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Playing the Long Game
A Memoir
2022
EN
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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada's greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures. Playing the Long Game is a book of earned wisdom on the value of determination and team spirit, and on leadership that changed the landscape of women's sport.**Christine Sinclair is one of the wo...
Playing the Long Game
A Memoir
- Narrated by
- Rachel Cairns
Unabridged
6 hours 15 min
2022
EN
**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada's greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures. Playing the Long Game is a book of earned wisdom on the value of determination and team spirit, and on leadership that changed the landscape of women's sport.**Christine Sinclair is one of the wo...
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- Education (R0)
2016
EN
This book presents cutting-edge, peer reviewed research on networked learning organized by three themes: policy in networked learning, researching networked learning, and boundaries in networked learning. The "policy in networked learning" section explores networked learning in relation to policy networks, spaces of algorithmic governance and more. The "boundaries in networked learning" section investigates frameworks of students' digital literacy practices, among other important framework...
Siren Song of the Camino
Magical Moments On El Camino De Santiago
2016
EN
Two old friends reunite after 35 years to walk El Camino de Santiago in Spain before their respective 60th birthdays. One friend lost 70 pounds prior to the walk in order to be able walk the distance. It is two separate accounts, providing a day by day dialogue of the journey with different perspectives and experiences.
Mum's On The Run The complete series
Starring Ronni Ancona
Unabridged
2 hours 47 min
2011
EN
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast comedy by Alexis Zegerman about the hectic life of a single mother, originally broadcast 25 August - 29 September 2010.'Mum's on the Run' is a modern-day twist on the single-family situation. It follows the hectic life ('What life?') of single mum, Jen. Mother of two, Master of none - Jen seems to spend most of her time as an unpaid chauffeur to a 15-year-old teenage existentialist son, Toby, and a tonally challenged recorder-practising 11-year-old daughter,...
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All Roads Home
A Life On and Off the Ice
Unabridged
8 hours 40 min
2022
EN
**NATIONAL BESTSELLERA poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped the life and career of Canada's most decorated Indigenous athlete.**Over the course of his incredible career, Bryan Trottier set a new standard of hockey excellence. A seven-time Stanley Cup champion (four with the New York Islanders, two with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and one as an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche), Trottier won countless awards and is a member of the Ho...
Over the Boards
Lessons from the Ice
- Narrated by
- Katie Ryerson
Unabridged
7 hours 4 min
2021
EN
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Hayley Wickenheiser is an incredible human being . . . this is what a billion hours of hard work looks like.”—Ryan ReynoldsThe greatest women’s hockey player of all time, Hayley Wickenheiser shares the lessons that won her four Olympic gold medals, and hard-earned wisdom distilled from moments when she fell short.**There is no one in the world like Hayley Wickenheiser.13 World Championship appearances. 6 Olympic Games. Hockey Hal...
All Roads Home
A Life On and Off the Ice
2022
EN
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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERA poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped the life and career of Canada's most decorated Indigenous athlete.**Over the course of his incredible career, Bryan Trottier set a new standard of hockey excellence. A seven-time Stanley Cup champion (four with the New York Islanders, two with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and one as an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche), Trottier won countless awards and is a member of the Ho...
Over the Boards
Lessons from the Ice
2021
EN
Accessible
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Hayley Wickenheiser is an incredible human being . . . this is what a billion hours of hard work looks like.”—Ryan ReynoldsThe greatest women’s hockey player of all time, Hayley Wickenheiser shares the lessons that won her four Olympic gold medals, and hard-earned wisdom distilled from moments when she fell short.**There is no one in the world like Hayley Wickenheiser.13 World Championship appearances. 6 Olympic Games. Hockey Hal...
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- Sue Dwan
2012
EN
The Kiwi Sisters' Camino de Santiago gives practical advice on the preparation for the walk; shares the many challenges and joys pilgrims face along The Way; offers humerous, wry observations on themselves, fellow pilgrims and village life; identifies six Camino lessons as touchstones for life; and considers the broader, life-changing ramifications of completing the trip.
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- Woman on Her Way
2012
EN
What do you like most when reading about adventures: descriptions about the terrain, the culture, the challenges, the personal growth, the interactions between other adventures? Women of the Way: Embracing the Camino successfully combines all these elements in a heartfelt and personal recounting of Jane V. Blanchard’s 2011 five-hundred mile pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago—hiking from St-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France over the Pyrenees to Roncesvalles in Spain, and then westward across no...
Down and Back
On Alcohol, Family, and a Life in Hockey
2023
EN
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For readers of Nine Lessons I Learned from My Father and Hockey Confidential, Down and Back tells broadcaster Justin Bourne’s story of following his Hall-of-Fame father not only to the NHL, but also into rehab.Bob Bourne was everything a son wants to emulate—an NHL All-Star, a Sports Illustrated “Sportsman of the Year,” a Stanley Cup champion. Justin Bourne followed in those huge footsteps, leading his teams in scoring year after year, an...











