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Never in his wildest dreams could he imagine his best day turning into his worst. Chad and Marcus ruled the school. Smart. Athletic. Popular. A looming wrestle off for their weight class made Chad jumpy. Marcus told him to chill. But with one slam to the mat, Marcus would be dead. Hard-hitting, contemporary young adult fiction is not trendy--it’s not dystopia. There are no vampires, no werewolves, no castles. It’s real life. It’s unflinching. Gravel Road highlights the talent of YA authors committed to creating realistic fiction with emotional authenticity. No topic is off-limits: suicide, homosexuality, drugs, rape, gangs, bullying. Teens live with this reality each day. And they find a way to survive. Each paperback book is 200 to 275 pages.

In Varsity Green, Mark Yost cuts through clichés and common misconceptions to take a hard-eyed look at the current state of college athletics. He takes readers behind the scenes of the conspicuous and high-revenue business of college sports in order to dissect the enormous television revenues, merchandising rights, bowl game payoffs, sneaker contracts, and endorsement deals that often pay state university coaches more than the college president, or even the governor. Money in college sports is nothing new. But readers will be amazed at the alarming depth and breadth of influence, both financial and otherwise, that college sports has within our culture. Readers will learn how academic institutions capitalize on the success of their athletic programs, and what role sports-based revenues play across campus, from the training room to the science lab. Yost pays particular attention to the climate that big-money athletics has created over the past decade, as both the NCAA's March Madness and the Bowl Championship Series have become multi-billion dollar businesses. This analysis goes well beyond campus, showing how the corrupting influences that drive college athletics today have affected every aspect of youth sports, and have seeped into our communities in ways that we would not otherwise suspect. This book is not only for the players, policymakers, and other insiders who are affected by the changing economics of college athletics; it is a must-read for any sports fan who engages with the NCAA and deserves to see the business behind the game.

Based on the rich fund of documents housed in the University of Toronto archives, Varsity's Soldiers offers the first full-length history of military training in Toronto.

Varsity is a fictional story based on true accounts of America's youngest warriors during WW II. Today it is estimated that over 100,000 adolescents, 12 to 16, willingly forfeited the sweetness of their youth to combat the ruthless ambitions of Axis powers. The story's two main characters drop out of high school in 1941/42 during their sophomore year to enlist the Army and Marines.Leaving behind the end zones of Peninsula High. Entering the kill zones of Europe and the Pacific, the two best friends realize they are on a horrific express train with no stops. It is also when they face not only the terror of mortal combat but severe penalties should true ages be discovered. To meet these challenges, they adopt the core of a warrior's ethic: learning to soldier on. At war's end, the two best friends return to Point Loma, California and---still teenagers---re-enter high school to earn diplomas and take advantage of the GI Bill. Their travails are not over as new conflicts emerge from jealous seniors, a hostile PTA, and insensitive teachers. To avoid the banalities of senior year hi-jinx, the two GIs become co-captains of a perennially losing varsity squad and transform it into a championship contender. Varsity is more than just another war story of blood and valor as it explores: love beyond romance, touches upon shell shock---the precursor of PTSD---and asks if there are any core military values that have application in peacetime. It is a story that required a decade to meticulously research for historical fidelity and its fictional characters are amalgams of genuine underage veterans of the most lethal episode in human history. To gain perspective, the author interviewed nearly a hundred Veterans of Underage Military Service known as VUMS. For most VUMs, they held their secret until 1991 when amnesty was awarded by the US Department of Defense. As Tom Brokaw once said "...it is time their story is told."