In the deep woods of the Maine borderlands, the legend of huntsman Pete Landry is still told around cottage campfires to scare children, a tragic story of love, lust, and madness. During the early summer of 1967, inseparable teenage...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Michaud, Andrée A.Summary: - Author:Harding, LisaSummary:
A PEOPLE MAGAZINE PICK * AN INDIE NEXT PICK * A LIBRARYREADS PICK *AN AMAZON EDITORS PICK "On every page there are little shimmering bombs. Like Room, where parenthood is at once your jail and your salvation, it is almost claustrophobic...
- Author:Lansky, SamSummary:
"He fixes everything that's wrong with you in three days." This is what hooks Sam when he first overhears it at a fancy dinner party in the Hollywood hills: the story of a globe-trotting shaman who claims to perform "open-soul surgery"...
- Author:Tóibín, ColmSummary:
In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar...
- Author:TROLLOPE, JoannaSummary:
Where do we come from? Where do we belong? For David and Nathalie, this need to know is more urgent than for most people, because they are adopted. Born to different mothers, brought up by the same parents, they have grown up as...
- Author:Hunter, EvanSummary:
An amnesiac hunts for his lost life in every corner of New York City in this "brilliant" novel from the bestselling author of The Blackboard Jungle (Chicago Tribune). Sunrise in Central Park. A man wakes up on a park bench...
- Author:Dallas, SandraSummary:
Two miner's daughters from Butte, Montana, Effa Commander and Whippy Bird, now restauranteurs, reveal the truth behind the scandalous Love Triangle murder, a crime that involved their childhood friend, May Ann Kovacks--aka Hollywood...
- Author:Steeves, MikeSummary:
'I have never been faced with a moral crisis, let alone a matter of life or death.' Peter Simons doesn't spend much time at home in his apartment. Thanks to his job at a multinational company, he is often flying around the world,...
- Author:Coleman, CarterSummary:
Cage, Nick, and Harper Rutledge are the sons of an Episcopalian minister and his faithfl housewife. Cage is the golden boy, Nick is slow to blossom but full of potential, and the youngest, Harper, struggles to live up to his brothers....
- Author:Leavitt, MartineSummary:
In the town of Leamington, Ontario, a seventeen-year-old boy is suddenly stricken by a schizophrenic episode and wakes up in hospital. The boy’s name is Calvin, and he is plagued by hallucinations. As the hallucinations persist, Calvin...
- Author:Dumont, Claudine, Hamilton, David ScottSummary:
In the spirit of Emma Donoghue’s international bestseller Room, Captive throws readers into the mind of a woman who wakes to find herself in a terrifying and surreal situation: she’s confined to a small grey room and she has no idea why...
- Author:Bérubé, SophieSummary:
Christophe est à la maison, Shaya, sa fille de trois ans, dort dans sa chambre, Kaï, sa compagne, est sortie pour la soirée. Christophe entend des pas dans l’escalier. La porte s’ouvre. Il regarde Kaï et se rend vite compte que quelque...
- Author:Portico, Bowman S.Summary:
"Was it the death of her dog, Bloom, or was she just tired of her routine as a dentist? Or perhaps her depression was the result of her (mostly) unrequited love for her former piano teacher, Bruno? As Robin contemplates a sabbatical to...
- Author:Réhel, Jean-ChristopheSummary:
La route est longue d'un sous-sol de Repentigny jusqu'à la planète Tatouine. Surtout si l'on passe par le Super C, Central Park et le seizième étage du CHUM. Mais, pour l'esprit obsessif, rêveur et...
- Author:Maracle, LeeSummary:
Celia's vision of the past during a weather disturbance becomes a reality when her great-niece is horribly abused.
- Author:Clark, Heather A.Summary:
Thirtysomething Nicky Fowler has it all-- a rewarding career, a loving husband and the perfect home. But when she and her husband suffer a complicated tragedy, the strain of two people dealing with an impossible situation in different...
- Author:Diaczuk, DougSummary:
"You" and L, a mysterious third gender runaway, hit the road on a mission to find the meaning of life. Traveling by plane, bus and car, You run into trouble with the cops, mourn a family tragedy, smoke hundreds of cigarettes,...
- Author:Harbec, HélèneSummary:
Avec sensibilité et sérénité, Hélène Harbec nous fait vivre les derniers mois d’un homme malade, que sa fille a choisi d’accompagner jusqu’à la mort. Chambre 503. Dernier lieu d’un homme qui marche lentement vers la mort. À son chevet,...
- Author:Serravalle, DeanSummary:
What happens when the narrator is removed from a story? When the author’s real life is fictionalized instead, so that creator and creation relate on the same existential ground with no middleman? Chameleon (Days) is such an experiment...
- Author:Bennett, Claire-LouiseSummary:
Checkout 19 follows a young woman who finds herself in love, in conflict with life and death, and in a life made of books, where the act of turning the page is a way of carrying on living. Fearlessly inventive in its form, merging...
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