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Abee to Zama City: Alberta’s bestselling book for December 2024
Our newest book, Abee to Zama City has only been on bookshelves for a couple of months, but quickly climbed the Alberta bestsellers list and was ranked as the No. bestselling book by ancharts and bestselling book by an Alberta publisher in December 2024 Following up...
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...