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Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Across more than a thousand games in the National Hockey League, Bernie Nicholls made his mark with flamboyant style and dynamic scoring prowess. In this new autobiography, Nicholls reflects on his life on and off the ice, sharing candid anecdotes and personal insights from across the hockey landscape. From his childhood in the small Northern Ontario town of West Guilford, to his sensational 70-goal season in Los Angeles, and his recent years in...
4) Tooth Fairy
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Derek Thompson is one of the toughest hockey players around until he's sentenced to one week's hard labor as the world's most unlikely tooth fairy. Even though he must sport frilly wings and learn the magical tricks of the trade from his silver-winged superiors, Derek's determined to do the job HIS way and prove he's got what it takes.
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Her biggest fantasy is about to become a reality... Jed West is Mr. Hockey. The captain of the NHL's latest winning team, the Denver Hellions -- and the hottest player on the ice -- at least according to every magazine.and Breezy Angel. Breezy has been drooling over Jed at games for years, and he plays a starring role in her most toe-curling fantasies. But dirty dreams don't come true, right? Then Jed saunters through the doors of her library, a last...
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English
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A refreshing memoir of battles and self-belief from one of the NHL's most revered enforcers
Shawn Thornton was an unlikely NHL success, to say the least. The Oshawa, Ontario native was picked late in the OHL and later thought he was being pranked when the Toronto Maple Leafs called him to say he'd been selected in the seventh round of the 1997 NHL draft.
After years spent working and maturing in the AHL, Thornton would go on to play 14 seasons with...
Author
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A pro hockey player learns that home is where the heart is in the first novel of a delightful new series from USA TODAY bestselling author Alicia Hunter Pace Evans Pemberton has always had a problem saying no. To her overbearing Mississippi Delta family, to her business mentor’s push to expand her thriving pie shop and to her lifelong crush, Jake Champagne. But Jake chose her beauty queen cousin three years ago and ghosted on their close friendship....
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A dynamic and candid memoir by an unlikely NHL brawler
In the run-up to the NHL Entry Draft in 1992, the Buffalo Sabres interviewed Matthew Barnaby. John Muckler, Buffalo's coach, asked him, "What happens at 8:05 on Saturday night in Detroit when Bob Probert asks you to fight?" When the teenager responded, "That's easy. At 8:03, I'd have already asked Probert to fight," they knew they had to draft him.
Through 14 NHL seasons after that exchange,...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Georgeanne Howard leaves her fiancé at the altar when she realizes she can't marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. Hockey superstar John Kowalsky unknowingly helps her escape, and only when it's too late does he realize that he's absconded with his boss's bride. This bad boy isn't looking to be anybody's savior but his own. Still, a long night stretches ahead of them--a night too sultry to resist temptation. Seven...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Hockey historians will appreciate the precision action shots taken of the first cohort of NHL stars... a record of how hockey has evolved." -- Winnipeg Free Press The hockey stars of the 1950s and '60s -- Rocket Richard, Gordie Howe, Dave Keon, Bobby Hull, Jean Beliveau, Terry Sawchuk, Tim Horton, and others -- were some of the most passionate players in National Hockey League history. These skillful and often colorful athletes played exhilarating...
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English
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"Rachel Gibson, who occupies a very special place in readers' hearts alongside Lori Foster and Jennifer Crusie, delights with this funny, smart, and sexy story of an ex- starlet's attempt to start over as the personal assistant to a cantankerous-but very hot-ex-hockey player. Nothing But Trouble is nothing but wonderful! Trouble... Chelsea Ross's acting career has been a total bust. The closest she ever came to stardom was her brilliant performance...
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
These hockey players know how to score ... and make it count! BODY CHECK The moment hockey star Brody Croft first sees good girl Hayden Houston at the bar, he's riveted. Brody's ready to shed his bad-boy ways for the sexy brunette and settle down. And after a mind-blowing night in bed with Hayden, he knows she's the one. Now all he has to do is convince her that he's her one ... TIME OUT NHL coach Mark Diego is spending the off season in his hometown...
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Widely acknowledged as the best hockey book ever written and lauded by Sports Illustrated as one of the Top 10 Sports Books of All Time, The Game is a reflective and thought-provoking look at a life in hockey. Ken Dryden, the former Montreal Canadiens goalie and former president of the Toronto Maple Leafs, captures the essence of the sport and what it means to all hockey fans. He gives vivid and affectionate portraits of the characters-Guy Lafleur,...
15) Virgin Territory
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Practice Makes Perfect
Patrick "Patch" Donnelly has what it takes to be the best goalie in the NHL…if only he could learn to control his temper. When Coach orders him to get his head in the game with private yoga classes, Patch isn't having it. There's no way this tough Boston guy would be caught dead downward dog-ing his way to inner peace. But if he refuses, he risks his starting position and the dream he sacrificed everything for, including...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There's checking (anything that hinders the player with posession of the puck, ranging from a stick check all the way to a physical sweep). And then, there is Jack-- his very...
Author
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Leaving your fiancé at the altar on live television is a disaster. Lexie Kowalsky thought she was ready to get married in front of millions of people, but at the last minute she fled the set of television's hottest reality show, Gettin' Hitched. Wearing a poofy white dress and a pair of five-inch sparkly shoes, Lexie hopped a float plane for Sandspit, Canada. She figured no one would find her there. But she was wrong. Sharing her flight was the...
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It's the one day each year when being single is a sin . . .
The Trouble With Valentine's Day?
It just plain stinks!
Kate Hamilton should know. Dumped by her boyfriend, burnt out by her job, she's returned to Gospel, Idaho, where a Mountain Momma Crafters' original poetry reading is about as good as it gets on a Friday night. Then her first attempted seduction of a hunky stranger is completely rejected. So much for her self-esteem!
It turns out...
19) See Jane Score
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English
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"This is Jane. A little subdued. A little stubborn. A little tired of going out on blind dates with men who drive vans with sofas in the back, Jane Alcott is living the Single Girl existence in the big city. She is also leading a double life. By day, she's a reporter covering the raucous Seattle Chinooks hockey team -- especially their notorious goalie Luc Martineau. By night, she's a writer, secretly creating the scandalous adventures of "Honey Pie",...
20) Icebreaker
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English
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Mickey James III is following in his father's (and grandfather's) skates by playing hockey at Hartland University, but he is not enjoying the situation: for one thing he is seriously depressed, unsure of anything, even whether he can make it as a hockey player (or wants to); more troubling his rival, Jaysen Caulfield, is also on the team and seems to bitterly resent him--and Mickey actually finds Jaysen very attractive and does not know how to deal...
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