The Woodsman's Daughter is set in 19th-century rural Georgia. Dauntless teenaged beauty Dahlia is plagued by her hard-drinking father and his terrible secrets. Determined to make a better life for herself, Dahlia strikes out to raise...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Rubio, Gwyn HymanSummary: - Author:Fisher, TarrynSummary:
Juno was wrong about the Crouch family. She thought that they had the perfect life. But after overhearing a chilling conversation, she knows this could be her chance to make a few things right.
- Author:Richmond, MichelleSummary:
Six-year-old Emma vanished into the thick San Francisco fog. Or into the heaving Pacific. Or somewhere just beyond: to a parking lot, a stranger's van, or a road with traffic flashing by. Devastated by guilt and haunted by her fears...
- Author:Mofina, RickSummary:
Janie Klassyn was only fourteen when she made the blood pact with her friends. But twenty years later, she finds a threatening note on her car, and it becomes harder to keep up the deception.
- Author:El-Wardany, SalmaSummary:
A razor-sharp debut novel of three best friends navigating love, sex, faith, and the one night that changes it all. It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their...
- Author:Gudenkauf, HeatherSummary:
Once the golden child of tiny Linden Falls, Iowa, Allison Glenn watches her reputation crumble as she is sent to prison for five years--convicted of a terrible crime. But what really happened that fateful night? Allison's younger sister...
- Author:Zola, ÉmileSummary:
In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair...
- Author:Labozzetta, MarisaSummary:
Births mark beginnings, while funerals toll in endings. Yet there resides so much in-between drama in the timeline of an extended family: moments of intense joy, times of heart-wrenching grief, and the day-to-day plodding of ups and...
- Author:Westhead, JessicaSummary:
A collection of stories that seeks to examine the dark side of ordinary people.
- Author:Ruth RendellSummary:
Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number thirteen. In St Blaise House where he lives, there are thirteen steps down to the landing below his rooms. His landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer, who was born in the house, is blind to the decay...
- Author:Minot, SusanSummary:
Tells the story of two extraordinary young women: Esther, a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to commit unspeakable acts, and Jane, an American journalist traveling in Africa, hoping to give a voice to...
- Author:Malle, MirionSummary:
Clara's at a breaking point. She's got writer's block, her friends ask a lot without giving much, her psychologist is useless, and her demanding publishing job leaves little time for self care. She seeks solace in the community around...
- Author:Dangarembga, TsitsiSummary:
Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding...
- Author:Smythe, KarenSummary:
Part mystery, part elegy, This Side of Sad begins with an ending: the violent enigma of a man's death. Was it an accident, or did James commit suicide? In the shattering aftermath, his widow, Maslen, questions her own capacity for love...
- Author:Candlish, LouiseSummary:
From the author of the international bestseller Our House, a new novel of twisty domestic suspense asks, "Could you hate your neighbor enough to plot to kill him?" Lowland Way is the suburban dream. The houses are beautiful,...
- Author:Boyden, JosephSummary:
Cree bush pilot Will Bird lies comatose in a hospital, while his wayward niece Annie arrives to sit in silent vigil by his side. Slowly their stories reveal two people previously separated by great distances, beaten and broken, and...
- Author:Hemming, DeborahSummary:
In this coming-of-age story, sixteen-year-old Winnie and her three best friends-all boys-find themselves changing quickly and dramatically to impress Caleb, their strange and charismatic new companion. Under Caleb's influence,...
- Author:Debbie MacomberSummary:
Claire, Elizabeth, Karen, and Julia meet every Thursday for breakfast to share the events that are happening in their lives, from a painful divorce to an unexpected pregnancy, and to offer each other undying support, love, and...
- Author:Heti, SheilaSummary:
Ticknor is the first novel by Sheila Heti, the author of the acclaimed story collection The Middle Stories and, with Misha Glouberman, the essay collection The Chairs are Where the People Go. George Ticknor is trying to reconcile his...
- Author:Macmillan, GillySummary:
When mystery writer Lucy Harper's husband suddenly goes missing, his disappearance evokes dark memories that take Lucy back more than thirty years, to the day her brother vanished.
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