Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it—how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost? And then what...
Psychological fiction
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Author:De Marcken, AnneSummary: - Author:Mankell, HenningSummary:
Mankell crafts the icy, atmospheric tale of Fredrik Welin, a disgraced surgeon living in exile on a small island. When Fredrik receives a surprise visit from a lover he abandoned decades earlier, he begins the difficult road to...
- Author:Robinson, MarilynneSummary:
A new Gilead novel that tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister from Gilead, Iowa.
- Author:Frédéric RaymondSummary:
Prédatrice. Le mot s'imposait à l'esprit de Christabel, qui tentait en vain de le chasser. Sa mère le lui avait répété des centaines de fois : elle était née prédatrice et elle devait agir comme telle. Pourtant,...
- Author:Berry, WendellSummary:
From the simple setting of his own barbershop, Jayber Crow -- orphan, seminarian, and native of Port William -- recalls his life and the life of his community as it spends itself in the middle of the twentieth century. Surrounded by his...
- Author:Whitehead, ColsonSummary:
E-journalist J. Sutter travels to West Virginia for the first John Henry Days celebration.
- Author:Richler, MordecaiSummary:
Joshua Then and Now is about Joshua Shapiro today, and the Joshua he was. His father a boxer turned honest crook, his mother an erotic dancer whose greatest performance was at Joshua bar mitzvah, Joshua has overcome his inauspicious...
- Author:Steel, DanielleSummary:
Everyone knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind the doors of their lush Georgetown home a different story...
- Author:Bell, JoanneSummary:
Rachel's idyllic existence with her family in the remote mountain passes of northern Yukon was shattered by her father's depression, the family's relocation to “town” and her father's subsequent disappearance. Obsessed with...
- Author:Burroughs, William S.Summary:
Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighborhoods in New...
- Author:Drake, RebeccaSummary:
Four suburban mothers and friends conspire to cover up a deadly crime in this heart-stopping novel of suspense in the tradition of Lisa Scottoline and Lisa Unger. Alison, Julie, Sarah, Heather. Four friends living the suburban ideal....
- Author:Daigle, FranceSummary:
Just Fine traces the mishaps and misadventures of a conflicted agoraphobe: a woman psychologically restricted to a life indoors but spiritually inclined to wander the meadows, roads, and community beyond the house and river of her youth...
- Author:Douglas, ClaireSummary:
Una Richardson responds to an advertisement for a ladies' companion, a position that leads her into the wealthy, secluded world of Mrs. Elspeth McKenzie. But Elspeth's home isn't the comforting haven it seems.
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
Follows the individual odysseys of fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura after he runs away from his home and overbearing father, and Nakata, an elderly finder of lost cats fleeing a gruesome murder, as they both head to the randomly chosen...
- Author:Heron, FarahSummary:
Jane Austen's Emma goes Bollywoood in this delightful retelling from the highly acclaimed author of Accidentally Engaged, perfect for fans of Abby Jimenez and Jasmine Guillory.Kamila Hussain's life might not be perfect, but,...
- Author:Li, YiyunSummary:
A tale set in today's America and China in the 1990s, follows the experiences of three people who in their youths were involved in a mysterious accident that resulted in a friend's fatal poisoning and years later are haunted by the...
- Author:Jarman, Mark AnthonySummary:
Shortlisted, Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction, New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction, and Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. One of Canada's literary treasures, Mark Anthony Jarman returns with a book of moving and often...
- Author:Bourgault, CatherineSummary:
Le hasard a réuni dans le même appartement Max et Will, lesquels ressentent une vive attirance l'un pour l'autre. Ne pas évoquer le futur leur paraît un arrangement parfait. Du moins, c'est ce qu'ils croient… Mais au moment où l'ex...
- Author:Boulerice, SimonSummary:
L'enfant mascara est une histoire d'amour à sens unique, comme on en voit partout, dans toutes les écoles secondaires. À cette différence qu'elle se conclut de manière particulièrement tragique. Inspiré par des faits réels qui se sont...
- Author:Camus, AlbertSummary:
18 juillet. Hier à midi, sur la plage de Tipaza, un employé de bureau dénommé Meursault, demeurant rue Bab-Azoun à Alger, a tué de cinq balles de revolver un Arabe non encore identifié. Les motifs du crime restent inconnus....
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