When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears. Night after night,...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Johns, JessicaSummary: - Author:Bock, Maxime RaymondSummary:
A Tristram Shandy–esque novella about failing memory and failed writing, from one of French Canada’s most exciting new voices. A young, floundering author meets Robert ‘Baloney’ Lacerte, an older, marginal poet who seems to own nothing...
- Author:Daniels, CarolSummary:
Taken from the arms of her mother as soon as she was born, Sandy was only one of over twenty thousand Aboriginal children scooped up by the federal government between the 1960s and 1980s. Sandy was adopted by a Ukrainian family and grew...
- Author:Martel, YannSummary:
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a...
- Author:Martel, YannSummary:
Destiny can take many shapes. For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger. The envelope takes him into a taxidermist's workshop. Filled with...
- Author:Ward, Annie NighSummary:
Maddie and Ian's romance began with a chance encounter overseas. Now, married with an infant son and a suburban home, years of love, fear, adventure and suspicion culminate in a killing.
- Author:Rooney, SallySummary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “ Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney’s best novel yet. Funny and smart, full of sex and love and people doing their best to connect.” — The New York Times Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in...
- Author:Bouraoui, NinaSummary:
C'est une histoire simple, universelle. Après huit ans d'amour, Adrian quitte A. pour une autre femme : Beaux rivages est la radiographie de cette séparation. Quels que soient notre âge, notre sexe, notre origine sociale,...
- Author:Watson, S. J.Summary:
An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor.
- Author:Swanson, PeterSummary:
After settling with her husband outside of Boston, Henrietta has found the right meds to control her bipolar disorder. Finally, she's found some stability and peace. But when they meet the neighbors next door, she spots a sports trophy...
- Author:Novak, BrendaSummary:
A traumatic loss makes Sloane McBride decide to find out the truth behind her mother's mysterious disappearance when she was five. But as Sloane starts digging, the question isn't whether she can uncover what really happened,...
- Author:Calabro, JohnSummary:
Bellecour is about a man's metaphysical return to a series of enigmatic sexual moments that occurred when he was nine years old in the Paris of 1963. This journey blurs the physical lines between present and past, between Toronto and...
- Author:Bassoff, JonSummary:
Holt Davidson, a Kansas firefighter, hasn't been back to his hometown of Thompsonville, Colorado, for more than two decades, but when he learns that his estranged mother has taken her own life, he returns for the funeral, hoping to...
- Author:Legendre, ClaireSummary:
Venue d'Europe sur les traces d'une écrivaine disparue dont elle doit écrire la biographie, la narratrice de Bermudes a tout quitté pour recommencer une vie nouvelle. De Montréal jusqu'à la Côte-Nord, elle poursuit le fantôme d'une...
- Author:Gottlieb, EliSummary:
Written astonishingly in the first-person voice of an autistic, adult man, Best Boy--with its unforgettable characters--is a piercing, achingly funny, finally shattering novel that will linger with readers long after the last page is...
- Author:Farooqi, MusharrafSummary:
Set in an unnamed Pakistani city shortly after Partition, the lives of Ustad Ramzi, one of the greatest wrestlers of the land, who is now old and warmed only by the memories of his past, and the equally renowned Gohar Jan, a courtesan...
- Author:Peterson, LoisSummary:
Since the death of his father, everyone has been telling Cam that he’s the man of the house. Cam takes his responsibility seriously. He keeps the grieving household organized and takes care of his sister. But when the man who had been...
- Author:Fuller, ClaireSummary:
From the attic of a dilapidated English country house, she sees them - Cara first: dark and beautiful, clinging to a marble fountain of Cupid, and Peter, an Apollo. It is 1969 and they are spending the summer in the rooms below hers,...
- Author:Smith, LeeSummary:
Crystal Spangler leaves Appalachia to attend college and follow her dreams, but something lurking in the shadow of Black Mountain is calling her back, something that will change her life forever.
- Author:Chavez, HeatherSummary:
Frankie has always protected her sister Izzy. But when Izzy's actions put Frankie in the sights of the local police, Frankie will have to decide what lengths she's willing to go to in order to protect Izzy.
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