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Our Life on Ice

Jayne Torvill,Christopher Dean
Our Life on Ice Book PDF

Author : Jayne Torvill,Christopher Dean
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471138713

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Our Life on Ice by Jayne Torvill,Christopher Dean Pdf

When Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean collapsed to the ice at the climax of their routine to Bolero in the 1984 Winter Olympics, the judges could find no fault, awarding them 12 maximum scores of 6.0, while 24 million viewers watching at home in Britain simply looked on in amazement. Suddenly, we were all experts in figure skating, and we wanted to know more about the couple at the heart of it all. Despite intense interest in them, Torvill & Dean kept their lives private, with many still wondering if the pair were really a couple. They turned professional and would eventually spend eight years working on ITV's Dancing on Ice, but still much of their story remained unknown. Now, in Our Life on Ice, Torvill & Dean finally open up about the challenges they have faced and the pressures of life in the public eye: Jayne speaks candidly about her struggle with husband Phil to start a family, while Chris reveals the heartache in his family story. And of course, there is the skating, and the stories about what inspired their famous routines, and what the pair hope to achieve in the future as the approach their fortieth anniversary working together. It is the book their millions of fans have been waiting to read.

All the Way

Jordin Tootoo
All the Way Book PDF

Author : Jordin Tootoo
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143193104

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All the Way by Jordin Tootoo Pdf

It seemed as though nothing could stop Jordin Tootoo on the ice. The captain of Canada’s Under-18, a fan favourite on the World Junior squad, and a WHL top prospect who could intimidate both goalies and enforcers, he was always a leader. And when Tootoo was drafted by Nashville in 2000 and made the Predators out of camp in 2003, he became a leader in another way: the first player of Inuk descent to suit up in the NHL. The stress of competition in the world’s top hockey league, the travel, the media, the homesickness—and the added pressure to hold one’s head high as a role model not only for the young people of his hometown of Rankin Inlet but for the culture that had given him the strength and the opportunities to succeed—would have been more than enough to challenge any rookie. But Tootoo faced something far more difficult: the loss of his brother in the year between his draft and his first shift for the Predators. Though he played through it, the tragedy took its inevitable toll. In 2010, Tootoo checked himself into rehab for alcohol addiction. It seemed a promising career had ended too soon. But that’s not the way Tootoo saw it and not the way it would end. As heir to a cultural legacy that included alcohol, despair, and suicide, Tootoo could also draw on a heritage that could help sustain him even thousands of miles away from Nunavut. And in a community haunted by the same hopelessness and substance abuse that so affected Tootoo’s life, it is not just his skill and fearlessness on the ice that have made him a hero, but the courage of his honesty to himself and to the world around him that he needed to rely on others to sustain him through his toughest challenge. All the Way tells the story of someone who has travelled far from home to realize a dream, someone who has known glory and cheering crowds, but also the demons of despair. It is the searing, honest tale of a young man who has risen to every challenge and nearly fallen short in the toughest game of all, while finding a way to draw strength from his community and heritage, and giving back to it as well.

My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich

Ibi Zoboi
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich Book PDF

Author : Ibi Zoboi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780399187377

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My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi Pdf

National Book Award-finalist Ibi Zoboi makes her middle-grade debut with a moving story of a girl finding her place in a world that's changing at warp speed. Twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace Norfleet has lived with her beloved grandfather Jeremiah in Huntsville, Alabama ever since she was little. As one of the first black engineers to integrate NASA, Jeremiah has nurtured Ebony-Grace’s love for all things outer space and science fiction—especially Star Wars and Star Trek. But in the summer of 1984, when trouble arises with Jeremiah, it’s decided she’ll spend a few weeks with her father in Harlem. Harlem is an exciting and terrifying place for a sheltered girl from Hunstville, and Ebony-Grace’s first instinct is to retreat into her imagination. But soon 126th Street begins to reveal that it has more in common with her beloved sci-fi adventures than she ever thought possible, and by summer's end, Ebony-Grace discovers that Harlem has a place for a girl whose eyes are always on the stars. A New York Times Bestseller

Cujo

Kirstie Day,Curtis Joseph
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Author : Kirstie Day,Curtis Joseph
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781641252447

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Cujo by Kirstie Day,Curtis Joseph Pdf

Curtis Joseph, known affectionately to hockey fans around the world as Cujo, was an unlikely NHL superstar. The boy from Keswick, Ontario, didn’t put on a pair of skates until most kids his age were already far along in organized hockey, and he was passed over by every team in the NHL draft. Despite an unorthodox start, he would go on to play 18 seasons with the St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Phoenix Coyotes, and Calgary Flames, winning an Olympic gold medal along the way.For the first time, in this revealing memoir, Joseph talks about his highly unusual upbringing and what led him to pursue hockey. Fans will not want to miss this untold story of perseverance and finding one's own path.

Ice

Ice-T,Douglas Century
Ice Book PDF

Author : Ice-T,Douglas Century
Publisher : One World
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345523297

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Ice by Ice-T,Douglas Century Pdf

He’s a hip-hop icon credited with single-handedly creating gangsta rap. Television viewers know him as Detective Odafin “Fin” Tutuola on the top-rated drama Law & Order: SVU. But where the hype and the headlines end, the real story of Ice-T—the one few of his millions of fans have ever heard—truly begins. Ice is Ice-T in his own words—raw, uncensored, and unafraid to speak his mind. About his orphan upbringing on the gang-infested streets of South Central, his four-year stint in the U.S. Army, his successful career as a hustler and thief, and his fateful decision to turn away from a life of crime and forge his own path to international stardom. Along the way, Ice shares never-before-told stories about friends such as Tupac, Dick Wolf, Chris Rock, and Flavor Flav, among others. And he offers up candid observations on marriage and monogamy, the current state of hip-hop, and his latest passion: mentoring at-risk youths around the country. With insights into the cutthroat world of the street—and the cutthroat world of Hollywood—Ice is the unforgettable story of a true American original.

Ice Walker

James Raffan
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Author : James Raffan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781501155383

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Ice Walker by James Raffan Pdf

From bestselling author James Raffan comes an enlightening and original story about a polar bear’s precarious existence in the changing Arctic, reminiscent of John Vaillant’s The Golden Spruce. Nanurjuk, “the bear-spirited one,” is hunting for seals on Hudson Bay, where ice never lasts more than one season. For her and her young, everything is in flux. From the top of the world, Hudson Bay looks like an enormous paw print on the torso of the continent, and through a vast network of lakes and rivers, this bay connects to oceans across the globe. Here, at the heart of everything, walks Nanurjuk, or Nanu, one polar bear among the six thousand that traverse the 1.23 million square kilometers of ice and snow covering the bay. For millennia, Nanu’s ancestors have roamed this great expanse, living, evolving, and surviving alongside human beings in one of the most challenging and unforgiving habitats on earth. But that world is changing. In the Arctic’s lands and waters, oil has been extracted—and spilled. As global temperatures have risen, the sea ice that Nanu and her young need to hunt seal and fish has melted, forcing them to wait on land where the delicate balance between them and their two-legged neighbors has now shifted. This is the icescape that author and geographer James Raffan invites us to inhabit in Ice Walker. In precise and provocative prose, he brings readers inside Nanu’s world as she treks uncertainly around the heart of Hudson Bay, searching for nourishment for the children that grow inside her. She stops at nothing to protect her cubs from the dangers she can see—other bears, wolves, whales, human beings—and those she cannot. By focusing his lens on this bear family, Raffan closes the gap between humans and bears, showing us how, like the water of the Hudson Bay, our existence—and our future—is tied to Nanu’s. He asks us to consider what might be done about this fragile world before it is gone for good. Masterful, vivid, and haunting, Ice Walker is an utterly unique piece of creative nonfiction and a deeply affecting call to action.

Jordin Tootoo

Melanie Florence
Jordin Tootoo Book PDF

Author : Melanie Florence
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781552775301

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Jordin Tootoo by Melanie Florence Pdf

Hockey is a relatively new sport in Canada's North. It wasn't until 2003 that Jordin Kudluk "Thunder" Tootoo became the first Inuk to play in an NHL game. Although hockey is a rough sport to begin with, Jordin Tootoo is known for having to "fight his way through." Jordin has had more than his fair share of fights both on and off the ice. He's had to overcome the social problems that are associated with the North, fight his way through the discrimination and culture shock he encountered after leaving Rankin Inlet and moving to Alberta to play in the Juniors, and see his way through the grief of losing his NHL-bound older brother and hero, Terence Tootoo, to suicide in 2002. This new biography explores the struggles and accomplishments of the most recognized role model for young Aboriginal and Inuit people today. [Fry Reading Level - 4.6

Life on Ice

Joanna Radin
Life on Ice Book PDF

Author : Joanna Radin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226417318

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Life on Ice by Joanna Radin Pdf

Preface: frozen spirits -- Introduction: within cold blood -- The technoscience of life at low temperature -- Latent life in biomedicine's ice age -- Temporalities of salvage -- "As yet unknown": life for the future -- "Before it's too late": life from the past -- Collecting, maintaining, reusing, and returning -- Managing the cold chain: making life mobile -- When futures arrive: lives after time -- Epilogue: thawing spirits

Breaking the Ice

Angie Bullaro
Breaking the Ice Book PDF

Author : Angie Bullaro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534425583

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Breaking the Ice by Angie Bullaro Pdf

The inspiring true story of Manon Rhéaume, the first and only woman to play a game in the National Hockey League, featuring an afterward from Manon herself. “One day, a woman will play in the National Hockey League. If no one prevents her,” said a twelve-year-old Manon Rhéaume. Manon always dreamed of playing hockey. So, when the team her father coached needed a goalie, five-year-old Manon begged for the chance to play. She didn’t care that she’d be the only girl in the entire league or that hockey was considered a “boys’ sport” in her hometown of Lac-Beauport, Quebec, Canada. All she cared about was the game. After her father gave her that first chance to play, she embarked on a spectacular, groundbreaking career in hockey. At every level of competition, Manon was faced with naysayers, but she continued to play, earning her place on prestigious teams and ultimately becoming the first woman to play a game in the NHL. Including an afterword written by Manon herself, Breaking the Ice is the true story of one girl’s courage, determination, and love for the sport.

Spinning

Tillie Walden
Spinning Book PDF

Author : Tillie Walden
Publisher : First Second
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250176240

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Spinning by Tillie Walden Pdf

Tillie Walden's Eisner Award winning graphic memoir Spinning captures what it’s like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know. It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark. Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Perform. Smile. And do it again. She was good. She won. And she hated it. For ten years, figure skating was Tillie Walden’s life. She woke before dawn for morning lessons, went straight to group practice after school, and spent weekends competing at ice rinks across the state. Skating was a central piece of her identity, her safe haven from the stress of school, bullies, and family. But as she switched schools, got into art, and fell in love with her first girlfriend, she began to question how the close-minded world of figure skating fit in with the rest of her life, and whether all the work was worth it given the reality: that she, and her friends on the team, were nowhere close to Olympic hopefuls. The more Tillie thought about it, the more Tillie realized she’d outgrown her passion—and she finally needed to find her own voice. This title has Common Core connections. A New York City Public Library Notable Best Book for Teens A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2017 A 2018 YALSA Great Graphic Novel A 2017 Booklist Youth Editors' Choice

Finding the Edge: My Life on the Ice

Karen Chen
Finding the Edge My Life on the Ice Book PDF

Author : Karen Chen
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780062822789

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Finding the Edge: My Life on the Ice by Karen Chen Pdf

Figure skating icon and U.S. National Champion Karen Chen tells the amazing story of her rise to the top, featuring never-before-seen photos and behind-the-scenes details from her journey on and off the ice! At seventeen years old, Karen Chen has already achieved what some girls only dream of—and yet it’s only the beginning for this incredibly talented athlete. The daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, Karen began to figure skate at just five years old. Ten years and many grueling training sessions later, she broke out at the 2015 US Championships with a bronze medal. This was after sustaining a nearly career-ending ankle fracture a year earlier. In 2017, Karen became the US National Champion, winning gold in two programs and receiving the highest score ever recorded for the short program at the US National level. Now for the first time, Karen shares the story of how she got where she is today—and where she’s going next. Karen has already overcome astounding obstacles, and her grit, determination, and positive attitude have made her future truly limitless. In Finding the Edge, she shares, in her own words, what it’s like to be Karen Chen—and what it takes to achieve the impossible. Features a foreword from Kristi Yamaguchi, the Olympic champion, two-time World champion, and U.S. champion.

SIKU: Knowing Our Ice

Igor Krupnik,Claudio Aporta,Shari Gearheard,Gita J. Laidler,Lene Kielsen Holm
SIKU Knowing Our Ice Book PDF

Author : Igor Krupnik,Claudio Aporta,Shari Gearheard,Gita J. Laidler,Lene Kielsen Holm
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048185863

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SIKU: Knowing Our Ice by Igor Krupnik,Claudio Aporta,Shari Gearheard,Gita J. Laidler,Lene Kielsen Holm Pdf

By exploring indigenous people’s knowledge and use of sea ice, the SIKU project has demonstrated the power of multiple perspectives and introduced a new field of interdisciplinary research, the study of social (socio-cultural) aspects of the natural world, or what we call the social life of sea ice. It incorporates local terminologies and classifications, place names, personal stories, teachings, safety rules, historic narratives, and explanations of the empirical and spiritual connections that people create with the natural world. In opening the social life of sea ice and the value of indigenous perspectives we make a novel contribution to IPY, to science, and to the public

Life on Ice

Jon Valentino
Life on Ice Book PDF

Author : Jon Valentino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1645383822

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Life on Ice by Jon Valentino Pdf

Cody awakes one morning, ready to engage in something he has never done before: ice fishing! He dreams of rod benders and reeling in one giant fish after another. However, events do not exactly play out the way Cody thought they would.

The Great Ice Age

J.A. Chapman,S.A. all at The Open University Drury,R.C.L. Wilson
The Great Ice Age Book PDF

Author : J.A. Chapman,S.A. all at The Open University Drury,R.C.L. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134640331

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The Great Ice Age by J.A. Chapman,S.A. all at The Open University Drury,R.C.L. Wilson Pdf

Documents and explains the natural climatic and ecological changes that have occurred during the past 2.6 million years. It also outlines the emergence and global impact of humans during this period.

After the Ice Age

E.C. Pielou
After the Ice Age Book PDF

Author : E.C. Pielou
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226668093

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After the Ice Age by E.C. Pielou Pdf

The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today.