The Jew is Not My Enemy

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Signal | Religion; Political Science; History - Jewish
978-0-7710-4784-8 (0-7710-4784-3)

December 6, 2011 | $18.99



CHAPTER ONE
 
“O Allah, Completely Destroy and Shatter the Jews”
 
 
“When you kill one [Jew] . . . it is worth more than killing fifty people.” The voice of the Pakistani commander crackles over the cellphone as he urges on two jihadis who have taken over the ultra-Orthodox Chabad House in Mumbai on...

Why the West Rules - For Now

Trade Paperback | 768 pages | Emblem Editions | History - Civilization; History - Social History; History - World
978-0-7710-6456-2 (0-7710-6456-X)

December 6, 2011 | $26.99



1
 
BEFORE EAST AND WEST
 
 
WHAT IS THE WEST?
“When a man is tired of London,” said Samuel Johnson, “he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can aff ord.” It was 1777, and every current of thought, every bright new invention, was energizing Dr. Johnson’s hometown. London had...

Genesis

Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Science Fiction; Fiction - Science Fiction - High Tech
978-0-7710-1124-5 (0-7710-1124-5)

November 29, 2011 | $14.99



Anax moved down the long corridor. The only sound was the gentle hiss of the air filter overhead. The lights were down low, as demanded by the new regulations. She remembered brighter days, but never spoke of them. It was one of the Great Mistakes, thinking of brightness as a quality...

The Final Call

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | FENN-M&S | Sports & Recreation - Hockey
978-0-7710-4798-5 (0-7710-4798-3)

November 15, 2011 | $21.99



The relatively short walk along the rubber mat from the officials’ dressing room to the ice at the Wachovia Center, home of the Philadelphia Flyers, seems longer today. The kind word and pat on the back I always receive from Louie, our dressing-room-door attendant, is softer than usual. It has the...

Exporting Democracy

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Political Science - International Relations; Political Science - Democracy; Social Science
978-0-7710-7290-1 (0-7710-7290-2)

November 1, 2011 | $21.00



Chapter 1
THE WORLD IN OUR IMAGE:
The Challenge of Sharing Democracy and Human Rights
 
 
Today it’s possible for people in almost half the countries of the world to say, “We’re democrats now.” This does not mean that democracy can be taken for granted, that history is over, or that different people mean the...

A Wicked Company

Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Emblem Editions | History - Europe
978-0-7710-1649-3 (0-7710-1649-2)

November 1, 2011 | $22.99



Chapter 1
CITY OF LIGHTS
 
 
Paris is a metropolis to which the bright and ambitious have been drawn for centuries. The lives of the protagonists of this story unfolded on its streets—in its parks, cafés, salons, and bedrooms (and, occasionally, in the country estates dotted around the capital or on a voyage abroad...

Eastern Passage

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7710-6492-0 (0-7710-6492-6)

October 25, 2011 | $21.00



1
IN FROM THE COLD
 
 
We had been waiting almost a month for Gunnar’s plane when, on the first day of October, I stepped out of the cabin to find the nearby gravel ridges alive with dense flocks of ptarmigan making their way south ahead of winter. When I paddled off to haul...

I Love Your Laugh

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Humor; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-7710-4135-8 (0-7710-4135-7)

October 25, 2011 | $19.99



ONE
Welcome to Myself
 
 
Hello. I hope you’re having a great day. I sure am. Just this morning I was on my front lawn, sitting cross-legged in my beautiful dress, playing with my adorable children. Scott, my handsome husband, came outside and motioned subtly for me to close my legs.
 
Me: Oops, was my...

The Paper Garden

Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography - Artist, Architect, Photographer; Biography & Autobiography - Women; Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-7710-7036-5 (0-7710-7036-5)

October 25, 2011 | $22.00



Chapter One.
Seedcase
 
 
Imagine starting your life’s work at seventy-two. At just that age, Mary Granville Pendarves Delany (May 14, 1700–April 15, 1788), a fan of George Frideric Handel, a sometime dinner partner of satirist Jonathan Swift, a wearer of green-hooped satin gowns, and a fiercely devoted subject of blond King George iii...

Writing Gordon Lightfoot

Hardcover | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians
978-0-7710-1262-4 (0-7710-1262-4)

October 18, 2011 | $29.99



Hey, Gord. Or Gordon. Or Mr. Lightfoot. No, I’m going to call you Gord, and I hope that’s okay. You don’t know me, but I know you. We all know you. You’re in our heads. You’re in the walls of our hearts. Your melodies hang and swerve over the great open...

Ithaca

Hardcover | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction
978-0-7710-2592-1 (0-7710-2592-0)

October 11, 2011 | $29.99



It is the most dramatic flight path in the world. Four tremendous mountains, feet planted in snowfields, peaks ventilating the sky: Everest, imperious and distinctive, a plume of snow jetting from its crown; Makalu, saw-toothed and threatening even when the sun is shining; Lhotse, a thunderclap of a mountain, its bulk...

My First Goal

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Sports & Recreation - Hockey
978-0-7710-1682-0 (0-7710-1682-4)

October 11, 2011 | $19.99



BOBBY ORR
OCTOBER 22, 1966
 
There have been many superstars in the history of the National Hockey League, but when it comes down to the question of the best player ever, the debate generally centres around two players: Bobby Orr and Wayne Gretzky. And it’s a close race, too. Gretzky set just about...

Before the Poison

Hardcover | 448 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction
978-0-7710-7622-0 (0-7710-7622-3)

October 4, 2011 | $29.99

Famous Trials: Grace Elizabeth Fox, April 1953, by Sir Charles Hamilton Morley
 
Grace Elizabeth Fox rose from her bed and dressed with the aid of her young Attending Officer Mary Swann at 6.30 AM on the morning of 23rd April, 1953. She ate a light breakfast of toast, marmalade and tea, then...

The Greatest Game

Trade Paperback | 336 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Sports & Recreation - Hockey
978-0-7710-2635-5 (0-7710-2635-8)

October 4, 2011 | $21.00



1. A RUDE AWAKENING
 
 
Stockholm, Sweden, March 7, 1954. Canada is a country often divided by geographic, spiritual, and linguistic differences, and yet there is one sport that can bring everyone together. The first organized indoor hockey game on ice took place in Montreal on March 3, 1875, and by the dawn...

Mary Boleyn

Hardcover | 400 pages | McClelland & Stewart | History - Great Britain
978-0-7710-8922-0 (0-7710-8922-8)

October 4, 2011 | $32.00



Blickling Hall, one of England’s greatest Jacobean showpiece mansions, lies not two miles northwest of Aylsham in Norfolk. It is a beautiful place, surrounded by woods, farms, sweeping parkland and gardens—gardens that were old in the fifteenth century, and which once surrounded the fifteenth century moated manor house of the Boleyn...