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A Word Award winner. It's 1939, and Canada is on the cusp of
entering World War II. Seventeen-year-old farm girl Cornelia has
been heartbroken since the day her mother died five years ago. As a
new tragedy provides Cornelia still more reason to reject her
parent's faith, a mysterious visitor appears in her hour of
desperation. Alone and carrying a heavy secret, she makes a
desperate choice that will haunt her for years to come. Never
telling a soul, Cornelia pours out the painful events of the war in
her diary. Many decades later, Cornelia's granddaughter, Benita, is
in the midst of her own crisis, experiencing several losses in the
same week, including the grandmother she adored. The resulting
emotional and financial stress takes its toll on her and her
husband, Ken, who is unemployed. On the brink of divorce, she
discovers Cornelia's diary. Now the secrets of her grandmother's
past will lead Benita on an unexpected journey of healing, reunion,
and faith.
Shortlisted for the North American Society for Sports History 2020
Monograph Prize It’s hard to imagine, but as late as the 1950s,
athletes could get kicked off a team if they were caught lifting
weights. Coaches had long believed that strength training would
slow down a player. Muscle was perceived as a bulky burden;
training emphasized speed and strategy, not “brute” strength.
Fast forward to today: the highest-paid strength and conditioning
coaches can now earn $700,000 a year. Strength Coaching in America
delivers the fascinating history behind this revolutionary shift.
College football represents a key turning point in this story, and
the authors provide vivid details of strength training’s impact
on the gridiron, most significantly when University of Nebraska
football coach Bob Devaney hired Boyd Epley as a strength coach in
1969. National championships for the Huskers soon followed, leading
Epley to launch the game-changing National Strength Coaches
Association. Dozens of other influences are explored with equal
verve, from the iconic Milo Barbell Company to the wildly popular
fitness magazines that challenged physicians’ warnings against
strenuous exercise. Charting the rise of a new athletic profession,
Strength Coaching in America captures an important transformation
in the culture of American sport.
In the dead-end Canadian town of Bleak Landing, twelve-year-old
Irish immigrant Bridget O'Sullivan lives in a ramshackle house and
dreams of another life, even as the Great Depression rages.
Routinely beaten by her father and bullied by schoolmate Victor
Harrison, the waifish yet fiery redhead vows to run away and never
return. Just a few short years later, run she does-fleeing the
unspeakable repercussions of her father's gambling. In Winnipeg,
Bridget lands a job at a garment factory, the first step on her
journey to shed her past and begin anew. When her father dies,
Bridget-now a striking and accomplished woman-returns home to claim
her inheritance. But she has no identification to prove her stake,
and no one in town recognizes her-except Victor, who has become a
pastor and a candidate for town mayor. Though war has wounded him,
his secret affection for Bridget remains, and now he's the only one
who can help her prove her integrity. But can he also prove he's a
changed man worthy of her forgiveness? As Victor preaches of
freedom in faith, will his words spark Bridget's once-hopeless
heart and lead her to the life she's been seeking?
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