I'd Trade Him Again


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From the Foreword by Wayne Gretzky:ldquo; When I flew back to Edmonton that day for the announcement of my trade, both Peter and Glen Sather told me one more time they would kill the deal to send me to L.A., if I wanted it killed. And I was this close — this close — to killing the deal. He was like a father to me.rdquo;




I'd Trade Him Again: Wayne Gretzky & Peter Pocklington


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Peter Pocklington brought the people of Edmonton a winning franchise and the most skilled player in hockey history: The Great One, Wayne Gretzky.This book consists of seven chapters as they were originally published in Peter Pocklington's biography "I'd Trade Him Again: on Gretzky, Politics and the Pursuit of the Perfect Deal." The selected content tell the fascinating story of the flamboyant entrepreneur's tenure of the Edmonton Oilers, from its origins as a WHA team to its heights as an NHL powerhouse. "I'D TRADE HIM AGAIN: WAYNE GRETZKY & PETER POCKLINGTON" is an easy-to-read "must read" for hockey fans on both sides of the border. Get inside details from the major players in this dramatic tale. Praise for the complete biography: I'D TRADE HIM AGAIN (full version published 2009 (hardcover), 2011 (paperback)) "A lively insider's read." Garth Woolsey, Toronto Star "A hell of a life and a hell of a book... I couldn't put it down." Dan Tencer, 630 CHED Radio Edmonton "It's clear McConnell and Nye wouldn't let Pocklington spin his tale without checks and balances... They have done a professional job." Kevin Allen, USA Today "I'D TRADE HIM AGAIN is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a man who is neither a villain nor a hero." Denis Gorman, Goodreads.com "As great as the Great One. Five stars. I loved it." Shelley Zimmel, on Chapters.ca




I'd Do it Again


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FCC Record


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American Sagas


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American Sagas: A New Nation takes place in an alternate future of the world. Genesis, a multibillion-dollar corporation specializing in genetics, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology, had an explosion in its Midwest branch out of Cincinnati, releasing a shock wave of unknown origin, causing a chain reaction leading to the downfall of the United States. Starting in the present day, the novel follows Atlas. Originally a man getting along in life, normally his name is not known to the reader, but the reader learns about Atlas’s life before and after Genesis’s explosion known as day zero. Atlas travels the new landscape, looking for answers behind the conspiracy that is Genesis, and begins to rebuild a new society with others that survived day zero with him. Unfortunately, when Genesis fell, so did any security measures for protecting Genesis’s assets or experiments, unleashing creatures and phenomena unknown to the world.




Masters of Doom


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Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. “To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.”—Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams




The End


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Peter is slowly dying, across multiple realities, in multiple universes, he is facing the end. In intertwining tales we follow Peter as he faces his own death. From getting caught up in a resistance movement against an alien invasion, to a world where he is a killer fighting his addiction




The London Encyclopaedia


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The Athenaeum


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