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Featuring great reads from
Doubleday, Knopf, Random House,
McClelland & Stewart plus more.
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This morning, Random House of Canada and McClelland & Stewart were deeply saddened to hear of Christopher Hitchens' passing after a long battle with cancer. To quote Doug Pepper, President of McClelland & Stewart, his Canadian Publisher, "Christopher dealt with his illness as he did his life leading up to it: with wit, insight, incredible intellectual productivity, and extreme courage. We are all terribly saddened by his passing—his was an incredible life cut short and we send his family our heart-felt regrets and sympathy. We are honoured to be his publishers, and in that role to have brought and continue to bring his work to Canadian readers. He will be missed but his great and inspiring legacy will live on."
We may have lost the man, but the voice remains. With the deepest respect, we present Christopher Hitchens' works.
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The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon
Jamie Fraser, a Scottish Jacobite officer paroled as a prisoner of war on an estate in the Lake District, finds the numbness of his days disturbed. First, by dreams of his dead wife, then by the presence of the small son he cannot claim. Much more disturbing is the sudden reappearance in his life of Lord John Grey, with a summons that will take him - again - from everything he values. A legacy from a dead friend has led Lord John and his brother Hal in pursuit of a corrupt army officer, along a trail of politics and murder. The matter becomes critical when the trail leads into Ireland, with a baffling message left in the tongue called "Erse" - the language spoken by Scottish Highlanders. Jamie is forced to help the Greys, in order to guard his own secrets. But the Greys have secrets, too, which may deprive him of his life, as well as his liberty.
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The Litigators by John Grisham
The partners at Finley & Figg—all two of them—refer to themselves as "a boutique firm", as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break. David Zinc, a young but burned-out attorney, walks away from his fast-track career, goes on a serious bender, and finds himself literally at the doorstep of our boutique firm. With their new associate, F&F is ready to tackle a really big case, a case that could make the partners rich. An extremely popular drug, the number one cholesterol reducer for the dangerously overweight, produced by a giant pharmaceutical company, has recently come under fire after several patients taking it have suffered heart attacks. Finley & Figg smell money. It almost seems too good to be true.
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The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje 
An eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly "Cat's Table" with an eccentric and unforgettable group of grownups and two other boys. Looking back from deep within adulthood, and moving back and forth from the decks and holds of the ship to the years that follow the narrator unfolds a spellbinding and layered tale about the magical, often forbidden discoveries of childhood and the burdens of earned understanding, about a life-long journey that began unexpectedly with a sea voyage.
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The Forgotten Affairs of Youth by Alexander McCall Smith
As the editor of an applied ethics journal, Isabel Dalhousie is usually tucked away in her office, in the comfortable Edinburgh house she shares with her fiancé and their young son, and does not often meet many fellow philosophers. But while helping in the delicatessen owned by her niece, Cat, she meets Jane Cooper, an Australian philosopher who is spending a sabbatical in Scotland. Jane needs to find out something about her past. Jane was born in Scotland but taken to Australia as a baby by her adoptive parents. She knows who her mother is, but her father's identity is still a mystery. Can Isabel help Jane unconver this important and potentially unsettling information?
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Beyond Religion by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
A bracing and essential modern-day polemic from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Beyond Religion is a blueprint for all those who yearn for a life of spiritual fulfillment as they work for a better world. This is HHDL's new model for mutual respect and understanding - rooted in our shared humanity - between religious believers and non-believers.
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The Infinity Puzzle by Frank Close
About 40 years ago, 3 brilliant, yet little-known scientists made breakthroughs that later inspired the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva: a 27-kilometre-long machine which has already cost $10 billion, taken 20 years to build and now promises to reveal how the universe itself came to be. The Infinity Puzzle is the inside story of those 40 years of research and breakthrough. The scientific discoveries are played out across the decades against a backdrop of high politics, low behaviour and billion-dollar budgets. In The Infinity Puzzle, eminent physicist and award-winning author Frank Close writes from within the action and draws upon his close friendships with those involved.
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