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Shania Twain Queen of Me

Five-time GRAMMY® award winning and multi-platinum selling icon Shania Twain has released her latest album. 'Queen of Me' is the sixth studio album by the Canadian singer and songwriter. It is her first album since 'Now' (2017), and is her first to not be released with her previous label of 29 years, Mercury Nashville. The album was promoted with the release of two singles: 'Waking Up Dreaming' and 'Giddy Up!', and will be supported by the 'Queen of Me' World Tour starting in April this year. It's described as "the superstar's most triumphant-feeling body of work; an album about standing in your own power and worshipping yourself". Its lead single 'Waking Up Dreaming' was co-written and produced with BTS hit maker David Stewart.

"I want to carry a clear message, particularly as a woman, to always remember my power," the 57-year-old wrote on Instagram.

"These days, I'm feeling very comfortable in my own skin — and I think this album reflects that musically."

Author: Monica Heisey

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning in the wake of an unexpected breakup, from comedian, essayist, and award-winning screenwriter Monica Heisey. Maggie is fine. She’s doing really good, actually. Sure, she’s broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days, but at the ripe old age of 29, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorcée™. Now she has time to take up nine hobbies, eat hamburgers at 4am, and “get back out there” sex-wise. With the support of her tough-loving academic advisor, Merris; her newly divorced friend, Amy; and her group chat (naturally), Maggie barrels through her first year of single life, intermittently dating, occasionally waking up on the floor and asking herself tough questions along the way.

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Laugh-out-loud funny and filled with sharp observations, 'Really Good, Actually' is a tender and bittersweet comedy that lays bare the uncertainties of modern love, friendship, and our search for that thing we like to call “happiness”. This is a remarkable debut from an unforgettable new voice in fiction.

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