Alpine Book Peddlers

Gifts for Birders

Birding books have proven to be super popular this year, and we've just received a few great new gift items in stock for the birding inclined.

2020 Holiday Shipping Schedule

Click here to access our shipping schedule for this holiday season, including the last dates to submit your orders if you want to receive them in time for Christmas. These dates are for urban centers, so if you’re in a rural area, remember to get your order in a couple business days before the cut-off date. Call if you need to order later than the dates on this schedule, and we’ll see what we can do.

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 - Winners: The Bear (Mountain Fiction & Poetry category). 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).
2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize - Winner: How to Pronounce Knife. Shortlist: The Glass Hotel, Ridgerunner, Here the Dark, and Polar Vortex.
2020 Writers' Trust Prizes - Winners: 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 (Fiction). Finalists: Five Little Indians, and Indians on Vacation (Fiction).
2020 National Book Awards - Winner: Interior Chinatown (Fiction).
2020 Booker Prize - Winner: Shuggie Bain
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 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).

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!