Sam had always known that he could fly. Fly in his dreams, that is; he was often flying in his dreams. This morning's dream was particularly vivid. It began with a feeling of great beauty, set in a perfect, early-spring day. The dandelions were bursting out in golden yellow and there was a warm and exciting ambience that foretold of pleasant things to come.

Something to read when waiting. Ten miniscule stories jumping from ghosts to murder.

Does humanity need a Universal Religion?This book summarises the difficulties in solving this question.It explores how we think, why "purpose" is important when solving practical and moral problems, how religions arose and developed and how the universe and life evolved. Then it discusses how humanity might select a "purpose" and suggests how a "universal religion" might be built.

Len Andrews, an eighteen-year boy just graduating from high school in 1982 falls-out with Betty, his girlfriend, and wonders what he's going to do with the rest of his life. He has a summer job with the post office but after that nothing. His father and mother are dead and his uncle suggests he helps him renovate a house. He does that at weekends and finds a full-time job in September where he is asked to use a computer and learn VisiCalc and WordStar. He quits at the end of the year to he...

In late 2013, Canadians were intrigued to learn the NHL chose Rogers as its exclusive national broadcaster over both CBC and Rogers’s bitter rival, Bell Canada. The decision was met with equal parts fascination, shock and anger. When CBC rank-and-file employees came to believe their leaders missed a chance to hold on to at least a part of Hockey Night in Canada—a move that could have saved some of their jobs—their disappointment turned to outrage. This is also a story of great iro...

In 1905, facing capricious weather on a primitive outdoor rink, Dartmouth�s first hockey team took to the ice. In 1974, two years after coeducation came to the Hanover campus, Dartmouth women�fired with more competitive spirit than actual hockey experience commandeered the used equipment of their male counterparts and intramural skaters and became one of the college�s most successful athletic teams. Dartmouth College Hockey: Northern Ice portrays two programs that have followed parallel pa...

A short novel about three boys seeking a spy in Britain in 1940. Set in Cornwall, two boys are held by a German pilot until he escapes by U-boat. Guessing that he was helped by a collaborator they use various methods to search for him.

When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of manipulation, secret deals, and corporate greed undergirding the project. Working with documentary evidence and original interviews, the authors present an absorbing account of the machinations that got the arena and the adjacent Ice District built, with a price tag of more than $600 million. The arena deal, they argue, established a costly public financing precedent ...

Eigentlich will ich nur meine Beförderung feiern, als plötzlich der attraktivste Mann vor mir steht, den ich je gesehen habe. Er glaubt, ich sei sein Blind Date ... und wer würde da schon Nein sagen? Als Risikoanalystin sind Vorsicht und vorausschauendes Handeln mein höchstes Gebot. Aber offenbar werfe ich alle Regeln über Bord, sobald es nicht um meinen Job, sondern um mein Privatleben geht. Zwischen mir und dem hochgewachsenen, charmanten Fremden funkt es gewaltig. Doch kurz darauf stell...

Bob, a widower and retired railway station manager in Hampshire, England, meets and is attracted to Claire, a lady who is interested in buying a cottage in Small End. His tentative advances are unsuccessful and his friends Joe and Jane persuade him to go to Portugal with them. Enjoying this, Bob decided to make and sell more wooden train sets so he'll have enough money to take more holidays.Over the next few months, Bob and Ken, an acquaintance who becomes his partner, build a succe...

Now in Paper! The only single source collection of over 950 teams in 36 major professional leagues_baseball, football, soccer, basketball, and hockey_this book also contains the first genealogy ever compiled on all these leagues, giving each team franchise and its past and present names. Section 1 is an alphabetical listing by the designation (city, state, province, or region) used by the team. This main entry section explains how the team got its name. Section 2_the 'family tree'_contains...

The origin of DETROIT RED WINGS : The hockey Dynasty Unleashed.Are you worried the glory days of the Detroit Red Wings are over? Concerned this once-mighty franchise may never recapture the magic that...