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Summer is a great time to pick up some of last year's books for great deals, whether it be for your personal library or for early Christmas shopping. Bookstores and publishers are looking to clear room for new titles so they often blowout older stock. In some cases you can get last year's hard cover release for cheaper than the upcoming paperback offering. Chapters.ca/BargainBooks is a great place to look for deals on hockey books. Here's what they're offering right now. The China Wall: The Timeless Legend of Johnny Bower. Jacket price: $27.95. Sale Price: $5.99 Gretzky to Lemieux: Story of 87 Canada Cup: Jacket Price: $34.99. Sale Price: 6.99  2009 NHL Official Guide and Record Book: Jacket Price: $29.95. Sale Price: 2.00 TSN 25 Years. Jacket Price: $39.95. Sale Price: $7.99 Legendary Stanley Cup Stories: Jacket Price: $27.95. Sale Price: $6.99 Dominant Dany Heatley: Jacket Price: $14.95. Sale Price: 3.99 KIDS Spectacular Sidney Crosby: Jacket Price: $14.95.

Available on July 27th, 2010, the NHL's official DVD celebration of the Chicago Blackhawks and of the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs hits store shelves. It is titled NHL Stanley Cup Champions 2009-2010 Order yours today: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com The disc is also available in the popular Blu-ray format: Blu-ray edition: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Also, for your bookshelf: The Year of The Blackhawks Hawkeytown The Mighty Blackhawks

For a good stretch of time in the 1980s hockey's two best teams came from small cities in the oil rich Canadian prairies of Alberta. The Wayne Gretzky-led Edmonton Oilers and the always scrappy underdog Calgary Flames battled for hockey supremacy even though the two teams could never meet in the Stanley Cup finals. Some of my finest hockey memories of my youth came from the Battle of Alberta. Gretzky's slap shot over Mike Vernon's shoulder in overtime. Theo Fleury dramatically matching that a few years later. Dave Semenko and Tim Hunter wrestling, Marty McSorley spearing Mike Bullard, and Craig MacTavish and the whole Harvey the Hound tongue incident. Of course who will ever forget Steve Smith's goal. So it comes as no surprise when I say I am very excited by Mike Leonetti's new title, The Battle of Alberta Trivia Book by Red Deer Press. Buy The Book - Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Here's the specs: Paperback: 190 pages Publisher: Red Deer P

Summer is here, and I am about to head out on vacation. For me that means lots of camping and, this time around anyways, beaching. When  I'm not eating marshmallows or exploring the rugged British Columbia coast line, I will be reading. Here's the three books I will be reading: The Game by Ken Dryden. It has been a few years since I've read this book, so it is time to revisit this old friend. It is hailed without much disagreement as the best hockey book ever written. When I interview authors I always ask them what their favorite hockey book is and unfailingly they all - Jack Falla and Michael McKinley most notably - say Dryden's The Game is hockey's greatest piece of literature. This title also available on Kindle . Speaking of Michael McKinley, I definitely plan on reading his first novel, The Penalty Killing .. For all of it's unmistakable place in our culture, hockey has failed to catch on in the world of fiction (outside of the Young Adult category a

Michael McKinley is a noted journalist and documentary film maker who is highly regarded in the hockey world. If there is one trait that best sums up the Oxford educated McKinley it is he likes to undertake new and different projects. For example, he has produced middle eastern religious documentaries for CNN while also producing episodes of South Park. Hockey fans of course know McKinley for the TV/DVD documentary Hockey: A People's History and it's accompanying book , as well as one of my all favorites Putting A Roof On Winter . Now he's pushing the hockey literary boundaries with his first novel, The Penalty Killing: A Martin Carter Mystery . Buy the book - Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Hockey, unlike baseball, has not really transcended into the world of fiction which is why McKinley's leap into the genre is so noteworthy. True, hockey mysteries have been tackled for the Young Adult market thanks to Roy MacGregor and the fantastic The Screech Owls seri