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Psychological fiction

  • Author:
    Houde, Nicole
    Summary:

    Dans le premier récit de ce recueil, Céline affronte courageusement la mort. Atteinte d’un cancer foudroyant, elle refuse tout traitement palliatif et retourne à l’Anse-St-Jean, son village natal, pour renouer, une dernière fois, avec la beauté du monde. Puis, elle se surprend à rêver d’un miracle du frère André… car l’espoir, aussi dérisoire soit-il, est peut-être la dernière chose qui refuse de s’éteindre en elle. Le second récit cède la parole à Lise, une amie de Céline, qui tiendra sa promesse, car l’amitié sait durer au-delà de la mort. Deux lettres adressées à Charlotte, une amie disparue, terminent le recueil, montrant combien la mémoire des êtres chéris est inaltérable. Une folie sans lendemain est le huitième ouvrage de Nicole Houde. C’est une troublante mélopée, un livre à l’écriture dense, un hymne à la vie, à l’amour et à la liberté.

  • Author:
    Paule Baillargeon
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    Quatorze fois Huguette a été harcelée, touchée, embrassée contre son gré, violée. Quatorze fois elle s’est relevée, grelottante de honte ou couverte de sang. Et, comme toutes les Huguette, elle s’est refermée sur ses secrets. Quatorze fois, Huguette a survécu. Aujourd’hui qu’elle est vieille, lui reviennent les mots d’un poème ancien : « Ô madame, pourquoi ce chagrin qui vous suit ? » Alors, Huguette s’attelle à extraire de sa mémoire ces événements qui l’ont marquée. Exilée dans un conteneur sans fenêtre, au milieu d’un paysage beau et aride (comme dans son film préféré, L’homme sans passé), elle se consacre tout entière à la tâche. Une fille sans fusil est son histoire, celle d’une Huguette qui aurait voulu être Jeanne d’Arc.

  • Author:
    Lowry, Malcolm
    Summary:

    On a single, fateful day in Quauhnahuac, Mexico, 1938, a former British consul wrestles with his demons as his wife tries to rescue their marriage from his drinking problem.

  • Author:
    Gornall, Louise
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    Norah has agoraphobia and OCD. When groceries are left on the porch, she can't step out to get them. Struggling to snag the bags with a stick, she meets Luke. He's sweet and funny, and he just caught her fishing for groceries. Because of course he did. Norah can't leave the house, but can she let someone in' As their friendship grows deeper, Norah realizes Luke deserves a normal girl. One who can lie on the front lawn and look up at the stars. One who isn't so screwed up. Readers themselves will fall in love with Norah in this poignant, humorous, and deeply engaging portrait of a teen struggling to find the strength to face her demons.

  • Author:
    Pontbriand, Claire
    Summary:

    Agrippée aux hanches de Yann, grisée par le vent et ses dix-sept ans, elle se sentait invincible sur la moto. Tout lui était permis. La journée était encore chaude. Je portais mes nouveaux pantalons fuchsia. Leur couleur vibrait dans la lumière. Mes longs cheveux flottaient, griffant l’air derrière moi. Aujourd’hui, clouée sur un lit d’hôpital, elle fait face à un choix déchirant. Depuis onze mois, médecins et infirmières s’activent à son chevet. Les opérations se succèdent. Pourra-t-elle marcher à nouveau ? Elle veut qu’on lui réponde, qu’on lui dise la vérité, qu’on cesse de la tenir dans l’ignorance. Elle n’a que faire du silence de son médecin et de la pitié de ses amis. Dehors, le monde continue de tourner. C’est l’année de l’Expo. Décidée à ne pas oublier la lutteuse qu’elle était avant ce soir de juin, elle rêve, elle aussi, de voyages et de découvertes. Ce roman, construit sous la forme d’un journal, explore le combat de cette jeune fille : décider de vivre demande quelquefois plus de courage que choisir de mourir.

  • Author:
    Bouchard, Jocelyne, Dupont-Champagne, Christiane
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    Avec ce roman, Christiane Dupont-Champagne transmet son amour pour l'Afrique et son peuple ; elle y décrit d'une façon remarquable les émotions d'une jeune fille qui doit suivre sa famille dans un pays qui lui est totalement inconnu. Un séjour inopiné présente une année dans la vie d'une jeune fille au regard parfois ironique, mais le plus souvent aigu et acéré. La jeune Rachel part à la découverte d'elle-même, de l'amour et de l'Afrique avec parfois la rage au coeur. Ce roman à caractère social et psychologique apporte à travers ses chroniques, son lot d'aventures, de découvertes et d'émois amoureux.

  • Author:
    Brooks, Martha
    Summary:

    A year after her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Sidonie still spends sleepless nights playing cards with her cat, Bogie. During the day she lies around and reads under the nose of her nineteen-year-old sister, Roberta, who angrily scrubs floors that are already clean and cooks meals that are inedible. Their father, a doctor, comes home when he is too exhausted to remain at work. Only the jazz piano-playing of Roberta's new boyfriend, Phil, brings some relief to the long hot summer. Then Kieran, an angry sixteen-year-old stranger, comes to their lakeside community. Sidonie discovers that he isn't easy to ignore, and in the weeks that follow, her growing attraction to him is accompanied by more frequent, powerful memories of her mother.

  • Author:
    Maillard, Keith
    Summary:

    An engrossing, timely, and contemporary novel about the bonds between twins, about sexuality and gender fluidity, and about the messy complexities of modern family life - the much-anticipated new novel in more than a decade by acclaimed writer Keith Maillard.Dr. Erica Bauer - an identical twin - studies twins at the university in Vancouver. Through the course of her research, she meets a set of preteen twins who are evidently fraternal, but who insist emphatically that they are identical. Their mother, Karen Oxley, is a West Van single mum whose life is on the wrong road - and who discovers an urgent need to put it back on the right one. As Erica sets out to help the twins, their lives become increasingly intertwined in unexpected ways.Twin Studies is a masterful novel that explores the complicated bonds between twins and siblings, friends and lovers; the role of class and money; and the nature of gender and sexuality. It's a novel with characters who are real, their relationships a rich world that readers will thoroughly lose themselves in. No other contemporary novel so deftly explores the intersection between our inner lives and our public lives - that "we're not what people see."

  • Author:
    French, Nicci
    Summary:

    Psychotherapist Frieda Klein is called upon by DCI Karlsson to help solve a grisly murder in which the prime suspect is afflicted with a strange mental disorder. As the pair dig into the dead man's past, they find plenty of motive for murder, but questions remain about whether the real killer is still on the loose.

  • Author:
    Kay, Jackie
    Summary:

    The death of famous jazz musician Joss Moody brings to light a dark secret--one that leaves his adopted son Colman searching for answers, and his wife Millie fleeing for the solitude of a remote Scottish village.

  • Author:
    Reed Petty, Kate
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    “Spellbinding.” —Megan Abbott,  The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) “Extraordinary ... Fans of the formal inventiveness and twisty-turny narratives of  Trust Exercise  and  A Visit From the Goon Squad  will be immediately engrossed.” —R. Eric Thomas,  Elle,  “The Best Books of 2020 (So Far)”  NAMED ONE OF THE HOTTEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY AND BUZZFEED Tracing the fifteen-year fallout of a toxic high school rumor, a riveting, astonishingly original debut novel about the power of stories—and who gets to tell them 2015 . A gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, Alice Lovett makes a living helping other people tell their stories. But she is haunted by the one story she can't tell: the story of, as she puts it, "the things that happened while I was asleep." 1999 . Nick Brothers and his lacrosse teammates return for their senior year at their wealthy Maryland high school as the reigning state champions. They're on top of the world—until two of his friends drive a passed-out girl home from of the team's "legendary" parties, and a rumor about what happened in the backseat spreads through the town like wildfire. The boys deny the allegations, and, eventually, the town moves on. But not everyone can. Nick descends into alcoholism, and Alice builds a life in fits and starts, underestimating herself and placing her trust in the wrong people. When she finally gets the opportunity to confront the past she can't remember—but which has nevertheless shaped her life—will she take it? An inventive and breathtaking exploration of a woman finding her voice in the wake of trauma, True Story is part psychological thriller, part fever dream, and part timely comment on sexual assault, power, and the very nature of truth. Ingeniously constructed and full of twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the final pages, it marks the debut of a singular and daring new voice in fiction.

  • Author:
    Kobayashi, Erika
    Summary:

    Nine years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, Japan is preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. An unnamed narrator wakes up in a cold, sterile room, unable to recall her past. Across the country, the elderly begin to hear voices emanating from black stones, compelling them to behave in strange and unpredictable ways. The voices are a symptom of a disease called "Trinity."

  • Author:
    Rachel Cusk
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    In the wake of family collapse, a writer moves to London with her two young sons. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions—personal, moral, artistic, practical—as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.

    Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility, and the mystery of change. In this precise, short, and yet epic novel, Cusk manages to describe the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life, through a narrative near-silence that draws language toward it. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one’s life and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.

  • Author:
    Mona, Awad
    Summary:

    La vie de Miranda, professeure de théâtre à l'université, est un cauchemar éveillé. L'accident qui a mis fin à sa prometteuse carrière de comédienne lui a laissé des douleurs chroniques aiguës. Tout semble lui filer entre les doigts, jusqu'à ce qu'elle rencontre trois étranges bienfaiteurs... Tout est bien est l'histoire d'une femme à son point de rupture ainsi qu'une dénonciation extraordinaire et impitoyablement drôle de notre refus collectif de reconnaître la douleur des femmes. Un roman subversif et puissant.

  • Author:
    Hooper, Kay.
    Summary:

    A criminal is stalking women on the streets of Seattle. Four have been abducted, beaten, then blinded by this monster. Police sketch artist Maggie Barnes is called upon for her uncanny ability to listen to a victim's story and construct an almost perfect image of the attacker. Only one survivor has the ability to describe her ordeal, and now the police are counting on Maggie to give them some clue as to his identity before he strikes again -- but what is the secret connection between Maggie and this mystery assailant?

  • Author:
    Pearson, Ryne Douglas
    Summary:

    An artful criminal is hell-bent on killing his way to the top of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List, in this electrifying tale of madness and murder.

  • Author:
    Woolf, Virginia
    Summary:

    Just before the First World War, the Ramsay family go to their holiday home in the Hebrides, bringing several guests with them. While they are there, one of the children wants to visit a lighthouse. After a ten year gap, during which the war wreaks its havoc on Europe, one of the guests returns to the house; and another trip to the lighthouse is proposed. Told from multiple viewpoints, in language that is precise, delicate and allusive, To The Lighthouse gives unprecedented insight into the minds of the characters, as well as telling a broader story of personal and social change in the world after the war. To The Lighthouse is a landmark work of English fiction. Virginia Woolf explores perception and meaning in some of the most beautiful prose ever written, minutely detailing the characters thoughts and impressions.

  • Author:
    Macmillan, Gilly
    Summary:

    When mystery writer Lucy Harper's husband suddenly goes missing, his disappearance evokes dark memories that take Lucy back more than thirty years, to the day her brother vanished.

  • Author:
    Heti, Sheila
    Summary:

    Ticknor is the first novel by Sheila Heti, the author of the acclaimed story collection The Middle Stories and, with Misha Glouberman, the essay collection The Chairs are Where the People Go. George Ticknor is trying to reconcile his own failure with the success of his boyhood friend, the famous American historian William Prescott. Ticknor's life has been reduced to a series of awkward meetings, failed dinner parties, and other misfortunes he is loath to own up to. Situated in the complicated and contradictory moments that make friendships both tenuous and difficult to relinquish, Ticknor's fixated thoughts about his and Prescott's dissimilar fates lead him through a litany of rationalizations and recriminations, a psychological maze that is paranoid and harrowing as well as ludicrous and absurd. In George Ticknor, Sheila Heti has created a memorable new hero of Prufrockian dimension. Ticknor is an exquisite singularity.

  • Author:
    Debbie Macomber
    Summary:

    Claire, Elizabeth, Karen, and Julia meet every Thursday for breakfast to share the events that are happening in their lives, from a painful divorce to an unexpected pregnancy, and to offer each other undying support, love, and encouragement.

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