The powerful Mutchmore family has been hiding a secret for decades, one they intend to keep buried. Little do they know, that's the kind of secret Augusta (Gus) Monet can't resist.
Psychological fiction
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Author:Tallo, KatieSummary: - Author:Élie, JérômeSummary:
Poppy, mot anglais qui signifie en français : pavot, coquelicot, fait référence à l’opium et à son pouvoir hallucinogène. Poppy aussi, comme dans pop, papa. M. Keller, un entomologiste de renom se rend aux urgences : la plaie sur sa...
- Author:Roth, PhilipSummary:
Told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, this novel draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy.
- Author:Johnson, Chantal V.Summary:
To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story, but privately she contends with the aftershocks of her bad childhood. A family reunion prompts her to change her life in new and terrifying ways.
- Author:Ahern, CeceliaSummary:
When Holly tells the story of the "PS, I Love You" letters, people start reaching out with one thing in common: they're terminally ill and want to leave their own missives behind for loved ones.
- Author:Cole, TrevorSummary:
In his first two, Governor General-shortlisted novels, Trevor Cole proved himself a master of drawing us into the shadowy side of human nature with sharp observation and warm wit. In PRACTICAL JEAN, he goes a step further: this is a...
- Author:Kane, DarbySummary:
Lila Ridgefield lives in an idyllic college town, but not everything is what it seems. Lila isn't what she seems. A student vanished months ago. Now, Lila's husband, Aaron, is also missing. At first these cases are treated as...
- Author:Demers, CharlesSummary:
The endearing and unflappable Dr. Annick Boudreau regularly confronts a myriad of mental health issues in her psychology practice at the West Coast Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Clinic in Vancouver, British Columbia. But even Annick is...
- Author:Joss, MoragSummary:
During the summer of 1960, fifteen-year-old Lila escapes the confines of school and her mother's hysterics to spend the summer with her uncle George, a music teacher preparing to stage a Puccini opera in Burnhead, on the west coast...
- Author:L Ross, CinthiaSummary:
J'étais le meilleur tireur d'élite de ma section d'infanterie. Blessé au combat, je suis maintenant au service d'une agence de protection. Je n'avais jamais connu autre chose que l'armée, pas même l...
- Author:Leblanc, FrançoisSummary:
Entre sa douce moitié qui a pris amant et un toxicomane qui menace de lui faire la peau, Antoine Barcelo ne sait plus trop à quel saint se vouer. Malgré l’ennui et la violence sourde qui traversent son quotidien, malgré une sexualité...
- Author:Lambert, KevinSummary:
When millworkers in Roberval, a northern Quebec logging town, go on strike, the conflict rips the close-knit community apart, and despite the workers' solidarity, their individual struggles and demands further escalate tensions...
- Author:Samuel, JulianSummary:
Joseph, the tactician behind the Piccadilly Circus bombing and many other such events, finds himself in a nursing home in Pierrefonds, Quebec, where he is losing his mind but regaining his conscience. In Radius Islamicus we see minds...
- Author:Reddy, PratapSummary:
Ramya, an immigrant from India, is nearing her 50th birthday. But there's no cause to cheer. Recently separated, and laid off from work as well, she feels lonely, alienated, and despondent. Then one day she chances upon a...
- Author:Palahniuk, ChuckSummary:
After 21st century serial killer Buster "Rant" Casey dies in a fiery blaze of glory, three of his closest compatriots--a gang of urban demolition derby aficionados affiliated with a group calling themselves The Party Crashers--travel...
- Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
Zach and Ashley have been going out for a while, and things are going well, until Ashley finds out she is pregnant. She is angry and blames Zach. She wouldn't be in this state if he hadn't tried to take their relationship further than...
- Author:Spark, MurielSummary:
Follows the career of self-centered, middle-aged film director Tom Richards. As he turns colorful incidents from his life into glittery, cinematic fiction, his foreboding dreams become all too real.
- Author:Du Maurier, DaphneSummary:
With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a...
- Author:Hawkins, RachelSummary:
"Kreinik effortlessly switches among various accents and emotions, keeping listeners riveted as she reveals the novel's twists and turns." - Booklist "Kreinik's range is highlighted as she seamlessly shifts...
- Author:Monroe, MarySummary:
Lula Mae, Ester, Megan, Rosalee, Helen, and Rockelle are like a close-knit family as they work the mean streets of San Francisco. For better or worse, they have something else in common too: their "manager," Clyde Brooks--a charismatic...
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