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In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and fatherare having trouble. Meanwhile, the world's in meltdown, and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: Where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common? Summer.

Everyone talks about falling in love, but falling in friendship can be just as captivating. When Neela Devaki's song is covered by internet-famous artist Rukmini, the two musicians meet and a transformative friendship begins. But as Rukmini's star rises and Neela's stagnates, jealousy and self-doubt creep in. With a single tweet, their friendship implodes, one career is destroyed, and the two women find themselves at the center of an internet firestorm.

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 violent logger and ex-con. Mik and Vicky's physical, often violent affair offers an honest and unflinching look at relationships and female suffering. Crossings caused a furor when it was first published and was banned from some feminist bookstores.

From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated novel The Incident Report comes a hypnotic novel following Heinrich Schlögel from Germany to Canada, where he sets out on a solo hike into the interior of Baffin Island. His journey quickly becomes surreal, full of strange encounters, inexplicable visions, and the shifting of time. After returning back to civilization, Heinrich discovers inexplicably that many years have passed.

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it. 

When Holly tells the story of the "PS, I Love You" letters, people start reaching out with one thing in common: they're terminally ill and want to leave their own missives behind for loved ones.

With her imaginary friend Teddy by her side and the detecting skills of her nosy neighbor, six-year-old Aoife sets out to uncover what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital.

Caitlin Hendrix, FBI behavioral analyst, is in Los Angeles to do what she does best, hunt a serial killer. While something about this unknown subject doesn't sit right, hesitancy is not an option.

La vie de Marc Leblanc bascule lorsqu'il perd son emploi et sa compagne. Pris de crises mystiques qui le poussent à appeler Dieu à son secours, il constate bientôt que ses prières sont inutiles. Déterminé à ne plus souffrir et à retrouver son équilibre, Leblanc décide alors d'agir selon les volontés du diable, convaincu que Satan, lui, saura le remercier en le comblant de bienfaits... Mais le diable est un maître exigeant qui ne saurait se contenter de peu.

Prédatrice. Le mot s'imposait à l'esprit de Christabel, qui tentait en vain de le chasser. Sa mère le lui avait répété des centaines de fois : elle était née prédatrice et elle devait agir comme telle. Pourtant, Christabel ne se sentait pas prédatrice. Au contraire, elle avait plutôt l'impression de s'en aller à l'abattoir. On a tous un jardin secret... et ça fait parfois du bien de le saccager. Le jardin de Christabel respire la mort. Chaque joie y est engraissée par des cadavres. La vie s'y enracine dans la solitude.