It’s been almost a year since Charlotte Romer set foot in her hometown of River John, Nova Scotia. She’s been living at a boarding school hours away, hiding from the trauma and broken relationships she left behind. All she has left in...
Psychic trauma
-
Author:Harrington, AlexandraSummary: - Author:Lamb, WallySummary:
When 47-year-old high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Maureen finds herself in the school library at...
- Author:Castro, V.Summary:
A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this "utterly terrifying and wholly immersive . . . story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood" (...
- Author:Schmucler, SergioSummary:
Roma meets A Gentleman in Moscowin this vivid portrait of the twentieth century, witnessed by one boy from his self-imposed refuge in Mexico City.Galo has not left his home on Amsterdam Street, not since the day in 1938 when a shocking...
-
Author:Hernandez, CatherineSummary:From masturbation to motherhood, body shaming to burlesque, Catherine Hernandez reveals the reality of living as a queer woman of colour. Set to the music of her life, The Femme Playlist shows what it's like to be sexy and proud,...
-
Author:Pyper, AndrewSummary: - Author:DiLouie, CraigSummary:
David Young, Deacon Price, and Beth Harris live with a dark secret. As children, they survived a religious group's horrific last days at the isolated mountain Red Peak. Years later, the trauma of what they experienced never feels far...
- Author:Paris, B. A.Summary:
Named One of the Most Anticipated Thriller Novels of 2017 by Bustle!The new chilling, propulsive audiobook from the author of the instant New York Times and USA Today bestselling Behind Closed Doors. If you can't trust yourself,...
- Author:Parrish, ChristaSummary:
At 17, Molly Fisk is unable to enjoy the preoccupations of other girls her age. Crippled by anxiety, Molly hides from life in the small-town museum she runs with her mother. Nurturing vague hopes of one day overcoming her fears and...
- Author:Salazar, RebeccaSummary:
An urgent, powerful examination of place and the ways in which all kinds of identities exist and collide. The poems in sulphurtongue ask how to redefine desire and kinship across languages, and across polluted environments. An immigrant...
- Author:Salazar, RebeccaSummary:
Ce recueil engagé de Rebecca Salazar nous transporte tantôt à Sudbury, ville où l'autrice a grandi, tantôt dans la région de Fredericton, son lieu d'accueil, tantôt encore chez ses aïeux en Colombie. Des réflexions percutantes...
- Author:Bow, ErinSummary:
For fans of Kate DiCamillo and Jack Gantos, a hilarious, wrenching, hopeful novel about finding your friends, healing your heart, and speaking your truth. Simon O'Keeffe's biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally...
- Author:Gillham, David R.Summary:
A captivating novel of a Berlin girl on the run from the guilt of her past and the boy from Brooklyn who loves her 1955 in New York City: the city of instant coffee, bagels at Katz's Deli, and ultramodern TVs. But in a certain walk...
- Author:West, Catherine AdelSummary:
"Forever and to the end. That's what they say instead of I love you." When Ruby King's mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago's South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black...
- Author:Johnson, Chantal V.Summary:
To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story, but privately she contends with the aftershocks of her bad childhood. A family reunion prompts her to change her life in new and terrifying ways.
-
Author:Flather, PattiSummary:After a traumatic assault in Central America, Rachel returns home, but it isn’t the reprieve she expected. She comes back to turmoil between her parents, and a part-time job in her dad’s medical office. Her father, George, full of...
- Author:Graham, HeatherSummary:
Sarah and Tyler are haunted by a bloody massacre. Years later, the horror has returned. It's a reckoning from the events of that terrifying night, and a love the two never wanted to let go.
- Author:Jones, Stephen GrahamSummary:
In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. "...
- Author:DeLory, AlisonSummary:
Tinker Gordon doesn't want anything to change. He thinks that if he holds on tightly enough, his family, his tiny Cape Breton Island community, his very world will stay exactly the way it has always been. But explosions large and small-...
- Author:Methot, SuzanneSummary:
Exploring intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities--and strategies for healing--with provocative prose and an empathetic approach. Indigenous peoples have shockingly higher rates of addiction, depression, diabetes, and other...
Pages
