title: Seahawk: Confessions of an Old Hockey Goalie
author:  Bruce Valley 
description: Seahawk is one of those rare sports books that is about so much more than sports. Hockey buffs will certainly appreciate Bruce Valley's dead-on observations about this beautiful game. General readers who enjoy reading about someone's well-expressed lifelong passion will also find much to savor in this well-written account. This fine book reminds us that sport, when approached with the right spirit, can be good for both body and soul. (Michael Parent, Storyteller, Actor, writer--April 3, 2009)<br /><br />With Seahawk, the author rescues a great and moving hockey story from oblivion and, in the process, creates a world where sport and the lives of players are explored in exquisite detail with assured, writerly poise. A fine literary descendant of Jack Falla's Home Ice and Peter Gzowski's The Game of Our Lives. Like any good hockey book, it teaches us more about the world than hockey itself. (Dave Bidini, Author of Tropic of Hockey and The Best Game You Can Name, October 3, 2008)<br /><br />Bruce Valley's Seahawk : Confessions of an Old Hockey Goalie is a look deep within the living, beating heart of hockey. Written with a sense of authenticity and  rare in hockey circles  a genuinely intimate portrait of the game, Seahawk takes me way back, long before the NHL and Boston Bruins, to my early boyhood playing for fun on pond ice. Seahawk will evoke those memories in all its readers. Don't miss this terrific hockey book! (Bruce Valley's Seahawk : Confession)<br /><br />Seahawk is a great hockey story, reminding us of how competitively the amateur game was played in New England, decades before some of us were privileged to play in the NHL. And Bruce Valley is obviously a goalie with a great heart. He may be well into his sixties but I'd play on a team with him anytime. (Seahawk is a great hockey story, r)<br /><br />Former Boston Bruin |s Seahawk is a wonderfully entertaining look at vintage amateur hockey in post-WWII New England. Bruce Valley's inside look at the challenges of both goaltending and the aging process in sports holds nothing back. Living as I do on the New Hampshire seacoast and skating on its ponds with my children and surfing buddies, this book brings home to me how the important things in life do not change  and reminds me how very cool life must have been in the long-ago era Seahawk describes. (Former Bosto)
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  BEAST BEHAVING BADLY
  
  By
  
  Shelly Laurenston
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER One
  
  The face slammed into the protective glass, blood spurting out as
  
  cartilage was demolished, bone shattered.
  
  The crowd around her either roared and howled in approval or hissed and barked
  in disapproval, depending on which team they supported. But Blayne Thorpe
  could do neither. Instead, she only gaped at the behemoth hybrid continuing to
  force that poor, battered feline face into the glass by using nothing more
  than his hockey stick and overwhelming size.
  
  She had heard he'd gotten bigger since she'd last seen him nearly ten years
  ago, but she thought they were talking about the man's career. Not his size.
  
  Career wise, the minor shifter league's onetime left defenseman from nowhere
  Maine had gone on to become one of the greatest hockey
  
  players the pro shifter league had ever known. Bo "The Marauder"
  
  Novikov was one of the first and at one time, one of the only hybrids to ever
  play on a professi