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Abee to Zama City media coverage

Author Harry Sanders has been leading the charge with media appearances promoting Abee to Zama City. In the last couple of days, these include: a nine-minute prime-time appearance on Calgary's CTV News. Click here for the clip. an eight-minute interview with Jessica...

Banff Mountain Film Festival 2024

This upcoming weekend (November 1-3, 2024) is the Banff Mountain Film Festival, hosted at the Banff Centre. Summerthought Publishing will have a booth at the festival trade show and as in past years, we look forward to displaying our books and chatting to interested...

New Book about Alberta place names: Abee to Zama City

Abee to Zama City is our newest book, which was released in October 2024. This book about Alberta place names explores the fascinating history behind the names of cities, towns, villages, and hamlets through the eyes of renowned author and historian Harry Sanders. The...

Alberta’s bestselling books: September 2024

Following up from an earlier post here about the bestselling books by Alberta publishers in 2023, in September 2024, this same list was again topped by a Summerthought book. Coming in at No. 5 in all of 2023, Canadian Animals for Kids jumped to No. 1 in September...

Alberta’s bestselling books: August 2024

We love seeing Summerthought books make the monthly list of bestselling books by Alberta publishers at Alberta independent bookstores. Alberta has over 30 book publishers, so making the list with a single title is an achievement in itself. But the August 2024 list was...

Fairmont Palliser history book featured in the Calgary Herald

We're in the middle of the 11-day Historic Calgary Week, which has now been celebrated for over 30 years every late July. The Calgary Herald has written about the event, including comments from Harry Sanders, who has authored our newest book, Fairmont Palliser, The...

New Book: Fairmont Palliser history

Announcing the release of our latest book, Fairmont Palliser: The Story of Calgary's Most Iconic Hotel, which is now available from retailers throughout Calgary and major online book retailers for $29.95. Authored by renowned Calgary historian Harry Sanders, the book...

Canadian Rockies books as corporate gifts

Canadian Rockies books are ideal as corporate gifts and Summerthought Publishing has supplied our regular books as well as customized books to many local companies including Parks Canada, Fairmont, Pursuit, the Eleanor Luxton Heritage Foundation, as well as many...

Alberta’s bestselling books in 2023

With the end of 2023 upon us, Read Alberta has published a list of the the ten bestselling books by Alberta publishers. The list includes two Summerthought books, including the No. 1 bestselling book for 2023 - A is for Alberta by Mindy Johnstone. As a small, regional...

2023 Alberta Book Publishing Awards Shortlist

The 2023 Alberta Book Publishing Awards shortlist has just been released, and we were pleased to see our Canadian Rockies Trail Guide shortlisted in the Regional Book of the Year category. Winners of the 2023 Alberta Book Publishing Awards will be announced at a...