Sports, Health & Self-help

Heart of the Blackhawks: The Pierre Pilote Story

By L. Waxy Gregoire and David M. Dupuis with Pierre Pilote

Bobby Hull has often joked that he loved wearing the Chicago Blackhawks jersey because its distinctive crest looked a lot like Pierre Pilote’s face. Pilote, who played from 1955 to ’69, became one of the ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Little Ship of Fools: 16 Rowers, 1 Improbable Boat, and 7 Tumultuous Weeks on the Atlantic

By Charles Wilkins

In his new book, Charles Wilkins, author of nine previous works of non-fiction, chronicles his successful attempt to row across the Atlantic Ocean from Morocco to Barbados. The crew for this 2011 journey consisted of ... Read More »

September 27, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Trial of Pope Benedict: Joseph Ratzinger and the Vatican’s Assault on Reason, Compassion, and Human Dignity

By Daniel Gawthrop

In the same spirit of j’accuse journalism as Christopher Hitchens’ The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Daniel Gawthrop takes on the legacy of the recently retired Pope Benedict XVI (né Joseph Ratzinger) in an impassioned broadside ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Full Count: Four Decades of Blue Jays Baseball

By Jeff Blair

Reading the introduction to Jeff Blair’s history of the Toronto Blue Jays is a maddening experience a few weeks into the 2013 season. He writes about the promise and hope at the beginning of the ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Hope and Heartbreak in Toronto: Life as a Maple Leafs Fan

By Peter Robinson

Under the heading “No Such Thing as Bad Publicity,” even the chronic crappiness of the Toronto Maple Leafs – Stanley Cup–free for 45 years and counting, absent from the playoffs since 2004 – has spawned ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

My Year of the Racehorse: Falling in Love with the Sport of Kings

By Kevin Chong

One day, out of the blue, Vancouver author Kevin Chong decided to become part owner of a racehorse. The mare in question is Blackie, the kind of horse, Chong writes, that resembles a suspicious character ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

How Hockey Explains Canada: The Sport that Defines a Country

By Paul Henderson with Jim Prime

The next time our federal immigration minister decides to revise study materials for the citizenship test, he may want to consider including this quick history of Canada’s game. The book contains a lengthy and engrossing ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Freedom Climbers

By Bernadette McDonald

In Freedom Climbers, Bernadette McDonald, the founding vice-president of mountain culture at the Banff Centre and author of seven books on international mountaineering, tells the story of a group of 20th-century Poles who overcame social ... Read More »

October 31, 2011 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Teens Gone Wired: Are You Ready?

By Lyndsay Green

This easygoing advice book sets out to reassure parents who are intimidated, mystified, or just plain clueless about how the digital revolution may be affecting their teenage children. Lyndsay Green, a sociologist and researcher, takes ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Patriot Hearts: Inside the Olympics That Changed a Country

By John Furlong with Gary Mason

Arriving exactly one year after the 2010 Olympics, this memoir by John Furlong, the former chief of the Vancouver Olympic Committee, is partly about the author’s journey from Ireland to Canada, and from an obscure ... Read More »

February 28, 2011 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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