The Francoeur Novels

The Francoeur Novels
Author: David Plante
Publisher: New York : Dutton
Total Pages: 547
Release: 1983
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780525480679

Three novels trace the interrelationships between the members of a French Canadian, working class family who have settled in Providence, Rhode Island

Free Fall

Free Fall
Author: Rae Padilla Francoeur
Publisher: Seal Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2010-03-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1580053041

In her memoir, Francoeur discloses her discovery of a new love after nearly two decades in a relationship that won't end, despite her desire to move on. Francoeur succumbs to the intensely physical and stimulating relationship she finds with this new man and shares intimate details of a love affair that changes everything.

Plenum

Plenum
Author: Geoffreyjen Edwards
Publisher: Untimely Books
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2022-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780971663565

A young star gardener embarks on a religious pilgrimage in this debut space opera. (Kirkus Reviews)

Difficult Women

Difficult Women
Author: David Plante
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1681371502

David Plante's dazzling portraits of three influential women in the literary world, now back in print for the first time in decades. Difficult Women presents portraits of three extraordinary, complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising intriguing and, in their own way, difficult questions about the character and motivations of the keenly and often cruelly observant portraitist himself. The book begins with David Plante’s portrait of Jean Rhys in her old age, when the publication of The Wide Sargasso Sea, after years of silence that had made Rhys’s great novels of the 1920s and ’30s as good as unknown, had at last gained genuine recognition for her. Rhys, however, can hardly be said to be enjoying her new fame. A terminal alcoholic, she curses and staggers and rants like King Lear on the heath in the hotel room that she has made her home, while Plante looks impassively on. Sonia Orwell is his second subject, a suave exploiter and hapless victim of her beauty and social prowess, while the unflappable, brilliant, and impossibly opinionated Germaine Greer sails through the final pages, ever ready to set the world, and any erring companion, right.

How the Light Gets In

How the Light Gets In
Author: Louise Penny
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466834706

How the Light Gets In is the ninth Chief Inspector Gamache Novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny. "There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." —Leonard Cohen Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department, his old friend and lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir hasn't spoken to him in months, and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message from Myrna Landers that a longtime friend has failed to arrive for Christmas in the village of Three Pines, he welcomes the chance to get away from the city. Mystified by Myrna's reluctance to reveal her friend's name, Gamache soon discovers the missing woman was once one of the most famous people not just in North America, but in the world, and now goes unrecognized by virtually everyone except the mad, brilliant poet Ruth Zardo. As events come to a head, Gamache is drawn ever deeper into the world of Three Pines. Increasingly, he is not only investigating the disappearance of Myrna's friend but also seeking a safe place for himself and his still-loyal colleagues. Is there peace to be found even in Three Pines, and at what cost to Gamache and the people he holds dear? One of Publishers Weekly's Best Mystery/Thriller Books of 2013 One of The Washington Post's Top 10 Books of the Year An NPR Best Book of 2013

A Trick of the Light

A Trick of the Light
Author: Louise Penny
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2011-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429972890

A New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011 A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller books for 2011 With A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny takes us back to the deceptively peaceful village of Three Pines in this brilliant novel in her award-winning, New York Times bestselling series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. "Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara's solo show at the famed Musée in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Sûreté du Québec, is called to the tiny Quebec village and there he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light. Where nothing is as it seems. Behind every smile there lurks a sneer. Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart. And even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear to Gamache and his team if what they've found is the truth, or simply a trick of the light. "Penny has been compared to Agatha Christie [but] it sells her short. Her characters are too rich, her grasp of nuance and human psychology too firm...." --Booklist (starred review)

Becoming a Londoner

Becoming a Londoner
Author: David Plante
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 140883975X

The first volume of David Plante's extraordinary diaries of a life lived among the artistic elite, both a deeply personal memoir and a hugely significant document of cultural history

The Fixer

The Fixer
Author: Joseph Finder
Publisher: Dutton
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0451472578

When Rick Hoffman loses his job and apartment, his only option is to move back into the home of his miserable youth, now empty and in decay since his father's stroke. But when he starts to pull it apart, he makes an electrifying discovery that will put his life in peril, and change everything he thought he knew about his father.

The Beautiful Mystery

The Beautiful Mystery
Author: Louise Penny
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2013-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250031125

The brilliant new novel in the bestselling series by Penny, one of the most acclaimed crime writers of our time.

Without Jenny

Without Jenny
Author: Mark Gunther
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-07-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Everything in Joy Rosenberg's life was just about perfect. Satisfying work, a passionate marriage, two great kids . . . until the ten year old Jenny was killed. Joy's heart was ripped from her chest. Tortured by guilt and grief, Joy questions everything she ever believed. Her family, her Judaism, her work, her bike-nothing will return her to what she once was as long as all she wants is Jenny. In sometimes excruciating detail and with unflinching honesty Joy struggles to live a life of meaning and compassion while the devastation of her loss keeps tearing it apart. . Can she forgive herself and trust love again? Without Jenny is an intimate portrait of a loving family stretched to the breaking point by the unspeakable. Written for families in grief and those who support them, LWJ will inspire and comfort those who have had a similar loss and expose those who have not to its profound consequence.