Fire On Ice

"It's a great day for hockey" Favourite saying of "Badger" Bob Johnson, Flames coach from 1982-88 This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in: hockey sport "Yeah, baby!" yelled Peter Maher as the Flames won their series against the San Jose Sharks and headed to the Stanley Cup finals. The 2003-04 season saw the team climbing into the ranks of top contenders thanks to exceptional play by captain Jarome Iginla, goaltender Miika Kiprusoff, Martin Gelinas and others. Not since the 1989 Stanley Cup win starring Lanny McDonald had Flames fans had so much to cheer about...

The youngest member of the victorious Canada Cup and hard-driving Olympic hockey teams takes readers behind the scenes for a look at what it takes to make the grade. Fire On Ice is funny, frank, and filled with emotion--the story of a remarkable young man striving to achieve his dream. Features material never before revealed and sensational new photos.

The true life story of the man behind the great Canadian diamond discovery.

For more than a decade, the world's oceans have been home to Michael and Sarah Stone and their young daughter Ronnie, who live aboard the sailing yacht Veronica, bringing medical care to remote islands. But their peaceful life is shattered when a medical distress call summons Sarah and Ronnie to a gargantuan commercial vessel lying still ominous in the equatorial Pacific. Michael, left behind to tend to an ailing islander, watches with growing horror as Veronica is hauled onto the deck of the hulking metal behemoth and is carried away.Stranded and alone a thousand miles from civilization—with only a primitive canoe at his disposal and no navigational equipment except the stars—Michael Stone must now do the impossible. He must find his kidnapped family and rescue them from the clutches of a madman. And, unbeknownst to him, Sarah and Ronnie's are not the only lives at stake... The debut of a remarkable new writer, Fire and Ice is an electrifying tale of suspense that races through the perilous waters to the worlds most exotic ports—toward an unforgettable climax as unexpected as it is unrelentingly intense.

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes a short story collection that transports the reader to a world where opposites—passion and loneliness, betrayal and loyalty, fire and ice—clash and converge. "A wonderful book—complex, amusing, clever, and thought-provoking—a reader's dream." —The Plain Dealer A beautiful ice maiden risks her life when she falls in love with a desert prince, whose passionate touches scorch her delicate skin. A woman flees the scene of her husband's heart attack, leaving her entire past behind her. Striving to master color and line, a painter discovers the resolution to his artisitc problems when a beautiful and magical water snake appears in his pool. And a wealthy Englishwoman gradually loses her identity while wandering through a shopping mall. Elegantly crafter and suffused with boundless wisdom, these bewitching tales are a testament to a writer at the hieght of her powers.

Hardened by her husband's death two years earlier, Deedra Marlan-the "Ice Princess" to her friends-vows never to feel the pain of loss again. She hides her emotions by operating a prominent restaurant called The Fireside. When Josh McKenzie enters her icy world, the handsome cattle rancher decides he must have this standoffish woman. He is unwilling to take "no" from her, and Deedra finds Josh pushing buttons in her that she didn't know existed. Feeling emotions she has never dared to feel, she is brought almost to the point of fright with this hard-edged, strong, determined man.Journey through this couple's erotically charged passions and their heart-wrenching ordeals as Josh struggles to unleash the fire in the ice of this beautiful woman.