Michael Clemons is only 5'6" tall and weighs 170 pounds. Yet this diminutive running back for the Toronto Argonauts Football Club is one of the best in the league, an electrifying player named the CFL's most outstanding player in 1990 and one of the key reasons for the Argos' three Grey Cup championships. His skill on the field is a story in itself, but it is his fight to get there that is revealing, fascinating, and above all, inspiring.All Heart is a story of winning against all odds, of succeeding while others predicted failure, of giving more when less would have been satisfactory. It is the story of a young man growing up without a father, but guided by the fierce determination and love of his mother and great-great-grandmother.It is the story of a young man who would realize his dream of the NFL, but make his career in the Canadian Football League, where the larger field and faster game suit his ricochet speed. Here, Michael Clemons tells of his battle to find his niche, revealing the inner workings of two quite different professional leagues, the management, the coaches and the players.It is also the story of an athlete with true character, an incredibly generous spirit and a quiet dignity that shines on and off the field. Michael tells how his upbringing has shaped him, how his steadfast faith has always guided him, and how his commitment to his team and his community is much more than just a professional veneer, but a deeply held feeling of t

All Heart : The Autobiography of Michael Pinball Clemons

Michael Pinball Clemons

Harpercollins Canada

The Big M is the story of trhe quiet and self-effacing hockey legend whose mighty strides and explosive shot contributed to six Stanley Cup teams. Ted Mahovlich, Franks son, interviewed such hockey greats as Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Guy LaFluer and Henri "Rocket" Richard to recreate one of the greatest NHL careers of all-time.

The Big M: The Frank Mahovlich Story

Ted Mahovlich

Organic Management: Creating a Culture of Innovation

Sirois, Charles

Business & Money

In 1941 Major Baird sailed for Hong Kong. He was a veteran of WWI and as a kid had fought a Vimy Ridge. The job of the troops was to defend Hong Kong against the Japanese. The letters of this book were to his daughter from the Japanese prison camp where he and others were held.

Letters to Harvelyn: From Japanese POW Camps--A Father's Letters to His Young Daughter During World War II

Harvelyn Baird McInnis

Used book in good condition, due to its age it could contain normal signs of use

Madame Zee

Literature & Fiction

LUKE, PEARL

Contemporary

Pilgrim Special Edition

TIMOTHY FINDLEY

This Body

McWatt, Tessa

World Literature

Young, beautiful, fallen, Sophie Glavani has brought shame on her family. She realises that she must now learn the art of seduction in order to survive in turbulent times. 
Her beauty and charm are so great that the world is entranced. Men are driven to madness, women moved to jealousy. She leads the King of Poland in the Polonaise. 
Now, dying and surrounded by her family, Sophie relives her life's dance for the final time. Her journey from fallen woman to Countess, the men she has captivated, the hearts she has broken. Eva Stachniak creates a brilliant eighteenth-century world and weaves compelling a tale of a courtesan's love, her life and her death.\nIn a saga that sweeps from the olive groves of Greece to the teeming bazaars of Istanbul, from a draughty Berlin palace to the inner chambers of Marie Antoinette's gilded Parisian boudoir, Garden of Venus is a story of an extraordinary life stitched into the fabric of one of the most tumultuous periods in European history. This is an exquisitely crafted novel, infused with passionate intelligence and graced with evocative, wholly convincing details of time and place.A brilliant second novel following her award-winning Necessary Lies, Eva Stachniak's Garden of Venus is an eminently satisfying and captivating read.\nFrom the Inside Flap\nAn alluring, exotic novel set in the early nineteenth century, based on the life and world of one of the most celebrated courtesans.\nFrom the Back Cover\nStories precede her. Whispers of delighted amusement at her exotic past. Some swear that she has been a sultan's odalisque. Others that she is a Greek princess. Princes praise her exquisite manners and her pleasing ways. And the King of Poland leads her in the polonaise.

Garden of Venus

Stachniak, Eva

When Sir William Temple (1628â€“99) and Dorothy Osborne (1627â€“95) began their passionate love affair, civil war was raging in Britain, and their familiesâ€”parliamentarians and royalists, respectivelyâ€”did everything to keep them apart. Yet the couple went on to enjoy a marriage and a sophisticated partnership unique in its times. Surviving the political chaos of the era, the Black Plague, the Great Fire of London, and the deaths of all their nine children, William and Dorothy made a life together for more than forty years. Drawing upon extensive research and the Templesâ€™ own extraordinary writingsâ€”including Dorothyâ€™s dazzling letters, hailed by Virginia Woolf as one of the glories of English literatureâ€”Jane Dunn gives us an utterly captivating dual biography, the first to examine Dorothyâ€™s life as an intellectual equal to her diplomat husband. While she has been known to posterity as the very symbol of upper-class seventeenth-century domestic English life, Dunn makes clear that Dorothy was a woman of great complexity, of passion and brilliance, noteworthy far beyond her role as a wife and mother. The remarkable story of William and Dorothyâ€™s life togetherâ€”illuminated here by the authorâ€™s insight and her vivid sense of place and timeâ€”offers a rare glimpse into the heart and spirit of one of the most turbulent and intriguing eras in British history.

Read My Heart: A Love Story in the Age of Revolution

Biographies & Memoirs

DUNN, Jane

Historical

On the evening of November 14, 1940, Harriet stands on the roof of the cathedral in the British town of Coventry and marvels at the magnificence of frost glittering beneath a full moon. But it is a bomber’s moon. The Germans are coming to unleash destruction. For Harriet, Jeremy, the young man who shares her duties as a firewatcher, and his free-spirited mother, Maeve, this single night will resonate for the rest of their lives. In a story of breathtaking beauty, with the wondrous poetic style that has earned her international acclaim, Helen Humphreys recreates the terror of the infamous Second World War bombing raid on Coventry. As Harriet and Jeremy make their way through the burning city in search of Maeve, their trek becomes a journey of fear and awe as they witness butter from the dairy flowing down the streets in a burning stream and landmines on parachutes swimming like jellyfish out of the darkness. Cold dread brings to life both a grief and a love that Harriet thought she had put behind her forever. Drawing on actual events of that horrific night in 1940, Coventry is an astounding work, at once tense and lyrical, shocking and exquisite. Touching on themes of love, loss, loneliness and remembrance, Humphreys has crafted a story that will seize readers’ hearts and imaginations.

Coventry

Humphreys, Helen

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