In a brief, panicked moment, Rick mistakes the kindness of an apparent stranger for a threatening act, and inadvertently commits murder. He flees the scene, and tries to keep secret from his family the unfortunate event that has...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Soderstrom, MarySummary: - Author:Ostlund, LoriSummary:
After leaving his partner in New Mexico to start a new life in San Francisco, ESL teacher Aaron Englund seeks closure from a rejection-marked childhood and his own questionable choices by exploring his relationships with fellow misfits...
- Author:Philips, ElizabethSummary:
Henry is perpetually puzzled, a state that's painful, but also comforting - if all he does is pursue his admittedly odd hobby, assembling bird skeletons, then he doesn't have to solve the deeper mysteries around him. He doesn't have to...
- Author:Spark, MurielSummary:
It is 25 years after Lord Lucan's mysterious disappearance in the wake of the vicious murder of his children's nanny. The celebrated psychiatrist Dr. Hildegard Wolf is approached in her Paris consulting rooms by not one, but two men,...
- Author:Arsenault, MathieuSummary:
« Son récit en fragments est un livre parlant, comme si vous mettiez la main sur un album de finissants qui n’est pas le vôtre tout en ressemblant beaucoup au vôtre, inévitablement, et qu’en le feuilletant vous entendiez penser les...
- Author:Pastan, RachelSummary:
At the Venice Biennale, an aspiring assistant curator from the Midwest meets Bernard Augustin, the wealthy, enigmatic founder of the Nauk, a cutting-edge art museum on Cape Cod. It's been two years since the tragic death of the Nauk's...
- Author:Toews, MiriamSummary:
Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too...
- Author:Dueck, DoraSummary:
Catherine, an archivist, has spent decades committed to conserving the pasts of others, only to find her own resurfacing on the eve of her retirement. Carefully, she mines the failing memories of her aging mother to revive a mysterious...
- Author:Nellums, ElizaSummary:
With her imaginary friend Teddy by her side and the detecting skills of her nosy neighbor, six-year-old Aoife sets out to uncover what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital.
- Author:Guenther, LisaSummary:
Darby Swank's entire life changed when her Aunt Bea was murdered in their rural Saskatchewan community. Now in college, Darby tentatively develops new friendships and connections, including her charismatic cousin Brynny, a young woman...
- Author:Swanson, PeterSummary:
Days before his college graduation, Harry Ackerson's father dies suspiciously. Harry wants to uncover what happened, but two women complicating the matter include his enticing stepmother.
- Author:Handler, DanielSummary:
From bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), a gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic impulses of an all-too-typical young man.Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he...
- Author:Sanders, NicolaSummary:
On the surface, Amy and Jason have the perfect marriage, but Amy is trapped in a nightmare with a controlling, violent husband. Then on a short cruise without Jason, Amy befriends Liz, a young woman traveling alone on her way to meet...
- Author:Nason, RielSummary:
Shortlisted for the New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction. A novel of absence and adolescence by the author of the award-winning The Town That Drowned. It's 1977. Seventeen-year-old Violet is left behind by her parents to manage their...
- Author:Petersen, AliceSummary:
An academic's wife, struggling to keep up with her husband's quest to find a long-dead author's Tahitian love-garden, realizes that her own idea of paradise no longer includes her husband. An architect dreams of slender redheads,...
- Author:Holubitsky, KatherineSummary:
Fourteen year old Pamela Collins is struggling to come to terms with her mother's death. Somewhat shy, Pamela is thoughtful, full of passion, often funny and sometimes tearful as she learns to cope with the emotional overload the...
- Author:Page, KathySummary:
Simon Austen has the names people have called him tattooed all over his body. Waste of Space. Bastard. A Threat to Women. Murderer. Facing a lifetime behind bars and subjected to new therapies for sexual reprogramming, Simon finds...
- Author:Freeman, BrianSummary:
Jonathan Stride's investigation of a girl's disappearance leads him onto the set of a film in Duluth, where a movie based on a case in his own past is being made. But the actor playing Stride is rumored to have a dark side--and will...
- Author:Ishiguro, KazuoSummary:
World War Two is over and Japan sets about rebuilding her shattered cities. Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, looks back over his life and assesses a career that coincided with the rise of Japanese militarism.
- Author:McDonell, NickSummary:
An American agent and recent Harvard graduate, Michael Teak has been assigned to deliver money to a band of east African freedom fighters led by local hero Hatashil. But while they're meeting, the village is decimated by a missile...
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