / @lornedaniel.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/07/kim-...

The 2026 Alberta Book Publishing Awards shortlist has been announced! We are so happy to be included in this celebration of Alberta publishers . . . and to start working through the reading list!

Rag Pickers has been shortlisted for the High Plains International Book Awards in the Short Stories category! Huge congratulations to Blaine Newton and to all the finalists!

Why JoAnn McCaig wrote Beneficiary . . . at the Miramichi Reader!

Is our universe just one of many? Leading philosopher Jeremy Butterfield presents three versions of the idea of the multiverse, one from philosophy and two from physics, in The Multiverse: A Philosophical introduction. For students, newcomers, and curious minds. Releasing July 15!

The son of Holocaust survivors, Avi Friedman disconnected, putting their stories in a box perhaps never to be opened. Until his own children grew up, grew curious, and Friedman opened the box to discover an indellible story of genesis and survival.

Kyle Flemmer, The Wiki of Babel / @kyleflemmer.com @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @writersguildab.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/06/kyle...

First up is a book of poetry by our very own Kyle Flemmer, OER coordinator here at AU Press, who uses Oulipian wordplay and digital poetics to build poems out of Wikipedia. press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177... Published by our friends at @ucalgarypress.bsky.social.

Tonight! Come down to Shelf Life Books (@shelflifebooks.bsky.social) in Downtown Calgary to launch The Wiki of Babel! buff.ly/BcASg0K

Join Kyle Flemmer, Patrick Horner, and Rayanne Kap TOMORROW at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social to launch the fantastic new collection The Wiki of Babel! buff.ly/BcASg0K

Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 6/9 from Roof Books, @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, Fire Ant Books, @kayapress.bsky.social, @thedialpress.bsky.social, @holycowpubs.bsky.social & @pauldrybooks.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Check out what Alberta was buying, reading, and loving this May! See the full list here: buff.ly/9r5tzs7 @ualbertapress.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social @aupress.ca #ReadAlberta #CanLit

This Thursday! Launch the fascinating, playful new book The Wiki of Babel at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social with author Kyle Flemmer and special guests Patrick Horner and Rayanne Kap.

Just Published. The story of a Jewish family from their genesis in Poland through the suffering of the Holocaust and of the son who survived. Sole Survivor is available wherever fine books are sold.

On June 25 join Kyle Flemmer, Patrick Horner, and Rayanne Kap to launch The Wiki of Babel! shelflifebooks.ca/events/51876...

Just Published! The Wiki of Babel is a loving and creative collection of experimental poetry that celebrates Wikipedia, collaborative expertise, and the paratactic leap. Find it wherever fine books are sold! Learn more buff.ly/7z2imy3

The Just Published Sole Survivor is one of Pat St. Ger­main's books worth carrying with you.

JoAnn McCaig joins Deborah Kalb for a fascinating Q&A on her just-published book, Beneficiary:

Hollay Ghadery welcomes Beneficiary author JoAnn McCaig to chat about her new novel Beneficiary at New Books Network:

JoAnn McCaig talker her just-published novel Beneficiary, communal living, single motherhood, second-wave feminism, and more on CKCU LitRoom: buff.ly/3vkg1gH

Thorough and balanced, including many voices, and Freeman takes the time to clarify what it means to consult each source. Reading this book is like listening to a speaker who allows time for each word to sink in. Where Histories Meet at the Temez Review: buff.ly/1wRL3qk

Fragile distance amid a world of woundedness: a dialogue with Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike and Nkateko Masinga: buff.ly/yJnFuWD

Thorough and balanced, including many voices, and Freeman takes the time to clarify what it means to consult each source. Reading this book is like listening to a speaker who allows time for each word to sink in. Where Histories Meet at the Temez Reivew: buff.ly/gpfTih0

Meet the 2026 CBC Poetry Prize Readers . . . including Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike! buff.ly/qnoKRLZ

In this NBN podcast, Hollay Ghadrey speaks with JoAnn McCaig about her new novel, Beneficiary. Check it out: buff.ly/0G9jwPC

Tonight! Join JoAnn McCaig to launch Beneficiary at Shelf Life Books in a fantastic eventing of literary conversation. We are so pleased to launch this amazing novel. Details at: buff.ly/ZcZKMsg

Susan Johnson and Calgary novelist JoAnn McCaig talk girlhood, communal living, motherhood , addiction, and more in a Lit Room discussion of her just-published novel, Beneficiary.

Join JoAnn McCaig to launch Beneficiary at Shelf Life Books in a fantastic eventing of literary conversation with Barb Scott. May 26! Details at: buff.ly/ZcZKMsg

Save the date! We invite you to launch Kyle Flemmer's third collection of poetry The Wiki of Babel with special guests Patrick Horner and Ryanne Kap. Thursday, June 25 at Shelf Life Books. Can't wait to see you there!

On May 26 - next Tuesday! - Join JoAnn McCaig to launch Beneficiary at Shelf Life Books in a fantastic eventing of literary conversation. Details at: buff.ly/ZcZKMsg

Check out what Alberta was buying and reading this April, including titles from @ualbertapress.bsky.social, @newestpress.bsky.social, @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, and more! See the full list here: buff.ly/Mz12cak #ReadAlberta #CanLit

We Survived Until We Could Live author Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike joins Nkateko Masinga in a wide-ranging, fascinating discussion in Africa in Dialogue: buff.ly/yJnFuWD

Just Published! Seren was born to a country-club cage and a leash of pearls until, one day, she just walked away. But legacy can follow you anywhere. Beneficiary is a novel about what it means to face the world as a woman, on your own terms. Available now wherever books are sold!

Tonight! A double book launch at Shelf Life Calgary! Join Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike and Anna Veprinska to ceelbrate their new books, We Survived Until We Could Live and Wound Archive. 7:00PM!

Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike and Anna Veprinska launch two fantastic new collections at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social TOMORROW, May 14!

two new chapbooks, the uAlberta writer-in-residence (online) showcase, an interview + an above/ground press (zoom) conversation, / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social l , we've an exciting week ahead, fellow kids; robmclennan.substack.com/p/two-new-ch...

This Thursday! We Survived Until We Could Live and Wound Archive launch at Shelf Life Books in Calgary, Alberta. Not to be missed!

Poems that chronicle life in the aftermath of war. Poems that archive the wound left by the start of chronic illness. Poems that call for empathy in a world that would rather turn away, and find celebration and joy. Poetry launching next Thursday, May 15!

@audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending April 26, 2026! @magpiebooks.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

Today we have "The Valley of the Wîkchemnâ Peaks" by Willam (Bill) Snow This is the latest featured excerpt from Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada, part of our book series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/05/01/t... #envhist

New Publication The Next War: Indications Intelligence in the Early Cold War Timothy Andrews Sayle csn-rec.ca/news/84839-n... @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

UCalgay history professor George Colpitts joins Daybreak Alberta host Paul Karchut to talk about the early efforts of Alberta anglers to save their mountain coldwater streams, and the urgent lessons we must learn from their efforts today. Listen here: buff.ly/1vG9a9Z