Published Books
Want to get your hands on some of Alina Pete's work? Need to add some Indigneous content into your home or school library?
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These books are all a great way to do so!
All of these books are available now.
Lost at Windy River: A True Story of Survival
In 1944, thirteen-year-old Ilse Schweder got lost in a snowstorm while checking her family's trapline in northern Canada. This is the harrowing story of how a young Indigenous girl defies the odds and endures nine days alone in the unforgiving barrens. With no food or supplies, she relies on Traditional Indigenous Knowledge passed down from her family. Ilse uses her connection to the land and animals, wilderness skills and resilience to find her way home.
Indiginerds: Tales from Modern Indigenous Life
First Nations culture is living, vibrant, and evolving, and generations of Indigenous kids have grown up with pop culture creeping inexorably into our lives. From gaming to social media, pirate radio to garage bands, Star Trek to D&D, and missed connections at the pow wow, Indigenous culture is so much more than how it’s usually portrayed. Indiginerds is here to celebrate those stories!
The Woman in the Woods: and other North American Stories
Loup Garrou, trickster rabbits, and spirits with names that can’t be spoken — the plains and forests of North America are alive with characters like these, all waiting to meet you in this collection of folklore retold in comics!
This fifth volume of the “Cautionary Fables and Fairytales” anthology series features updated takes on ancient stories from tribes spanning the continent, bursting with bedside tales that are thrilling, chilling, and most of all inspiring.
Xwémalhkwu Hero Stories
Xwémalhkwu Hero Stories is based on recordings of Homalco Elders from the early 90’s that were then produced into a mini podcast series by 100.7 FM the Raven.
The three stories illustrated in the graphic novel depict historic moments of Coast Salish history. Indigenous graphic artists who are featured include: Alina Pete, Valen Onstine and Gord Hill.
A Howl: An Indigenous Anthology of Wolves, Werewolves and Rougarou
Native Realities brings you A Howl: A Comics Collection of Wolves, Werewolves, and Rougarou. From unbridled werewolves to werewolves from outer space, these unique comics are gathered together for the mature reader.
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Alina contribution to this book, Moon Time, shows what happens when you look past the monster to the woman within.
Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 3
Step into worlds of wonder with the definitive showcase of the best Canadian fantasy and science fiction of the year.
From enchanted realms to distant galaxies, these stories reveal the strange, the familiar, and the deeply human—all through the unique lens of Canadian speculative fiction.
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Alina's story in this anthology, Telling the Soul of Mars, won the 2023 Imagining Indigenous Futurisms award.
Black Cat
Black Cat is a collection of thirteen supernatural stories set in the Pacific Northwest of British Columbia, penned by a diverse group of Western Canadian writers.
From historic to futuristic, these tales of fiction are guaranteed to chill readers to the bone. With entities both monstrous and misunderstood, Black Cat is an anthology unlike any published before. Each story includes a cameo of a mysterious black cat.
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Alina's story, Flowers of Fire, steps into the past of Deadman's Island, right by Stanley Park in Vancouver.
Life Finds a Way
Post-apocalyptic stories about hope and the persistence of humanity.
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Edited by Dan Anctil and Alina Pete, Life Finds a Way contains 20 stories from cartoonists around the world, with apocalypses technological, supernatural, and surreal.
But more importantly, these are stories about people coming together, getting creative, forming community, and helping each other. Just because the world as we knew it is gone doesn’t necessarily mean that we have to end with it.
Shadowrun: Through The Decades
The year 2084 may be decades away for us, but in the Sixth World, it’s now. However, the decades in between are filled with wild events: The Awakening. SURGE. The Night of Rage. The assassination of the dragon elected president, Dunkelzahn.
Through the Decades takes you from now to then, with seven original stories by grizzled veterans and brash newcomers to the shadows. Representatives of the newly established Native American Nations battle political skullduggery and assassins in their quest to form a more perfect union. And legendary shadowrunners Wolf and Raven confront a bold new world—including dealing with their own children—as they get up to their usual tricks in today’s Sixth World.
Shadowrun: Sixth World Snapshots
Shadowrunners don’t live only in the shadows. Sometimes, they break into the light. In Sixth World Snapshots, get a glimpse of shadowrunner lives from all over the Sixth World.
Watch a senior citizen shadowrunner punish a corporation for its greed—and get paid at the same time. Root for your favorite contestant in a glitzy cooking contest held in the wild and wooly Barrens. Follow a detective as he becomes prey for the wild hunt. Find out what really happened to Roger Soaring Owl. Discover these stories and so much more in Sixth World Snapshots.
Shadowrun: Myth, Mayhem and Machines
There are a million stories in the dark, gritty world of Shadowrun, and this all-new volume brings sixteen of the best together for an in-depth look at this dark future of megacorps and the street warriors fighting against them.
Featuring established authors as well as brand-new voices, each tale is a vicious slice of life in the Sixth World. An injured street samurai whose call to DocWagon turns into the opportunity of a lifetime…if he can just live to collect it. A street-smart runner team confronts their most dangerous mission yet—hiding out in an isolated rural town. A corporate executive squares off against a ruthless vice-president in their own megacorp in a razor-sharp battle of wits and words.