Hockey Hotshots - Young Stars of the NHL (Steele Filipek)

Hockey Hotshots - Young Stars of the NHL 

Steele Filipek

Blurb: Did you know that:

-Sidney Crosby is the youngest scoring champion of any major sport in North America?

-Alexander Ovechkin is the only player ever to win the point, goal, MVP, and Player MVP awards all in the same season?

-Patrick Kane was the youngest player on the 2010 US Olympic hockey team?

-Jonathan Quick holds the record at his high school for most shutouts in a season?

Find out more about hockey's most dazzling young stars in this book!

ISBN: 9780448454474 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Pages: 48 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Buy from Barnes & Noble

3. Stats on young stars from the NHL

4. Article on the top NHL players under 22

5. Official site on the NHL 

Defining Moments in Movies: The Greatest Films, Stars, Scenes, and Events that Made Movie Magic (Chris Fujiwara)

Defining Moments in Movies: The Greatest Films, Stars, Scenes, and Events that Made Movie Magic

Edited by Chris Fujiwara

Blurb: Part expert selection of seminal moments, part glorious celebration of over 100 years of cinema. The moments are divided into categories. The seminal films, the major players - actors, actresses, directors, producers - focusing on a moment that encompasses their contribution, great scenes, great lines, and major events - from meetings and debuts to casting quirks and deaths. Whether dazzlingly inventive, technically breathtaking, shockingly simple or simply shocking, these moments took movies to their greatest heights. Some are legendary - the spectacular action sequence, awesome special effects, extraordinary performances, genius direction or unforgettable dialogue. Others are more subtle - groundbreaking films that inspired decades of imitators, the first screen appearance of a future star, the untimely death of a major player, or even the roll of the dice on the casting couch that gave us Brandon's Godfather rather than Borgnine's.

Each moment is an indelible, vital or explosive turning point in filmmaking, each reviewed in its historic context with an overview of its impact on movie history, movie making and movie viewing.

-Written by a superb selection of international film writers, critics, experts and film makers, here is an intelligent guide to over a century of major movies, film history and criticism.

-In depth reviews of key scenes, speeches and seminal films from over 50 countries offer rare insight into the giants of the silver screen.

-Biography and impact of the major movers and shakers covers the great directors, cinematographers and stars.

ISBN: 9781844036042 (Softback)

Year: 2007

Publisher: Cassell

Pages: 800 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. About the editor

2. Goodreads page for the book

3. Examples from the book

4. Blog on the book

5. Buy from QBD

Full Dark, No Stars (Stephen King)

Full Dark, No Stars

Stephen King

Blurb: What tips someone over the edge to commit a crime?

For a Nebraska farmer, the turning point comes when his wife threatens to sell off the family homestead.

A cozy mystery writer plots a savage revenge after a brutal encounter with a stranger.

Harry Streeter gets the chance to cure himself from illness - if he agrees to impose misery on an old rival.

And Darcy Anderson discovers a box containing her husband's dark and terrifying secrets - he's not just the man who keeps his nails short and collects coins. And now he's heading home...

ISBN: 9781444712568 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Hodder

Pages: 453 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the book

2. Stephen King's Official Page for the book

3. Buy at Amazon

4. Review of the book from the Guardian

5. Review from The Independent