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Running in the Dark
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Once a nationally ranked long-distance runner, Canadian Peter Whitby abandons his career as an engineer and moves to a small US town in the Pacific Northwest where he can train year-round and pursue his running dreams. After a chance encounter...
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Throwing the Hammer
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Paranoid administrators, interdepartmental feuds, quirky staff members, and an eccentric headmaster: welcome to Winston Grant High School. Mark Patterson has a master’s degree in physics, wants to do nothing more than surf and ski, and believes...
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The Way Back
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When Curtis Harvey, the sixty-five-year-old coach for the Winakwa Warriors football team, is knocked unconscious during a practice, he wakes up lying on the field. But something is different—for starters, he's wearing the practice jersey for the...
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When Cheers Are Not Enough
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Baker, Conrad, Angus, and Masaccio are high school teachers who occasionally meet to jam as a crude alt-rock garage band. They are also diehard hockey fans desperate to see an end to their beloved Toronto Mighty Pines’ fifty-seven year Cup...
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On Thick and Thin Ice
To play, or Not to play, That is the Question
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It’s hockey registration time for the upcoming Belton Junior High season, and gifted forward Gord Jason surprises his teammates and coaches when he doesn’t sign up. What made Gord decide to quit the sport he has been playing since he was eight...
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The Music of the Gridiron
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An offence with attitude and a mean streak. A defence so radical it’s dubbed “the Weird.” A fractured coaching staff ready to come to blows. It is Head Coach Arne Viimets’ third year at McGill, and he’s been told his contract will not be renewed....
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First and Ten
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What do you do when your first season as head coach has been a disaster? If you are Arne Viimets, a brilliant but controversial iconoclast who likes to discuss football strategy with his dog, you ignore the advice of your alumni, your coaching...
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Pacing the Sidelines
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Arne Viimets is not a typical coach. Kevin Willister is not a typical player. This is not a typical football story. Arne Viimets has a passion for opera, he owns a dog named Chopin, and he quotes Thoreau at dinner parties. He also happens to have...
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Woman Behind Home Plate
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Who is this woman? At every Toronto Blue Jays game, an elderly woman sits behind home plate, her story a mystery. When sports journalist Richard Dixon notices the reclusive woman, he finds himself enthralled, determined to uncover her identity....
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The Defining Line
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The Defining Line takes you through the story of Charles “Chuck” Bennis’s Greek immigrant heritage, his childhood in Lincoln, Illinois, and his rise to All-American football player at the University of Illinois. Amidst stories of his first fight,...
