Vanella Morris is beautiful, strong, successful and extremely happy with her long-time boyfriend Alton. But Vanella is also uneasy and apprehensive about making big commitments. She doesn't want to end up divorced like most of her...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Michaels, CherlynSummary: - Author:Stein, Jessica DavisSummary:
Introspective artist Ben Lonefeather is content raising the orphaned coyote pups he rescued after their mother was killed on the highway. Meanwhile, New Yorker Sarah Friedman hurries west on a business trip to buy American Indian art...
- Author:Lewis, Naomi K.Summary:
One night, Agatha Winter's phone rings. Jasmine, her 13-year-old sister, has run away from home and needs to be picked up at the bus terminal. It's the anniversary of their mother's accident and subsequent split from the family. Jasmine...
- Author:Dostoyevsky, FyodorSummary:
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose...
- Author:Gentill, SulariSummary:
"As one for whom certain story lines and characters have become as real as life itself, Crossing the Lines was a pure delight, a swift yet psychologically complex read, cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed." -Dean...
- Author:Lambert, BettySummary:
Vicky, a writer in Vancouver in the early 1960s doesn't consider herself the type of woman who would end up in a bad relationship. Struggling to come to terms with herself, she navigates an emotionally abusive relationship with Mik, a...
- Author:Lawson, MarySummary:
In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives of two families--the farming Pye family, and zoologist Kate Morrison and her three brothers--are brought together and torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and...
- Author:Crosley, SloaneSummary:
Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance. MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of...
- Author:Scottow, DanSummary:
Journalist Emily Blake is sent back to her hometown to investigate the disappearance of a young girl called Becky Clarke. Emily takes the assignment willingly as the case echoes the disappearance of her childhood friend, Alice Abbott,...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
Searching for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend in contemporary Japan, the protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread, colliding with call girls, playing chaperone to a teenage psychic, and...
- Author:Moya, Horacio CastellanosSummary:
As El Salvador returns to peace after more than a decade of civil war, Eduardo Sosa, an unemployed sociologist, becomes fascinated by a homeless man who lives in a beat-up yellow Chevrolet parked across the street from his sister's...
- Author:Dee, Hobsbawn-SmithSummary:
Luka Dekker and her sister Connie are the inheritors of a secretive and disturbing family history going back three generations to the disappearance of their great-grandfather. Their troubled mother, Lark, also mysteriously disappeared;...
- Author:Marti LeimbachSummary:
- Author:Mallet-Parent, JocelyneSummary:
Survivant de l’enfer afghan, le journaliste Jonathan Dupuis rentre chez lui dévasté. Au terme d’une enquête intensive et d’un travail sur lui-même, il parvient à reconstituer les pans manquants de son histoire. On dit que le véritable...
- Author:Abbott, Megan E.Summary:
- Author:Kane, AndreaSummary:
Seventeen years ago Morgan Winter arrived home to find her parents brutally slain on Christmas Eve. A man was convicted of the crime, but new evidence has surfaced to prove his innocence. Now Morgan must face the truth that her parents...
- Author:Fisseha, RebeccaSummary:
Strong female voice, a clear-eyed narrator examining self and family.Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano fills the skies. Flights are grounded throughout Europe. Dessie, a cosmopolitan flight attendant from Canada, finds herself...
- Author:Kennedy, A.L.Summary:
In 1939, Alfred Day had wanted war. And when he got it, he found purpose in its turmoil: he found his proper role as tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew; and -- most extraordinary of all --...
- Author:Alexis, AndréSummary:
Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip through Southwestern Ontario by his parents' friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious...
- Author:Hage, Rawi, Toibin, ColmSummary:
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. In Rawi Hage's unforgettable novel, winner of the 2008 IMPAC Prize, this famous quote by Camus becomes a touchstone for two young men caught in Lebanon's civil...
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