Bøger af Jim Prime

For more than six decades Donnie Lightfoot served the people of Wolfville at his barbershop, eventually known as The Razor's Edge. His early passion for meeting people and cutting hair made him an integral part of his community. His stories paint a portrait of a small town growing in a rapidly changing world. Venturing back through the years, he reminisces on his humble beginnings, his dreams, and Betty, the love of his life. Generously sprinkled with his unique insights, quotes, and the occasional pop culture reference, The Barber of Mud Creek tells the story of a life spent in the service of others; a gentle soul possessing a profound love of God and family; a colourful journey as rich and vibrant as the history of Wolfville itself.

Work With Purpose chronicles the first 50 years of The Flower Cart Group, an organization based in New Minas, Nova Scotia that has served adults with intellectual disabilities since 1970. From its humble founding in an old schoolhouse to becoming a leader in social enterprise, The Flower Cart Group has served thousands of participants, their families and other stakeholders, and have made their community more accepting and inclusive. As the organization transitions to a modern facility it also embraces its long and storied history collected here in one succinct offering.

In 1972, when a team of Canadian hockey players faced off against a team from the Soviet Union, everyone assumed Team Canada would win easily. It didn't turn out that way. It all came down to the final seconds of game 8.

The Red Sox are World Champions again. Their outfield of Andrew Benintendi, Jackie Bradley Jr., and Mookie Betts, was one of the most productive in baseball history. Celebrate the superb outfielders who are known collectively as the "Killer B''s," with this history of their 2018 season!Andrew Benintendi, Jackie Bradley Jr., and Mookie Betts made up the Red Sox World Series-winning outfield in 2018, a season in which Betts was voted the American League MVP and received a Gold Glove, Bradley earned ALCS MVP accolades and also a Gold Glove, and Benintendi featured one of the smoothest swings seen in Boston since Ted Williams.In The Boston Red Sox Killer B''s, veteran authors Jim Prime and Bill Nowlin team up to cover the young careers of all three players, with special emphasis on the 2018 season. Along the way, Prime and Nowlin incorporate on- and off-field stories and interviews with teammates to offer fans a better understanding of how this trio has transformed into New England folk heroes and how they have developed a chemistry unmatched by any other outfield around the league.This book serves as the perfect gift for any Red Sox fan!

Gurrey and Grime are detectives prowling the gritty streets of Digby Neck and the Islands, pursuing purloined possessions and bringing evil-doers to account. Some of their hilarious stories first appeared in the local newspaper, Passages. Their full epic unfolds in these pages for the first time.

A moment in time. It's rare for a person to remember exactly where he or she was at a single moment in time, some four decades past. It's rarer still for an entire nation to hold a collective memory of such a moment. This kind of hardwired retention usually results from group trauma - the shock of assassination, large scale tragedy, or natural disaster. Occasionally, the event that galvanizes a population is a happy one. Such was the case when Paul Henderson scored the memorable goal in '72, that won the game and united Canada. Includes foreword from Don Cherry with stories from Peter Mansbridge, Bob Cole, Howie Meeker, Darryl Sittler, Blue Rodeo, Denis Brodeur and Johnny Bower to name a few.

The role of hockey in Canada serves as a national identity, a unifying force in a country of 33 million people. So crazed are Canadians for their national sport that they ranked outrageous hockey commentator and high school drop-out Don Cherry ahead of Alexander Graham Bell on a list of the greatest Canadians in history. Penned by hockey star Paul Henderson-famed scorer of Canada's "e;Greatest Goal"e; in the 1972 Summit Series-and featuring a foreword by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, How Hockey Explains Canada explores just how deeply engrained this national pastime is in the Canadian psyche. The intelligent discourse on Canada's national sport goes far beyond the sport's most-loved icons, great plays, and notorious brawls by looking into the history and culture of the game to explain why hockey has had such an enigmatic hold on Canadians. Featuring interviews with more than 35 current and former NHL players, coaches, executives, and commentators, this expansive biography of the sport explores hockey's inextricable connection to everything from the Confederation to the Cold War to international perception of Canada and the country's own cultural divide.