Big Phyl's Ashes
Title | Big Phyl's Ashes PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Avery |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2008-11-24 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0557018889 |
Big Phyl's Ashes is a memoir channeled from mother to son a quarter century after death. It is rooted in the Highland Clearances and The Great Hunger, or Potato Famine, in Scotland and Ireland, and covers World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It is Herstory set in Sudbury, Muskoka, and Toronto.
Ace's Ashes
Title | Ace's Ashes PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Avery |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2008-12-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0557029503 |
A novel memoir about the top secret radar project that won World War Two, about the Canadians who liberated The Netherlands (including the concentration camp that held Anne Frank), the race riot at Christie Pits in Toronto, about recovering from the war and TB at a sanitarium that was a Nazi P.o.W. Camp and would be a Jewish resort in Muskoka.
Al Purdy's Ghost
Title | Al Purdy's Ghost PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Avery |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 2008-12-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0557032296 |
100 poems inspired by the ghost of Al Purdy
Puckface Rides Rangers Dark Horse Into the Playoffs
Title | Puckface Rides Rangers Dark Horse Into the Playoffs PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Avery |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2010-06-13 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0557064147 |
Bobby Orr and Me
Title | Bobby Orr and Me PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Avery |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2008-12-31 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0557036925 |
Martin Avery reflects on the place of hockey in the Canadian soul. Bobby Orr And Me flows from Avery's boyhood games in the Muskoka/Parry Sound region in the heart of Canada and it examines the globalization of hockey. Part memoir, part essay on national identity, part hockey history, Hockey Dreams is a meditation by a Canadian author on the essence of the game that helps define our nation.
Sean Avery and the Cinderella New York Rangers
Title | Sean Avery and the Cinderella New York Rangers PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Avery |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2009-04-12 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0557056918 |
Sean Avery And The Cinderella New York Rangers is "the best story in the NHL this year" about the return of the Rocky of hockey to the Rangers in New York and how they were transformed into a Cinderella team like the great New York teams of history.
How to Make Love in A Muskoka Chair
Title | How to Make Love in A Muskoka Chair PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Avery |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 81 |
Release | 2008-12-22 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0557030250 |
A sequence of poems about meditation, tai chi, yoga, and making love in a Muskoka chair