<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Moyles, Trina]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Moyles, Trina]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/opl/rss/search?query=Moyles%2C%20Trina&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:15:20 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Black Bear]]></title><description><![CDATA["For readers of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands and H Is for Hawk, a dazzling memoir about one woman's coexistence with bears in the boreal forest and a singular meditation on sibling loss. When Trina Moyles was five years old, her father, a wildlife biologist known in Peace River as "the bear guy," brought home an orphaned black bear cub for a night before sending it to the Edmonton Valley Zoo. This brief but unforgettable encounter spurred Trina's lifelong fascination with Ursus americanus -- the most populous bear on the northern landscape, often considered a hindrance to human society. As a child roaming the shores of the Peace in the footsteps of her beloved older brother, Brendan, Trina experienced the elemental world her father guarded. She understood bears to be invisible entities: always present but mostly hidden, and worthy of respect. Growing up during the oil boom of the 1990s, the threats in the siblings' hard-drinking resource town were more human, dividing them from a natural reverence for the land, and eventually, from each other. After years of living abroad, Trina returned to northern Alberta to work as a fire tower lookout, while Brendan was working in the oil sands, vulnerable to a boom-and-bust economy and substance addiction. In 2019, she was assigned to a tower in a wildlife corridor. Bears were visible and plentiful there, wandering metres away on the other side of an electrified fence surrounding Trina's site. Over four summers, Trina begins to move beyond fear and observe the extraordinary essence of the maligned black bear -- a keystone species who is subject to the environmental consequences of the oil economy as humans. At the same time, she searches for common ground with Brendan on the land that bonded them. Impassioned and eloquent, Black Bear is a story of grief and a vision of peaceful coexistence in a divided world. It captures the fragility of our relationships with human and nonhuman species alike, and the imperative to protect wild ecosystems, as well as the people we hold closest"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C631930</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C631930</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Moyles, Trina]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/631930108</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Story of Siblinghood and Survival</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781039010161/MC.GIF&amp;client=oakvillepublibrarybc&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lookout]]></title><description><![CDATA["A powerful and intimate memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her riveting eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north. While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of fire tower lookouts--strange, eccentric types who spent whole summers alone in 100-foot high towers, watching for signs of fire in the surrounding Boreal forest. How could you isolate yourself for that long? she wondered. Craving adventure and connection, she pursued humanitarian work abroad, and ultimately found herself in Uganda, immersed in a vibrant community with a deep sense of belonging--and in love with Akello, a warm, handsome Lugbara man. After three years in Uganda, Trina returned to Peace River with a plan to make money to sponsor Akello's immigration. She applied for the well-paid tower position and was offered the job. But, back in a place where she'd never truly felt she belonged, she began to sink under the weight of their shared dreams and economic goals. Thus begins her first summer as one of a handful of scattered lookouts in the Boreal, with only a farm dog, Holly--labeled part-wolf by her former owners--to keep her company. Throughout two grueling summers and the winter in between, Trina grapples with her long-distance relationship, the death of her treasured grandfather, and a dawning awareness of the environmental crisis in the Boreal forest. In her days alone, she teeters on the edge of sanity while discovering a new kind of self-awareness and self-reliance that only solitude can deliver. As she searches for smoke, there is a bright beam of hope, a deep consciousness of the nature and wildlife around her, and a burgeoning sense of community among those dedicated to wildfire detection and combat. Lookout is a personal, riveting story of loss, transformation and belonging to oneself, layered with an eyewitness account of the increasingly precarious state of our northern forests."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C452025</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C452025</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Moyles, Trina]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/452025108</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Love, Solitude and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735279919/MC.GIF&amp;client=oakvillepublibrarybc&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>