Ice Time: The Unsung Heroes of Canadian Hockey

Scott, Russell

Penguin PB CA

With a keen eye and ear for story, Hockey Night in Canada host and bestselling author Scott Russell chronicles a sport both exotic and familiar -- curling. Canadians have a unique enthusiasm for curling. It transcends barriers. World-class athletes curl with absolute beginners, and grandmothers and grandsons take to the ice together. There are more than a million registered curlers in anada, and millions more tune in to watch curling events on television. The outpouring of emotion that followed Sandra Schmirler's death revealed that curlers are counted among our national heroes. Curling doesn't offer the excitement of other winter sports -- no thunderous body checks, no vertical leaps, no million-dollar superstars. But when Scott Russell visited curling clubs across the country, attended the Brier in Calgary and the Olympic games in Salt Lake City, and spent time with curlers, from celebrities like Colleen Jones to the unsung father, uncle and son-team who built the Eagle Hill Curling Club in Alberta, he discovered the magical allure of curling. As Canadian Olympic gold medalist Joan McCusker said of curling's appeal: "Ordinary people doing extraordinary things is the attraction." Open House takes us inside the world of curling, and captures the spirit and lore of the sport, the dedication and passion of its participants. From the Hardcover edition.

Open House: Canada and the Magic of Curling

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Anchor Canada

TimeDonors Wanted – Synopsis “If you could have a one-time affair with someone you’d never see again, and no one could ever find out, would you?” That is the question. Jarvis Sloan was an Internet success story. He’d left a thriving private practice as a psychiatrist specializing in sexual medicine in San Diego to form LifeSolutions Seminars. Ironically, it isn’t just Jarvis’s patients that are suffering. His own marriage is a hollow shell. He loves his wife Sharon, when he isn’t hating her, and he loves his sons unconditionally. Jarvis convinces himself that there’s only one way to deal with his growing frustration, affairs. While they may be an answer, they aren’t necessarily a good answer or a safe one. So he tries to come up with a better answer. A site devoted to pairing people to meet one another’s sexual needs on a one-time basis. To avoid any chance of detection he hides the site inside a self erasing server, no notes, no phone calls, no electronic footprints, nothing. It’s a direct connection to another person willing to donate their time to help meet your needs. All information about both parties is erased from the embedded server every seventy-two hours. Making any connections made inside the server impossible to trace. What starts as a small idea for a limited number of people, is quickly magnified and transformed by the power of the Internet, generating $60 million in its first two years of operation. Willie Weeks, retired from the military six years ago, now he’s the new guy in homicide, at the Phoenix Police Department—he should have just stayed in Burglary, but he didn’t. His introduction to homicide, however, wasn’t looking too promising. He’d already messed up his first case. A mistake that got somebody killed. That screw up put him under the gun. His next case is a murder at a motel on the outskirts of Phoenix, a paper-goods salesman from Muncie, Indiana. Somebody’s left him naked and dead in a puddle of his own blood in a downtown motel room. Robbery wasn’t the motive because his jewelry, wallet, and more than a thousand dollars in cash are still on the nightstand. At first glance it appears that he died from a blow to the head, but when the victim is rolled over it’s obvious that he’s been stabbed multiple times, in both kidneys, a technique Weeks immediately recognizes. It’s called a “sentry take-out” in the Special Forces community. The Medical Examiner confirms what Weeks already knows, but it doesn’t bring anyone any closer to knowing who killed the man, or why. Two weeks later, another man of about the same age is found lying dead between two cars in a parking garage on the other side of town. There’s nothing to link the two cases, but when the Medical Examiner calls Willie with the cause of death, he knows that it’s the work of the same killer. This time the killer used an archaic assassination technique that had been employed by the intelligence community during the first World War, a needle through the back of the skull. But this isn’t a warrior’s technique, it was developed for women, it allowed a female operative to quickly kill a man she was having sex with. Suddenly Willie has no idea who he’s looking for, other than it’s someone that ‘s obviously been trained at whatever it is that they’re doing.

Time Donors Wanted

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

R. S. Anderson

Traces the history of the concept of the body as property and examines modern technological, medical, and moral ramifications to consider in deciding whether the final right of disposal belongs to society or to the individual

The Body as Property

Literature & Fiction

VIKING

The body as property

A.Lane

Collection of essays on controversies in urologic management

Current controversies in urologic management

Saunders

Betcha Missed It! Find the Hidden Treasures on and Around the Las Vegas Strip is a spunky, up-to-date travel guide on Las Vegas with a twist... this guide is also a game! Readers are given clues to little-known places on The Strip. Once found they are given trivia, facts, and other places in the vicinity to explore. Statistics show Vegas Visitors only spend 3.9 hours gambling. Betcha Missed It gives Vegas Vacationers something to do with the other 20+ hours in the Vegas day.

Betcha Missed It- Las Vegas! Find the Hidden Treasures On and Around the Las Vegas Strip (A Las Vegas Travel Guide)

Melanie Russell

Betcha Missed It

&#8220;If you could have a one time affair with someone you&#8217;ve never seen before and would never see again and there was no way that anyone could ever find out, would you?&#8221; 
If you can answer no without having to think about the question for even a moment then you probably won&#8217;t have a lot in common with the characters portrayed in TimeDonors Wanted. If you&#8217;re not so sure, then you may want to at least have a peek and see what happens to some folks that took that chance and said yes. 
	Jarvis Sloan was an Internet success story. He&#8217;d left a thriving private practice as a psychiatrist specializing in sexual medicine in San Diego to form LifeSolutions Seminars, an on-line counseling site for unhappy people looking for an alternative to classical counseling. Ironically, it isn&#8217;t just Jarvis&#8217;s patients that are suffering. His own marriage is a hollow shell. He loves his wife Sharon, when he isn&#8217;t hating her, and he loves his sons unconditionally. 
	Jarvis convinces himself that there&#8217;s only one way to deal with his growing frustration, affairs. But the affairs pose a risk to his family he&#8217;s not willing to take. To minimize the risk Jarvis takes a step in an unexpected direction. A site devoted to pairing people to meet one another&#8217;s sexual needs on a one-time basis. 
Jarvis with the help of Brooke Werner, a brilliant young computer engineer, establishes a registry inside LifeSolutions, which allows members to enter a high-security area, in which they can locate anonymous sexual partners for a single meeting, no commitments, no attachments, no threat to either party&#8217;s marriage. To ensure confidentiality, all information about both parties is erased from the embedded server every seventy-two hours. Making any connections made inside the server impossible to trace. 
 Little did Jarvis suspect, when he created the TimeDonors sub-site, that at the height of its success, it would inextricably link his own life to seven others in a web of death and betrayal. Over a two-month period, all eight of them would have their worlds irreversibly changed. More than half of them wouldn&#8217;t survive, and one woman would be forced to find reserves of courage she never knew she had.

Isolibris/China Grove Press

An Analytical Investigation Of The Scriptural Claims Of The Devil (1822)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Religion & Spirituality

Kessinger Publishing

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Ice Time: The Unsung Heroes of Canadian Hockey

Open House: Canada and the Magic of Curling

Time Donors Wanted

The Body as Property

The body as property

Current controversies in urologic management

Betcha Missed It- Las Vegas! Find the Hidden Treasures On and Around the Las Vegas Strip (A Las Vegas Travel Guide)

Time Donors Wanted

An Analytical Investigation Of The Scriptural Claims Of The Devil (1822)

An Analytical Investigation Of The Scriptural Claims Of The Devil (1822)