LIGHTS. Feeling her stardom fading, struggling soap-actress Adele Rafferty is ready to give up on her dreams when she gets a last-minute offer to play the lead in upcoming horror film Final Draft. Could this be her big break? Will she...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Howard, Catherine RyanSummary: - Author:Woods, JaneSummary:
Set in a small town in Quebec, Running Downhill Like Water is made up of four interconnected stories spanning fifty years of the lives of four people whose prospects have been violently shattered. Lucy, a perennial misfit, is thwarted...
- Author:Dupuis-Morency, ClaraSummary:
Having followed the brilliant virologist Régnier from Montreal to Marseille many years ago, Sadie now works as a researcher in a lab, spending most of her time among microscopic creatures who teach her about life as a parasite. By day...
- Author:Yarbrough, SteveSummary:
Yarbrough tells the story of a Mississippi history teacher who's determined to unravel the truth about one tragic day in 1962. Even as he pursues an affair with a long-lost friend, he wonders if she could hold the missing piece to this...
- Author:Moreno, CarolineSummary:
En écrivant un roman sur le destin tragique d’Emma Jouve, une actrice de cinéma ayant succombé à la chirurgie esthétique, Constance Labelle comprend à quel point ce personnage lui ressemble. Elle décide alors de se plonger dans son...
- Author:McPherson, ChristianSummary:
Christian McPherson’s exciting new novel is a portrait of a woman coming unglued after devastating events send her spiraling out of control. Between popping pills and drinking vodka, Julie Cooper tries her best to do what she has always...
- Author:Alvarez, JuliaSummary:
A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer's block. Soon,...
- Author:Arbour, Marie-ChristineSummary:
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...
- Author:Begley, LouisSummary:
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...
- Author:Begley, LouisSummary:
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...
- Author:Grant, Kimi CunninghamSummary:
Guide forestière en Idaho vivant au cœur de la nature, Emlyn apprend que la personne disparue qui séjournait dans les environs à bord d'un van n'est autre que son ancienne meilleure amie, qu'elle avait cessé de voir en...
- Author:French, NicciSummary:
You have an affair. You finish it. You think it's over...You're wrong. Story of love, obsession and revenge.
- Author:Sutherland, ShawnSummary:
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...
- Author:Bellow, SaulSummary:
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...
- Author:Brown, GeoffreySummary:
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...
- 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...
- Author:Derry, DavidSummary:
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...
- Author:Moscovitch, HannahSummary:
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...
- Author:Miyabe, MiyukiSummary:
Police investigating the murder of a middle-aged office worker discover e-mail correspondence on the victim's computer that indicates he had been a regular participant in an Internet chat room, as the "father" in a fantasy "family."...
- Author:Howard, LindaSummary:
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...
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