Country singer Kayleigh Towne shot to the top of the charts with her smash hit single, 'Your Shadow.' But sometimes fame comes at a price. An insane fan has made Kayleigh the target of his craze obsession. Soon, her friends...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
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Auteur:Deaver, JefferySommaire: - Auteur:Friesen, BerniceSommaire:
Universal Disorder is about a young boy growing up on the Canadian Prairies in the 1970s and 1980s; he has developmental disorders -- is on the autism spectrum and has OCD -- and finds solace in the world of numbers. Years later, he...
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Auteur:Green, JohnSommaire:"This novel is by far [Green's] most difficult to read. It's also his most astonishing. So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung." - The New York Times "A tender story about learning to cope when the world...
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Auteur:Bennett, JeremySommaire:“Jeremy Bennett’s remarkable story is familiar to me since I too suffered from an early bout with a difficult mental/physical disorder. In my case it was stammering and I found that by practicing magic in front of a mirror and doing...
- Auteur:McAnulty, StacySommaire:
A lightning strike gave her a super power...but even a super genius can't solve the problem of middle school. This smart and funny novel is perfect for fans of The Fourteenth Goldfish , Rain Reign , and Counting by Sevens . Lucy...
- Auteur:Adam, DavidSommaire:
David has suffered from OCD for twenty years, and The Man Who Couldn't Stop is his unflinchingly honest attempt to understand the condition and his experiences. What might lead an Ethiopian schoolgirl to eat a wall of her house, piece...
- Auteur:Thompson, LisaSommaire:
Lisa Thompson's debut novel is a page-turning mystery with an emotionally-driven, complex character study at its core -- like Rear Window meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Matthew Corbin suffers from severe...
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Auteur:Malarchuk, ClintSommaire:No job in the world of sports is as intimidating, exhilarating and as stress-ridden as that of a hockey goaltender. Standing in the crease facing one-hundred-mile-an-hour slapshots, the entire game riding on your glove hand, standing on...
- Auteur:Bird, JamesSommaire:
Collin can't help himself - he has a unique condition that finds him counting every letter spoken to him. It's a quirk that makes him a prime target for bullies, and a continual frustration to the adults around him, including...
- Auteur:Summerscale, KateSommaire:
From the winner of the Edgar Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize, a cultural history of "everyday madness", The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar,...
- Auteur:Réhel, Jean-ChristopheSommaire:
It's a long way from a basement apartment in a Montreal suburb to a new life on a fictional planet, but that's the destination our unnamed narrator has set his sights on, bringing readers with him on an off-beat and often hilarious...
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Auteur:Proust, MarcelSommaire:The taste of a madeleine dipped in tea transports a man into a reverie about his old family friend Charles Swann and launches the world’s the most introspective literary masterpiece. The first of the seven-volume Remembrance of Things...
- Auteur:Dickner, NicolasSommaire:
Où l'on raconte l'histoire d'une jeune fille qui désire repousser les limites de l'expérience humaine, d'un hacker qui veut optimiser la circulation mondiale des bananes et des coussins, d'une employée de la GRC qui rêve d'en finir une...
- Auteur:Demers, CharlesSommaire:
The endearing and unflappable Dr. Annick Boudreau regularly confronts a myriad of mental health issues in her psychology practice at the West Coast Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Clinic in Vancouver, British Columbia. But even Annick is...
- Auteur:King, WesleySommaire:
From the author of Incredible Space Raiders from Space! comes a coming-of-age story about a boy whose life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder-until he gets a mysterious note that changes everything. Daniel is the...
- Auteur:Richler, MordecaiSommaire:
Le bouillant Barney Panofsky s’est toujours laissé guider par deux croyances : la vie est absurde et les humains sont incapables de se comprendre véritablement. Alors, pourquoi se priver ? Beuveries, parties de hockey et de jambes en l’...
- Auteur:Baer, LeeSommaire:
The first comprehensive guide to treating OCD based on clinically proven behavioral therapy techniques, Dr. Baer has been providing OCD sufferers with information and relief for more than twenty years.
- Auteur:McEwan, IanSommaire:
After a chance meeting, Jed Perry begins to stalk author Joe Rose. Driven by religious zeal and misdirected love, the strange young man will slowly unravel each strand of Joe's life.
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Auteur:Van Tol, AlexSommaire:Fourteen-year-old Chick struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and his father's expectations.
- Auteur:Dunn, Claire RossSommaire:
At Last Count is a novel that flips between the protagonist's broadly appealing coming-of-age journey and her complicated inner adult world as a woman living with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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