Nine people get trapped in the basement of an Indian consulate after an earthquake hits their American city. Emotions run high as the building begins to flood and the chance of survival dwindles. In oder to set their minds at ease, one...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Divakaruni, Chitra BanerjeeSummary: - Author:Babcock, BeccaSummary:
I move around the side of the house. There is a thick mass of shrubs on the north-east side. Juniper, and caragana gone wild. Without thinking, I pluck a flower and put it into my mouth, savouring the delicate yellowness of its flavour...
- Author:Cole, TejuSummary:
Feeling adrift after ending a relationship, Julius, a young Nigerian doctor living in New York, takes long walks through the city while listening to the stories of fellow immigrants until a shattering truth is revealed.
- Author:Parris, AmandaSummary:
In this striking debut, Amanda Parris turns the spotlight on the Black women who organize communities, support their incarcerated loved ones, and battle institutions, living each day by a ride-or-die philosophy, strengthening their...
- Author:Petterson, PerSummary:
Sixty-seven-year-old Trond Sander lives secluded in a far corner of Norway. Casting his mind back to 1948, he recalls a horse stealing prank with his best friend that turned tragic and changed his life forever.
- Author:Cusk, RachelSummary:
"Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She...
- Author:Ward, LizaSummary:
Liza Ward's spellbinding first novel is told from the very different points of view of three narrators mysteriously linked by a shocking crime and their efforts to heal the past. Based on the Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate...
- Author:Haddad, HubertSummary:
Somewhere in the West Bank, an Israeli patrol is attacked by Palestinian commandos. One soldier is killed and another kidnapped. Wounded, in a state of shock, the hostage loses hold of reality and forgets everything, even his own name....
- Author:Heaberlin, JuliaSummary:
"A gripping thriller about a man who may or may not have dementia--and who may or may not be a serial killer--from a master of twists and turns, in the tradition of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn An obsessive young woman has been...
- Author:Fortier, DominiqueSummary:
A whimsical and misanthropic imagining of Emily Dickinson's life. Paper Towns is a novelized account of Emily Dickinson's life, focusing on her childhood, the homes she lived in throughout her life, her family relationships,...
- Author:Hill, Laurie RaySummary:
From the moment she holds her baby niece, Rose is on a mission. Terrified that her baby niece will fall victim to the sexual abuse rampant in the family, Rose tells us in her own warm, funny, down-to-earth voice, how she reluctantly...
- Author:St-Yves, YanicksSummary:
Le curé nous a dit : « Jusqu'à ce que la mort vous sépare. » Ça, je le refuse. De retour d'un voyage d'affaires, Thomas retrouve sa femme Catherine qui, pendant son absence, s'est métamorphosée. Femme aimante...
- Author:Larsen, NellaSummary:
First published in 1929, Passing is a remarkable exploration of the shifting racial and sexual boundaries in America. Larsen, a premier writer of the Harlem Renaissance, captures the rewards and dangers faced by two negro women who pass...
- Author:Benison, C. C.Summary:
Under the sway of a charismatic stranger, five friends at an isolated lakeside cottage find their idyll unravelling, leaving two of them -- Lydia Eadon and Dorian Grant -- trapped in an explosion of violence that shatters their young...
- Author:Keevil, TylerSummary:
Deux frères se rendent en forêt pour finir le tournage d'un film amateur en l'honneur de leur ami disparu ; un sauveteur part à la recherche d'un planchiste la veille de Noël ; un travailleur forestier solitaire prend un autostoppeur...
- Author:Hannah, SophieSummary:
The New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders and Woman with a Secret returns with a sharp, captivating, and expertly plotted tale of psychological suspense. All Beth has to do is drive her son to his soccer game, watch...
- Author:Wilson, KevinSummary:
When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's just about out of options. She recently graduated from high school and is pregnant with her art teacher's baby. Her mother is dead and her father is a drunk. The art teacher is too much...
- Author:Picoult, JodiSummary:
District Attorney Nina Frost and her husband, Caleb, face a nightmare when they discover that their young son Nathaniel has been molested, a trauma that has left him mute, terrified, and unable to reveal the identity of his attacker....
- Author:Browne, Christene A.Summary:
Born in the Caribbean, Philomena Jones is abandoned by her mother and left to the mercy of her grandmother, who, after raising eight children and grandchildren, is not capable of dedicating herself to another child. Love-starved,...
- Author:Michaud, MaudeSummary:
"J'avais les pieds enfoncés dans le sable pis les cheveux dans la face quand les barres de mon test de grossesse se sont pointées comme deux invités que personne n'a le goût de voir. Leurs petites bouches roses me...
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