Capucine est comme un poisson hors de l’eau. Pour sa mère Solange et le reste de sa famille, sa timidité est une tare inexcusable. À quelques semaines de la fi n de son secondaire, elle ne rêve que d’une chose : prendre le large....
Psychological fiction
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Author:Vaillancourt, BrigitteSummary: - Author:Mackintosh, ClareSummary:
In the newest psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of I Let You Go and I See You, Clare Mackintosh brings us a gripping story about how those who love us never really leave us ... Two years ago, Tom and...
- Author:Bloodworth-Thomason, LindaSummary:
Dr. Wood McIlmore is the leading citizen of Paris, Arkansas. Married to his high school sweetheart Milan, Wood has it all. But everything changes dramatically when his daughter Elizabeth announces plance to marry Luke, her college...
- Author:Warren, DianneSummary:
A newly-single woman revisits the poor choices she had made through her life, returning to the small town in western Canada where she grew up and lived through the violent death of a close friend in an unsolved hit-and-run accident.
- Author:Vincent, R.F.Summary:
In 1959 an earthquake in central Vancouver Island devastated the lakeside community of Pyrite Ridge. The seismic event triggered landslides that isolated the town and killed sixteen people, while a geological phenomenon known as a segue...
- Author:Robinson, MarilynneSummary:
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church -- the only available shelter from the rain -- and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of...
- Author:Tannahill, JordanSummary:
At 11:04 a.m. on January 21st, 2017, Jordan opens the door to his mother’s bedroom. As his eyes adjust to the half-light, he finds her lying in bed, eyes closed and mouth agape. In that instant he cannot tell whether she is asleep or...
- Author:Moss, JohnSummary:
Having retreated to the idyllic Polynesian island of Bora Bora to savour and lament the lost past, Harry Lindstrom finds himself drawn into a strange relationship with a raven-haired, B-list movie actress and her invalid husband. Harry...
- Author:Ng, CelesteSummary:
Entertainment Weekly's #1 Must-Read Book for Fall From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and...
- Author:Kubica, MarySummary:
Eleven years after a string of missing persons cases, one of the victims returns and everyone wants to know what happened to her. But no one is prepared for what she has to say.
- Author:Picoult, JodiSummary:
Twenty-four-year-old Edward Warren, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: his dad lies comatose, gravely...
- Author:Morrison, ToniSummary:
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida--even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey's Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that...
- Author:Kattan, Emmanuel, Fischman, SheilaSummary:
Judith and Antoine were lovers for a brief time. Then, suddenly, brutally, it ended. Nine years later, they meet again and attempt to revive their old passion. They dream of rewriting their history and burning the memories that are...
- Author:Salzman, MarkSummary:
In a Carmelite monastery outside present-day Los Angeles, life goes on in a manner virtually un-changed for centuries. Sister John of the Cross has spent years there in the service of God. And there, she alone experiences visions of...
- Author:Élie, JérômeSummary:
L’Estrange, comme un homme perdu dans le coma, ne se rappelle plus le but de sa visite à Montréal. Qui est-il ? Que cherche-t-il à préserver dans les méandres de sa mémoire alors que tout son passé se dérobe à lui et s’envole en fumée...
- Author:Couturier, GraciaSummary:
Depuis que son frère Bruno est interné dans un asile psychiatrique, Étienne se croit à l’abri de tout et de tous, dans son domaine du Bois des Songes. Cette trêve sera toutefois de courte durée. Cherchant en vain une forme de libération...
- Author:Élie, JérômeSummary:
Quand il était enfant, Ray Cormier partit avec son père dans la péninsule du Niagara pour y faire la cueillette des fruits. Mais au retour, un événement incompréhensible est venu bouleverser sa vie. Incapable de partager ce souvenir...
- Author:McEwan, IanSummary:
In an alternative 1980s London, Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will...
- Author:MacIntyre, R. P.Summary:
Immediately before his tragic death, stuttering mechanic Dave visits his younger brother Denny with a note for their sister Dianne. “D-don’t r-read it. D-don’t open it. D-don’t nnothing it,” Dave commands before taking off one last time...
- Author:Strowbridge, Nellie P.Summary:
Each day we begin life, not from where we are, but from where we have been. The mind is life’s most seasoned traveller.
Maiden from the Sea is a breathtaking journey into the life and troubled mindscape of a servant girl from...
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