Winter, teenagers, and dreams of glory come together in this novel about the reaction of a small working-class town when the local hero decides not to join a professional hockey team. Talented Alexandre McKenzie lives on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River, where in summer he rides the logging trails on his quad, and in winter--after school and hockey practice--he likes to head off alone to a bush camp outside town. When he meets and falls in love with an unusual girl, Jessie, who has been plagued by tragedy, his friends and neighbors criticize him for stepping outside the popular...
Winter, teenagers, and dreams of glory come together in this novel about the reaction of a small working-class town when the local hero decides not to...
Alex McKenzie is back, a promising young hockey player with hopes of making the Quebec City junior team. Though he still prefers fishing and roaming bush roads on his quad, he has to train hard under his demanding coach Larry in his hometown on the Lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence. His buddy Tommy is also vying to make the Quebec City juniors. Once in Quebec City, things are different. Tommy becomes sullen and obnoxious. He is hanging out with a bunch of dubious types and he appears to be getting more muscular. He and Alex are growing apart. In this sequel to the awardwinning Jessie on...
Alex McKenzie is back, a promising young hockey player with hopes of making the Quebec City junior team. Though he still prefers fishing and roaming b...
Parkour, the art of displacement, or freerunning--whatever the name, this new discipline born in the Paris suburbs is rapidly being adopted by people throughout the world. Not satisfied to suffer through urban life, these athletic artists or artistic athletes want to thrive in it, all the while earning dignity by daringly reappropriating three fundamental motor skills: running, jumping, and climbing. Vincent Thibault explores the philosophical and spiritual aspects of the art of movement and offers ideas on health, sports, urban living, and the relationship between the body and the...
Parkour, the art of displacement, or freerunning--whatever the name, this new discipline born in the Paris suburbs is rapidly being adopted by peop...
Claude Lacaille witnessed up close the oppression and poverty in Haiti, Ecuador, and Chile where dictators and predatory imperialists ruled. Like other advocates of Liberation Theology, he saw it as his duty to join the resistance, particularly against Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet. But the dictators were not alone, as they often enjoyed the support of the Vatican, sometimes tacit, but then brazenly open under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. He began writing this book in Chile where thousands shed blood simply because they defended victims of dictatorship, opposed rapacious...
Claude Lacaille witnessed up close the oppression and poverty in Haiti, Ecuador, and Chile where dictators and predatory imperialists ruled. Like othe...
Born in Hungary in 1975, Akos Verboczy moved to Montreal at the age of 11 with his sister and mother, an esthetician, who learned that in Canada women were willing to pay a fortune ($20) to have their leg hair brutally ripped out. His story begins in Hungary, where at the age of nine he learned that he was a Jew too---half-Jew- to be more accurate. Unlike some who emigrated from Eastern Europe, Verboczy has no particularly beefs about life -behind the iron curtain.- He lands in Montreal as James Brown's Living in America plays and Rocky knocks the Russian communist boxer flat in...
Born in Hungary in 1975, Akos Verboczy moved to Montreal at the age of 11 with his sister and mother, an esthetician, who learned that in Canada women...