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Tapani_Ang
I love Catherine Cookson especially, but often struggle to find good historical books. The Victorian era is my favourite, but I can read about others.
By historical novels I mean ones written fairly recently (within the last 50 years perhaps) but set in the past.
Any suggestions will be much appreciated.
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I love Historical Fiction, particuarly stories set in London, so you might notice a common theme in the books I reccommend. ;)
The Cat Royal series by Julia Golding. Set in Victorian London, about an orphaned girl (Cat) growing up in the Theater Royal.
The Bloody Jack series by L. A. Meyer. A streetchild from London dresses up as a boy and joins the Navy.
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum and the sequel, Petals in the Ashes by Mary Hooper. In the first book, a girl moves to London to help her sister run a sweet shop. As she arrives, panic about the black plague is heating up. The sequel focuses on the great fire of London.
I love Historical Fiction, particuarly stories set in London, so you might notice a common theme in the books I reccommend. ;)
The Cat Royal series by Julia Golding. Set in Victorian London, about an orphaned girl (Cat) growing up in the Theater Royal.
The Bloody Jack series by L. A. Meyer. A streetchild from London dresses up as a boy and joins the Navy.
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum and the sequel, Petals in the Ashes by Mary Hooper. In the first book, a girl moves to London to help her sister run a sweet shop. As she arrives, panic about the black plague is heating up. The sequel focuses on the great fire of London.
Can anybody recommend a really good Hockey trivia and/or stats book?
Laying Low
Any knowlege I have comes from watching hockey for 35+ years or a couple of websites which may not be entirely accurate. Looking for one or two great books. Thanks all.
Bob- Will that site have info on that Mexican soap opera? Sounds so hot.
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Every year, the NHL prints the Guide and Record Book, it retails for about $35.00 Cdn, and it has everything you would ever need. It is now in it's 76th year of print. It has various covers. This year one cover has a picture of Scott hoisting the Cup (every year one of the versions has the Stanley Cup hoisting), another has Sidney Crosby on the front (that is the one I have), and there is a 3rd copy sold in Western Canada that has Luongo on the cover. I prefer to get the Stanley Cup version, but there were a couple of years back where I only had the version with Leafs or Canadiens on the cover.
In 1997, the NHL Stats department published a book called 'Total Hockey', the book is now 10 years out of date, and there are over 1,000 corrections that need to be made for the next edition. Total Hockey expanded on the stats provided by the NHL Guide and Record Book (format is identical) and provided the guideline that the Guide and Record Book follows today. It's also quite weighty coming in at a few lbs. But worth every dollar (it was $50.00 new).
Note: A second edition was published in 2003 - I keep forgetting about this one because mine was stolen and I've not had it replaced.
NHL.com and Yahoo.com are pretty good sites for statistical information as well as the summaries of each game for the last 3 years are available on each site, and Yahoo is hit and miss on game summaries and box scores back to 2002-2003.
Over the years, a great many other NHL encyclopedias have been published by the likes of Zander Hollander, Brian MacFarlane, and Stan Fischler which are very good (Stan published several in the late 60s and early 70s which provide some excellent chronicles of early expansion).
I've got several hundred books that keep me occupied but the NHL Guide and Record Book (referred to within the NHL and by historians as the Bible) and Total Hockey are the ones I refer to the most. They are published by the NHL and considered by the League to be the final authority and stats and records.
Prior to 1983, the NHL Guide and Record Book also contained the NHL Rule book, since 1983, it is available separately.
I recommend all of them. I did some of the research for Total Hockey (over 2,000 of us) and the Guide and Record Book so they are a must buy in my opinion.
Bob, my book is a historical and statistical analysis of the NHL draft (hence how I met an NHL scout). There are several websites that deal with this information, but none have it 'all' in one place. I'm hoping to have it completed sometime in 2009 (I do have publishers interested - but things change).
Every year, the NHL prints the Guide and Record Book, it retails for about $35.00 Cdn, and it has everything you would ever need. It is now in it's 76th year of print. It has various covers. This year one cover has a picture of Scott hoisting the Cup (every year one of the versions has the Stanley Cup hoisting), another has Sidney Crosby on the front (that is the one I have), and there is a 3rd copy sold in Western Canada that has Luongo on the cover. I prefer to get the Stanley Cup version, but there were a couple of years back where I only had the version with Leafs or Canadiens on the cover.
In 1997, the NHL Stats department published a book called 'Total Hockey', the book is now 10 years out of date, and there are over 1,000 corrections that need to be made for the next edition. Total Hockey expanded on the stats provided by the NHL Guide and Record Book (format is identical) and provided the guideline that the Guide and Record Book follows today. It's also quite weighty coming in at a few lbs. But worth every dollar (it was $50.00 new).
Note: A second edition was published in 2003 - I keep forgetting about this one because mine was stolen and I've not had it replaced.
NHL.com and Yahoo.com are pretty good sites for statistical information as well as the summaries of each game for the last 3 years are available on each site, and Yahoo is hit and miss on game summaries and box scores back to 2002-2003.
Over the years, a great many other NHL encyclopedias have been published by the likes of Zander Hollander, Brian MacFarlane, and Stan Fischler which are very good (Stan published several in the late 60s and early 70s which provide some excellent chronicles of early expansion).
I've got several hundred books that keep me occupied but the NHL Guide and Record Book (referred to within the NHL and by historians as the Bible) and Total Hockey are the ones I refer to the most. They are published by the NHL and considered by the League to be the final authority and stats and records.
Prior to 1983, the NHL Guide and Record Book also contained the NHL Rule book, since 1983, it is available separately.
I recommend all of them. I did some of the research for Total Hockey (over 2,000 of us) and the Guide and Record Book so they are a must buy in my opinion.
Bob, my book is a historical and statistical analysis of the NHL draft (hence how I met an NHL scout). There are several websites that deal with this information, but none have it 'all' in one place. I'm hoping to have it completed sometime in 2009 (I do have publishers interested - but things change).
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