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Full-Time
Written by Alan Twigg

Hardcover | 312 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Sports & Recreation - Soccer; Travel - Europe - Spain & Portugal; Biography & Autobiography - Sports
978-0-7710-8645-8 (0-7710-8645-8)

May 13, 2008 | $32.99

(Available May 13, 2008)


For the 840,000 registered soccer players in Canada and the millions of soccer fans, here at last is a book about Canadians who play the world’s most popular sport — and about how a team of grey-haired underdogs in their fifties and sixties (and one player aged seventy) set off to...


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The Invincible Quest
Written by Conrad Black

Trade Paperback | 1168 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Presidents; Biography & Autobiography - Political
978-0-7710-1366-9 (0-7710-1366-3)

May 13, 2008 | $27.99

(Available May 13, 2008)


The Invincible Quest is an authoritative biography of one of the most accomplished and controversial leaders of the twentieth century. Beginning with Richard Nixon’s birth to Quaker parents in 1913 and ending with his death in 1994, Conrad Black traces Nixon’s career, assessing both his achievements and the evolution of popular...

Also available as a hardcover.

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Beyond Endurance
Written by Adam Mayers

Trade Paperback | 280 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Sports & Recreation; Sports & Recreation - Sailing; Travel - Adventure
978-0-7710-5703-8 (0-7710-5703-2)

May 6, 2008 | $19.99



The August 1979 Fastnet race, from Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the English Channel to the Fastnet lighthouse off the south coast of Ireland, started calmly enough for the 303 boats taking part. The previous two races had been uneventful and none of the sailors, among them former British...

Also available as a hardcover.

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