On the small fictional island of Sweetland, just south of Newfoundland, a former lighthouse keeper becomes the last man standing when he refuses to accept a government resettlement package, much to everyone's exasperation.
Psychological fiction
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Author:Crummey, MichaelSummary: - Author:Levy, DeborahSummary:
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and selected as a New York Times Notable Book, Swimming Home is a sexy psychological thriller from a highly acclaimed writer.Poet Joe and his war-correspondent wife Isabel arrive with their daughter...
- Author:Barclay, LinwoodSummary:
Six years after his wife, Brie, vanished, Andy has finally put his life back together. But when a woman who bears a striking resemblance to her appears at his old address, old questions, and dark suspicions, resurface.
- Author:Boyle, T. CoraghessanSummary:
When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught a young chimpanzee to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, a student at Schermerhorn's university, is so taken with the performance that...
- Author:Mangan, ChristineSummary:
When Lucy shows up in Morocco, Alice is grateful to see an old friend. But she starts to feel controlled and stifled by Lucy at every turn. Then Alice's husband, John, goes missing, and Alice starts to question everything.
- Author:Réhel, Jean-ChristopheSummary:
It's a long way from a basement apartment in a Montreal suburb to a new life on a fictional planet, but that's the destination our unnamed narrator has set his sights on, bringing readers with him on an off-beat and often hilarious...
- Author:Follett, BethSummary:
Tell It Slant is a bold, luscious first novel by Beth Follett, publisher of one of Canada's most exciting and respected small presses, Pedlar Press. Out of the pages of Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and into a blustery Montreal weekend steps...
- Author:Bazterrica, AgustinaSummary:
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat...
- Author:Mason, FeliciaSummary:
For eighteen years Roger McKenzie has led a gospel singing group, The Triumphant Voices of Praise. But The Voices have failed to win commercial or critical success. When Roger's leadership is questioned, personal problems threaten to...
- Author:Barnes, MikeSummary:
Prompted by a mysterious summons from his past, a man known only as 'The Super' begins an investigation into maternal neglect by a privileged Toronto family. As the case deepens, revealing a web of systemic crime and depravity, The...
- Author:Parrish, ChristaSummary:
At 17, Molly Fisk is unable to enjoy the preoccupations of other girls her age. Crippled by anxiety, Molly hides from life in the small-town museum she runs with her mother. Nurturing vague hopes of one day overcoming her fears and...
- Author:Peebles, Frances de PontesSummary:
"Echoes of Elena Ferrante resound in this sumptuous saga."'O, The Oprah Magazine "A masterfully choreographed saga of friendship, envy, sacrifice and love'as soulful, layered, and intoxicating as the samba that...
- Author:Mazza, DonnaSummary:
Rosa longs for mystery, adventure, the exotic, and escape from small country-town Australia. Fatally attracted to a romantic image of Eastern Europe, she arrives alone in Dubrovnik in the months before the implosion of the old...
- Author:Sherman, DavidSummary:
For Annie and Evan it was love at first sight. To the outside world, Annie was vivacious and charming, a successful broadcaster and writer. But once they start living together, Evan discovers Annie works desperately to hide her all-...
- Author:Benson, AngelaSummary:
Minister Francine Amen dismissed a young woman's claim of sexual abuse by her pastor. When the young woman commits suicide, Francine returns home to face up to her past mistakes and all of the people she has betrayed, including her...
- Author:Lacey, CatherineSummary:
Mary is a young New Yorker, crippled with pain. To pay for treatment, she applies for the "Girlfriend Experiment," where an eccentric man seeks a perfect relationship by paying women to fill different roles. Mary is hired as the "...
- Author:Quist, JenniferSummary:
Morgan Turner's grief over her sister's brutal murder has become a rut, an everyday horror she is caught in along with her estranged parents and chilly older brother. In search of a way out, she delves the depths of a factory...
- Author:Goodwin, DanielSummary:
Half-way into his life, Lewis Morton discovers that the man he has presented to the world for thirty years is not necessarily the man he actually is, or ought to be.
- Author:Robertson, LisaSummary:
A debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson, in which a poet realizes she has written the works of Baudelaire. One morning, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the complete works of...
- Author:Springate, MichaelSummary:
Elena and Mahfouz meet in Montreal in the spring of 2008. That summer, however, Mahfouz doesn't return from a trip to Cairo, and his father is picked up and held indefinitely for unknown charges on undisclosed evidence. No longer in...
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