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When it comes to our beloved “good ol’ hockey game”, humour abounds in Canada. The Hockey Joke Book shows you just how funny the sport, its teams, and its toothless players can be.

Canadian sport is the brunt of many jokes, but Canucks take the jabs in stride and still find the humour in what’s laughable from the ice to the water to the field and the court.

When British soldiers began settling in early Canada, their sporting traditions blended with a Mi’kmaq game to create a new sport that evolved into hockey. A History of Hockey in Canada traces hockey’s roots from those first steps on the frozen ponds of eastern Canada to the modern game we know and love.

Kylie is an audial psychic who can hear conversations from far away. Noah can see into the past. Ayden can see into the future. Kylie’s sister, Hope, can time travel. John was once PSI’s psychic healer…and Kylie’s true love. But Ky’s world is torn apart when damning evidence implies that John betrayed the team. But did he? Kylie wants to save a group of psychics — many are children — who are being held captive at a secret compound and forced into training to become psychic weapons.

One of the worst things that happen to us is getting fooled and realizing later that someone we trusted turned against us. You wish you could turn back the hands of time and say no to being fooled. You realize you were manipulated into helping someone obtain their selfish favors. However, everything can be remedied. This audiobook will help you take control of your situation and protect yourself and those you love by giving you all the necessary tools that will allow you to identify those "dark" people and explaining all the techniques to prevent being manipulated.

Ardo is an orphan working hard just trying to survive from day to day. He has been saving up a few pennies at a time until finally, he is going to be able to buy the thing he has wanted for months: a warm blanket! Brand-new! Without any holes or funny smells. Just imagine a nice night...closing your eyes...feeling warm. He is excited!

Greater Than a Tourist - Boston Massachusetts USA, by Alexander J. Dunn, offers the inside scoop on Boston. This audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

From the Canadian border to the barrios of Mexico City, psychologist Elisabeth Reinhardt and her team narrowly escape disaster as they navigate the dark worlds of cults and cartels to rescue loved ones, free kidnapped children, and aid law enforcement. In this heart-pounding race against time, no one is safe. Not even Elisabeth.

FUBU cofounder and entrepreneur J. Alexander Martin shares his compelling story about how he helped build a neighborhood business into a billion-dollar international brand. Teaming with behavioral finance expert and author Ted McLyman, they present an easy to understand and useful road map for success and financial security. J uses his inspirational story as the backdrop to explain why financial success is about discovering your Money Values and Money Temperament.

Ghost boy returns. It is the mid-1960s and the US is in thick of the Cold War with the Soviet Union and Red China. The country's greatest asset is Ghost Boy, a young genius with amazing supernatural powers, and his eight foot tall steel and chrome robot, Pops. Ripped from the pages of Jigsaw Comics, Ghost Boy returns in this collection of four brand new adventures.

In See No Evil, the thrilling adventure continues with Kylie Cain, a beautiful and deadly audial telepath who can hear conversations from miles away, who works for a black ops branch of the CIA. After rescuing Hope, Kylie flees from WON (World Order Now), a rogue operative faction. When things go south at PSI, Kylie and Hope run for their lives with PSI teammates Noah, who can read the past, and Ayden, who can see the immediate future.

The only thing Rachel Hingis hated more than swimming was having to play well with others. Edgar Fern, nerd extraordinaire, couldn't find anyone to play with. Life would have been just fine if they never crossed paths. Instead, they collided. The victims of an accidental experiment deep in the corn fields of Iowa, they and four others - Alex, Celeste, Laura and Susan - were changed, and not necessarily for the better.

On the heels of her last mystery, Elisabeth's new patient is more than meets the eye, and unraveling his secrets will throw her team into a desert storm of double agents and religious extremists. All that stands between love and war are two families, two brothers, and two conflicting versions of the truth.

In the 1960s, researchers into human memory began to understand memory as operating under two systems. The first was a short-term system handling information for mere seconds. The second was a long-term system capable of managing information indefinitely. They also discovered, however, that short-term memory was not simply a filing cabinet, but was actively working on cognitive - or mental - tasks. This is how the phrase "working memory" developed.

Audial telepath Kylie Cain works for a black ops branch of the CIA (PSI - Psychic Sensory Intelligence unit). Now tasked with the biggest challenge of her life when a faction of rogue operatives who call themselves WON (World Order Now) kidnap 11-year-old Hope Mitchell, a powerful girl who may be the link to other worlds, Kylie feels immediately drawn to the girl's energy, and vows to save her.

Nearly a lifetime after a childhood filled with misery and abuse, Gina, now a successful doctor, finds herself thrown back into a terrifying world where her nightmares become far more than just a dream. With the help of an unconventional therapist with secrets of her own, the hunt is on and Gina fights for her life in this harrowing tale of cat and mouse.

Want to try your hand at crowd-funding your creative project through Kickstarter or Indiegogo? Learn valuable secrets to success in this brief book by a first time Kickstarter who succeeded in raising 106% funding for his project. Kickstarter Success Secrets gives tips, dos and don'ts that are easily digestible and ready to be put to use on your campaign.

Inspired by a true story, Pilate's Cross follows John Pilate, his sardonic imaginary pal Simon and lovely new friend Kate as they investigate the cold case mystery of a murdered college president. In too deep to wash his hands of the mystery, Pilate risks his life to uncover the truth of what happened in 1963 and why it's just as deadly today.

In the years after A Nation at Risk, conservatives' ideas to reform America's lagging education system gained much traction. Key items like school choice and rigorous academic standards drew bipartisan support and were put into practice across the country. Today, these gains are in retreat, ceding ground to progressive nostrums that do little to boost the skills and knowledge of young people. Far from being discouraged, however, conservatives should seize the moment to refresh their vision of quality K-12 education for today's America.

Podcast that speaks out on mental health, the struggles of mental health and diabetes, and how faith can lift your spirits.