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Ninety percent mental: an all-star player turned mental skills coach reveals the hidden game of baseball
By Scott Miller, Bob Tewksbury. 2018
Bob Tewksbury shows listeners a side of baseball only he can provide, given his singular background as both a longtime…
MLB pitcher and a mental skills coach for two of the sport's most fabled franchises, the Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants. 2018.Nine lessons I learned from my father
By Murray Howe. 2017
Unlike his two brothers, Murray Howe failed in his attempt to follow in his father's footsteps to become a professional…
athlete. Yet, his failure brought him to the realization that in truth, his dream wasn't to be a pro hockey player. His dream was to be his father, Gordie Howe. To be amazing at something, but humble and gracious. To be courageous, and stand up for the little guy. To be a hero. You don't need to be a hockey player to do that. What he learned was that it is a waste of time wishing you were like someone else. We need to identify and embrace our gifts. Gordie Howe may have been the greatest player in the history of hockey, but greatness was never defined by goals or assists in the Howe household. Greatness meant being the best person you could be, not the best player on the ice. Bestseller. 2017.My conversations with Canadians (Essais ; #no. 4)
By Lee Maracle. 2017
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one…
she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large to contemplate. These questions, which touch upon subjects such as citizenship, segregation, labour, law, prejudice and reconciliation (to name a few), are the heart of "My Conversations with Canadians". In prose essays that are both conversational and direct, Maracle seeks not to provide any answers to these questions she has lived with for so long. Rather, she thinks through each one using a multitude of experiences she's had as a Canadian, a First Nations leader, a woman and mother and grandmother over the course of her life. Presents a tour de force exploration into the writer's own history and a re-imagining of the future of our nation. Bestseller. 2017. Uniform title: Essays.Follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty…
other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years passed before the drum was returned to the family. Matthews takes us through this astonishing set of events from multiple perspectives, exploring community and museum viewpoints, visiting the ceremonial group leader in Wisconsin, and finally looking back from the point of view of the drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself. Winner of the 2017 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction. 2016.Mon Amérique (Documents)
By Jim Fergus, Nicholas De Toldi. 2013
Après Espaces Sauvages, Jim Fergus nous raconte ici six années de "pérégrinations par monts et par vaux" à travers les…
Etats-Unis. De la beauté grandiose et désolée des paysages de l'Utah aux terres sauvages du Nebraska, en passant par quelques savoureux récits de pêche à la mouche dans les rivières de l'Ouest, il évoque une Amérique à la fois mythique et terriblement concrète. Célébrant ainsi la nature, la pêche, la chasse, les animaux sauvages ou domestiques, l'amitié, la culture indienne, ou encore la cuisine, il nous livre les secrets d'un véritable art de vivre, qu'il partage volontiers avec des écrivains comme Jim Harrison ou Thomas McGuane. Titre uniforme: The sporting road.Moron: the behind the scenes story of minor hockey
By Todd Millar. 2013
There will always be morons. People who scream at their teenaged kids, guys who climb up the glass like Spider-Man…
to yell at a rookie referee, women who brawl in the stands. This is a wake-up call not only to those morons, but to the rest of us. 2013.Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game
By Michael Lewis. 2003
Author of "The New New Thing" describes how Billy Beane, general manager of baseball's Oakland Athletics, came in first place…
in the American League West in 2002. Examines Beane's use of computers, statistics, and scouting to achieve success despite a minor league budget. Strong language. Bestseller. 2003.La saga des casinos
By Pierre Delannoy, Michel Pichol. 1986
Voici pour la première fois raconté le roman vrai des casinos. Dans leurs salons, se croisent puissants et magnifiques, aventuriers…
et fripouilles, grands mondains et femmes fatales, gangsters, poètes et rois. Des fortunes s'y font, des réputations s'y défont, des vies s'abiment dans la ruine, la déchéance. 1986.L'art de la paix: enseignements du fondateur de l'aïkido
By Morihei Ueshiba. 2000
Ouvrage dans lequel John Stevens retranscrit les enseignements du fondateur de l’aïkido, Morihei Ueshiba. L’aïkido y est défini comme Art…
de la paix. Plutôt qu’un ouvrage technique, il s’agit d’un recueil des pensées du fondateur, qui permet de comprendre la pratique mentale et spirituelle de l’aïkido. 2000.Mingan my village
By Solange Messier. 2014
"Mingan my village" is a collection of 15 faces and 15 poems written by young Innu. Given a platform to…
be heard, the children chose to transport readers far away from the difficulties and problems related to their realities to see the beauty that surrounds them in nature. Winner of the 2013 Prix jeunesse des libraires du Québec (5-11 years category). Grades K-3 and older readers. 2014.Memory serves and other essays (Writer as critic ; #13)
By Lee Maracle. 2015
Gathers together the oratories that author Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures…
hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Stó:lō in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Stó:lō history, memory, philosophy, law, spirituality, feminism and the colonial condition of her people. 2015. Uniform title: Essays.Medicine unbundled: a journey through the minefields of indigenous health care
By Gary Geddes. 2017
Me artsy: an exploration and deconstruction of the Aboriginal artistic spirit as seen and practised through various art forms that demonstrate reflections on society through an indigenous perspective, including talents not just limited to those considered
By Drew Hayden Taylor, Zacharias Kunuk. 2015
While First Nations cultural practice still honours traditional forms, contemporary indigenous artists have diversified into many areas. The fourteen contributors…
whose essays make up "Me Artsy" pursue such varied disciplines as filmmaking, gourmet cuisine, blues piano, fashion design, acting, writing and painting as well as traditional drumming and storytelling. Their concerns include the ones that occupy artists everywhere—how does one get started, where do you find inspiration, how does one make a living. What makes "Me Artsy" special is that all these concerns are always overlaid with an awareness of First Nations identity. 2015.Memories of summer: when baseball was an art and writing about it a game
By Roger Kahn. 1997
A sportswriter's memoir of "the gilded era of baseball," the postwar years before million-dollar salaries, television networks, and player strikes.…
Recounts his experiences covering the Brooklyn Dodgers and offers observations on Willie Mays, Leo Durocher, Mickey Mantle, and other stars. 1997.McCown's law: the 100 greatest hockey arguments
By David Naylor, Bob McCown. 2007
Sports talk-radio personality Bob McCown isn't afraid to say what's on his mind. His hockey opinions include: The Leafs haven't…
won the Stanley Cup in 40 years for a perfectly logical reason: they have the crappiest players; it's time the law put hockey's most violent offenders in something more restrictive than the penalty box; and Slovakia, not Canada, just may be the greatest hockey nation on Earth. 2007.Lines on the water: a fisherman's life on the Miramichi
By David Adams Richards. 1998
Richards reflects on the art of fishing the Miramichi River, from landing his first trout to the endless search for…
the next great fishing pool. He writes about perseverance and respecting nature, and relates the lore, wisdom, humour, and passion of fishing. Winner of the 1998 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1998.Level the playing field: the past, present, and future of women's pro sports
By Kristina Rutherford. 2016
Takes readers through the history of women's pro sports, exploring how far we have come in a relatively short time…
and exposing what ground is left to gain. The book provides first-person insight through interviews with professional female athletes, including Canadian hockey player Cassie Campbell, American MMA fighter Miesha Tate, and WNBA star Elena Delle Donne. Along the way, author and sports journalist Kristina Rutherford covers important topics like opportunity, female role models, and stereotypes. Grades 4-7. 2016.Les autochtones et le Québec: des premiers contacts au Plan Nord (PUM)
By Martin Papillon, Alain Beaulieu, Stéphan Gervais. 2013
Des premiers contacts jusqu’au récent Plan Nord, la rencontre entre les Autochtones et les descendants des Européens est au cœur…
du développement économique, politique et culturel du territoire aujourd’hui nommé Québec. Cet héritage commun, avec ses contradictions et ses tensions, nous est parfois rappelé dans des circonstances difficiles, comme celles de la Crise d’Oka et du mouvement Idle No More. Écrit par des auteurs chevronnés cet ouvrage unique en son genre propose une série de dix-huit essais qui plongent au cœur des réalités et des enjeux historiques et contemporains des onze peuples autochtones du Québec. 2013.Les yeux tristes de mon camion (Collection Papiers collés)
By Serge Bouchard. 2016
Connaissez-vous Massassoit, le vieux sage de la nation wampanoag, Jean-Baptiste Faribault et Jean Baptiste Eugène Laframboise, ces aventuriers canadiens-français qui…
ont bâti l'Ouest américain, ou l'oncle Yvan, revenu de la guerre alors que plus personne ne l'attendait, ou la tante Monique de Santa Monica ? Saviez-vous qu'une vieille Honda était douée de la parole, qu'une grande tortue sacrée vivait sur le boulevard Pie-IX, qu'un camion des années 1950 avait des yeux, et que ces yeux pouvaient parfois être tristes ? Voilà quelques-unes des merveilles que l'on découvre ici, ainsi que mille autres, grandioses ou infimes, lointaines ou familières, cachées dans le passé que nous avons oublié, chez les humbles que nous n'écoutons plus, ou bien là, tout près, dans la nature qui nous entoure comme dans la ville que nous habitons, mais que notre modernité trépidante et notre obsession de la vitesse et de l'efficacité nous empêchent de saisir. Car pour les saisir, écrit Serge Bouchard, l'humain doit avoir les yeux ouverts , c'est-à-dire des sens, un coeur, une intelligence et une mémoire capables de reconnaître la beauté secrète des choses, les joies et les souffrances quotidiennes qu'apporte à chacun, et particulièrement aux humiliés de ce monde, le simple fait de vivre, d'aimer, de vieillir. 2016.Le grand retour: le réveil autochtone
By John Ralston Saul, Daniel Poliquin. 2015
Fruit dune vaste recherche, "Le Grand Retour" présente un étonnant portrait de la réalité autochtone, bien loin du pessimisme et…
du misérabilisme habituellement véhiculés par les médias et le discours politique. John Saul illustre sa réflexion en nous proposant un florilège de lettres et de textes qui nous font entendre la parole autochtone, à travers les siècles, dans toute sa richesse. 2015. Titre uniforme: The comeback.