Author: Helene Dunbar
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0738741450
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Five years after his mother killed herself and three of his siblings, Gordie lives with his halfbrother Kevin. It is an ideal arrangement, until Gordie’s absentee father comes back into the picture, demanding a place in his life. Now the only one who can help Gordie is himself ... if he can confront the past and take back his future.
These Gentle Wounds
Author: Helene Dunbar
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0738741450
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Five years after his mother killed herself and three of his siblings, Gordie lives with his halfbrother Kevin. It is an ideal arrangement, until Gordie’s absentee father comes back into the picture, demanding a place in his life. Now the only one who can help Gordie is himself ... if he can confront the past and take back his future.
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0738741450
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Five years after his mother killed herself and three of his siblings, Gordie lives with his halfbrother Kevin. It is an ideal arrangement, until Gordie’s absentee father comes back into the picture, demanding a place in his life. Now the only one who can help Gordie is himself ... if he can confront the past and take back his future.
Us Against You
Author: Fredrik Backman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1982157518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
From Fredrik Backman, New York Times bestselling author of Beartown, comes a heart-wrenching story of the ways loyalty, friendship, and love carry a small community through its darkest days. After everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow when they hear that their beloved local junior hockey team will soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in Hed, take in that fact. As the tension between the two towns simmers, a surprising newcomer is handpicked to try to save the Beartown club. Soon a new team starts to take shape around Amat, the fastest player you’ll ever see; Benji, the intense lone wolf; and Vidar, a born-to-be-bad troublemaker. But bringing this team together proves to be a challenge as old bonds are broken, new ones are formed, and the enmity with Hed grows more and more heated. As the big game between Beartown and Hed approaches, the not-so-innocent pranks and incidents between the communities pile up. By the time the last game is finally played, a resident of Beartown will be dead, and the people of both towns will be forced to wonder if, after all they’ve been through, the game they love can ever return to something simple and innocent. Us Against You is a declaration of love for all the big and small, bright and dark stories that form and colour our communities. Compelling and heartbreaking, it’s a roller-coaster ride of emotions and a showcase for “Fredrik Backman’s pitch-perfect dialogue and unparalleled understanding of human nature” (Shelf Awareness).
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1982157518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
From Fredrik Backman, New York Times bestselling author of Beartown, comes a heart-wrenching story of the ways loyalty, friendship, and love carry a small community through its darkest days. After everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow when they hear that their beloved local junior hockey team will soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in Hed, take in that fact. As the tension between the two towns simmers, a surprising newcomer is handpicked to try to save the Beartown club. Soon a new team starts to take shape around Amat, the fastest player you’ll ever see; Benji, the intense lone wolf; and Vidar, a born-to-be-bad troublemaker. But bringing this team together proves to be a challenge as old bonds are broken, new ones are formed, and the enmity with Hed grows more and more heated. As the big game between Beartown and Hed approaches, the not-so-innocent pranks and incidents between the communities pile up. By the time the last game is finally played, a resident of Beartown will be dead, and the people of both towns will be forced to wonder if, after all they’ve been through, the game they love can ever return to something simple and innocent. Us Against You is a declaration of love for all the big and small, bright and dark stories that form and colour our communities. Compelling and heartbreaking, it’s a roller-coaster ride of emotions and a showcase for “Fredrik Backman’s pitch-perfect dialogue and unparalleled understanding of human nature” (Shelf Awareness).
Hockey Moms
Author: Julie Bertuzzi
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771013515
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Julie Bertuzzi, the wife of NHL player Todd Bertuzzi and Hockey Mom extraordinaire, presents us with twenty hilarious portraits of the Hockey Moms we know and love. The perfect gift book for all seasons. Straight-shooting, observant, and uproarious, Julie Bertuzzi's Hockey Moms is an irreverent look at the many kinds of moms you are sure to find in the ice rinks, on the road, and in the hotel bars at tournaments across this hockey-loving continent. While always applauding the dedication of moms who support their players -- at early morning practices and on long drives to and from tournaments, in the triumph of a big win and the heartache of a big loss -- Bertuzzi pokes fun at herself and her fellow Hockey Moms, and brings alive the many characters she has observed during her years of experience as a Hockey Mom herself. Whether it's Big Mouth Betty shrieking from the stands, the Drama Queen stirring up trouble in the bar after a tournament game, Team Manager Mom with her clipboard and team jacket, the Yodeler, or the Leaner, readers will recognize and delight in these familiar profiles. This is a quick, funny read and a must-have book for Hockey Moms, and those who love them, everywhere.
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771013515
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Julie Bertuzzi, the wife of NHL player Todd Bertuzzi and Hockey Mom extraordinaire, presents us with twenty hilarious portraits of the Hockey Moms we know and love. The perfect gift book for all seasons. Straight-shooting, observant, and uproarious, Julie Bertuzzi's Hockey Moms is an irreverent look at the many kinds of moms you are sure to find in the ice rinks, on the road, and in the hotel bars at tournaments across this hockey-loving continent. While always applauding the dedication of moms who support their players -- at early morning practices and on long drives to and from tournaments, in the triumph of a big win and the heartache of a big loss -- Bertuzzi pokes fun at herself and her fellow Hockey Moms, and brings alive the many characters she has observed during her years of experience as a Hockey Mom herself. Whether it's Big Mouth Betty shrieking from the stands, the Drama Queen stirring up trouble in the bar after a tournament game, Team Manager Mom with her clipboard and team jacket, the Yodeler, or the Leaner, readers will recognize and delight in these familiar profiles. This is a quick, funny read and a must-have book for Hockey Moms, and those who love them, everywhere.
Puck Me Secretly
Author: Odette Stone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995020061
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
I've never been in love.I've never had an orgasm, but I've faked plenty.I want to experience love. Real, passionate love.I don't want to die.It's funny what blurts out of your mouth when the plane you're on is going down, and I didn't hold back with my seat mate when my plane decided to crash.My hysterical confessions didn't faze the muscular stranger that sat beside me. In fact, he promised if we survived, he'd give me my first orgasm. We survived.I came.And then he left without telling me who he was.On the first day of my job, I stood in front of the Vancouver Wolves hockey team and called out a number. #33.Imagine my shock when he skated forward.Max is an incredible hockey player, whose wild, out-of-control antics have almost derailed his career. So many secrets shroud his past and continue to threaten his future. Now he's my secret. And that secret could ruin everything. Puck Me SECRETLY. Some secrets are too big to keep.This book is 86,000 words and is a full-length romance intended for adult audiences only.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995020061
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
I've never been in love.I've never had an orgasm, but I've faked plenty.I want to experience love. Real, passionate love.I don't want to die.It's funny what blurts out of your mouth when the plane you're on is going down, and I didn't hold back with my seat mate when my plane decided to crash.My hysterical confessions didn't faze the muscular stranger that sat beside me. In fact, he promised if we survived, he'd give me my first orgasm. We survived.I came.And then he left without telling me who he was.On the first day of my job, I stood in front of the Vancouver Wolves hockey team and called out a number. #33.Imagine my shock when he skated forward.Max is an incredible hockey player, whose wild, out-of-control antics have almost derailed his career. So many secrets shroud his past and continue to threaten his future. Now he's my secret. And that secret could ruin everything. Puck Me SECRETLY. Some secrets are too big to keep.This book is 86,000 words and is a full-length romance intended for adult audiences only.
Dare to Make History
Author: Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson
Publisher: Radius Book Group
ISBN: 1635767288
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Dare to Make History is the story of two courageous and talented women who weren’t willing to accept anything less than being treated as equals. On their journey to a gold medal in women’s ice hockey, they became role models for generations before and after them. Twins Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando started playing ice hockey with their four older brothers and their friends on a frozen pond next to their home in North Dakota. No girls hockey teams, no problem―they just played on boys teams. They went on to win six World Championships and played in three Olympics, winning two silver medals and ultimately a gold medal in South Korea in 2018 for the USA Women’s National Team. They did not allow roadblocks and discrimination deter them from taking on their governing body—USA Hockey—threatening to boycott the 2017 World Championships and jeopardizing their ability to compete in the 2018 Olympics unless their gender equity issues were addressed. The success of Monique, Jocelyne, and their team thrust them into the center of the struggle for gender equity, for women in hockey and in sports in general, as well as in society at large. In Dare to Make History, the Lamoureux twins chronicle their journey to the pinnacle of their sport, their efforts along with almost 150 other hockey players to start a new professional women’s hockey league, their training to come back and make another national team after giving birth, their tireless efforts to advance the interests of disadvantaged communities in closing the digital divide, and their ongoing contributions as role models championing the dreams of future generations of girls in sports, education, and the workplace. This is not a hockey book. It is not a girls book. It is a book about the importance of the fight for equity, particularly gender equity. It is the inspirational story of how two young women from a small town in North Dakota have dreamed big—had the courage to take on huge battles—and in the end how they have dared to make history.
Publisher: Radius Book Group
ISBN: 1635767288
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Dare to Make History is the story of two courageous and talented women who weren’t willing to accept anything less than being treated as equals. On their journey to a gold medal in women’s ice hockey, they became role models for generations before and after them. Twins Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando started playing ice hockey with their four older brothers and their friends on a frozen pond next to their home in North Dakota. No girls hockey teams, no problem―they just played on boys teams. They went on to win six World Championships and played in three Olympics, winning two silver medals and ultimately a gold medal in South Korea in 2018 for the USA Women’s National Team. They did not allow roadblocks and discrimination deter them from taking on their governing body—USA Hockey—threatening to boycott the 2017 World Championships and jeopardizing their ability to compete in the 2018 Olympics unless their gender equity issues were addressed. The success of Monique, Jocelyne, and their team thrust them into the center of the struggle for gender equity, for women in hockey and in sports in general, as well as in society at large. In Dare to Make History, the Lamoureux twins chronicle their journey to the pinnacle of their sport, their efforts along with almost 150 other hockey players to start a new professional women’s hockey league, their training to come back and make another national team after giving birth, their tireless efforts to advance the interests of disadvantaged communities in closing the digital divide, and their ongoing contributions as role models championing the dreams of future generations of girls in sports, education, and the workplace. This is not a hockey book. It is not a girls book. It is a book about the importance of the fight for equity, particularly gender equity. It is the inspirational story of how two young women from a small town in North Dakota have dreamed big—had the courage to take on huge battles—and in the end how they have dared to make history.
Don't Call Me Kit Kat
Author: K. J. Farnham
Publisher: K. J. Farnham Publishing LLC
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Junior high is where things really start to happen. Cliques form and break apart. Couples are made and destroyed. And a reputation is solidified that you won’t ever be able to escape. Everything you do and say, and everyone you spend your time with, matters. Katie Mills knows that. She gets it. That’s why she tried so hard to get in with the cool girls at school. And why she was so devastated when those efforts found her detained for shoplifting and laughed out of cheer squad tryouts. But Katie has more to worry about than just fitting in. Her parents are divorced and always fighting. Her sister never has time for her. And her friends all seem to be drifting apart. Even worse? The boy she has a crush on is dating the mean girl at school. Everything is a mess, and Katie doesn’t feel like she has control over any of it. Certainly not over her weight, which has always topped out at slightly pudgier than normal—at least, according to her mother. So when she happens to catch one of the popular girls throwing up in the bathroom one day, it sparks an idea. A match that quickly engulfs her life in flames. Is there any going back once she gets started down this path? And would she even want to if she could?
Publisher: K. J. Farnham Publishing LLC
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Junior high is where things really start to happen. Cliques form and break apart. Couples are made and destroyed. And a reputation is solidified that you won’t ever be able to escape. Everything you do and say, and everyone you spend your time with, matters. Katie Mills knows that. She gets it. That’s why she tried so hard to get in with the cool girls at school. And why she was so devastated when those efforts found her detained for shoplifting and laughed out of cheer squad tryouts. But Katie has more to worry about than just fitting in. Her parents are divorced and always fighting. Her sister never has time for her. And her friends all seem to be drifting apart. Even worse? The boy she has a crush on is dating the mean girl at school. Everything is a mess, and Katie doesn’t feel like she has control over any of it. Certainly not over her weight, which has always topped out at slightly pudgier than normal—at least, according to her mother. So when she happens to catch one of the popular girls throwing up in the bathroom one day, it sparks an idea. A match that quickly engulfs her life in flames. Is there any going back once she gets started down this path? And would she even want to if she could?
Power Plays
Author: Maureen Ulrich
Publisher: Coteau Books
ISBN: 1550505106
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Jessie has left the close friendships she’s had since her childhood and isn’t having an easy time fitting into her new Grade Nine class. An older girl, Kim, takes a disliking to her, pushing her around and setting her up to be attacked by a group of really rough kids who land her in jail. It looks like life is going to be downhill from now on. Then, because she used to play ringette, Jessie is invited to try out for the girls hockey team. She doesn’t expect to like it, but as her skills grow, she makes new friends – girls who respect each other and rely on each other’s strength and hard work. Some even help her resist the bullies, until she can stand up for herself – stand up to Kim, who’s a pretty good hockey player herself, although not as good as she thinks she is. A fast-paced story about hockey, peer pressure and finding yourself.
Publisher: Coteau Books
ISBN: 1550505106
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Jessie has left the close friendships she’s had since her childhood and isn’t having an easy time fitting into her new Grade Nine class. An older girl, Kim, takes a disliking to her, pushing her around and setting her up to be attacked by a group of really rough kids who land her in jail. It looks like life is going to be downhill from now on. Then, because she used to play ringette, Jessie is invited to try out for the girls hockey team. She doesn’t expect to like it, but as her skills grow, she makes new friends – girls who respect each other and rely on each other’s strength and hard work. Some even help her resist the bullies, until she can stand up for herself – stand up to Kim, who’s a pretty good hockey player herself, although not as good as she thinks she is. A fast-paced story about hockey, peer pressure and finding yourself.
The Player I Want to Date
Author: Jillian Frost
Publisher: Penn Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Duke Baldwin is hot and broody, the star defenseman every hockey lover wants in her bed... including me. So it must be my lucky day when Duke gets suspended from the NHL for fighting. I'm an anger management specialist, and the team owner gives me two months to whip Duke’s grumpy butt into shape, or he’s trading him to another team. I can’t let that happen. Not when I can help Duke work through his anger issues. Except there’s one problem…. As we grow closer, the lines of our professional relationship blur. Duke thinks I’m the cure for thawing the ice around his heart. And he wants me.
Publisher: Penn Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Duke Baldwin is hot and broody, the star defenseman every hockey lover wants in her bed... including me. So it must be my lucky day when Duke gets suspended from the NHL for fighting. I'm an anger management specialist, and the team owner gives me two months to whip Duke’s grumpy butt into shape, or he’s trading him to another team. I can’t let that happen. Not when I can help Duke work through his anger issues. Except there’s one problem…. As we grow closer, the lines of our professional relationship blur. Duke thinks I’m the cure for thawing the ice around his heart. And he wants me.
Ice
Author: Dale Jacobs
Publisher: Spotted Cow Press
ISBN: 0969466544
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Publisher: Spotted Cow Press
ISBN: 0969466544
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Confessions Of A Stay At Home Mom
Author: Kathlyn Jones
Publisher: Kathlyn Jones
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
This shouldn't feel like I'm fighting a war. Remember when you used to be happy in high school, doing fun things? You said you wanted to be a lawyer, a teacher, a nurse, or a judge? You used to make people laugh because you had your shit down. You were appreciated. You had drive because you knew no matter what, you could conquer the world. Do you remember that? Really? Honestly? I don't. This is a funny book about the not so amusing emotional challenges of being a stay-at-home mom - the feeling of insecurity about not bringing home a paycheck, the lack of professional accomplishment, the loneliness, the boredom, and of course, the sex.
Publisher: Kathlyn Jones
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
This shouldn't feel like I'm fighting a war. Remember when you used to be happy in high school, doing fun things? You said you wanted to be a lawyer, a teacher, a nurse, or a judge? You used to make people laugh because you had your shit down. You were appreciated. You had drive because you knew no matter what, you could conquer the world. Do you remember that? Really? Honestly? I don't. This is a funny book about the not so amusing emotional challenges of being a stay-at-home mom - the feeling of insecurity about not bringing home a paycheck, the lack of professional accomplishment, the loneliness, the boredom, and of course, the sex.