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  • A Wild Stab For It

    This is Game Eight from Russia

    by Dave Bidini, Brian Pickell ...
    On the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series, a personal and poetic journey into the heart of hockey in CanadaAs summer turned to fall in 1972, Canada was redefining itself and its place in the world. Politically, a spirited election campaign asked probing questions about the nation’s past, present, and future — the nationalist pride of recent centennial celebrations contrasted with the ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories

    by Roch Carrier ...
    Translated by Sheila Fischman ...
    Series series A List
    The Hockey Sweater, the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring classic: a Quebec boy and Habs fan is shipped a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by mistake. It encapsulates everything you need to understand French and English Canada, told with humour and love. This edition features a new introduction. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On a Cold Road

    Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock

    by Dave Bidini ...
    David Bidini, rhythm guitarist with the Rheostatics, knows all too well what the life of a rock band in Canada involves: storied arenas one tour and bars wallpapered with photos of forgotten bands the next. Zit-speckled fans begging for a guitar pick and angry drunks chucking twenty-sixers and pint glasses. Opulent tour buses riding through apocalyptic snowstorms and cramped vans that reek of dope ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Wheatfield Empire

    The Listener's Guide to The Guess Who

    by Robert Lawson, Dave Bidini ...
    Winnipeg’s The Guess Who are Canada’s original international rock n’ roll superstars. But despite the band’s enduring popularity, no one has assembled a comprehensive history of their recording career… until now.In exquisite detail that serious fans will appreciate, Wheatfield Empire: The Listener’s Guide to The Guess Who goes through the band’s evolution, album by album and song by song. Nothing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Writing Gordon Lightfoot

    The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972

    by Dave Bidini ...
    From acclaimed musician and author Dave Bidini comes a brilliantly original look at a folk-rock legend and the momentous week in 1972 that culminated in the Mariposa Folk Festival.July, 1972. As musicians across Canada prepare for the nation's biggest folk festival, held on Toronto Island, a series of events unfold that will transform the country politically, psychologically--and musically. As ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Best Game You Can Name

    by Dave Bidini ...
    Bidini returns to the game he loves best.In 2004, Dave Bidini laced on his skates and slid onto the ice of Toronto’s McCormick Arena to play defence with the Morningstars in the E! Cup tourney. While thrashing around the ice, swiping at the puck and his opponents, Bidini got to thinking about how others see the game. Afterward, he set off to talk to former professional players about their ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Long and Winding Road

    The Greatest Beatles Stories Ever Told

    by Luis Miguel, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Bill Harry, Dave Bidini, Joe Rodgers, Harry Castleman, Walter J. Podrazik, Ron Oberman, Jason Brown ...
    The Beatles were the greatest rock band of all time. And their influence spread far beyond music, influencing the culture and politics of the sixties in a profound way.In Long and Winding Road, editor Luis Miguel curates the very best writing about the Beatles, from the mysterious death of original Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe to the curious tale of the dentist who is trying to clone John Lennon from a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Tropic Of Hockey

    My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places

    by Dave Bidini ...
    One hot afternoon in 1998, Dave Bidini – who loves hockey, watches it, plays it, and breathes it – found the Stanley Cup final so tedious to watch that at one point he clicked channels to Martha Stewart – and never switched back. This made him wonder where in the world the game might exist free of the complications of professional sport. He set out to find the tropic of hockey.His quest took him ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Five Hole Stories

    by Dave Bidini ...
    Each of the six stories in Dave Bidini's playful, irreverent new book takes a headlong run at the hockey dressing room, and knocks the door down.In one story, a chronic minor-leaguer discovers the wonders—and the pitfalls—of the game in Europe, both on and off the ice. In another, an NHLer is tight with his teammate, the league's leading goalscorer, but dreams of getting MUCH tighter. A star on a ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Around the World in 57 1/2 Gigs

    by Dave Bidini ...
    The strengths of Bidini’s two best-loved books, On a Cold Road and Tropic of Hockey, music and travel to unlikely places, come together in this account of his search for rock ‘n’ roll.When it looks as if the Rheostatics are breaking up after more than twenty years together, Dave Bidini is left feeling adrift from his moorings and decides to go on a very long road trip, playing solo and finding out ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Indigenous City Edit

    by Dave Bidini, Waubgeshig Rice, Tom Wilson, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoksake Simpson, Ivy Knight0, Alex Jacobs-Blum2, Liz Howard4, Ladybird Chief6 ...
    Narrated by Dave Bidini, Waubgeshig Rice, Tom Wilson, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoksake Simpson, Ivy Knight1, Alex Jacobs-Blum3, Liz Howard5, Ladybird Chief7 ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The City Edits

    Unabridged

    38 min

    West End Phoenix and Kobo Originals present the latest in the CITY EDITS collaboration: THE INDIGENOUS CITY EDIT is a collection of stories reflecting on living in Toronto as an Indigenous person, backed by original music and soundscapes. Featuring work by Waubgeshig Rice, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoke Simpson, Ivy Knight, Dave Bidini, Chief Ladybird, Alex Jacobs-Blum, Liz Howard and original ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baseballissimo

    by Dave Bidini ...
    In the spring of 2002, Dave Bidini set off for Nettuno, Italy, with his wife, Janet, and their two small children, in search of his favourite summer game, baseball. Nettuno was his destination because this town, south of Rome, has been the baseball capital of Italy since 1944, when the game was introduced by the American GIs who liberated the region. Bidini wanted to spend time in a town where ... Read more

    $11.99 USD