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...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Banks, SydneySummary: - 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...
- Author:Kilbourne, ChristinaSummary:
2016 VOYA Top Shelf Fiction Selection Anna has always been so level-headed, so easy-going, so talented and funny. How could anyone have guessed she wanted to die? Anna is not like other people. She’s always felt like she didn’t belong...
- Author:Vivier, MarioSummary:
Novembre 1899. Le docteur Hans Grübbel, neurologue, reçoit dans sa maison de santé près de Berlin un nouveau patient. Celui-ci prétend être Dieu souffrant d’une maladie nerveuse. Or, le docteur remarque aussitôt qu’il ressemble à un...
- Author:Ondaatje, MichaelSummary:
California, 1970s. A man who lost his wife in childbirth is raising his two daughters, Anna and Claire, and tending his farm with the help of a young man, Coop, who he has more or less adopted. When the older Anna and Coop fall into a...
- Author:Douglas, ClaireSummary:
Kirsty Woodhouse moves back to her native Wales and goes into business with her difficult mother managing a guesthouse. But when her estranged cousin Selena arrives, Kirsty becomes increasingly concerned for the safety of her daughters...
- Author:Novak, KathleenSummary:
Gigi Paulo arrives in New York and is immediately drawn to a girl he sees in a bar near Penn Station. After he dies, his daughter uncovers her father's desire for this unknown woman, leaving her to question the inherent perils of his...
- Author:Patterson, James, Roughan, HowardSummary:
Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons: the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of...
- Author:Davis, L. G.Summary:
Two years ago, Paige Wilson watched helplessly as her brother Ryan was shot, right on her doorstep. He survived the attack, but he never fully recovered from the trauma. Stuck in a wheelchair, Ryan refuses to accept the life of a...
- Author:Massey, BrandonSummary:
A woman concealing many dangerous secrets, Rachel has taken great pains to flee from her troubled past. But now a figure from long ago has returned and will stop at nothing to make her suffer for her sins.
- Author:Loe, Erlend, Bartlett, Don, Shaw, DonSummary:
A Guardian Book of the Year and Chapters/Indigo Best Book A bestseller in Scandinavia -- Doppler is the enchanting, subversive, and very unusual story about one man and his moose. This beguiling modern fable tells the story of a man who...
- Author:Forest, HélèneSummary:
Dorothée erre sous la canicule. Elle a onze ans, une imagination sans borne et d'immenses questions aussi. Fascinée par les gens qui peuplent son décor, elle demeure le plus souvent en retrait, emportée par ses pensées qui...
- Author:Martinez, CaroleSummary:
"Un long hurlement, celui d'une foule d'enfants, secoue la planète. Dans les villes, le Cri passe à travers les murs, se faufile dans les canalisations, jaillit sous les planchers, court dans les couloirs des tours où...
- Author:Cronenberg, CassandraSummary:
Itessa is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and as her marriage unravels we follow her in and out of denial that her marriage is over and into a world of drugs and fantasies about other men and other lives she could have lived. As...
- Author:Lippman, LauraSummary:
"My dream novel. I devoured this in three days. The sharpest, clearest-eyed take on our #MeToo reckoning yet. Plus: enthralling." - Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of Dare Me and The Fever. Following up on her acclaimed and...
- Author:Foulds, AdamSummary:
Henry became famous starring in The Grange, a television drama beloved by mothers and wives, and whose fans speak about the characters as though they were real people . . . yet Henry dreams of escaping the small screen. An audition for...
- Author:Hospital, Janette TurnerSummary:
Haunted by the memory of the hijacked Paris-New York flight on which his mother was killed when he was a teenager, Lowell has been receiving calls from a stranger obsessed with learning the whole truth about Air France 64 badgering him...
- Author:Beevis, KeriSummary:
As the only survivor of a horrific car crash, Lila Amberson believes she is on the road to recovery after she is released from the hospital. Her memories of the accident are blurred though and a series of unsettling incidents leave her...
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