“If Stephen Leacock and Woody Allen had a baby, they would name it Patrick Ledwell.”

Hamilton Spectator columnist Paul Benedetti’s essays paint a wonderfully funny portrait of family life today.Paul Benedetti has a good job, a great family, and successful neighbours — but that doesn’t stop him from using it all as grist for a series of funny, real, and touching essays about a world he can’t quite navigate.Benedetti misses his son, who is travelling in Europe, misplaces his groceries, and forgets to pick up his daughter at school. H...

Foul your mouth—while expanding your Mandarin vocabulary—with a guide to the phrases that could get you a laugh . . . or a punch in the face.Next time you're traveling or just chattin' in Chinese with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:Cool slangFunny insultsExplicit sex termsRaw swear wordsDirty Chinese teaches the casua...

The Player's Guide provides the tools for effective communication with the opposite sex. This fun, funny, and effective guide shares the language and tactics of a successful Player. Based on years of experience blogging, and out on the town, this is a guide you should read, apply, and hide. The strategies are subtle, persuasive, and will create the rapport you need to enjoy your social life!

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. In "100+1 Romantic Tips," relationship expert Julianne Collelo offers a comprehensive guide to keeping the spark alive in your relationship. With over 100 practical and creative tips, this book is a must-have for anyone looking to add more romance and intimacy to their love life.From simple gestures like leaving love notes for your partner to more elaborate date night ideas, Collelo covers a wide ran...

Call it wisdom of the heart. Or the broken heart.A knowing, funny gift for everyone who's ever been in love and then out of love: the newly single, the lonely-hearted, and even the happily re-paired. Dear Old Love is a collection of anonymous love notes to the ones who got away—or were left behind. They're the notes that ex-lovers have written to set the record straight. Or crooked. They're concise, witty, melancholy, revealing, sweet, sentimental, outrageous, withering, i...

From comedian and journalist Faith Salie, of NPR's Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me! and CBS News Sunday Morning, a collection of daring, funny essays chronicling the author's adventures during her lifelong quest for approvalFaith Salie has done it all in the name of validation. Whether she’s trying to impress her parents with a perfect GPA, undergoing an exorcism to save her toxic marriage, or baking a 3D excavator cake for her son’s birthday, Salie is th...

Mindful living is happy living. This refreshing book from the creators of Happiness Is . . . illustrates 500 inspiring ways to slow down, unplug, de-stress, connect with others, and relish the simple moments in life: sitting under a ceiling fan on a hot day, taking lunch away from your desk, letting go of negative thoughts, a beach yoga session, and more. Featuring the brand's signature charming illustration style and friendly tone, this book sparks positive reflection and serves ...

Longlisted, 20188 Leacock Medal for HumourA hilarious collection of Jack Knox's best-loved humour columns.In this side-splitting follow-up to the bestseller Hard Knox: Musings from the Edge of Canada, Jack Knox presents his best writing, marking his twenty-year anniversary as a humour columnist at the Victoria Times Colonist, the newspaper that made him a household name. Revisiting his most—and least!—popular colu...

Vancouver news icon and co-host of CTV’s The Last Word,” Mike McCardell is the crafter of human-interest stories that counteract the doom and gloom of conventional news programming. With his unerring instinct for teasing out the powerful hook” of human connection from the most innocuous (or bizarre) events, McCardell’s unique perspective has endeared him to hundreds of thousands of fans.He has also collected many of his favourite stories within several essay collections that have...

In this busy world we live in today, all too often we seem to forget the little things that make other people feel great, and it makes their day. Simple things like holding a door open, asking how someone is doing and actually waiting to hear the answer, or helping someone out in an aisle of a grocery store. This book is about different ways we can do just that- make others feel good. And in return, the feeling we get is indescribable.

Let's face it, who has the time or inclination to topple a government these days? I mean, with daily obligations like video games and heavy drinking, it's hard to find the time to even get a parking ticket overturned. Never fear, Tiny Acts of Rebellion will show you hundreds of ways to revolt against the tedium of everyday life. Whether it's making rude gestures to a hotel clerk under the desk or making your own 'Do Not Disturb' sign that says 'Come In If You Like Swordplay', Rich...