Keenan: The High Times and Misadventures of Hockey's Most Controversial Coach

Sports & Outdoors

Gordon,Jeff

Hockey

McGregor Hill Pub

He clashed with Wayne Gretzky, Brett Hull, Bob Clarke, and Denis Savard. But he has won championships on two of hockey's greatest stages: the Stanley Cup and the Canada Cup. 
Mike Keenan's legend as a coach, and general manager is unrivaled in hockey history. Love him or hate him, everywhere he has gone he has made a lasting impact at every level of the game, and on every team he has coached or managed - sometimes positively, often negatively. 
From Keenan's earliest coaching days in junior hockey to his disastrous time with the Vancouver Canucks to his recent attempts to return to the NHL, Keenan takes an honest inside look at the most controversial coach in hockey history.

Players, sportswriters, fans - they're all here, explaining in their own words what the national pastime has meant to them. Baseball is more than a game, it is the American Experience. Competitive, tough, loud, informal, racially diverse, theatrical, spectacular, heroic, financially rewarding, and an excuse for a bunch of people to get together and raise hell. The Bittersweet Journey: America's Fascination With Baseball presents a unique oral history of the game from the often surprising point-of-view of the participants themselves.

A Bittersweet Journey : America's Fascination with Baseball

Phalen, Richard C.

History

Home Ice: Reflections on Backyard Rinks and Frozen Ponds

There is no shortage of books that describe how participating in a particular sporting activity strengthens bonds between people. Falla's book accomplishes this feat through a collection of essays on backyard skating rinks and frozen ponds and how these local skating venues allow their participants to get in touch with the game of hockey in addition to building relationships with family and friends. The author, a sportswriter and author of Sports Illustrated Hockey, is the architect and CEO of his full-scale backyard rink, the Bacon Street Omni, around which neighborhood life seems to revolve during the long, cold months. Each essay is short and provides for excellent recreational reading for people interested in skating in general and hockey in particular. Throughout, the author's love for winter sports is clear, especially as a link between his New England childhood and his current life, but readers who have never put on a pair of skates may have trouble connecting with this well written book. --Library Journal

Falla, Jack

Winter Sports

A vicious murder.
Churchgoer. Family friend. All-American boy. Murderer. Ken Register, much to the shock of the small town of Conway, South Carolina, was all of these things. Clean-cut, polite to a fault, and respectful of elders, Ken was the kind of guy parents wanted their daughters to date. But only months after a seventeen-year-old girl's brutal murder, the residents of Conway were in for another suprise: that the killer was one of their own.
A stunned community.
Crystal Todd and Ken were "best friends," and had even briefly dated. When Crystal's hideously gutted body was found near the woods of Conway, Ken checked in every day to console Crystal's mother and inquire about the murder investigation.
A shocking killer.
Ken was practically the last person anyone would suspect. Until he started acting nervous and suspicious, afraid he would be "framed" for Crystal's murder. And until DNA tests confirmed that he was indeed the man who repeatedly raped and stabbed Crystal Todd, then left her mutilated body in a ditch.
Discover, through fascinating first-person accounts, the tortured Southern son who committed murder; the courageous detective determined to break the case; the broken mother who lost her only child; and the disbelieving parents who, to this day, defend their son's innocence.

An Hour to Kill: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Justice in a Small Southern Town

Hudson, Dale

Hills, Billy

Travel

No More Pity Parties: A Guide to Celebrating Your Way Through Life

Self-Help

Hall, June

Happiness

Fly Me to the Moon transports you to who your were when America took its first steps into space; the night you sat transfixed to the television as the crew of Apollo XI landed on the moon; the day you resolved to one day become an astronaut. Perhaps you were the 10-year-old kid who transformed a plain refrigerator box into a Mercury space capsule; or the resident of a small Texas community lighting celebratory Christmas Eve candles for your neighbors, the crew of Apollo VIII, or the musician saved from the ravages of drugs by one woman's historic voyage to the stars.
For every Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle voyage into outer space, there is an accompanying story. For every mission, there is the story of a starry-eyed child transformed into Alan Shepard, John Glenn, or Neil Armstrong. For every astronaut who braved weightlessness, the unknown, the perils of space flight, there is a grown up child wishing he or she could do the same. You'll remember you own youthful dreams during a bygone time in America when space flight bewitched us all and changed a generation.

Fly Me to the Moon: Lost in Space With the Mercury Generation

Science & Math

Ethier, Bryan

Astronomy & Space Science

An inside look at the most dynamic team in the NHL.

Miami Ice: Winning the Nhl Rat Race With the Florida Panthers

Rosenbaum, Dave

The Zone Diet Made Easy: The Simple Way to Weight Loss and Excellent Health

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kelly Lambert

Diets & Weight Loss

Details the history of the Florida Marlins through the 1997 baseball season after they spent $89 million on free agents in an all-out attempt to win the World Series

If They Don't Win It's a Shame: The Year the Marlins Bought the World Series

Americas

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