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Saturday, September 29, 2012

The Vancouver Canucks Quizbook - Puzzles, Games, Trivia, Facts and Fun (The Puzzling Sports Institute)

The Vancouver Canucks Quizbook - Puzzles, Games, Trivia, Facts and Fun

The Puzzling Sports Institute

Blurb: Catch Canucks fever and celebrate 40 years of Vancouver Canucks hockey! This must-have collection - jam-packed with puzzles, crosswords, games, trivia, facts and fun for towel-waving fans of all ages - will have you Luu-ing and riding your stick like Tiger Williams in no time. From Harold and the Steamer to Gino and the Russian Rocket, from Thomas Gradin to the record-setting Sedins, from Trevor Linden and the '94 Cup run to the high-scoring Westcoast Express, it's all here in this exciting trivia book that will bring hours of fun and memories to every loyal Canucks fan.

ISBN: 9780889712508 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: Nightwood Editions

Pages: 77 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Publisher's page

3. Buy from the Book Depository

4. Canucks Official site

5. Wikipedia page for the Canucks

Monday, September 10, 2012

Melbourne 2006 - XVIII Commonwealth Games - Pocket Guide (Various)

Melbourne 2006 - XVIII Commonwealth Games - Pocket Guide

Various

Blurb: The must-have guide to the Commonwealth Games.

Packed full of interesting facts and figures, and colour photographs of everyone's favourite athletes and events, this pocket guide includes information on all of the Commonwealth sports, results tables to fill in the 2006 Games winners and keep, fold-outs of Commonwealth Games highlights and much, much more.

This special guidebook has everything you need to know about the Games, just in time for the XVIII Commonwealth Games! 15-26 March.

ISBN: 1741171350 (Hardback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: Explore Australia

Pages: 64 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Page on the 2006 Games

2. Wikipedia page for the Games

3. PDF Government Documents on the games

4. Page on the book

5. Order the book from McLeods Booksellers in NZ

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

Blurb: Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death.

In a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called the Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed.

When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature.

ISBN: 9781407109084 (Paperback)

Year: 2008

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 454 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the book

2. Author's official site

3. Goodreads page for the book

4. Publisher's site for the book

5. Buy from Amazon

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Private Games -Private Series #3 (James Patterson and Mark Sullivan)

Private Games (Private Series #3)

James Patterson and Mark Sullivan

Blurb: The Olympic Games are under attack. Only Private, the world's most exclusive detective agency, can save them.

The world is watching.

July 2012: The Games have arrived in London. Preparations have gone flawlessly and the stage is set for one of the greatest ever showcases of sporting excellence. But one man has a devastating plan. Having waited years for this chance, he is now ready for vengeance.

A killer is plotting.

When Sir Denton Marshall, a key member of the London Olympic organising committee, is found decapitated in his garden, Peter Knight, head of Private London, is called to the scene. Private are working with the organising committee on the security for the Games, so Denton Marshall was a valuable client. But there is a more personal link: Marshall was also the fiance of Knight's mother.

The time for vengeance has come.

Having only recently lost close friends and colleagues at Private London in a fatal plane crash, this is another torturous blow for Knight and threatens to push him over the edge. But is soon becomes clear that Denton Marshall's murder is no isolated incident, and that the killer's number one target is the Games itself.

As the most talented athletes in the world gather in London, Knight knows he must find Sir Denton's killer. Thousands of lives are at stake...

ISBN: 9781846059742 (Paperback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Century

Pages: 409 (Fiction)

Links

1. Goodreads page

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Author's official page

4. Review

5. Mark Sullivan's official site

Friday, December 23, 2011

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (Michael Lewis)

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Michael Lewis

Blurb: When we first meet him, Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability, his blind side.

ISBN: 9780393338386 (Paperback)

Year: 2006

Publisher: W.W. Norton and Company

Pages: 339 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Wikipedia page for the book

3. Good reads page for the book

4. Summary of the book

5. Review of the book

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Catching Fire - The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)

Catching Fire - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

Blurb: Katniss Everdeen survived The Hunger Games. Now The Capitol wants revenge.

The second book in the heart-stopping Hunger Games Trilogy.

ISBN: 9781407109367 (Paperback)
Year: 2009
Publisher: Scholastic
Pages: 472 (Fiction)

Links
1. Buy from Amazon
2. Wikipedia page for the series
3. Good reads page for the book
4. News on the movie adaption of the book
5. UK official site for the series