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  • Hockey for a Lifetime

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    Hockey Hall of Famer Bill Christian has lived a remarkable life. From the frozen river of Warroad, Minnesota to winning the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, Bill’s story is one of passion, determination, community, and love for the game...


  • It's Our Time

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    “It’s our time.” That was the mantra from Trevor Harris leading up to, and throughout, the 2025 CFL season. The Saskatchewan Roughriders’ starting quarterback was proven prophetic on Nov. 16, 2025, when he earned Grey Cup MVP honours after...


  • White Belt

    A Mother-Daughter Journey
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    Kyssi Arshe' never expected to find her strength on the mat. After escaping an abusive relationship and moving to Manhattan with her young daughter, she sets out to rebuild their lives and protect them both. When her daughter joins a local karate...


  • The Best Kept Secret

    The Journey, Failures, Growth, and Lessons of a Soccer Player, and How He Reached His Full Potential
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    Have you ever been told you are too small to play a sport? Have you ever not been selected for a team? Have you been doubted by others who told you to give up? Stephen has too! In The Best Kept Secret, Former Canadian Men’s National Team player...


  • Like the Glide of a Dragonfly

    Healing and Finishing Strong After Surviving the Boston Marathon Bombing
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    “How do you breathe when the waves are so rough and the water crashes in your face? How do you breathe when big wave after big wave hits?” A rebellious teenager, Natalie Lehto is pretty much a good-time party girl, until the day she discovers...


  • The Athlete Whisperer

    An Improbable Voice in Sports
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    Andrea Kirby was not a former athlete and had no ties to television. Still, in 1971, this single mom talked her way onto a small television station as a sportscaster. A rare female in the all-male culture of her beloved sports, she was harassed...


  • Every Day is a Bonus

    A Memoir of Canadian Ski Pioneer Jim McConkey
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    Jim McConkey’s role as a highly respected alpine skier, ski instructor, and entrepreneur began in early childhood, in Barrie, Ontario, where he was born only eight years after the end of World War I. After dropping out of high school and being...


  • Sole Runner

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    THE BRUTAL HEAT OF THE DESERT IN NAMIBIA. High altitudes, canyons, and rivers in Chile. Unforgiving terrain and temperamental weather in remote Mongolia. The cold of Antarctica. A duckboard course through twenty-four hours of daylight in Lapland....


  • My Many Lives

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    THE ODDS OF BEING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING OCE IN A LIFETIME ARE 1 IN 15,300. Two times—even less likely. When author Howard Byrd Lockhart was hit by lightning at an Indy car race, it seemed like nothing but bad luck. When it happened a second time...


  • Consciouspreneur

    What To Do When The Hard Work Stops Working
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    As a high performer, you know what you’re good at, whether it’s school, sport, business, or life. Driven by the need to win and love of success, you stick to what you’re good at, until suddenly it’s not enough. You’re not enough. When your go-to...