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...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Harris, CharlaineSummary: - Author:Fleury, MarcSummary:
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...
- Author:Flynn, GillianSummary:
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,...
- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
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....
- Author:Hanrahan, MauraSummary:
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-...
- Author:Aquin, HubertSummary:
This bilingual edition is the first English translation of Aquin's ground-breaking novella. Alone in exotic Naples, an impassioned François anticipates the arrival of girlfriend Hélène. Uncertainty and impatience warp his waiting into...
- Author:Reynolds, AllieSummary:
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...
- Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
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...
- Author:LeZotte, Ann ClareSummary:
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--...
- 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.” —The...
- 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...
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