From #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr comes the story of four friends determined to find their stride. This honest look at marriage examines the challenges, heartaches and sacrifices along with the joy in discovering what...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Carr, RobynSummary: - Author:Salinger, J. D.Summary:
Franny came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed in 1957 by Zooey. Both stories are early entries in a narrative series about the Glasses, a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York. In the first story, Franny...
- Author:Gray, MarieSummary:
«Et puis, c’est quoi, au juste, être normal?»
Pour Frédérick, qui voudrait juste vivre sa vie, ça ne veut sûrement pas dire être comme son père, alcoolique, violent et méprisant. Encore moins comme Sébastien, le guitariste de son...
- Author:Emezi, AkwaekeSummary:
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on...
- Author:Rushdie, SalmanSummary:
Malik Solanka, irascible doll-maker and retired historian of ideas, suffers the pain of wanting without knowing exactly what it is he wants. Escaping with his family to New York City and its crowded streets, Malik seeks to extinguish...
- Author:Léveillé, J. R.Summary:
L’été à Ganiishomong, une narratrice rédige l’histoire d’un narrateur qui raconte celle d’une narratrice. L’écriture poursuit la fiction dans l’extase du temps. Les souvenirs d’enfance (la nudité des cousines est désirable ; le...
- Author:Rondeau, MartyneSummary:
Romain Jolicœur a commis l’impardonnable : il a tué ses jumeaux de quatre ans et raté son suicide. Est-ce possible de trouver du sens à cette histoire d’horreur ? Dans sa cellule, le cardiologue n’est pas à l’abri. Un vent d’épouvante...
- Author:Oliver, SallySummary:
An exquisitely eerie and unsettling speculative novel that grapples with questions of trauma, identity, and the workings of memory. Months after her sister's death, Marianne wakes up to find a growth of thick black hairs along her...
- Author:Cadieux, KeithSummary:
It’s called a psychomanteum. A room entirely lined with mirrors. The walls, the floor, the ceiling. Everything. A dark but endlessly reflecting chamber. A reflection is a tricky thing. It seems so honest but at the same time it distorts...
- Author:Stage, ZojeSummary:
A cinematic and terrifying new novel from "the master of the psychological thriller" and the bestselling author of Baby Teeth and Wonderland, about three friends who hike into the wilds of the Grand Canyon--only to find it...
- Author:Gibson, HeathSummary:
“Powerful, intense, yet ultimately touching. A gripping read.” —Han Nolan, National Book Award–winning author of Dancing on the Edge A junior R.O.T.C. cadet at North Covington High, J.T. is at war—with himself, his enemies and his past...
- Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:
An American in post-war Paris finds himself caught between the conventional life he has planned with his fiancée and his attraction to an Italian bartender.
- Author:Barclay, ByrnaSummary:
This collection of short stories from Canada all have a central, connecting theme -- haunting pasts and how they weave their way into the lives of those they haunt.
- Author:Patis, VikkiSummary:
On a bright summer's day in 2013, Freya Rivers disappears, leaving twin sister Imogen behind. Did Freya leave to travel alone without telling anyone? When friend Emily also disappears three days later, Imogen knows there's something...
- Author:Helwig, MaggieSummary:
The 2012 One Book Toronto title. Shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. A girl faints in the Toronto subway. Her friends are taken to the hospital with unexplained rashes; they complain about a funny smell in the subway. Swarms of...
- Author:Abbott, Megan E.Summary:
Kit Owens and Diane Fleming are two former high school friends who, years later, find themselves locked in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that threatens to destroy them both.
- Author:Hopkins, EllenSummary:
Kristina Snow returns home to give birth, a rape-induced pregnancy that occurs in the prequel novel, Crank. Kristina spirals into a dark depression when she cannot recover her pre-baby shape and returns to using to regain control of her...
- Author:Namir, HasanSummary:
The debut book by Hasan Namir is a revelatory novel about being queer and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003. Ramy is a closeted university student whose parents have died, and who lives under the close scrutiny of his strict brother...
- Author:Channer, LaurieSummary:
Circumstances force Dag, a young snowboarder, to give up his sport and to find another way to live. He embarks on two paths, the first a subsistence job as a barista in a coffee mega-chain, where he works hard to be a worker...
- Author:Bidulka, AnthonySummary:
"International chef Jake Hardy has it all. Celebrity, thriving career, plenty of friends, a happy family and faithful dog. Until one day when a tragic accident tears it all apart. Struggling to recover, Hardy finds himself in a strange...
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