Winner of Canada Reads 2013 and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's Day storm. All eighty-four men aboard died. February is the story of Helen O'...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Moore, LisaSummary: - Author:Dobbie, HollySummary:
No one at school knew that fifteen-year-old Aggie and her mother were hoarders until the Idiot Boys. That made her even more a target of bullies than she was before. At home, aka The Dump, her loneliness and despair are further...
- Author:Palahniuk, ChuckSummary:
First there was the insomnia. Then there were the support groups that helped him sleep. Then Marla Singer turned up, muscled in on ascending bowel cancer and ruined everything. Then he met Tyler Durden. Then came Fight Club. Fight Club...
- Author:Goulet, AnnieSummary:
Violaine a d'abord perdu un chat, puis une amie. Douze ans plus tard, seul le chat, maintenant vieux, lui est rendu. De l'amie, elle ne sait plus rien. Un livre né de grandes préoccupations: celle d'extirper...
- Author:Watson, S. J.Summary:
A gripping new psychological thriller from S.J. Watson, the New York Times bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep, in which a documentary filmmaker travels to a sleepy fishing village to shoot her new film and encounters a dark...
- Author:Meuleman, SarahSummary:
From Vogue Amsterdam columnist Sarah Meuleman comes a haunting, whip-smart debut novel about second chances and the lengths one young woman will go to keep her dark secrets sealed in the past. 1996. In the sleepy hamlet of Bachte-Maria-...
- Author:Barclay, LinwoodSummary:
When tech millionaire Miles Cookson learns the kids born of his sperm bank donations could inherit the terminal disease he was just diagnosed with, he searches for them. But when he finds one, he learns that the other potential heirs to...
- Author:Quatro, JamieSummary:
Jamie Quatro’s remarkable first book of stories, I Want to Show You More, published to spectacular reviews, announced her arrival to American letters as “a writer of great originality” (New York Times Book Review). Now, with her debut...
- Author:Flanagan, RichardSummary:
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as their lives become increasingly...
- Author:Quennec, LindaSummary:
Kate, a somewhat clumsy widow of thirty-two, flees her stifling hometown on Vancouver Island to live alone on an even smaller island in the Salish Sea. In so doing, she has vague expectations of solace and sanctuary, despite past...
- Author:Ryan, DarleneSummary:
D'Arcy's dad is dead. She desperately wants it to have been an accident, but she is not sure. And when she learns the truth, things become even more difficult. Why would her father choose suicide? Why didn't she see the signs? Her...
- Author:Zorn, AliceSummary:
2017 Evergreen Award, Forest of Reading — Nominated A sister. A baby. A man who watches from the trees. Fara and her husband buy a house with a disturbing history that reawakens memories of her own family tragedy. Maddy still lives in...
- Author:Daher, AnitaSummary:
Kaylee used to love to fly. With two pilots for parents, how could she not? But when her father's plane goes down and neither the wreckage nor his body is found, she develops a terror of flying. She is too afraid to convince her mother...
- Author:KEYES, DanielSummary:
Charlie Gordon has an IQ of only sixty-eight and, the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, he conscientiously sweeps the floor in his local bakery until he is recommended to some university researchers. They have successfully operated...
- Author:Krukoff, DevinSummary:
Through a protracted series of vignettes, Krukoff transforms Flyways into an interconnected, psychologically intense novel. Exploring the concept of Six Degrees of Separation, the work dramatizes people's unseen connections to...
- Author:Sullivan, Felicia C.Summary:
What happens when children are denied love and then left to their own devices' Follow Me into the Dark traces the unraveling of a family marred by perverse intergenerational abuse. Kate is a young baker whose mother is dying of cancer....
- Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
Tragedy and mental illness have been dark companions of Rae Newborn for more than 50 years. Her life seems to start rebuilding itself, though, when she moves to a deserted island to restore the house her mysterious great-uncle built in...
- Author:Fu, KimSummary:
Peter, the only boy among four siblings born to Chinese immigrants, is convinced he is a girl and must fight the confines of a small town as well as the expectations of his parents to forge his own path into adulthood.
- Author:Downing, SamanthaSummary:
Teddy Crutcher has won Teacher of the Year at the prestigious Belmont Academy, home to the best and brightest. He says his wife couldn't be more proud-- though no one has seen her in a while. Teddy really can't be bothered...
- Author:McKenzie, CatherineSummary:
Emma Tupper is a dedicated lawyer with a bright future. But when she takes a month-long leave of absence to go on an African vacation, she ends up facing unexpected consequences. After she falls ill and spends six months trapped in a...
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