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Hockey on the Moon
Imagination and Canada's Game
Price:
CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781771994132
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Athabasca University Press
Fantasy and reality come together in sports, and Jamie Dopp argues that nowhere is this blurring of the borders of reality more evident than in Canadian hockey. Using imagination as a unifying theme,...
The Search
An Insider's Novel about a University President
Price:
CA$31.95
ISBN: 9780253070326
Pub Date: July 2024
"Buddy" Knowland was dead, keeled over with a heart attack during the game. Buddy's fans knew him as the most successful football coach in Nebraska State University history. His colleagues knew him...
Bruise
A Novel
Price:
CA$24.00
ISBN: 9781990071072
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Brindle & Glass
An understated but fierce novel of family, sport and growing up, Adrian Markle’s debut tells the story of an injured MMA fighter who returns to his coastal hometown.Arriving on the Greyhound, six...
The Ski Jumpers
A Novel
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CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781517913502
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Now in paperback: a writer and former ski jumper facing a terminal diagnosis takes one more leap-into a past of soaring flights and broken family bonds A brilliant ski jumper has to be fearless-Jon...
The Union of Synchronized Swimmers
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CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771666749
Pub Date: June 2021
Imprint: Book*hug
Winner of the 2020 Toisinkoinen Literary Prize It’s summer behind the Iron Curtain, and six girls begin a journey to the Olympics. But will they return? In a stateless place, on the wrong side of...
Courting Pandemonium
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781608011018
Pub Date: June 2021
Raised by an outspoken single mother, Mac coaches women's high school basketball in a New Orleans public school. When Mac encourages a star athlete, Barbara Jeanne Bordelon, to play on the boy's basketball...
Letters From Johnny
Price:
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771835770
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Winner of BEST CRIME NOVELLA at The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence 2022 Set in Toronto 1970, just as the FLQ crisis emerges to shake an innocent country,...
Escape from Castro's Cuba
A Novel
Price:
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496222923
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
In this visionary sequel to Castro's Curveball, former Minor League catcher Billy Bryan finds himself back in Havana in 2016 with a small film role. He soon realizes that this place and his past remain as star-crossed as when he played winter ball in the Cuban capital decades before.
Dead Heat
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781771963015
Pub Date: November 2019
Imprint: Biblioasis
“Let’s say it up front: reading Dead Heat, the Hungarian writer Benedek Totth’s first novel, is a shock ... [like] the cry of love and desperation flung out by a generation that’s...
Bodies Built for Game
The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing
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CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781496217738
Pub Date: October 2019
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Bodies Built for Game brings together poems, essays, and stories that challenge our traditional ideas of sport.
Shot Rock
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CA$22.00
ISBN: 9781554201532
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: New Star Books
When the smell of October's raked leaves gives way to that of morning frost, a mature Winnipeg man's fancy turns to thoughts of curling. But this fall Blackie Timmerman has been hogging stones off the...
Chasing the Big Leagues
A Novel
Price:
CA$23.95
ISBN: 9780253038920
Pub Date: April 2019
Three years after earning a full-ride baseball scholarship to Ohio State, "Golden" Jake Standen has burned out. Working as a furniture mover and bouncing between meaningless relationships, he's convinced...
Girl Runner
A Novel
Price:
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781770899902
Pub Date: September 2015
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
An unforgettable novel about 1928 Olympic gold medalist Aganetha Smart, and a woman's struggle to earn a place in a man's world.
Thin Ice
Capital Crime
Price:
CA$17.99
ISBN: 9781459715523
Pub Date: October 2014
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Major Crimes Unit investigator Jack Smith is assigned to the murder of a young number one draft pick who was set to play for Ottawa in the upcoming pro hockey seaon. But he's surprised by how much the kid's life differs from his clean-cut media image. A long list of suspects soon emerges, any one of whom had good reason to want Ritchie dead.
The Last Season
Price:
CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781459706866
Pub Date: November 2012
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Felix Batterinski grew up tough in Northern Ontario. After enjoying brief fame as an "enforcer" for the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers, he finds himself eking out a living as a player-coach in Finland. But a controversial play spells the end of his comeback bid, and Felix begins a tragic descent into disillusion and despair.
Break Away
Jessie on My Mind
Price:
CA$16.95
ISBN: 9781926824055
Pub Date: May 2011
Imprint: Baraka Books
Winter, teenagers, and dreams of glory come together in this novel about the reaction of a small working-class town when the local hero decides not to join a professional hockey team. Talented Alexandre McKenzie lives on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River, where in summer he rides the logging trails on his quad, and in winter?after school and hockey practice?he likes to head off alone to a bush camp outside town. When he meets and falls in love with an unusual girl, Jessie, who has been plagued by tragedy, his friends and neighbors criticize him for stepping outside the popular crowd. Fighting to hold his head high, Alex takes comfort in his love of nature and his sightings of a magnificent bull moose?and he knows that he does not want a future in sports.
Hockey on the Moon
Imagination and Canada's Game
CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781771994132
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Athabasca University Press
The Search
An Insider's Novel about a University President
CA$31.95
ISBN: 9780253070326
Pub Date: July 2024
Bruise
A Novel
CA$24.00
ISBN: 9781990071072
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Brindle & Glass
The Ski Jumpers
A Novel
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781517913502
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
The Union of Synchronized Swimmers
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771666749
Pub Date: June 2021
Imprint: Book*hug
Courting Pandemonium
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781608011018
Pub Date: June 2021
Letters From Johnny
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781771835770
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Escape from Castro's Cuba
A Novel
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496222923
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Dead Heat
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781771963015
Pub Date: November 2019
Imprint: Biblioasis
Bodies Built for Game
The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781496217738
Pub Date: October 2019
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Shot Rock
CA$22.00
ISBN: 9781554201532
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: New Star Books
Chasing the Big Leagues
A Novel
CA$23.95
ISBN: 9780253038920
Pub Date: April 2019
Girl Runner
A Novel
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781770899902
Pub Date: September 2015
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
Thin Ice
Capital Crime
CA$17.99
ISBN: 9781459715523
Pub Date: October 2014
Imprint: Dundurn Press
The Last Season
CA$21.99
ISBN: 9781459706866
Pub Date: November 2012
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Break Away
Jessie on My Mind
CA$16.95
ISBN: 9781926824055
Pub Date: May 2011
Imprint: Baraka Books