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THINKING IN NEW BOXES
DE BRABANDERE, LUC
A new paradigm for business creativity.
BUSINESS
RANDOM HOUSE
9780345542380
$32.00 HC
SEPTEMBER 2013
352 PAGES
THE THIRD RAIL
LEECH, JIM
Over the next 20 years more than 7 million Canadian workers will retire. Baby boomers, the 45- to 65-
year-olds who account for 42% of the country's workforce, will join the largest job exodus in Canadian
history, moving the promised land of retirement. Unless our crumbling pension system is reformed, many
of these reitrees will find this dreamland a bewildering and disappointing mirage. In the early 1980s,
consumers were setting aside 20% of their disposable incomes to their retirement plans; today the
savings rate is a threadbare 2.5%. Retirement savings plans meant to build Canadians' personal war
chests for their final years have failed to live up to their cheery promises of early retirement "freedom" -
market returns are low, and financial fees are climbing. Moreover, retirement plans are now being
compromised by high pension obligations and a shrinking workforce. Canada has the capacity to diffuse
this ticking pension time bomb with some hard choices, posits Leech. It's time for businesses,
governments, unions, and employees to face these options and fix our pensions system, taking examples
from Holland, New Brunswick, and Rhode Island.
CURRENT AFFAIRS
SIGNAL
9780771046636
$29.95 HC
OCTOBER 2013
1ST PRINTING 7500 IN CANADA
224 PAGES
THIS IS THE STORY OF A HAPPY MARRIAGE
PATCHETT, ANN
Ann Patchett’s novels have been feats of imagination—from the tale of an opera singer held hostage
inside a vice presidential mansion, to a forgotten tribe along the banks of the Amazon river—she has
created entire worlds for the reader to inhabit. Now, with her new book, she puts fiction aside and invites
us into the very real world of her own life. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is both wide-ranging and
deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom. Stretching from her
tumultuous childhood, from a disastrous early marriage and a later happy one, she charts the hard work
and joy of writing, and the unexpected thrill of opening a bookstore. Patchett shares stories of the people,
places, ideals, and art to which she has remained indelibly committed.
MEMOIR 1ST PRINTING 100,000
HARPER
320 PAGES
9780062236678
$36.99 HC LARGE PRINT EDITION:
NOVEMBER 2013 9780062278531 ($36.99)
AUDIO DISC:
9780062282866 ($48.50)