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A body in a pool. A rifle. And a scream that carries across the valley. But is that the end, or just the beginning?

In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille.

His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly.

"J'avais les pieds enfoncés dans le sable pis les cheveux dans la face quand les barres de mon test de grossesse se sont pointées comme deux invités que personne n'a le goût de v

Friends since grade school, Céline, Julie, and Sabrina come of age at the start of a new millennium, supporting each other and drifting apart as their lives pull them in different directions.

When millworkers in Roberval, a northern Quebec logging town, go on strike, the conflict rips the close-knit community apart, and despite the workers' solidarity, their individual struggles an

Under the sway of a charismatic stranger, five friends at an isolated lakeside cottage find their idyll unravelling, leaving two of them -- Lydia Eadon and Dorian Grant -- trapped in an explosion o

Matthew Reilly is a lonely priest haunted by secrets. Young Alison is the shy and devoted keeper of Daisy, a falcon that suffered an accident and can no longer fly.

How to survive the unthinkable? This is the question nine-year-old Tom has to face after witnessing his father kill his mother and then turn the gun on himself.

In the spring of 1964, troubled teenager Cookie Blue is found dead in the Red River.

Grief cannot abide a mystery.

A'isha Nasir is a Nigerian teenager who has been charged with adultery. She is sentenced to death by stoning--a sentence to be carried out after her daughter is weaned.

Set in an unnamed Pakistani city shortly after Partition, the lives of Ustad Ramzi, one of the greatest wrestlers of the land, who is now old and warmed only by the memories of his past, and the eq

A compelling, haunting novel about a man experiencing gaps in time, and the pain of living with mental illness.

One Friday, Vancouver lawyer Paul Brenner has dinner with his son, Daniel. They talk about work, health, money, and music, and part ways.