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Pub. Date
2017
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten...
2) Eric Lindros
Author
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Includes index. Profiles the life and career of a Canadian-born hockey player who is one of the youngest winners of the MVP award.
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The autobiography of one of hockey's first rebels and a beloved member of the "Big Bad Bruins," this book shares how Derek Sanderson's ferocious style helped lead the team to two Stanley Cup victories in the early 1970s. Living life in the fast lane, Sanderson grew his hair long, developed a serious drinking problem, and eventually found himself out of the league and prowling the streets for his next drink. In this autobiography, Sanderson comes
...5) Goon
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The story of Doug Glatt, a dumb but lovable bar bouncer plucked from obscurity to be the enforcer for a minor league hockey team. In the tradition of great sports comedies like Slapshot, Goon delivers bone-crunching action and laughs in equal measure.
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Publisher
Viking Canada
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"An inspiring memoir that shows that anyone can achieve their dreams if they are willing to fight for them. In 1958, Willie O'Ree was a lot like any other player toiling in the minors, waiting for his chance to play in the best hockey league in the world. He'd grown up playing in small towns, working his way up the complicated hierarchy of junior and minor leagues, losing teeth and dropping the gloves along the way. He was good. Good enough to have...
11) Hockey legends
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Publisher
MetroBooks
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Large illustrated volume profiles great ice hockey players.
13) Slap Shot
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2002
Description
The coach of the Chiefs, a struggling minor-league hockey team. To build up attendance at their games, management signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition. --
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Profiles the life and accomplishments of the Canadian hockey player, from his youth in Brantford, Ontario to his Stanley Cup championships.
Known for his love for family and as a truly decent human being, Wayne Gretzky is revealed as more than a sports legend in this easy-to-read biography.
15) Orr: my story
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"One of the greatest sports figures of all time breaks his silence in a memoir as unique as the man himself. He has never written a memoir, authorized a biography, or talked to journalists about his past, but now he is finally ready to tell his story. Bobby Orr is often referred to as the greatest ever to play the game of hockey. From 1966 through the mid-seventies, he could change a game just by stepping on the ice. No defenseman had ever played...
16) Jaromir Jagr
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Series
Publisher
Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A biography of the Czechoslovakian-born hockey player whose breakaway speed and superb passing and shooting skills have made him one of the premier players in the NHL.
17) Summer light
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Luanne Rice offers up a tale of love, forgiveness, and redemption in Summer Light, a haunting story about a gifted little girl with otherworldly connections. Five-year-old Kylie Taylor sees things others don't. When she sees and hears the ghost of a young girl while flying with her mother, May, Kylie learns that the plane they are on will crash. Sure enough, the aircraft makes a rocky landing and, in the smoky aftermath, Kylie and May are assisted...
Publisher
Manufactured and distributed by ARC Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
"Hockey great Gordie Howe retired after 25 winning seasons with the Detroit Red Wings. But he realized that retirement just didn't work for him... When his sons were drafted to the Houston Aeros he came out of retirement to join the team! He was written off by many, who thought he was too old to be playing competitively. Through hard work, perseverance, and the loving support of his wife and family, he and his sons managed to prove the critics wrong...
19) Mystery, Alaska
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
A remote, hockey-obsessed town populated by 633 of the most eccentric characters you'd ever want to meet, Mystery is the kind of place where nothing ever changes. But then life as they know it gets turned completely upside down when a publicity stunt brings the world-famous New York Rangers to Mystery for a game with the local team of weekend warriors and the whole town rises to meet the challenge of a lifetime.
20) Riley Park
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Seventeen-year-old Corbin plays hockey and is known as a scrapper on and off the ice. Fighting makes him feel strong. Corbin's friend, Darius, is socially adept and popular, and Darius's reckless risk-taking makes Corbin feel alive. With Rubee, a girl both boys like, Darius crosses a line, and after a party at Riley Park, Darius and Corbin are attacked. Darius is killed; Corbin is seriously injured. Corbin fights his clouded memory he can't identify...
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