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...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Lawson, MarySummary: - 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: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...
- Author:Pinborough, SarahSummary:
Marcie Maddox has worked hard to get where she is, but her world of luxury isn't easy to maintain. Nor is keeping her husband, Jason, truly interested. When her husband's boss returns from London with a new wife, Keisha, and...
- Author:McMann, LisaSummary:
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to...
- Author:Napolitano, AnnSummary:
A twelve-year-old boy struggles with the worst kind of fame?as the sole survivor of a notorious plane crash?in a heart-wrenching and life-affirming novel for readers of Small Great Things, Little Fires Everywhere, and The Immortalists...
- Author:Banks, SydneySummary:
Liza, an orphan girl living on the cold streets of London in 1834, is able to rise above her squalid surroundings to bring joy to the lives of others. Although only 11, she displays amazing courage as she cares for a younger child and...
- Author:Flanagan, RichardSummary:
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan's debut novel, is widely regarded as a classic in Australian literature. Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning....
- Author:Stevens, LaurieSummary:
In the second pulse-pounding thriller in the series, Detective Gabriel McRay is once again forced to face his inner demons. From the enclaves of the super rich to the kinky underbelly of Los Angeles, women are turning up dead and...
- Author:Jones, Matthew F.Summary:
Nat Banyon, handsome and rough around the edges, stumbles into the shady town of Deepwater and takes on a painting job at a dingy hotel. Soon afterwards, he seduces his employer's beautiful wife, but it isn't long until dangerous things...
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