Mary Lambert has always felt safe and protected on her beloved island of Martha's Vineyard. Her great-great-grandfather was an early English settler and the first deaf islander. Now, over a hundred years later, many people there--...
Psychological fiction
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Author:LeZotte, Ann ClareSummary: - Author:Larsen, MelissaSummary:
A young woman agrees to star in a filmmaker's latest project, but soon realizes the movie is not what she expected in this chilling debut novel. In the wake of her father's death, Betty Roux doesn't allow herself to mourn...
- Author:Lampman, AnnieSummary:
Other than her bonsai trees, twenty-year-old arborist Silvania August Moonbeam Merigal is alone in the world. After her mother dies and then her grandfather-the man who raised her and the last of her family-Silva suffers a sexual...
- Author:Johnson, DaisySummary:
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE TOP TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR — PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR —VULTURE “Daisy Johnson is the demon offspring of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King...
- Author:Wilson-Yang, Jia QingSummary:
Small Beauty tells the story of Mei, who in coping with the death of her cousin abandons her life in the city to live in his now empty house in a small town. There she connects with his history as well as her own, learns about her aunt'...
- Author:Hopkins, EllenSummary:
Pattyn's father is dead. Now she's on the run in this riveting companion to the New York Times bestselling Burned. Pattyn Von Stratten's father is dead, and Pattyn is on the run. After far too many years of abuse at the hands of her...
- Author:Polak, MoniqueSummary:
Iris is an aspiring actress, so when Mick, a well-known visiting Aussie director, takes an interest in her, she's flattered. He's fourteen years older, attractive, smart, charming and sexy, in other words, nothing like her hapless ex-...
- Author:Gaston, BillSummary:
Called to the deathbed of Claude, her long-ago first love, Evelyn succumbs to a cascade of grief for Claude, and their estranged son Tom. She embarks by kayak on a quest into the West Coast wilderness in search of thier son in the...
- Author:McCormack, MikeSummary:
A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland's most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language, and our inescapable nearness to our last end. It is All Souls...
- Author:Lem, StanislawSummary:
When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the scientific research station hovering high above the surface of Solaris, he finds the place deserted except for two scientists, who have been driven mad by some unknown horror. The researchers...
- Author:Haentjens, BrigitteSummary:
Les morceaux de glace contre la paroi. Le chuintement des lèvres suçant la paille, aspirant le rhum comme l'eau d'un rince-bouche sur le fauteuil du dentiste. Ta tête inclinée au-dessus du verre, happée par l'alcool. L'odeur des...
- Author:Sileika, AntanasSummary:
Is love more compelling than justice? A wife pleads for love. Her husband longs for revenge. Gripping and evocative, Some Unfinished Business tells the story of a young man who is determined to prevail through anti-Soviet resistance in...
- Author:Steadman, CatherineSummary:
If you could make one simple choice that would change your life forever, would you?
Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, Mark a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in... - Author:Bell, DarceySummary:
One woman's life is turned upside down when her brother brings his new girlfriend to visit, but no one is telling the truth about who they are.
- Author:Dugan, MelanieSummary:
When she is confined to a nursing home after a series of debilitating strokes, Ruth Tyler struggles to accept the loss of her independence. Suddenly, having endless hours to sit and think, she begins to face the issues in her life she...
- Author:Olsson, LindaSummary:
After the unexpected death of his daughter, musician Adam Anker loses all sense of direction in his life. Adrift, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery, one that will take him from New Zealand, to Poland, and finally to Sweden for a...
- Author:Blais, Marie-ClaireSummary:
In the penultimate installment of the magnificent and ambitious Soifs cycle, widely regarded as one of the most original and ambitious endeavors ever to be undertaken in contemporary literature, renowned novelist Marie-Claire Blais once...
- Author:Assadi, Hannah LillithSummary:
Based on true events, Hannah Assadi's fierce and raging debut novel tracks the shattered, illuminated psyche of a young woman seizing her own adulthood Ahlam, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife, grows up in the...
- Author:Mason, MegSummary:
"While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know." -Ann Patchett. "Brutal, tender, funny. . . . I saw myself here. I saw...
- Author:Leblanc, FrançoisSummary:
Un amateur de scotch au dos brisé qui voit ses tentatives de suicide systématiquement contrecarrées, une esthéticienne angoissée qui se lance à la conquête du marché asiatique, une mère en congé de maternité qui craint de suivre les...
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