You probably already know Edmonton as the Festival City, with close to 40 festivals held year round, and the City with the Largest Mall in North America (West Edmonton Mall), but did you know Alberta's capital city is also downright...
Alberta--Edmonton
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Author:Kozub, MarkSummary: - Author:Blinov, PaulSummary:
We Made It All Up is the story of Rapid Fire Theatre, Edmonton's longest-running improv company. Since 1981 it's sent countless audiences into fits of laughter, vaulted a few actors to Hollywood, survived embezzlement, and emerged as a...
- Author:Spafford-Fitz, KarenSummary:
Highlighting girls' volleyball, a sport which has overtaken girls' basketball in popularity, Volleyball Vibe shows how engagement in sports can boost self-esteem, confidence, and foster responsibility and teamwork. The main character,...
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Author:Lent, JohnSummary:The Path to Ardroe is an exploration of friendship and its limits, life changes, and the challenges and aspirations of writers. Peter Chisholm wrestles with his craft just as his writer friend Rick Connelly does; so too does the novice...
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Author:Cinnamon, BruceSummary:Every year since 1904, when the ice breaks up on the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton has crowned a Melting Queen-a woman who presides over the Melting Day spring carnival and who must keep the city's spirits up over the following...
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Author:Hagen, DarrinSummary:A Drag Dynasty is about to be divined from the high life decade of decadence. It is destined, pre-ordained — and perfectly coiffed. Darrin Hagen, under the mentorship of his drag mother, Lulu LaRude, rose to the height of glamour as...
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Author:Feutl, RitaSummary:Janey doesn't want to spend the summer away from her friends in Toronto - and certainly not in Edmonton with the grandmother she hardly knows. But her parents will be away - her mother in Turkey designing housing for earthquake victims...
- Author:Feutl, RitaSummary:
Janey doesn't want to spend the summer away from her friends in Toronto--and certainly not in Edmonton with the grandmother she hardly knows. But her parents will be away--her mother in Turkey designing housing for earthquake...
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Author:Hagen, DarrinSummary:Edmonton’s Loud & Queer Cabaret has been blazing trails and shining a light on Queer arts and culture for twenty years. The showcase has debuted more than three hundred pieces of stunning performance and art from both established...
- Author:McCulloch, Linda Sloan, Mills, David, Scherer, JaySummary:
When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of manipulation, secret deals, and corporate greed undergirding the project. Working with documentary evidence and...
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Author:Jacobs, Heidi L. MSummary:Aspiring novelist Molly MacGregor laments she will never be like the literary heroines she reads about. Not only does she live in what she thinks the most unromantic region in the world, she is named after one of literature's least...
- Author:Corp, Canadian Broadcast, Walker, LovoniSummary:
Flavours of Edmonton is a celebration of our great multicultural city--and our great food. It started when CBC Edmonton challenged its listeners, viewers and readers to submit their favourite recipes and the stories behind them. As...
- Author:Arthurson, WayneSummary:
Leo Desroches doesn't look Native, but his mother was Cree, so the Edmonton newspaper he writes for decides he should be their Aboriginal Issues reporter. Leo has his own issues to deal with: compulsive gambling that cost him his wife...
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Author:Dalton, AnthonySummary:Dewey Soper first travelled to the Arctic in 1923. During the next seven years he accepted three research postings on Baffin Island, each of which lasted between one and two years. In 1929 he discovered the breeding grounds of the blue...
