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Psychological fiction

  • Schizo
    Author:
    Arbour, Marie-Christine
    Summary:

    Enfant, je recherchais l’absolu, je rêvais d’unité, ce que j’appelais déjà l’Un. Mais pour survivre, j’ai dû apprendre à me compartimenter. Je me rebellais contre la réalité. L’anorexie dont j’ai souffert à l’adolescence a été pour moi...
  • Schmidt delivered
    Author:
    Begley, Louis
    Summary:

    Albert Schmidt, proud traditional gentleman and lawyer of the old school, was almost down for the count. His beloved wife was dead, he had stumbled into early retirement, and relations with his cherished and perfectly bred daughter...
  • Schmidt steps back
    Author:
    Begley, Louis
    Summary:

    Schmidt is a self-described maverick WASP attorney who now heads a foundation established by his magnanimous billionaire Jewish Egyptian friend, Mike Mansour. At 78, Schmidt is widowed, vigorous, shrewd yet romantic, with a gargantuan...
  • Secret smile
    Author:
    FRENCH, Nicci
    Summary:

    You have an affair. You finish it. You think it's over...You're wrong. Story of love, obsession and revenge.
  • Seeing red
    Author:
    Sutherland, Shawn
    Summary:

    Ethan Reid is a 24-year-old alcoholic who spends his nights drifting between bars, drinking excessively to the point where he can no longer remember. In Toronto he meets a beautiful girl named Natalie, who forces him to question his...
  • Seize the day
    Author:
    Bellow, Saul
    Summary:

    Tommy Wilhelm is separated from his family, at odds with his father, failed in his career, and in a financial mess. One climactic day, while he reviews his past mistakes, a mysterious con man grants him a moment of truth and...
  • Self-titled
    Author:
    Brown, Geoffrey
    Summary:

    Can a breakup break you apart? In Self-Titled, Geoffrey Brown stares into a mirror and writes what he sees, what he thinks, what he feels. The result? A self-portrait that's at once comic and psychotic, a complex consciousness captured...
  • Sense of evil
    Author:
    Hooper, Kay.
    Summary:

    Beautiful, successful, blonde women are being murdered in a small, peaceful town where such horrible atrocities are not supposed to happen. Police Chief Rafe Sullivan knows he has to find the killer fast, but he doesn't know where...
  • Sentimental exorcisms
    Author:
    Derry, David
    Summary:

    A former lover becomes an uninvited houseguest in Ted and Marjory’s quiet abode, adversely affecting investigations into the history of the semicolon. A judge must compulsively narrate his neighbour into ignominy. A market analyst’s...
  • Sexual misconduct of the middle classes
    Author:
    Moscovitch, Hannah
    Summary:

    The archetypal student-teacher romance is cleverly turned on its head for the post-#MeToo era in this striking new play by the acclaimed author of What a Young Wife Ought to Know and Bunny. Jon, a star professor and author, is racked...
  • Shadow Woman
    Author:
    Howard, Linda
    Summary:

    Lizette Henry wakes up one morning and makes a terrifying discovery: She doesn't recognize the face she sees in the mirror. She remembers what she looks like, but her reflection is someone else's. To add to the shock, two...
  • Shadows of Berlin
    Author:
    Gillham, David R.
    Summary:

    A captivating novel of a Berlin girl on the run from the guilt of her past and the boy from Brooklyn who loves her 1955 in New York City: the city of instant coffee, bagels at Katz's Deli, and ultramodern TVs. But in a certain walk...
  • Shakespeare's Counselor : The Lily Bard Mysteries, Book 5
    Author:
    Harris, Charlaine
    Summary:

    Lily Bard has joined a group therapy session in Shakespeare, Arkansas, determined finally to face her past. It sounds positively enlightening, until the murder of a fellow member sends a warning. Who is the message for? And who's next...
  • Shaktis
    Author:
    Fleury, Marc
    Summary:

    Pierre Longpré mène une existence heureuse avec sa femme Mylène, sur les bords du Richelieu. Mais à l’institut Jalbert où il travaille en tant que psychologue, l’influent psychiatre Eagle, en faveur d’un traitement exclusivement...
  • Sharp objects : a novel
    Author:
    Flynn, Gillian
    Summary:

    Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: She must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic,...
  • She said/she saw
    Author:
    McClintock, Norah
    Summary:

    Tegan was in the backseat when her two best friends were gunned down in front of her. Was it an argument over drugs? An ongoing feud? Or something more random? Tegan says she didn't see who did it. Or know why. Nobody will believe her....
  • Sheilagh's brush
    Author:
    Hanrahan, Maura
    Summary:

    On the cusp of the Depression, Sheilagh Driscoll of isolated Rennie’s Bay nearly dies while giving birth prematurely to baby Leah. Sheilagh is attended by a traditional Mi’kmaq midwife, Mrs. Mary, as well as by Leah Clarke, a nurse-...
  • Shifting sands
    Author:
    Aquin, Hubert
    Summary:

    This bilingual edition is the first English translation of Aquin's ground-breaking novella. Alone in exotic Naples, an impassioned François anticipates the arrival of girlfriend Hélène. Uncertainty and impatience warp his waiting into...
  • Shiver
    Author:
    Reynolds, Allie
    Summary:

    In this propulsive locked-room thriller debut, a reunion weekend in the French Alps turns deadly when five friends discover that someone has deliberately stranded them at their remote mountaintop resort during a snowstorm. When Milla...
  • Shoulder the Sky
    Author:
    Choyce, Lesley
    Summary:

    Winner of the 2003 Ann Connor Brimer Award, short-listed for the 2004 White Pine Award Martin Emerson’s family, friends, and even his therapist have trouble figuring him out. He never showed much of a reaction to the death of his...

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