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Renowned sports writer Stephen Brunt (Searching For Bobby Orr) reveals how “the Great One,” who was bought and sold more than once, decided that the comfortable Canadian city where hockey ruled couldn’t compete with the slushy ice of a California franchise ($34.95).
The eagerly-awaited new book by Denise Chong, author of the award-winning, national bestseller, The Concubine's Children. In her first book in a decade, Chong tells the story of a man who humiliated a repressive regime in front of the entire world, and whose daring gesture informs our view of human rights to this day($32.95).
A compelling, candid travel memoir in the tradition of her bestselling Touch The Dragon: a Thai Journal, Connelly’s latest is a love story. Unlike conventional love stories, this one takes the reader into a world as dangerous and heartbreaking – a world of students staging mass demonstrations to Burma’s dictators - as it is enchanting. Illuminated by the sensual language and flashes of humour that have won her fans around the world ($32.00).
Theo Fleury takes us behind the bench during his glorious days as an NHL player and talks about growing up devastatingly poor and in chaos at home. Dark personal issues haunted him, with drinking, drugs, gambling and girls ultimately derailing his Hall of Fame–calibre career($32.99).
In the summer of 2008, General Rick Hillier retired as Chief of the Defence staff of the Canadian Forces. You could almost hear the sigh of relief in Ottawa as Canada’s most popular, and most controversial, military leader since the second World War left a role in which he’d been as frank, unpredictable and resolutely apolitical as any of his predecessors. This hard-hitting, honest account of Hillier’s role—told in his own words—will be one of the most important books published in Canada this decade($34.99).
The magnificent second volume of the definitive biography of the man most Canadians admire more than any other: the full story of both his public and private lives, which meshed in the country’s headlines ($39.95).
From one of Canada’s most respected and recognizable journalists comes a collection of the best interviews with the leading thinkers, world leaders, music legends, sports heroes and cultural icons of our time, from the country’s most trusted interview show. More than 40 interviewees: from Barack Obama to Bill Gates, from Brian Wilson to Diana Krall ($35.00).
In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time,
tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid
retrospective of the extraordinary success she achieved, and the prices that had to be paid ($35.00).
Offbeat and charming, and filled with humour, insight, and a wide array of eccentric characters,
Beyond Belfast tells the story of one man's misguided attempt at walking the entire Ulster Way: a
560-mile path that circles Northern Ireland, from the city walls of Derry to the moorland heights
of the Sperrins, from the green glens of Antrim to the Mountains of Mourne.
Along the way, Will Ferguson, grandson of a Belfast orphan, uncovers his own hidden family history.
There are clues about a lost inheritance, a mysterious photograph, rumours of a vast estate;
the truth, when it comes, is both surprising and funny ($32.00).
Reviled and revered, Peter Pocklington brought the Edmonton Oilers and hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky to Edmonton, before negotiating Gretzky's shocking move to the Los Angeles Kings. His story is one of triumph, failure, and perseverance. It's also a primer on how to make the most of free-market capitalism. The book chronicles one man's obsessive pursuit of "the deal" and how that pursuit helped shape him and the ideals he continues to hold today. Pocklington spares no detail in this riveting read for hockey fans, sports fans, business junkies, and anyone who enjoys a good rise-from-the-ashes story ($32.99).
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