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Searching for Bobby Orr
Par Stephen Brunt. 2006
Bobby Orr redefined the defensive style of hockey - he was the first to infuse the defenseman position with offensive…
juice, driving up the ice, setting up players and scoring some goals of his own. He was the first player to win three straight MVP awards, the first defenseman to score twenty or more goals in a season. But history will also remember Bobby Orr as a key figure in the Alan Eagleson scandal, and as the unfortunate player forced into early retirement in 1978 because of his injuries. Some strong language. 2006.Etched in ice: a tribute to hockey's defining moments
Par Michael McKinley. 1998
"Etched in Ice" showcases the builders and broadcasters, the dramas and pathos, of a sport that has long made winter…
the hottest season. It includes not only the titans and their achievements, but it also takes us to the men and women who are not household names, yet have affected the game in their own remarkable ways: the first big-time team on the West Coast; a gifted American player cut down early in World War I; a women's team that lost only two games out of 350 during the 1930s. 1998.Hometown heroes: on the road with Canada's national hockey team
Par Paul Quarrington. 1988
A behind-the-scenes look at Canada's Olympic team, formed in 1985, through the 1988 Olympics in Calgary. The problems and politics…
of a national hockey team are presented with humour and candor.Book of longing
Par Leonard Cohen. 2006
A collection of musings, jottings, quatrains, lyrics, prose meditations and offhand epigrams, including previously unpublished poems dating as far back…
as 1970. Cohen displays both a surface humility and an underlying self-confidence as he reflects on women, Zen doctrine, his own advancing age, and the legacy of the '60s. Descriptions of sex and strong language. 2006.A wild peculiar joy: selected poems, 1945-89 (The Modern Canadian poets)
Par Irving Layton. 1989
A golden tear: Danièle Sauvageau's journey to Olympic gold
Par Sally Manning. 2002
On February 21, 2002, the Canadian National Women's Hockey Team was up against their arch-rival, Team U.S.A, at the Salt…
Lake City Olympics. They were determined to make up for not winning the gold medal at Nagano four years earlier, and to overcome a 1 and 8 record against the American team. Calmly standing behind the Canadian bench was Danièle Sauvageau, coach and former police officer, and one of the most intriguing and inspiring people in sport today. 2002.19 varieties of gazelle: poems of the Middle East
Par Naomi Shihab Nye. 2002
Over four dozen of her own poems about the Middle East and about being an Arab American living in the…
United States. Nye writes of figs and olives, fathers' blessings and grandmothers' hands. She writes of Palestinians, living and dead, of war, and of peace. 2002.The tent
Par Margaret Atwood. 2006
A collection of short stories, including parodies of fairy tales and fables, a tale which encapsulates the divide between men…
and women, and an account of the remarkably thuggish population of a small, out-of-the-way island. Atwood dissects our habit of seeing the world in terms of "we" and "them," and our refusal to face the facts of environmental degradation. 2006.Hockey town: life before the pros
Par Ed Arnold. 2005
The Montreal Canadiens made the Peterborough Petes part of their farm system in the mid-1950s, and a number of great…
coaches - from Scotty Bowman to Roger Neilson - have stood behind the Petes' bench. As well, the Petes can boast players from Dit Clapper and Bob Gainey to Steve Yzerman and Chris Pronger. A look at how Peterborough has achieved pre-eminence among hockey cradles. 2005.Thanks and giving all year long: Marlo Thomas and friends
Par Marlo Thomas, Christopher Cerf. 2004
The Penelopiad: The Myth Of Penelope And Odysseus (The myths series)
Par Margaret Atwood. 2005
For Penelope, wife of Odysseus, maintaining a kingdom while her husband fights in the Trojan War is not easy -…
already aggrieved by the shocking behaviour of her cousin Helen, she must bring up her wayward son, face down scandalous rumours, and keep over a hundred lusty, greedy and bloodthirsty suitors at bay. When Odysseus finally returns home and slaughters the suitors, he also brutally hangs Penelope's twelve beloved maids. What were his motives, and what was Penelope herself really up to? 2005.Everyday eclipses
Par Roger McGough. 2002
These poems contain Roger McGough's own spin on innocence and experience. Poems about his docker father and his new daughter;…
poems about how, in his dreams, he gave the idea of "Hey Jude" to McCartney and advised Dylan to go electric; and poems about sad music and the sad eclipses of everyday life. 2002.Blackbird singing: poems and lyrics 1965-1999
Par Adrian Mitchell, Paul McCartney. 2001
A highly personal collection from one of the major cultural figures of the last 50 years, containing the lyrics to…
many of the best-loved Paul McCartney songs, and also poems that have never before been seen, including moving elegies to his late wife, Linda.Kid (Faber Pocket Poetry Ser.)
Par Simon Armitage. 1999
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Par Seamus Heaney. 1999
A translation of the 10th-century Anglo-Saxon poem relating Beowulf's triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a…
defender of his people. Heaney has aimed to produce a work true both to the original, which is one of the classics of European literature, and to his own creativity. 1999.The annals of Chile
Par Paul Muldoon. 1994
Translations from the natural world
Par Les Murray. 1993
Ravens, cuttlefish, sunflowers and a shell-back tick are among those non-verbal members of our natural world which find distinctive voices…
in this new collection of poems by Les Murray. Few poets could achieve such variety of approach to express character and feelings and to give us their vision of the universe. 1993.The brazen serpent
Par Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. 1994
"Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin employs a poetic point of view that is displaced, unspecified, and often enigmatic; her poetry resonates with…
ancient rites and presences from a spiritual otherworld. She is a unique poet who has influenced younger writers, broadened the scope of Irish poetry, and earned her place among the very best poets of her generation."Supposed to fly: a sequence from Pilsen, Czechoslovakia
Par Ewald Osers, Miroslav Holub. 1996
Miroslav Holub is the Czech Republic's most important poet, and one of her leading scientists. "Supposed to fly" is a…
highly original and entertaining gathering of poems - with some prose interruptions - drawn from his native city of Plzen, perhaps better known for it's world famous beer - Pilsner. 1996.The Faerie Queene (Wordsworth Classics Of World Literature Ser.)
Par Edmund Spenser, Helen Moore. 1999
"The Faerie Queene" is an allegory whose aim is to 'fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle…
discipline'. The central character in each book represents one of the moral virtues. All the joys and sorrows of human life are experience by Redcrosse and his fellow-knights, as they struggle to defeat evil, uphold virtue and win chivalric fame. Originally published in 1596.