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The reliably unreliable narrator Jack Handey and his friend, Don--who might be familiar to fans of "Deep Thoughts"--go on a quest for the Golden Monkey that takes them into the mysterious and stinky foreign land of Honolulu. There, they meet with untold dangers, strange natives, and the ruins of ancient civilizations.

Joe Spork repairs clocks, a far cry from his late father, a flashy London gangster. But when Joe fixes one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. Joe's client, Edie Banister, is more than just a kindly old lady, she's a former superspy. And the device? It's a 1950s doomsday machine. And having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie's old archnemesis.

Aspiring novelist Molly MacGregor's life is strikingly different from a literary heroine's. Named for one of literature's least romantic protagonists, Moll Flanders, Molly lives in Edmonton, a city she finds irredeemably unromantic, where she writes university term papers instead of novels, and sells shoes in the Largest Mall on Earth. There she seeks the other half of her young life's own matched pair. Delightfully whimsical, Heidi L.M.

For fans of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and P.G. Wodehouse. Where do you go after you die? Detroit. Something's rotten in the afterlife. At least that's how it seems to Rhinnick Feynman, the one man who perceives that someone in the afterlife is tugging at history's threads and retroactively unraveling the past. Doing his best to navigate a netherworld in which history won't stop changing for the worse, Rhinnick sets off on a quest to put things right.

Mariuccia Umbellino is a young woman living in the remote mountain village of Montemonaco, Italy, in the early years of the 19th century. Nearby, the secret recesses of the Grotto of the Fates-home to an ancient oracle of Apollo-are about to be invaded and destroyed, on orders from the Pope. But the men sent to do the dirty work don't know who (or what) they're dealing with. This oracle and this girl won't be messed with. In the dark of night, Mariuccia and her mother set out to rescue their revered oracle.

Eleven-year-old P.T. Wilkie may be the greatest storyteller alive. But he knows one thing for a fact: the Wonderland Motel is the best place a kid could ever live! All-you-can-eat poolside ice cream! A snack machine in the living room! A frog slide! A giant rampaging alligator! (Okay, that last one may or may not be made up.) There's only one thing the Wonderland doesn't have, though -- customers. And if the Wonderland doesn't get them soon, P.T. and his friend Gloria may have to say goodbye to their beloved motel forever. They need to think BIG. They need to think BOLD.

Lucy Tremblay signe depuis peu une toute nouvelle rubrique destinée aux femmes dans le journal du quartier. Elle leur livre des conseils pour déjouer la nature et paraître plus jeune. Bientôt obsédée par cette idée, la pétillante sexagénaire ne tardera pas à appliquer ses propres recommandations au quotidien et à emprunter un style de vie correspondant à l'image qu'elle espère refléter.

La suite de L'invité surprise du G7 Comment ne pas être effrayé par une voix qui vous menace chez vous ? Par un être surnaturel capable de projeter des objets et de vous frapper sans être vu... Quelquefois, il fallait tuer. Maquiller une mort en suicide ou en accident. Georges Delson le faisait pour la cause de ceux qui le couvraient d'or !

« Quand je l'ai vu entrer dans la classe, plus jeune que mon père, plus beau que mon plus charmant cousin germain, j'ai compris tout de suite que j'avais un cœur qui pouvait battre à cent milles à l'heure. Je me suis aperçue, ce jour-là, que les hommes n'étaient pas toujours des oncles, des docteurs, des travailleurs, des messieurs ou de vieux curés dominants ! Romain, tu venais de t'approprier mon petit cœur d'écolière de première année.

Collecting the best of Bogart Creek, Derek Evernden's laugh out loud funny, single-panel comics of absurd and dark humour. Similar in style to The Far Side, Bogart Creek is a perfect book for washroom reading.