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Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending March 15, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website. FICTION 1. Final Orbit - Chris Hadfield (Random House Canada) 2. Recipe for a Good Life - Lesley Crewe (Nimbus Publishing Limited) 3. The Correspondent - Virginia Evans (Crown) 4. 1984 - George Orwell (Penguin) 5. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (Canterbury Classics) 6. Prairie Edge - Conor Kerr (Strange Light) *Alberta Author 7. Solo Dance and Other Stories - Manna Liu (1 Plus Books) *Alberta Author 8. Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter - Heather Fawcett (Del Rey) 9. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir (Ballantine Books) 10. Cousin Bear Comes to Visit - Halie Finney (Conundrum Press) *Alberta Author

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending March 15, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website. NON-FICTION 1. The New Menopause - Mary Claire Haver, MD (Rodale Books) 2. Activist - Daniel Fried (Prometheus) 3. A Field Guide to the Birds of Alberta - David R. Scott (Heritage House) *Alberta Author 4. Trans History - Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett (Candlewick) 5. Brassy Bit of Aging Crumpet - Mary Walsh (HarperCollins Publishers) 6. Talk Treaty to Me - Crystal Gail Fraser and Sara Komarnisky (Collins) *Alberta Author 7. All About Love - bell hooks (William Morrow) 8. Theory of Water - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Alchemy by Knopf Canada) 9. The Wealthy Barber Returns - David Chilton (Financial Awareness Corporation) 10. Hyperpolitics - Anton Jäger (Verso)

Edmonton Bestseller List for the week ending March 15, 2025. A PDF of the list can be found on our website. POETRY 1. Nighthawks - Lisa Martin (University of Alberta Press) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 2. The Odyssey - Homer, trans. Emily Wilson (W.W. Norton & Company) 3. Enemy of the Sun - ed. Naseer Aruria and Edmund Ghareeb (Seven Stories Press) 4. Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel Publishing) 5. The Lost Spells - Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris (House of Anansi Press) 6. A Really Good Brown Girl - Marilyn Dumont (Brick Books) *Alberta Author 7. South Side of a Kinless River - Marilyn Dumont (Brick Books) *Alberta Author 8. Wellwater - Karen Solie (House of Anansi Press) 9. Northerny - Dawn Macdonald (University of Alberta Press) +Alberta Publisher 10. The Idea of An Entire Life - Billy-Ray Belcourt (McClelland & Stewart) *Alberta Author

Edmonton’s Bestselling Books for the week ending April 5, 2025! #ABbooks @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @magpiebooks.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending April 9, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website. FICTION 1. The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances - Glenn Dixon (HarperCollins Canada) 2. Yesteryear - Caro Claire Burke (Knopf Canada) 3. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir (Ballantine Books) 4. A False and Fatal Claim - Iona Whishaw (TouchWood Editions) 5. Strange Buildings - Uketsu, trans. Jim Rion (HarperVia) 6. Between Two Fires - Christopher Buehlman (Tor Nightfire) 7. The Ferryman and His Wife - Frode Grytten, trans. Alison McCullough (Algonquin Books) 8. The Lion Women of Tehran - Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books) 9. Theo of Golden - Allen Levi (Simon & Schuster) 10. Butter - Asako Yuzuki, trans. Polly Barton (Ecco)

Calgary Bestseller List for the week ending April 9, 2026. A PDF of the list can be found on our website. NON-FICTION 1. The Myth of Normal - Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté (Avery) 2. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts - Gabor Maté, MD (Vintage Canada) 3. When the Body Says No - Gabor Maté (Vintage Canada) 4. Scattered Minds - Gabor Maté, MD (Vintage Canada) 5. There’s Magic Here Too - Skylar Kay (Frontenac House) *Alberta Author +Alberta Publisher 6. Hold On to Your Kids - Gordon Neufeld, PhD and Gabor Maté, MD (Vintage Canada) 7. Activist - Daniel Fried (Prometheus) 8. Precarious - Marcello Di Cintio (Biblioasis) *Alberta Author 9. On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down - James Fell (Penguin Random House) *Alberta Author 10. Raising Hare - Chloe Dalton (Canongate Books)

Calgary’s Bestselling Books for the week ending April 9, 2026! #ABbooks @shelflifebooks.bsky.social

Six prints in pinks, orange and reds with images of different flowers

Grace Gillespie, contemporary printmaker #Womensart

Old and New Forest
Emily Carr
1935

Photo of complex colourful design with central Celtic cross

Design section of Irish nun Mary Concepta Lynch's decoration of the Oratory of the Domincan Convent, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland. The entire decoration took 16 years (1920-1936) #womensart1

Painted eggshells fragments by artist Ruby Silvious #WomensArt #Easter

I am over the moon thrilled (yes, pun intended) to be part of the LOOK 2026 Art Auction Exhibition at Contemporary Calgary until May 2. 🌙
This is my brand new abstract landscape painting “I Will See”, acrylic on panel, 44” diameter
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Busy Day 3 in space for Artemis II astronauts after they leave Earth's orbit and head for moon | CBC

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

It seems like a nonsense article until I think about what has happened in the US. Then the question becomes: if I take this seriously: do we go back to BC sooner than later… 😔

Thank-you for the reposts @uta-reinke.bsky.social ✨

Thank you! Need to find easier/more accessible ways to paint with kiddos than the Chromatemp I’ve been using.

This is lovely. May I ask what brand of paint you’re using?

Thank you, Heather! This next class looks enticing - happy to spread the word. :)

I enjoyed Heather’s wildflower drawing class. Easy going teaching style and some helpful tool tips.

Cotton fabric folded below a small, scrappy skein of handspun mohair. Dye experiments from left to right: heuchera root (natural alum base for all) , marigold and pomegranate, marigold, pomegranate. Mohair skein: marigold.

That spun from the fold mohair experiment got a little colour yesterday with further experiments using marigolds from last season’s garden. Cotton experiments with pomegranate as well. #handspun #naturaldye

Snow starting to mark patio stone.

It took awhile, but it has finally arrived in deep SE

I’ll say: ran out to do errands and still waiting for this snow craziness. I guess this speaks to how large our urban sprawl really is.

Lovely! Thanks for sharing!

This digital life:
I feel bone weary with it.
Snowdrops! Happy Spring.

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing the link @mjnicefield.bsky.social

A reminder on why I left the other sites.

So much of this resonates. @theaidea.bsky.social Thank you for this post on the creative process and the reflections it can manifest. (Lovely thumbnail too!)

Small skein of creamy white, uneven but slightly lustrous yarn laying on wooden spinning wheel treadle. “Lojan Buddy” burned into the wood at left. At right, whisks of broken yarn singles.

Tonight’s adventure: spinning from the fold with a small amount of vintage mohair. Tricky technique and I haven’t got it, but the yarn is soft.

On the left: straw brown spikes of dead perennials poking out various shades of white snow drifts. Parts of plant material also still visible in top right.

Liatris punctata showing off its winter interest structure during the last of the late winter snowfall. #nativeplants #abnativeplants #gardening #yyc

Can't make it to tonight's public lecture featuring distinguished speaker Justin Ling, investigative journalist and columnist for The Toronto Star?

Justin's lecture, “Telling the Truth in Hyperreality: Journalism in a Time of Lies,” will be livestreamed here: https://bit.ly/4uii7Up

Don't miss it!

Pause Spring cleaning and the mental list of house chores still to accomplish today has been paused to record a pause in thought. Pause the personal anxiety felt towards the state of our world and instea…

Spring is on its way and this is what it looks like in my part of the world.

bwanhill.ca/2026/03/08/p...

This Painting is a Mirror
Christi Belcourt ~ Métis
2012

Alpine strawberry plant with blossoms and ripe fruit. Growing under LED growlights.

Four alpine strawberries held in an open Caucasian hand. Black growing tray and terracotta pot in background.

I’ve been growing an Alpine Strawberry plant indoors this year and it’s going modestly well. 🍓❤️