Lorimer imprint: 307 books
by Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Aboriginal snowboarder Jax has it made. He's in his last year at Podium Sports Academy and he's got a sponsorship from a big snowboarding company in the bag. But then his older brother, always the troublemaker in the family, shows up in Calgary unexpectedly. Suddenly Jax's sponsorship is threatened...
by Heather Kellerhals-Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Jay is determined to make his name by climbing a tough rock face known as "The Wall" -- solo. No partner, no ropes, no equipment. Little does Jay suspect that it's his own life that will one day hang in the balance.
In this exciting rock-climbing adventure, Kellerhals-Stewart looks at the...
Queens of the Ice
They were fast, they were fierce, they were teenage girls
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
In 1931, a group of ten teenage girls from Preston (present-day Cambridge), Ontario, enlisted the help of the top women's sport journalists of the era, and the Preston Rivulettes hockey team was born. Within a decade the team became so good that no other team would dare to play against them. Yet the...
Fearless
The Story of George Chuvalo, Canada's Greatest Boxer
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
George Chuvalo only wanted one thing: to become a boxer. When Chuvalo stepped into the ring, he was fearless. In ninety-three professional fights between 1956 and 1979, boxing everyone from George Foreman to Muhammad Ali, he was never once knocked out. But this heavyweight boxing legend never had...
by Dirk McLean
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
When Ozzie's parents disappeared from their home in Nigeria, he and his sister Rebecca were taken to an orphanage. Two years later, they have been adopted by Canadian parents and live in ethnically diverse Scarborough. With no soccer program in their school, Ozzie and the other Nigerian kids compete...
by David Skuy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Cody is no longer the kid with cancer, or the soccer player always sitting on the bench as a substitute. But just when he is getting used to being the striker on the Lions soccer team, as well as being friends with his teammates and a girl named Mandy, everything changes. Stafa, a skilled younger...
by David Starr
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Thirteen-year-old Dylan's whole life changes when his father dies. Not only do he and his mom have to move to a poor part of Vancouver, where he misses their nice home and his old school. But then he's also forced to join his new school's soccer team — a group of immigrant and refugee students who...
by Brad V. Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Cale Finch has just won second place in a skateboarding competition when he's ambushed on his way home by a member of a rival crew, the Mental Posse. They steal the money that Cale was going to use to replace his broken skateboard. Cale feels embarrassed by what happened, so he doesn't tell anyone...
Fire on the Water
The Red-hot Career of Superstar Rower Ned Hanlan
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
How did the son of Irish immigrants outrow blueblood scullers from Oxford and Cambridge to become one of the most famous athletes of his time? Award-winning author Wendy A. Lewis recounts the compelling story of the "Boy in Blue," from his childhood on the Toronto Islands, where he rowed...
Crazy Canucks
The Uphill Battle of Canada's Downhill Ski Team
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Crazy Canucks recounts the trials and triumphs off the Canadian men's alpine ski team of the 1970s and early 1980s. Eric Zweig offers a behind-the-scenes look at this innovative team that dared to take risks other skiers were too afraid of. The team rose from obscurity to prominence on the European...
Bassett
John Bassett's forty years in politics, publishing, business and sports
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
John White Hughes Bassett is an extraordinary figure in Canadian public life, a man who's been at the centre of politics, sports, the media and business for over forty years.
True to his style, John Bassett doesn't approve of an independent journalist who's neither a bosom friend nor an implacable...
Jarome Iginla
How the NHL's first black captain gives back
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
He's the face of the Calgary Flames, but there's much more to Jarome Iginla's story than just being the first black captain of an NHL team. He's also renowned for his social commitment and generosity off the ice. Jarome (nicknamed Iggy) grew up in a single-parent household in St. Albert, Alberta....
China Clipper
Pro football's first Chinese-Canadian player, Normie Kwong
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Normie Kwong's parents immigrated to Canada from China in the early 1900s. For them, and many other Asian immigrants, moving meant having to face both the government's anti-Asian policies and society's attitude of Chinese exclusion. But Normie overcame it all and, despite his small stature, in 1948...
Sold Down the Yangtze
Canada's lopsided investment deal with China
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
When legal experts finally saw the terms of the investment deal Canada had signed with China, they could hardly believe what their eyes. The deal was unprecedented -- Canada had never given so much away to a trading partner. But Ottawa did not allow a full public review, and ultimately ratified the...