Alpine Book Peddlers

Fall 2020 Award-Winners and Finalists

Fall is award season in the Canadian book industry. Here is a continually updated list of the books we have in stock that have been honoured by awards this year:

2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition - Finalists: Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya (Adventure Travel category), and Winter 8000: Climbing the World's Highest Mountains in the Coldest Seasons (Mountain Literature category). Category winners announced in October, Grand Prize announced November 5.
2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize - Shortlisted titles: The Glass Hotel, Ridgerunner, Here the Dark, How to Pronounce Knife, and Polar Vortex. Winner announced November 9.
2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards - Winners: Lillian & Kokomis (Childrens & Young Adult category), Quartet 2019 (Lois Hole Award for Editorial Excellence), and Red Barn Books (Emerging Publisher of the Year). Finalists: Pressure Cooker Love Bomb (Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry).
2020 Alberta Literary Awards - Winners: NDN Coping Mechanisms (Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry), and Moccasin Square Gardens (Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction). Finalists: Rising: Becoming the First Canadian Woman to Summit Everest, A Memoir (Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction).
2020 BC and Yukon Book Prizes - Winners: Lampedusa (Ethel Wilson Fiction Award). Finalists: Greenwood (Ethel Wilson Fiction Award & Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize), Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize), Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality (Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award), and Birdsong (Christie-Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize).
2020 Writers' Trust Prizes - Finalists: T wo Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past (Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction); Ridgerunner, Five Little Indians, and Indians on Vacation (Fiction). Winners announced November 18.
2020 Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing - Winners: Greenwood (Best Novel), and Murdered Midas: A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise (Best Nonfiction Book).

New Gift Journals for Fall

We're excited about these great new journal designs! Low Gravity Days is a climbing logbook, and the other two are lined notebooks. A full list of our available journals can be found here.

COVID-19 Update

The Alpine Book Peddlers warehouse is open to our retailer customers on weekdays, from 9am to 2pm. If you need to visit us at a diffferent time, please schedule an appointment in advance.

Masks are mandatory, as per the Canmore town bylaws. COVID-19 hygiene and cleaning policies are in effect at our warehouse.

As we all know, the COVID-19 pandemic is evolving quickly. We're watching these developments closely, and we know all of our wonderful retailer customers are experiencing a lot of the same challenges, so if there's anything we can do to help or you just want to phone or email to check in with us, please feel free!

#HereForGood T-Shirt Campaign

Print Machine, an Edmonton-based print shop, has had the super cool idea to support local businesses with their #HereForGood t-shirt campaign! They're making and selling these t-shirts for us, and other local small businesses. All of the proceeds will go to the businesses. Amazing!

Click here to buy your Alpine Book Peddlers t-shirt and become an honorary book peddler (or browse the shirts to support another local business)! Click here to sign your own business up for the campaign. What a great idea, thanks Print Machine!