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Just Published! Seren was born to a country-club cage and a leash of pearls until, one day, she just walked away. She thought she had left her family legacy behind. 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 from fine booksellers everywhere! #newnovel #CanLit #Fiction #literature

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! https://shelflifebooks.ca/events/4872320260514

Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike and Anna Veprinska launch two fantastic new collections at Shelf Life Books TOMORROW, May 14! https://shelflifebooks.ca/events/4872320260514 #booklaunch #poetry #celebratepoetry

On May 26 - next Tuesday! - Join JoAnn McCaig to launch Beneficiary at Shelf Life Books in a fantastic eventing of literary conversation. Details at: https://shelflifebooks.ca/events/4872520260526 #BookLaunchCountdown #newnovel #CanLit

This Thursday! We Survived Until We Could Live and Wound Archive launch at Shelf Life Books in Calgary, Alberta. Not to be missed! https://shelflifebooks.ca/events/4872320260514

Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike and Anna Veprinska launch two fantastic new collections at Shelf Life Books on Thursday, May 14! Poems of the scars war leaves on peace, poems of the wounds left by the beginning of invisible illness, poems of devastation, hope, and healing. These are two books not to be missed. Join us at Shelf Life Calgary: https://shelflifebooks.ca/events/4872320260514 #CanLit #ABLiterature #booklaunch #poetry

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: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.7079049 #cbcradio #albertafishing #albertahistory #ucalgary

Join Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike and Anna Veprinska to launch the anticipated new collections We Survived Until We Could Live and Wound Archive at Shelf Life Calgary on May 14! Details: https://shelflifebooks.ca/events/4872320260514

Today we have “The Valley of the Wîkchemnâ Peaks” by William (Bill) Snow 🔹 This post is a featured excerpt from Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada (November 2025), edited by Eric Higgs, Zac Robinson, Mary Sanseverino, and Kristen Walsh. This collection is the latest book in our Canadian History and Environment series with University of Calgary Press - @ucalgarypress , which is edited by Alan MacEachern. This excerpt is published in collaboration with the Alpine Club of Canada - @alpineclubcan 🔹 Image: Above Moraine Lake looking west over the Valley of the Wîkchemnâ (10) Peaks, 1903. The first maps of this area used anglicized versions of the Stoney Nakoda words to name the summits. Three of the peaks retain these versions of their original Nakoda names. Colonial names replaced the rest. On maps today we might see them as (from left to right): Wazi (Mount Fay); Nûm (Mount Little); Yamnî (Mount Bowlen); Ktûtha (Tonsa, an anglicized Nakoda word meaning ‘four’); Thaptâ (Mount Perren); Sakpe (Mount Allen); Sagowî (Mount Tuzo); Sarhnora (Deltaform Mountain); Nâpchuwîk (Neptuak Mountain, the anglicized Nakoda word meaning ‘nine’); Wîkchemnâ (Wenkchemna Peak, the anglicized Nakoda word meaning ‘ten’). [A. O. Wheeler, 1903, Library & Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada in collaboration with William (Bill) Snow and the Stoney Nakoda Nation Tribal Administration, 2021] 🔹 /2026/05/01/the-valley-of-the-wikchemna-peaks/ 🔹 #envhist #bookstagram #mountains #indigenous #alberta

Save the date! On May 26, Join JoAnn McCaig to launch Beneficiary at Shelf Life Books Details: https://shelflifebooks.ca/events/4872520260526 #BookLaunchCountdown #canadianfiction #celebrationtime

What inspired the searing and compelling We Survived Until We Could Live? Six Questions with Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike on MoonLit Getaway! /post/six-questions-for-uchechukwa-peter-umezurike

JoAnn McCaig, owner of Shelf Life Books and author of the forthcoming Beneficiary talks the importance of Canadian Independent Bookstore Day and her new novel on Daybreak Alberta! Listen here: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-95-daybreak-alberta/clip/16210937-independent-bookstore-day-celebrates-small-mighty-shops-across #canadianliterature #canlit #canadianindependentbookstoreday #newnovel