AÏcha lives with her mother in Montreal's Centre-Sud neighborhood. She's only thirteen, but claims to be older. She has never known her father, and resents her mother for leaving Hakim, her stepfather. Her only friends are Mel and Jo, two local prostitutes, and Baz, a musician in his twenties, who comes to her rescue one day and with whom she proceeds to fall in love. Her impossible love for Baz, her precociousness and her rebellious streak come...

"Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be...

In the midst of his marital crisis, Gus takes their daughter's class on an overnight trip into the wilderness, where Ruby is one of only two children to survive the avalanche that kills the others, including her beloved father. After the search ends with no sign of her father, Ruby is determined to find him herself, using the survival skills he taught her and believing that he must still be alive. Her trek back into the snow sets off events that stretches...

Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike how she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream of stardom, and when the grandfather who was left to raise them abandoned her and her sister, Sloane, when they needed him most. Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike how she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream of stardom, and when...

"Ben Arkin, patriarch of the family, is an artist who has never sold a piece. His children, Sondra, Doris, and Oliver run a record label that has never produced a hit, and that Ben and his wife have bankrolled. When Doris strikes out to form her own label, Sondra sues the entire Arkin family, setting about a series of events that ultimately lead to their demise. The story is told primarily from the perspective of Oliver's daughter, Rebecca, an attorney...

In his first novel since "The Corrections", Jonathan Franzen delivers a powerful epic of contemporary love and marriage. "Freedom" comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty - the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire, charting the mistakes and joys of intensely realized characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing...

With a past like hers, Jessica Clayton feels safer in a life spent on the road. She's made a career out of helping others downsize, because she's learned the hard way that the less 'stuff,' the better, a policy she applies equally to her relationships. But a new client is taking Jess back to Cape Sanctuary, a town she once called home, and that her little sister, Rachel, still does. While Jess couldn't wait to put the miles between her and Cape Sanctuary,...

"The summer Bria Powers turns 16 is sinister. Waves of insects plague her hometown of Beauchamp, where fentanyl has recently infiltrated the drug stream. Forest fires muddy the normally wide-open skies, and everything smells like a barbecue all the time. It's also the summer Bria goes from having saved a life to ruining her own. Since her drug-dealing father disappeared and his girlfriend overdosed, Bria has lived with her aunt Tash and best friend/cousin...

The Spectacular looks at what it means to be an unconventional, unapologetic woman. It's the late 1990s and Missy, 22, is exhausted from touring as a cello player in a notorious art rock orchestra experiencing a wave of commercial success and from running away from an unfortunate incident at the border involving a forgotten flap of cocaine. After letting down her bandmates, Missy decides its time she tries to shake the temptations of a touring musician....

In the wake their mother's death, three estranged brothers return to the lakeside cottage where, over two decades before, an unspeakable accident forever altered their family. There is Nils, the oldest, who couldn't escape his suffocating home soon enough, and Pierre, the youngest, easily bullied and quick to lash out. And then there is Benjamin, always the family's nerve centre, perpetually on the look-out for triggers and trap doors in a volatile...