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An intimate, humorous look at Brian Kilrea's 60-year career in junior hockey With more wins than any coach in junior hockey history, and a personality as large as his winning record, Brian Kilrea is more than a hockey legend, he's one of the most beloved figures in the game. With veteran sportswriter, James Duthie, Kilrea gives fans a rink-side view of his twenty-nine plus seasons as head coach and now general manager of the Ottawa 67s. With stories and comments from famous NHLers who played for Killer, readers will get a taste of Kilrea's hardnosed coaching style, the gritty often humorous reality of his life as a coach, riding on buses and in the locker room, as well as the knowledge and d...
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"A young couple with a baby on the way moves to an old Victorian house in rural, upstate New York. Strange happenings contribute to their disintegrating marriage-and to their terrifying descent into the darker side of human nature"--
TV society reporter Alaine Delacroix feels like David facing Goliath when she takes on the biggest corporation in town to keep them from putting her parents’ garden center out of business. Lawyer Forbes Guidry wants nothing more than to stand up for the endangered local-business owners—but it will mean risking his job and crossing his powerful parents. Can Alaine and Forbes make A Case for Love?
In the Cascade Range of northwest Washington, Tom Joseph, a young Indian who had gone south to attend college, returns for his uncle's funeral and finds himself caught up in the old man’s fight to save the wilderness from destruction. In his first novel, Louis Owens exposes the raw edge of the current American land-rights controversy and poses questions about authenticity and the common bonds that American Indians, of very different or mixed backgrounds, are in the process of discovering today.
In March 1989, two scientists at the University of Utah announced they had created a cold fusion reaction. The public is thrilled at the prospect of a planet no longer powered by oil! When the success could not be duplicated, a collective finger of condemnation is pointed -- but was it pointed in the right direction? Decades later we meet Dr. James Sovereign, a respected oceanographic engineer with a mysterious past. Mindful of his late father's lessons, dubbed The Sovereign Principles, Jim is living his dream, building the first viable city under the sea. All is right with his world except for one thing: His kids hate him. While dealing with this reality, Jim is unwittingly thrust into a wa...
Four Novels that show God's Love Where It All Began - A woman dealing with a haunting past. A christian man who loves her. Can they find everlasting love? The Power of Prayer - A philanthropic Billionaire and a woman dealing with a life she never planned. Will God give them a second chance? When Hearts Collide - A college student faces a personal tragedy. Can she recover and find true love? A Past Forgiven - Two students running from hurtful pasts find each other find each other, but can they heal together or will they continue down destructive paths? Get all four books by clicking above. All books include discussion guide for group reading!
The setting for my novel, The Spook, is Nebraska Territory in MarchMay 1861, centered on Fort Laramie. The central character, J. D. Davis, is a guard for an inspector from the general land office who is investigating a fraudulent eighteen-township survey in the vicinity of the Niobrara River. A romance with and marriage to a widow with three children is weaved in the story. The inspector determines the fraud and undertakes to perform the contract and pursue the guilty party. The guilty fight back, attempting murder to stop the report. Davis kills the assassin among the defrauders, known as the Spook, and takes his horse. Davis possesses both a Spencer repeating rifle and a Whitworth sharpsho...
The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of twenty-four areas in these regions. In addition to the data collected from fieldwork, the dictionary contains material compiled from existing lexical inventories, from texts published after 1930, and from archival re...
Three months have passed since Lucas and his family were forced to flee Miami and leave Micah behind. He’s beginning a new life in Texas and adjusting to being a father to Colton. Nicola still hasn’t told anyone that she turned, and when the stress becomes too much, she retreats to her art. Her new mentor is impressed with her skill and offers her a job, though she is suspicious of his motives. But when he becomes increasingly persistent in pursuing her and people begin to die, she finds herself unwittingly drawn into a coven, and its leader may be someone linked to Lucas’ family. Will she discover the coven’s motives in time, or will she have to give up the man she loves and their son to keep everyone safe?