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Histories, memoirs and tactics books, and how to read them well.

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Random Hockey Book of the Week, Week 6: Z Is for Zamboni

A holiday pick for the youngest hockey fans: Matt Napier's rhymes and Melanie Rose's illustrations walk beginners through an alphabet of the game.

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Random Hockey Book of the Week, Week 7: Defining Moments

A late post, a good reason for it, and a book that is not even out yet: 100 players, 100 career moments, from Hall of Famers to current stars.

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Random Hockey Book of the Week, Week 8: Hockey ABC for Kids

A board book from Christopher Jordan's My First NHL Book series, built to survive a lil' enforcer and teach an alphabet from Arenas to Zambonis.

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Random Hockey Book of the Week, Week 9: The Official History

A Christmas Eve pick, officially one day late: the illustrated NHL history published in 2010, from a chilly day in 1917 to the Big Red Machine.

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Random Hockey Book of the Week, Week 10: The Code

The feature returns with Ross Bernstein on fighting and retaliation: the unwritten rules that pick up where the rule book leaves off, in 50 interviews.

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Norway's Women's Hockey Breakthrough: The Oilers in Europe

How the Oilers built a women program, qualified for the Euro Cup and changed what Norwegian hockey expects from itself, measured against Sweden and Finland.

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