A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly remembered legacies that continue to haunt the Americas. This first novel set in Ontario, in a house near the Scarborough Bluffs, focuses...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Chariandy, DavidSummary: - Author:Macdonald, EdSummary:
Spat Ryan has demons. They haunt him by day and share his drink at night. Raised in Montreal by a bagman for the Irish mob, Spat has fictionalized or ignored chunks of his life too painful to recall. A chance meeting with an old friend...
- Author:Simpson, AnneSummary:
A'isha Nasir is a Nigerian teenager who has been charged with adultery. She is sentenced to death by stoning--a sentence to be carried out after her daughter is weaned. Sophie MacNeil is an ambitious, though inexperienced, Canadian...
- Author:Dexter, PeteSummary:
Warren Spooner is a troubled boy whose father dies shortly after he's born. When his mother marries Calmer Ottosson, a decorated Navy officer fallen from grace, Warren is saved by Calmer's inexhaustible patience. As Warren grows up, the...
- Author:Freeman, BrianSummary:
A seductive young woman has disappeared, leaving behind a stash of lurid fantasies and a cryptic message. Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial uncover a sordid web of violence and voyeurism that someone is willing to kill to keep hidden.
- Author:Hesse, HermannSummary:
Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises...
- Author:Fielding, JoySummary:
When a car accident leaves Casey Marshall in a comatose state, unable to see or communicate, she discovers that her friends aren't the people she thought them to be and that her accident might not have been an accident after all....
- Author:Butler, PaulSummary:
Stoker’s Shadow tells the story of the late Bram Stoker’s surviving family members in 1922 as they struggle to come to grips with the dark undercurrents in the novel Dracula. Florence, Bram’s widow, is shocked when a German...
- Author:Freeman, BrianSummary:
Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial are both investigating high-profile murders in Las Vegas. When their cases converge, they find themselves racing the clock against a serial killer.
- Author:DeMeester, KristiSummary:
Kristi DeMeester's Such a Pretty Smile is a heart-stopping tour-de-force about powerful women, angry men, and all the ways in which girls fight against the forces that try to silence them. There's something out there that...
- Author:Smith, AliSummary:
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and fatherare having trouble. Meanwhile, the world's in meltdown, and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely...
- Author:Halpern, SueSummary:
From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry, observant look at contemporary life and its refugees. Halpern's novel is an unforgettable tale of family...the kind you come from and the kind you create. People are drawn to libraries...
- Author:Freethy, BarbaraSummary:
Eight years ao, the three teenaged McKenna sisters, Kate, Ashley, and Caroline, became famous by winning an arduous, around-the-world sailboat race. Driven hard by their ambitious father, the three young women faced months of intense...
- Author:Bouchet, DavidSummary:
Immigration to Montreal. Young Senegalese coming to Quebec. A new world of contradictions and beauty. An epic contemporary vision of what it means to be uprooted, and what it takes to plant roots in a new land.
- Author:Ward, CatrionaSummary:
Sundial is a twisty psychological horror novel perfect for fans of The Push and Girl A, from Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street. All Rob ever wanted was a normal life. Nothing like her childhood, growing up in...
- Author:Meney, FlorenceSummary:
Peut-on impunément tourner le dos à un passé douloureux et s'en libérer ? Entre ses patients et son amoureux dévoué, Laure, psychologue dans la trentaine, a su se construire une vie ordonnée et active sur les rives du Saint-...
- Author:Waite, Jen.Summary:
By the bestselling author of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing, a haunting thriller about a mother and daughter who must draw strength from each other when they find themselves trapped in a cabin with a stranger who wants to either control...
- Author:Tremblay, PaulSummary:
In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are...
- Author:McCarthy, CormacSummary:
By the author of Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near...
- Author:Bischoff, TheannaSummary:
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