The Hockey Scribbler

Author : George Bowering
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770908550

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The Hockey Scribbler by George Bowering Pdf

Hockey forms the backdrop of our lives. For many Canadians, the big moments — births, deaths, marriages, moves — are all mixed up with the wins and losses of our teams. The voices of Hockey Night in Canada sportscasters are our soundtrack, and visions of skates scraping across the ice lull us to sleep. George Bowering, Canada's former poet laureate, is no different. Growing up in Oliver, BC, Bowering was entranced by the kids from Saskatchewan who skated and handled pucks as easy as breathing. His fascination with hockey followed him into adult life, from BC to Quebec and back again. Bowering followed his teams with a critical eye and a fan's passion, and his stories bring us on a cross-country hockey-themed road trip, with occasional forays into boxing, poetry, and sports fashion. Bowering has an encyclopedic knowledge of his subject. He has been an avid and attentive hockey fan since boyhood, and has an extensive catalogue of thoughts and opinions on the personalities and events that populate Canadian hockey history. In The Hockey Scribbler, Bowering brings us along on his richly detailed look back at the hockey in Canada since the 1950s.

Author : Dave Perkins
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770909298

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Fun and Games by Dave Perkins Pdf

“Covering many of the biggest names and greatest events in sports, it’s a wonderful collection of yarns and reminiscences, told in Perk’s inimitable style” (Postmedia News). Dave Perkins was once told by a bluntly helpful university admissions officer: “You don’t have the looks for TV or the voice for radio. You should go into print.” Which he did, first at the Globe and Mail, and then for thirty-six well-traveled years at the Toronto Star. In Fun and Games, Perkins recounts hysterical, revealing, and sometimes embarrassing personal stories from almost every sport and many major championships. After forty years of encountering a myriad of athletes, fans, team managers, and owners, Perkins offers unique observations on the Blue Jays and Raptors, fifty-eight major championships’ worth of golf, ten Olympic Games, football, hockey, boxing, horse racing, and more. Learn why Tiger Woods asked Perkins if he was nuts, why he detected Forrest Gump in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and why Super Bowl week is the worst week of the year. Perkins exposes the mistakes he made in both thought and word—once, when intending to type “the shot ran down the goalie’s leg,” he used an “i” instead of an “o”—and to this day, he has never found a sacred cow that didn’t deserve a barbecue. “Few can spin a yarn with the wit and clever turns of phrase that Perky can.” —Shi Davidi, Sportsnet “Anyone who has ever spoken to Dave Perkins, or read Dave Perkins, remembers his voice. This book is a delightful way to experience it all again, through the wise, funny man’s eyes.” —Bruce Arthur, Toronto Star sports columnist

Author : Anjan Kumar Chatterjee
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Known and Yet unknown World: Desultory Notes of a Scribbler by Anjan Kumar Chatterjee Pdf

The book is built up on autobiographical stories of travels in various parts of the globe, capturing in its frame the geographical settings, the layman’s geology, the historical anecdotes, some anthropological findings, narration of relevant social and academic environments, and description of stunning landscapes. This is primarily based on the author’s personal diaries spanning over a few decades. The book is pictorial, and the author consolidated his narrations in sixteen independent chapters. The book starts with the author’s growing up in the suburbs of Kolkata, and his education in Presidency College, now University, in Kolkata and later in the erstwhile Soviet Union. The book also narrates the unique features of the USA, the Swiss Alps, the Scandinavia, China, Africa, Australia and Middle East. The contents, however, are not designed to provide any travel guide. The book is totally apolitical. It focuses on the author’s penchant for knowing and sharing diversity of the world through irresistible wanderlust.

Author : Eric Johns
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326234003

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The Scribbler's Assassination by Eric Johns Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183044713556

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The Coloradoan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ken Baker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781524704438

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The Late Bloomer by Ken Baker Pdf

Soon to be a feature film, The Late Bloomer is the revealing, harrowing and often funny memoir of a celebrity journalist and former hotshot hockey player who discovers that he has been biochemically infused with a female hormone. On the surface, Ken Baker seemed a model man. He was a nationally ranked hockey goalie; a Hollywood correspondent for People; a guest-lister at celebrity parties; and girls came on to him. Inside, though, he didn't feel like the man he was supposed to be. Although attracted to women, Ken had little sex drive and thus even less of a sex life. To his anguish, he repeatedly found himself unable to perform sexually. And, regardless of strenuous workouts, his body struggled to build muscle, earning him the nickname "Pear" from his macho teammates. Physically, matters turned bizarre when he discovered that he was lactating. The testosterone-driven culture in which Ken grew up made it agonizingly difficult for him to seek help. But in time he discovered something that lifted years of pain, frustration, and confusion: a brain tumor was causing his body to be flooded with massive amounts of a female hormone, which was disabling his masculinity. Five hours of surgery accomplished what years of therapy, rumination, and denial could not -- and allowed Ken Baker to finally feel -- and function -- like a man. Now Ken's story comes to the screen in the feature film, The Late Bloomer, starring Academy Award-winner J.K. Simmons and Jane Lynch.

Author : Tim Falconer
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781773058214

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Klondikers by Tim Falconer Pdf

For readers of The Boys in the Boat and Against All Odds Join a ragtag group of misfits from Dawson City as they scrap to become the 1905 Stanley Cup champions and cement hockey as Canada’s national pastime An underdog hockey team traveled for three and a half weeks from Dawson City to Ottawa to play for the Stanley Cup in 1905. The Klondikers’ eagerness to make the journey, and the public’s enthusiastic response, revealed just how deeply, and how quickly, Canadians had fallen in love with hockey. After Governor General Stanley donated a championship trophy in 1893, new rinks appeared in big cities and small towns, leading to more players, teams, and leagues. And more fans. When Montreal challenged Winnipeg for the Cup in December 1896, supporters in both cities followed the play-by-play via telegraph updates. As the country escaped the Victorian era and entered a promising new century, a different nation was emerging. Canadians fell for hockey amid industrialization, urbanization, and shifting social and cultural attitudes. Class and race-based British ideals of amateurism attempted to fend off a more egalitarian professionalism. Ottawa star Weldy Young moved to the Yukon in 1899, and within a year was talking about a Cup challenge. With the help of Klondike businessman Joe Boyle, it finally happened six years later. Ottawa pounded the exhausted visitors, with “One-Eyed” Frank McGee scoring an astonishing 14 goals in one game. But there was no doubt hockey was now the national pastime.

Author : Kate Meader
Publisher : Kate Meader Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781954107038

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Dear Roomie: A Grumpy-Sunshine Hockey Romance by Kate Meader Pdf

Reid Durand isn't here to make friends. Coming from a legacy of hockey greatness, he has games to win and things to prove. With his focus during his first season as a Chicago Rebel on his drive to succeed, every vice is off the table. No booze, no sugar, and definitely no women. Kennedy Clark is the master of the side hustle. She'll walk your dog, brew your espresso, and pick up your dry-cleaning, all while rocking it in Warrior pose. Standing still is impossible for her because the moment she starts to slow down, it'll come rushing back in a torrent. The memories. The pain. The heartbreak. Their meet-cute is more of a freeze-cute. Besides, they already know each other. He's the rude, entitled customer at her coffee shop, or what used to be her coffee shop since she just got fired—because of Mr. Extra Shot Americano himself. Reid didn't intend to get Kennedy fired. He didn't intend to rescue a dog after the poor thing ended up in the lake. And he definitely didn't intend to acquire a new roommate. A curvy, chatty, tempting roommate. Now this perfect storm of events are about to wreak havoc on his neatly-ordered life. Reid Durand isn't here to make friends, and he's certainly not here to lose his heart to a puppy, a team, or a chaos agent like Kennedy. But then we don't always get what we want ... Romance, contemporary romance, new adult, new adult romance, sports romance, hockey romance, standalone romance, roommate romance, forced proximity, dog sitter, dog walker, alphahole

Author : Patricia Cormack,James F. Cosgrave
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442613911

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Desiring Canada by Patricia Cormack,James F. Cosgrave Pdf

This lively, engaging book investigates the relationship between some of our more beloved popular expressions of national identity and the extent to which the interests of the state appeal to the pleasures of citizens, thus shaping our understanding of what it means to be Canadian.

Author : Lincoln Peirce
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 006234952X

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Big Nate Doodlepalooza by Lincoln Peirce Pdf

“Big Nate is funny, big time.”—Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid This third Big Nate activity book—now in paperback—is jam-packed with new activities for Nate fans of all ages. Do you feel lost without a crossword puzzle in hand, a maze to confound your sense of direction, or perhaps a scribble to turn into a work of art? Well, fear not, because Big Nate Doodlepalooza has all those things . . . and more! 110% guaranteed relief from boredom, including (but not limited to) brand-new sudoku puzzles, Nate and friends trivia, secret codes, mazes, and doodling games galore!

Author : George Johnson
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781633199088

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100 Things Flames Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by George Johnson Pdf

Most Calgary Flames fans have attended a game at the Scotiabank Saddledome, seen highlights of a young Theo Fleury, and remember where they were when the team won the Stanley Cup in 1989. But only real fans know what the team traded to acquire Miikka Kiprusoff, the best place to grab a bite before the puck drops, or who served as the radio voice of the Flames before Peter Maher. 100 Things Flames Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource guide for true fans of Calgary hockey. Whether you're a die-hard fan from the days of Al MacInnis or a new supporter of Johnny Gaudreau, this book contains everything Flames fans should know, see, and do in their lifetime.

Author : Lincoln Peirce
Publisher : Balzer + Bray
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062349228

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Big Nate Super Scribbler by Lincoln Peirce Pdf

Scribble for hours with Big Nate Super Scribbler, the awesome fifth Big Nate activity book! Chock-full of mazes, crossword puzzles, comics, quizzes, and sudokus, the newest installment in the New York Times bestselling series gives kids the chance to have even more fun with Big Nate. Hang out with Dee Dee, Teddy, Gina, and the whole gang while solving the latest Big Nate mysteries and cracking codes right alongside your favorite characters. With more than 150 new games, this will provide hours of entertainment! Big Nate Super Scribbler is a fantastic addition to the growing collection of Big Nate novels, comic compilations, and activity books from creator Lincoln Peirce. Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney says, "Big Nate is funny, big time!"

Author : David Costello
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781551389653

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Messing Around with Math by David Costello Pdf

This book is filled with a range of problems that support student understanding of key math concepts. From word problems to open-ended rich tasks to real-world math problems, you will have a toolbox that addresses the complex learning needs of your students. Messing Around With Math provides problems that can be used at any point in the lesson: whole-group, guided small-group instruction, or independent practice. This resource will also help teachers develop their skills in crafting rich, meaningful and engaging lessons. Instead of endless searching for the ‘right’ problem for your students, you will have a one-stop shop.

Author : Christopher Forrest
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781456769642

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The Idlers of March by Christopher Forrest Pdf

During the National Hockey League lockout in early 2005, Toronto-based sports journalist David Timmins has little to write about until baseball player Jose Canseco releases his book on steroid abuse, and Timmins boss sends him on a steroid scandal of his own to spring training in Florida. He receives a romantic surprise on the plane ride; absorbs a career shock on the Ides of March; requires his sisters New York condo couch for a night; spends Easter in a rural Ontario town he has never been in before; and yes, he solves the NHL lockout problem with the aid of an inspired cheese maker- of course.

Author : Rick Blanchard
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460256602

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The Chief's Footsteps by Rick Blanchard Pdf

This book recounts the remarkable life of Roy Peck, a quintessential yet extraordinary Canadian. Born into an austere rural situation, he stuck by home and family through tough times and discovered the fun of living and the benefits of choosing well. He received Canada's and Quebec's top honours for his chosen genres in the shooting sports of target archery and rifle. The young athletes of the Northeast Pontiac and Central Gatineau nicknamed him "The Chief" for his winning ways as their coach and mentor, and they still call him "The Chief." And anyone who hired him as their carpenter or builder will testify that all his doors still work very well.