Download or read book Gordie written by Roy MacSkimming and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Cold War shoots and scores with the only full-length biography to cover the entire playing career of the Red Wings’ superstar. Before Gretzky, before Russians played in the National Hockey League, before multimillion-dollar salaries, there was Gordie Howe: the greatest star ever to play hockey. This richly illustrated, thoroughly researched and completely unauthorized biography takes readers behind the sports icon to reveal a man who remains immensely popular with young and old. The Howe legend begins on the frozen sloughs of Saskatchewan, where a painfully shy boy from a poverty-ridden family discovered his one advantage in life: major athletic talent. Signed by the Detroit Red Wings at 16, Howe joined celebrated teammates Sid Abel, Ted Lindsay, Terry Sawchuk and Red Kelly to forge a team that dominated the NHL as only the Montreal Canadiens and Edmonton Oilers have since. Six-time leading scorer, six-time Hart Trophy winner as the most valuable player, Howe surpassed Rocket Richard’s NHL goals record to reach an amazing total of 801, unmatched for years until finally Gretzky caught up to his mentor and idol. “Far superior to the hero-worshiping, gee-whiz, then-we-played, ghostwritten autobiographies so popular today . . . Must reading for hockey fans.” —Booklist “A very impressive book . . . thoughtful, well-written and marvelously evocative of the era when the NHL had only six teams and the Red Wings were one of the best . . . an excellent biography.” —The Sporting News
Download or read book Gordie s New Face written by Ryan Woorahm Kim and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince Gordie had everything a child could want, but did he have what every child needs? When a village sage recognizes Gordie's lack of compassion, he punishes Gordie by taking away his most prized possession—his face!
Download or read book Gordie written by Detroit Free Press and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michigan will never forget Gordie Howe's presence on and off the ice — he combined skill, savvy, strength, meanness and longevity like no other hockey player. Known to generations of fans as Mr. Hockey, Howe passed away on June 10, 2016 at the age of 88. The Detroit Red Wings legend's career spanned from 1946 to 1980, including 25 seasons with the Red Wings. A 23-time NHL All-Star, Howe led the Red Wings to four Stanley Cups, won six Hart Trophies as the league's most valuable player and won six Art Ross Trophies as the NHL's top scorer. When he retired in 1980, he held the NHL records for regular-season goals (801), assists (1,049), points (1,850). In this tribute to the legendary Red Wing that features nearly 100 images, the Detroit Free Press reflects on Howe's life in 128 pages of historic photos and defining stories about Mr. Hockey.
Download or read book A Reader s Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich written by Peter G. Beidler and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A revised and expanded, comprehensive guide to the novels of Native American author Louise Erdrich from Love Medicine to The Painted Drum. Includes chronologies, genealogical charts, complete dictionary of characters, map and geographical details about settings, and a glossary of all the Ojibwe words and phrases used in the novels"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Gordie s Tales written by Gorden Tallis and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the biggest "lady killers" in Rugby League past and present? What is Wayne Bennett really like? Which international footballer was beaten up by teenage kids in Spain? What are the best 10 on-field sledges of all time? In Gordie's Tales, The Footy Show star and Queensland and Australian league legend Gorden Tallis tells these hilarious true stories and many more. Gorden takes you inside State of Origin teams, on Kangaroo tours, and along for the ride on hilarious end of season trips. Gordie gives his "rant" on what is right and wrong with the game, and even tells us what he would do if he were to run the NRL for one day! Gordie's Tales is a very funny and rare insight into the real world behind modern day rugby league, written by someone who embodies the humor and the grit of the toughest game of all.
Download or read book Ghosts of Clinton County written by Gordie Little and published by North Country Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever been awakened at night to see an ethereal figure at the foot of your bed? Have your faucets turned on and of as if guided by an unseen hand? If you enjoy telling or reading such tales, this book of true ghost stories is made for you. North Country media personality Gordie Little has collected and told ghost stories for many years. Now for the first time, he has selected over thirty of his best stories for publication in Ghosts of Clinton County.
Download or read book Comes a Day written by Speed Lamkin and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1959 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As told by Watts in the New York Post: The central issue is the dour fate of an unhappy small-town family, which had once been rich but has lost everything through the husband's weakness. His wife is embittered and contemptuous, he is l
Download or read book The Body written by Stephen King and published by Longman. This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary / British English Gordie Lanchance and his three friends are always ready for adventure. When they hear about a dead body in the forest they go to look for it. Then they discover how cruel the world can be.
Download or read book Nine Lessons I Learned from My Father written by Murray Howe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER As a child, Murray Howe wanted to be like his father. He was an adult before he realized that didn't necessarily mean playing hockey. Gordie Howe may have been the greatest player in the history of hockey, but greatness was never defined by goals or assists in the Howe household. Greatness meant being the best person you could be, not the best player on the ice. Unlike his two brother, Murray Howe failed in his attempt to follow in his father's footsteps to become a professional athlete. Yet his failure brought him to the realization that his dream wasn't really to be a pro hockey player. His dream was to be his father. To be amazing at something, but humble and gracious. To be courageous, and stand up for the little guy. To be a hero. You don't need to be a hockey player to do that. What he learned was that it was a waste of time wishing you were like someone else. When Gordie Howe passed away in 2016, it was Murray who was asked to deliver the eulogy. Nine Lessons I Learned from My Father takes the reader through the hours Murray spent writing the words that would give shape to his father's leagcy--the hours immediately after his hero's death, as he gathers his thoughts and memories, and makes sense of what his remarkable father meant to him. The result is nine pieces of wisdom, built out of hundreds of stories, that show us the man behind the legend and give us a glimpse of what we can learn from this incredible life.
Download or read book The Whalers written by Patrick Pickens and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than twenty years after departing Hartford, Connecticut, for Raleigh, North Carolina, the NHL's Whalers continue to inspire passion among fans. As HartfordBusiness.com reported in 2015, "Whalers merchandise...still has a cult following not only among fans in Connecticut but around the country." But Whalers devotees aren't just clamoring for jerseys, hats and t-shirts. They're nostalgic for a team that had New England roots for nearly 25 years--in Boston, Springfield, and Hartford--and featured some of the greatest players in NHL history, including Gordie Howe (with his sons Mark and Marty), Bobby Hull, and Ron Francis. Pat Pickens’s book details the Whalers’ origin in Boston in 1972, the team’s WHA championship in 1973, the roof collapse of their home arena that indirectly led to their entrance to the NHL in 1979, their stunning NHL playoff-series win against the top-seeded Quebec Nordiques in 1986, the 1986-87 season when they claimed their first division championship, and their relocation south in 1997 as the Carolina Hurricanes. Pickens imagines a Stanley Cup delivered to hockey-crazed Hartford in 2006, when the Hurricanes instead brought it home to North Carolina. The book also explores the likelihood of an NHL team returning to the Nutmeg State.
Download or read book 206 Bones written by Kathy Reichs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs delivers another “outstanding” book (Publishers Weekly) in her “cleverly plotted” (The New York Times) Temperance Brennan series, the inspiration for the hit FOX television series Bones. There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end. When Tempe finds herself regaining consciousness in some kind of very small, very dark, very cold enclosed space—bound, hands to feet—Tempe begins slowly to reconstruct... Tempe and Lieutenant Ryan had accompanied the recently discovered remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue. Suddenly, Tempe was accused of mishandling the autopsy—and the case. Back in Montreal, the corpse of a second elderly woman was found in the woods, and then a third. Seamlessly weaving between Tempe’s present-tense terror as she’s held captive and her memory of the cases of these murdered women, Reichs reveals the incredible devastation that would occur if a forensic colleague sabotaged work in the lab. The chemistry between Tempe and Ryan intensifies as this complex, riveting tale unfolds, proving once again, that Reichs is the dominant talent in forensic mystery writing.
Download or read book Growing Up Gronk written by Gronkowski (Family) and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes story of the family whose extra-tall sons include professional baseball and football players, offering insight into how they were raised, trained, and fed by their athletically committed parents.
Download or read book Eternal Miscalculation written by Sidney Yee and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sidney has lived life as a Christian since 1977. Lived a life dedicated to serving with humilitly and dedication to a God that he has come to love, with an angels kindness. God repaid his debt with deception and disruption. Until his life became nothing more than a joke. He has lived for God. Gave all that he could for the Plan of Salvation. Might come to be known to all the residence of Vancouver to begin with, if it was God's will this is his Christian testimony.
Download or read book Hard City written by Clark Howard and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The searing novel of a brutal boyhood in 1940s Chicago—and a young man walking the knife’s edge between a life of crime and a brighter future. The son of a single mother addicted to heroin, Richie grows up in poverty and hardship. His adolescence is a constant battle between hope—in the form of a kind boxing coach, a job in a bowling alley where he can sneak a nap, and a determination to track down his disreputable father—and brutality. Desperately lonely, Richie must contend with the criminal justice system, abusive foster homes, and a period of exile with his grandmother in Tennessee. In this gritty, semiautobiographical novel by an Edgar Award–winning author, the fate of this young man hangs in the balance as he finds himself tested by want, war, and the ever-present temptation to give up on the possibility of something better. “Strongly satisfying [and] frequently compelling.” —Kirkus Reviews “Sustains a sense of tension, moving smoothly between flashbacks of the events of Richie’s early years and the traumatic experiences of his adolescence, then on to his return to Chicago.” —The New York Times
Download or read book The Whole World Over written by Julia Glass and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Three Junes comes the story of Greenie Duquette, who lavishes most of her passionate energy on her Greenwich Village bakery and her young son—until she makes an impulsive decision that will change the course of several lives around her. Greenie's husband, Alan, seems to have fallen into a midlife depression, while Walter, her closest professional ally, is nursing a broken heart. At Walter’s restaurant, the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes Greenie’s coconut cake and decides to woo her away to be his chef. For reasons both ambitious and desperate, she accepts—heading west without her husband.
Download or read book Spirit Songs Images and Uttered Nonsense written by J. S. T. Botting and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A word from the Author They are the notes to free the songs that lie deep within your soul. They are the brush with which to paint images in your mind. They are the voice to express the joyful fantasies and silliness of your inner child. Words bring relief, greater understanding and joy into your life. They are the Spirit Songs, Images and Uttered Nonsense that you will find within these pages. If you find that you can relate to any of the Spirit Songs, then my purpose has been served. That purpose was to give voice to those who have no voice of their own. If you have a greater understanding of the subjects in Images, then that purpose, too, has been served. If I have given you a giggle or two with Uttered Nonsense, then I am well pleased.
Download or read book Chase written by B. A. Caverly and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Thalo Wilks discovers her husband has imported an underage Korean prostitute, she runs off to Tahiti to gain time and distance to consider her marriage. There she meets Michael. A woman is murdered, a smarmy stranger persistently spies on her every move, and someone tries to kill her. Frightened, she accepts Michael's offer to take her aboard his yacht to Pago Pago, as an untraceable escape. After a hazardous journey that they barely survive, they land in Hawaii. Michael and Thalo are deeply in love, but Hawaii is no safe haven. Thalo is kidnapped and taken aboard a filthy freighter—destination Asia. From that moment on her life is in jeopardy. Why is that? What possible connection can there be between Thalo, a very average New Yorker, and the Oriental killer with the polished manner, or to the ugly American with no polish at all? How is she involved in the theft of the most dangerous substance on earth, or the subsequent deadly and comlex shell game played by competing murderous thieves? Why is a vicious sexual sadist intent on wrecking vengeance upon her? And will American soldiers half a world away suffer massive and horrible death?
