Bernadette is a frightfully intelligent wife and mother whose intense allergy to Seattle specifically, and to people in general, has driven her to hire a virtual assistant in India to execute even her most basic tasks. Then her daughter...
Phobias
- Author:Semple, MariaSummary:
- Author:Austen, CatherineSummary:
When Josh's mother dies in a phobia-induced car crash, she leaves two questions for her grieving family: how did a snake get into her car and how do you mourn with no faith to guide you? Twelve-year-old Josh is left alone to find the...
- Author:Summerscale, KateSummary:
From the winner of the Edgar Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize, a cultural history of "everyday madness", The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar,...
- Author:Bourne, Edmund J.Summary:
- Author:Holland, EvaSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
A personal story about not only facing but conquering fears.In 2015, Eva Holland was forced to confront her greatest fear when her mother...
- Author:Sutherland, KrystalSummary:
Esther Solar is determined to break a curse that has doomed her entire family to debilitating phobias, only to encounter a new fear she hadn't counted on: first love.