Tough Calls: Nhl Referees and Linesmen Tell Their Story

The NHL playoffs now drag on so long it seems like there’s only a long weekend between the Stanley Cup finals and the start of training camp. That’s why it’s interesting that some of the ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Skywalking: How Ten Young Basketball Stars Soared to the Pros

By Jeff Rud

Victoria Times-Colonist sportswriter Jeff Rud has put together a collection of mini-biographies of 10 professional basketball players – eight men and two women – as a way of getting across his message that success in ... Read More »

April 20, 2004

Hockey Now!

By Mike Leonetti,Dan Hamilton, photog.

Hockey Now! follows a couple of time-honoured formulas for hockey books for young readers – it uses lots of full-colour pictures and short bios, and organizes the bios according to player position and role on ... Read More »

April 20, 2004

★ The Voluptuous Gardener: The Collected Art and Writing of Joe Rosenblatt 1973-1996

By Joe Rosenblatt

The Voluptuous Gardener by 1976 Governor-General’s Award-winning poet Joe Rosenblatt does not live up to the hyped controversy already surrounding it. Before it could go to press at the Winnipeg printer that publisher Beach Holme ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Tubman: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Her Life in the United States and Canada (signature Series)

By Rosemary Sadlier

Information about her Canadian connections is the key contribution of this new book about Harriet Tubman. Researched and written by Rosemary Sadlier, president of the Ontario Black History Society and author of several books on ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Storms of Controversy: The Secret Arrow Files Revealed, 2nd Ed.

By Palmiro Campagna

If all Gaul, as the Romans had it, was divided in three parts, then all military history is divided into five. There are what we might call the serious studies, the academics’ and the theorists’ ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: History