Last Season
by Roy MacgregorFelix Batterinski grew up tough in Northern Ontario where hockey was the only way out of a life of grinding poverty.
He got out and enjoyed fame as a hockey "enforcer" for the Philadelphia Flyers.
But fame is fleeting.
Now in his thirties and a.
- First published
- 2012
- Publishers
- Dundurn Press
- Language
- English
About Roy Macgregor
ROY MACGREGOR was named a media inductee to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2012, when he was given the Elmer Ferguson Award for excellence in hockey journalism. He has been involved in hockey all his life, from playing all-star hockey in Huntsville, Ontario, against the likes of Bobby Orr from nearby Parry Sound, to coaching, and he is still playing old-timers hockey in Ottawa, where he lives with his wife Ellen. They have four grown children. Roy is the author of several classics in hockey literature. Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Literature. Home Game (written with Ken Dryden) was a bestseller, as were Road Games: A Year in the Life of the NHL, The Seven A.M. Practice, and his latest, Wayne Gretzky's Ghost: And Other Tales from a Lifetime in Hockey. He wrote Mystery at Lake Placid, the first book in the bestselling, internationally successful Screech Owls series in 1995. In 2005, Roy was named an Officer of the Order of Canada....
Books
<i>zabbālīn</i>du Muqattam
Gaétan du Roy
Headcase
Ken MacGregor
Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester
Maya MacGregor
White Mountain Redware
Roy L. Carlson
Light Through a Rusty Roof
Roy Terry
Disease, Medicine and Empire
Roy Macleod
Dealing with Difficult People
Roy Lilley
The Murderer
Roy Heath
Appreciating Melodrama
Piyush Roy
H8r
Michael Roy
Medication Log Book
Roy Singh
Gaza
Sara Roy
Social Work Education
Sanjoy Roy
Tinder Diaries II
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
Shared Fire - Part II
Roy Klabin
Africa. com
Jean-Louis Roy
Alpha's Salvation
Marlowe Roy
Pasakukoo
Roy Braverman
Collins International English Foundation Activity Book B
Fiona Macgregor
Grow
Roy C. Moffett
Stealth Sales Secrets
Lori MacGregor Cornetta
Life Without Diabetes
Roy Taylor
The us edition of the international bestseller a momentous medical breakthrough —a scientifically proven program for managing and reversing type 2 diabetes at any stage of health.
How We Know That Jesus is God and Man
Roy Abraham Varghese
Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland
James Charles Roy
Dialectics of Friendship
Roy Porter
First published in 1989, the dialectics of friendship explores the ideals and paradoxes of friendship against the backdrop of other relationships.
Gaza
Sara Roy
Pipeline
Katica Roy
Pipeline will serve as a playbook to go from where-we-are to where-we-want-to-be weaved together with roy's story.
Tale of a Boomer
Roy Crittenden
Management and Administration of Rehabilitation Programmes
Roy I. Brown
First published in 1984, management and administration of rehabilitation programmes addresses issues in management and administration across a wide range of areas relating to the education, welfare, and quality of life of those with disabilities.
Game of Extremes
Roy Lingster
Kull
Roy Thomas
Thousands of years before the dawn of conan, barbarian tribes rose across the thurian continent, threatening the civilizations whose crumbling city walls still stood against them.
Diversity Judgments
Brooks, Roy L.
Thing from HR
Roy Griffis
Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance
Roy Willis
Chaos, Noise and Fractals
E. Roy Pike
The study of nonlinear dynamical systems has been gathering momentum since the late 1950s.
Management and Administration of Rehabilitation Programmes
Roy I. Brown
First published in 1984, management and administration of rehabilitation programmes addresses issues in management and administration across a wide range of areas relating to the education, welfare, and quality of life of those with disabilities.
Humble Essay, Reissued Third Edition
Roy K. Humble
The reissued third edition of the humble essay introduces student writers to the basics of formal writing.
Media Law and Ethics
Roy L. Moore
This new edition of the casebook includes extensive excerpts from 25 major decisions by the supreme court of the united states in media law or related to media law.
Relevance of the Realist State in an Era of Globalization
Shyamashree ROY
THE CROSSOVER
Steven MacGregor Cormack
Two student flatmates living out a very meagre hand-to-mouth existence in the centre of glasgow find themselves the lucky recipients of a winning lottery ticket.
Cryptographer's Ink
MacGregor Douglas
An anthology of unusual stories, ranging from classic pulp sf-style to modern twisted tales.
Risk and Substance Use
Susanne MacGregor
This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing certain groups and spaces as 'dangerous' and in influencing the nature of formal responses to the perceived threat.
George And Smokey; A Tale of Two Cats
John Roy Mitchell
This story is about two cats, george and smokey.
True Crime Writings in Colonial India
Shampa Roy
The emergent culture of crime writings in late 19th century colonial bengal (india) is an interesting testimony to how literature is shaped by various material forces including the market.
Have a Jesus Filled America
Roy Chapman
An Observer's Guide to Hawk-Watching
Roy, Joe, 3rd
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