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A laugh-out-loud, adults-only bedtime story for parents familiar with the age-old struggle of putting their kids to bed. Go the Fuck to Sleep is a book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar and unspoken tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. Read by a host of celebrities, from Samuel L.

When Stacey Fortune is diagnosed with three highly unpredictable - and inoperable - brain tumours, she abandons the crumbling glamour of her life in Toronto for her mother Effie's scruffy trailer in rural Cape Breton. Back home, she's known as Crow, and everybody suspects that her family is cursed. With her future all but sealed, Crow decides to go down in a blaze of unforgettable glory by writing a memoir that will raise eyebrows and drop jaws.

"Felix, you are a dreamer. I used to be, too, but there's no payoff in it.' Felix Ryan, from Curlew, Conception Bay, has been in love with the enigmatic Ellen Monteau ever since the day he met her in school at Smallwood High. Friends and family try to warn him that she is nothing but trouble, but she is Helen of Troy and he longs to be her King Menelaus . . . or Prince Paris.

From the beloved and bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a lighthearted comedic novel about a Swedish police department tasked with solving the most unusual, complicated, and, often, insignificant crimes.

Cameron Boxer, king of the slackers, has found something worth his time. By playing video games online in front of an audience he can find both fame AND fortune -- especially with Elvis (a beaver who seems to love video games as much as Cam) at his side.The only problem? Things keep getting in Cam's way. Like school. And the club he accidentally started.

Stevie, a recovering alcoholic and kitchen manager of Chappy's, a small-chain restaurant, is frantically trying to prevent the people around her from going supernova: her PTSD-suffering veteran son, her uproariously demented parents, the polyglot eccentrics who work in her kitchen, the blind geriatric dog she inherits, and a damaged five-year-old who landed on her doorstep and might just be her granddaughter.

Seventeen-year-old Zelda Bailey-Cho has her future all planned out: improv camp, then Second City, and finally Saturday Night Live. She's thrilled when she lands a spot on the coveted varsity team at a prestigious improv camp, which means she'll get to perform for professional scouts-including her hero, Nina Knightley. But even though she's hardworking and talented, Zelda's also the only girl on Varsity, so she's a target for humiliation from her teammates. And her twenty-year-old coach Ben is cruel to her at practice and way too nice to her when they're alone...

This is the Cat is a deeply darkly humorous tale as shared by one Bridie Savage. Bridie is struggling to recover from a toothache of the heart "...always a Bridie, never a Bride..." when she loses her job. At a time when many of her friends are thinking about retiring Bridie finds herself trying to convince Walmart that they need a Playwright-in-Residence. Then her beloved Uncle Beeswax passes away and instead of finding money in the walls of his old homestead she finds she's carted away a pack of ghosts, both figurative and literal.

La Saint Valentin, j'ai horreur de ça. Et pour cause : c'est le jour qu'a choisi Mike, mon fiancé, pour m'annoncer que tout était fini entre nous. Avouez que question délicatesse, on peut trouver mieux ! Cette année, je mets donc un point d'honneur à ne pas célébrer la « fête des amoureux ». D'ailleurs j'ai vraiment mieux à faire : ranger mes placards, trier mes relevés bancaires, et me lover confortablement dans mon canapé avec mes deux chats pour rattraper tous les épisodes de Sex and the City que j'ai ratés.

Manon en est sûre, elle a la poisse. Ou alors elle est victime d’une curieuse malédiction qui sévit tous les 31 décembre. Car ses soirées du jour de l’an sont toujours plus désastreuses les unes que les autres. Et, visiblement, celle-ci ne fera pas exception… Elle a renversé son verre sur Raphaël, sa target, avant même de lui adresser la parole, et un voisin râleur a menacé d’appeler la police pile au moment où elle allait se faire pardonner. Heureusement, Manon a pu se rattraper en passant la nuit avec Raphaël. Enfin, c’est ce qu’elle croyait.