Fall Feast of Words 2023

Bad Cree

A Novel

by Johns, Jessica

Book - 2023

Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, mixes horror, magical r...Show more Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, mixes horror, magical realism and mystery, and was shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel Award and won the MacEwan Book of the Year award. In Bad Cree, a young Cree woman named Mackenzie is tormented by vivid dreams from before her sister's untimely death. As the line between her dreams and reality blur, Mackenzie returns to her rural hometown in Alberta seeking answers. *** Jessica Johns will be at Strathcona County Library's Fall Feast of Words on Tuesday, October 3 at 7 pm. Join us for an engaging conversation with this exciting literary voice. Register on our website under "Programs & Events". Show less

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The Crow Valley Karaoke Championships

by Bryan, Ali

Book - 2023

Award-winning author Ali Bryan’s darkly comedic and fast-paced novel is set to the soundtrack of classics belted out with abandon. Calgary-based Ali Bryan...Show more Award-winning author Ali Bryan’s darkly comedic and fast-paced novel is set to the soundtrack of classics belted out with abandon. Calgary-based Ali Bryan is a novelist and creative nonfiction writer who explores the what-ifs and the wait-a-minutes of everyday life. Ali’s work ranges from laugh-out-loud books about family to dystopian teen thrillers. In The Crow Valley Karaoke Championships, a year after local karaoke legend Dale Jepson died in forest fires, his town holds The Crow Valley Karaoke Championships. When a convicted murderer escapes from nearby Crow Valley Correctional, five residents with connections to Dale and drastically different goals for the night scramble to make it successfully through the evening. *** Ali Bryan will be at Strathcona County Library's Fall Feast of Words on Wednesday, October 11 at 7 pm. Join us to talk about The Crow Valley Karaoke Championships and Ali's other works. Register on our website under "Programs & Events". Show less

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Wag

The Science of Making your Dog Happy

by Todd, Zazie

Zazie Todd is an animal behavior expert and award-winning writer who loves nothing better than helping people resolve issues with their pets. Wag: The Sci...Show more Zazie Todd is an animal behavior expert and award-winning writer who loves nothing better than helping people resolve issues with their pets. Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy helps owners cultivate a rewarding and respectful relationship with their dogs. *** Zazie Todd will be at Strathcona County Library's Fall Feast of Words to speak about both books (Wag & Purr) on Wednesday, October 18 at 7 pm. Join us to hear about her process for turning her life’s work into books, being a go-to expert on pets, and her mission to inspire people to have happier pets. Register on our website under "Programs & Events". Show less

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Purr

The Science of Making your Cat Happy

by Todd, Zazie

Book - 2022

Zazie Todd is an animal behavior expert and award-winning writer who loves nothing better than helping people resolve issues with their pets. Purr: The Sc...Show more Zazie Todd is an animal behavior expert and award-winning writer who loves nothing better than helping people resolve issues with their pets. Purr: The Science of Making Your Cat Happy, addresses every stage of a cat’s life and offers advice for even the most experienced cat owner. *** Zazie Todd will be at Strathcona County Library's Fall Feast of Words to speak about both books (Wag & Purr) on Wednesday, October 18 at 7 pm. Join us to hear about her process for turning her life’s work into books, being a go-to expert on pets, and her mission to inspire people to have happier pets. Register on our website under "Programs & Events". Show less

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Leaving Wisdom

A Novel

by Butala, Sharon

Book - 2023

Sharon Butala is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a three-time Governor General's Literary Award nominee and is the author of twenty-one books, numerous...Show more Sharon Butala is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a three-time Governor General's Literary Award nominee and is the author of twenty-one books, numerous essays and articles, some poetry and five plays. In Leaving Wisdom she explores memory, family, and the long shadow of World War II through the story of Judith, a retiring social worker in the Canadian Prairies. *** Sharon Butala will be at Strathcona County Library's Fall Feast of Words on Tuesday, October 24 at 7 pm. She joins us to talk about her new novel Leaving Wisdom. Register on our website under "Programs & Events". Show less

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The Elephant on Karlův Bridge

A Novel

by Trofimuk, Thomas

Book - 2022

In award-winning Albertan author Thomas Trofimuk’s most ambitious book yet an elephant escapes from the Prague Zoo and wanders through the city, altering ...Show more In award-winning Albertan author Thomas Trofimuk’s most ambitious book yet an elephant escapes from the Prague Zoo and wanders through the city, altering the lives everyone she meets. The author masterfully convinces us to accept that a bridge can tell a story, that art is integral to our survival, and that an elephant can scatter flashes of insight in her wake. *** Thomas Trofimuk will be at Strathcona County Library's Fall Feast of Words on Thursday, November 2 at 7 pm. Join our discussion with Thomas about this wonderfully unusual novel. Register on our website under "Programs & Events". Show less

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Roost

A Novel

by Bryan, Ali

Book - 2013

Claudia, single mother of two young children, pines for her past independent life. Her ex, after all, has moved on to a new wardrobe, a new penchant for l...Show more Claudia, single mother of two young children, pines for her past independent life. Her ex, after all, has moved on to a new wardrobe, a new penchant for lattes, and new adult friends. But in Claudia's house she's still finding bananas in the sock drawer, cigarettes taped to wrestling figures, and doodles on her MasterCard bills. Then Claudia receives the unexpected news that her mother has died. Winner of the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction. Show less

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Coq

by Bryan, Ali

Book - 2023

It's been ten years since Claudia's mother died after a tragic collision with a banana boat. Her kids are now teenagers, her brother's wife has left him, ...Show more It's been ten years since Claudia's mother died after a tragic collision with a banana boat. Her kids are now teenagers, her brother's wife has left him, and her ex has had a spiritual awakening that has him hinting at reconciliation -- all things she can handle. But when her septuagenarian father decides to remarry after a brief courtship with a woman who is decidedly different than their mother, the entire family is thrown off course and plans a long overdue memorial trip to the City of Love, where chaos ensues at every turn. Show less

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This Strange Visible Air

Essays on Aging and the Writing Life

by Butala, Sharon

Book - 2021

In this incisive collection, Sharon Butala reflects on the ways her life has changed as she's grown old. She knows that society fails the elderly massivel...Show more In this incisive collection, Sharon Butala reflects on the ways her life has changed as she's grown old. She knows that society fails the elderly massively, and so she tackles ageism and loneliness, friendship and companionship. She writes with pointed wit and acerbic humour about dinner parties and health challenges and forgetfulness and complicated family relationships and the pandemic -- and lettuce. Show less

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Season of Fury and Wonder

Short Stories

by Butala, Sharon

Book - 2018 ; 2019

"There are things that it is impossible to learn when you are young, no matter how much you read and study." The season of fury and wonder, in S...Show more "There are things that it is impossible to learn when you are young, no matter how much you read and study." The season of fury and wonder, in Sharon Butala's world, is the old age of women. These stories present the lives of old women - women of experience, who've seen much of life, who've tasted of its sweetness and its bitter possibilities, and have developed opinions and come to conclusions about what it all amounts to. Show less

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This Is All A Lie

A Novel

by Trofimuk, Thomas

Book - 2017

This Is All A Lie opens with Ray leaving his mistress for the final time. At the bottom of her apartment tower, he answers his phone. It's Nancy, his love...Show more This Is All A Lie opens with Ray leaving his mistress for the final time. At the bottom of her apartment tower, he answers his phone. It's Nancy, his lover, and she is threatening to jump if he drives away. Ray's wife, Tulah, loves snow and keeps a snow journal - every time it snows she goes out in it and records what she thinks and feels about the snow in the context of her life. Tulah is filled with secrets, and denial and unhappiness, and when she is drawn into Ray's messy affair, everything she thought she knew is thrown aside. Show less

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Waiting for Columbus

[a Novel]

by Trofimuk, Thomas

Book - 2009

In a Spanish mental institution in 2004, a man who believes he is Christopher Columbus begins to tell his story. Nurse Consuela listens, hoping to discove...Show more In a Spanish mental institution in 2004, a man who believes he is Christopher Columbus begins to tell his story. Nurse Consuela listens, hoping to discover what tragedy drove this educated, cultured man to retreat from reality. This Columbus is not heroic: he falls in love with every woman he meets, and, on land, he has absolutely no sense of direction. Waiting for Columbus is richly imagined, cinematic, and often playful; a novel about truth, loss, love, and hope by a writer at the height of his powers. Show less

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