Review“Richards has used a novelist’s gift for character, dialogue and imagery to produce a touching portrait of hockey-crazed kids.” – Maclean’s“A lyrical and unapologetically personal narrative about the place of the game in the Canadian psyche…[Richards] has raised the standard of hockey literature.” – Vancouver SunFrom the Trade Paperback edition.Product DescriptionWith a voice as Canadian as winter, David Adams Richards reflects on the place of hockey in the Canadian soul.The lyrical narrative of Hockey Dreams flows from Richards' boyhood games on the Miramichi to heated debates with university professors who dare to back the wrong team. It examines the globalization of hockey, and how Canadians react to the threat of foreigners beating us at "our" game.Part memoir, part essay on national identity, part hockey history, Hockey Dreams is a meditation by one of Canada's finest writers on the essence of the game that helps define our nation.From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 17
Trained in the way of the Samurai, dreaming of the City of Brotherly Love, Hiro Tanaka impetuously jumps ship off the coast of Georgia - only to wash up on a barrier island populated by rednecks, descendants of black slaves, and a colony of crazed artists. Terrifying one islander - literally - to death, and fleeing not only from the Immigration Agents but also an elderly lady convinced he is Seiji Ozawa, Tanaka is unwittingly caught up in a hilarious and irretievably complicated spider's web of misunderstandings. His sole refuge on the island, the manipulative and ambiguous novelist Ruth Dershowitz, only draws him in ever deeper... 'Hilarious. A talented entertainer with a beady eye for the absurdities of culture shock.' GUARDIAN 'Boyle has a fine descriptive eye and peoples the novel with wonderfully absurd characters.' TIME OUT Views: 17
The maul of America!It's been two days since a zombie virus turned Zack Clarke's parents, neighbors, and most of the country into brain-munching fiends. Zack and his crew of Zombie Chasers—Rice, Madison, Ozzie, and Zoe—are ready to end this nightmare once and for all!With the antidote in hand, the gang sets off on a wild cross-country road trip to defeat the evil genius behind the zombie apocalypse. After battling undead Elvis in Memphis, ghoulish tourists at a rest stop, and a crew of zweenyboppers at the Mall of America, the Zombie Chasers are still only halfway there! Will Sludgment Day be the dawn of the dead? Views: 17
Things aren't always as they seem. After Alex Wales crash lands on a planet that doesn't even show up on her navigational map and her ship is damaged, all she wants to do is get help and leave the planet as soon as she can. She's got something to deliver and time is running out. Instead, she stumbles onto a very alluring man who takes her to his village-a seemingly utopian society led by a Priestess. Stuck on this planet with no way of getting off, Alex finds herself drawn to the alluring Damon. But when locals start turning up dead after being mauled and eaten by some sort of monster, she's thrust into the middle of the investigation. As the layers of the mystery slowly unravel, Alex and Damon find themselves facing their pasts, and the many lies woven around the planet of Eden. Views: 17
Ben decides he wants his own pony in this eighth book of a chapter book series inspired by Marguerite Henry's Misty of Chincoteague.Even though Ben is allowed to ride and groom his sister's pony, Starbuck, everyone knows Starbuck is really Willa's pony: the two are inseparable, as close as a girl and pony can be. But then the kids discover a wild, renegade pony plucking apples from a tree. Ben names the pony Winesap, but Willa doesn't want her brother to grow too attached, as she's sure they'll find his original owners and Ben will be heartbroken when he's returned. But it's too late, and just like that, Ben and Winesap become the best of friends. Will Ben finally get to have a pony of his own? Views: 17
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese. In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father, Murray, and three fellow navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May 1942. Here are the dramatic stories of the fall of Bataan, the siege of "the Rock," and the daily struggles to tend the sick, wounded, and dying during some of the heaviest bombardments of World War II. Here also is the desperate war doctors and corpsmen waged against disease and starvation amid an enemy that viewed surrender as a disgrace. To survive, the POWs functioned as a family. But the ties that bind couldn't protect them from a ruthless counteroffensive waged by American submarines or from the B-29 raids that burned Japan's major cities to the ground. Based on extensive interviews with American, British,... Views: 17
Sam Durell heard it first at K Section of the Central Intelligence Agency: Calvin Padgett had disappeared. He had vanished from his guarded quarters, slipped past the MPs, got beyond the barbed wire, eluded the radar screen, escaped the 'copter patrol, and disappeared.
From Washington, D. C, the orders poured out: "Assign Samuel Durell. Tell him to find Padgett, stop him, gag him. If necessary, kill him. Durell has four days to accomplish assignment."
Ninety-six hours for Sam Durell to track down the one man who knew everything about our missile and satellite program.
It was the tough agent's toughest assignment. Views: 17
THIS IS THE REVISED AND RE-EDITED VERSION, WITH UPDATED ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, THANKS, EYES & EARS EDITIONS"Kung delivers a touching story enriched by its strong Hong Kong atmosphere." Publishers Weekly"This is a Hong Kong readers don't come across very often and the author brings the city alive." Chicago TribuneHong Kong's Lunar New Year break is over and Business World's testy New York editors are howling for China copy. Unfortunately, Hong Kong bureau chief Claire Raymond's new colleague Vic has gone missing. Plus, she's contending with a nasty surprise on her doorstep—a Chinese mainland doctor confessing to murder.With only a year to go before Beijing takes over the British colony, China's transition to power is revealing its dark and lawless side. Claire's desperate search to rescue Vic across Hong Kong's border with China leads through the free-for-all landscape of Guangdong's coastal export boom into the murky use of Communist prison labor to feed the organ transplant trade. And... Views: 16
Lex Gibson is nervous. The prospect of spending a weekend working with Romy, the only woman to ever touch his legendary guarded heart, has the lion of the corporate world.unsettled. The tension between free-spirited Romy and buttoned-up Lex simmers dangerously. To complicate things further, Romy has a tiny daughter, who has Lex confused and distracted. They say never to mix business with pleasure, but Romy's adorable baby might just seal their very personal business deal – and change their family situation forever! Views: 16
