Henry Hayward is a drowning man. With a soured long-term romance finally at an end, no family, and no refuge to be had in work, he progressively spends his days in the solace of alcohol and his nights with a series of interchangeable...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Winter, MichaelSummary: - Author:Michaud, Andrée A.Summary:
From internationally acclaimed crime writer Andrée A. Michaud, a brilliant and original tragicomic thriller about one man's search for peace and sanctuary amid invasive neighbours and a mysterious death. Retired fifty-something...
- Author:Janusz, Barbara D.Summary:
When Elizabeth Thiessen embarks on an expedition to study the cave murals of Baja California, Mexico, she is catapulted onto a mythical, existential journey into the unknown. Within days of landing in the Baja, Elizabeth discovers that...
- Author:Greenwald, AndySummary:
Twenty-something David Gould's girlfriend just left him, he's faced with an impossible book deadline, he's obsessed with the online blog of a 22-year-old woman who calls herself Miss Misery, and a 17-year-old girl has a crush on him. If...
- Author:Begley, LouisSummary:
Thomas Mistler, a New York advertising executive has only six months to live. He takes a solitary holiday in Venice, and encounters a young photographer and finally the love of his youth.
- Author:Boisjoli, JeanSummary:
« Elle, Janis. Moi, Sam. Notre enfance. Notre amour. Nos vies soudées par la désespérante recherche du bonheur. Des existences soldées par l'inévitable dénouement dramatique. Et la fin de tout pour nous. C'est ça la...
- Author:Foss, MarkSummary:
On a three-tiered stage in the Ontario countryside, the mellifluous voice of an auctioneer can induce grizzled farmers to buy broken shovels. His two sons help out with the business, but it's his strangely mute young daughter who...
- Author:Brennert, AlanSummary:
Brennert tells the story of Rachel Kalama, a seven-year-old Hawaiian girl who contracts leprosy and is quarantined on the island of Moloka'i during the 1890s. Separated from her family and forced to grow up in the leper colony of...
- Author:Clerson, DavidSummary:
Une femme passant ses étés seule dans un chalet en Mauricie reçoit la visite de son fils disparu depuis plus de dix ans. Jour après jour, il lui raconte sa vie d'errance ainsi que sa vision hallucinée du réel tandis qu'ils...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
Once, Hannah Manning was an internationally-renowned journalist and war correspondent. Today, she’s a woman suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Unable to read, unable to concentrate, full of pain, lost and confused, haunted by her...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
Hannah, once a renowned journalist, suffers from a traumatic brain injury. At her sister’s in Canada, she befriends Hila, an Afghan woman also traumatized by war. When Hila disappears, enemies threaten Hannah and her young niece, Lily...
- Author:Story, Rosalyn M.Summary:
In 1955, a young boy brings a small infant to the door of an unsuspecting family. Forty years later, L.J. Tillman, a professional jazz musician, makes his way to New York City after a startling revelation wrecks his life in Kansas....
- Author:Gutcheon, Beth RichardsonSummary:
This haunting story bridges two centuries, two mother-daughter relationships, and two tragic love stories in a small town called Dundee on the coast of Maine.
- Author:Iles, GregSummary:
Presents a horrifying and compelling glimpse into the mind of a psychotic genius.
- Author:Arnett, KristenSummary:
One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the...
- Author:Hétu, JulieSummary:
Cybèle et ses enfants Elmihra et Mot nous entraînent à tour de rôle dans le tourbillon d’une vie où plane la mort, annoncée par trois grains d’or dont Cybèle a hérité. En Espagne, où Cybèle a trouvé refuge en fuyant la guerre du Liban,...
- Author:Jackson, JoshilynSummary:
When Bree Cabbat's baby son is kidnapped, Bree must complete one small, but critical, task to get him back. It seems harmless enough, but her action comes with a devastating price.
- Author:Heti, SheilaSummary:
From the author of How Should a Person Be? ("one of the most talked-about books of the year"--TIME Magazine) and the NYT Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring audiobook about whether to have children. In Motherhood, Sheila Heti...
- Author:Boraks-Nemetz, LillianSummary:
Mouth of Truth is a gripping account of impossible choices , divided loyalties and unimaginable horrors. Batya Lightenberg , a Canadian wife and mother tries to live a normal life in oblivion of her troubled past while carrying a legacy...
- Author:Camilla GibbSummary:
"Thelma is not yet six years old at the outset of this tale, and already the world shows no promise of accomodating itself to her desires. Still, Thelma tries - by asking practically every adult she meets to adopt her. Not that she...
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