Fiction - Psychological

A dark portrayal of friendship and a love triangle amid the world's end, Plutonic captures the existential feelings of the unheard and dissects the nature of the self-destructive.Blogger Diane Ling depicts the broken people of Manchester by unearthing their deepest secrets and pains. Scarred...

"Babbitt," penned by the incomparable Sinclair Lewis, stands as a luminous jewel in the crown of American literature, a masterful exploration of the human condition within the bustling backdrop of 1920s Midwest America. Lewis's narrative prowess shines brilliantly in this poignant and satirical examination...

From New York Times bestselling author Clare MackintoshThey say the camera never lies. But on this show, you can't trust anything you see.Stranded in the Welsh mountains, seven reality show contestants have no idea what they've signed up for.Each of these strangers has a...

Every screenwriter knows the best stories come from the truth...But the truth can be terrifyingMarnie thought she'd left behind her days of writing 'celebrity' tell-all memoirs, but when her big break as a screenwriter turns to dust she's forced to take another ghost writing...

Four friends.One tragic death.20 years of secrets and lies. One wintery night, when they are young, Anna and her three friends Rudy, Seth, and Dougal are involved in an accident in which a stranger is killed - that night it snows heavily, covering everything...

Herbert George Wells, known for his science fiction works, also wrote a book about his own life and marriage. The book, titled "Marriage", was published in 1912 and provides a candid account of Wells' own views on marriage, as well as his personal experiences...

"Intelligent, spooky, original, and fall-down funny, The Head runs in dark layers from page one." - Jason Emde, author of Little Bit Die A surreal and penetrating tale of academia, work life, and surviving trauma. On the morning of her thirtieth birthday, Dr. Trish...

From USA Today bestselling and Edgar and Shamus Award-winning author Alison Gaylin comes a slick, riveting, and all-too-plausible tale of psychological suspense where a mother is desperate to protect her family as they become targets of a group of violent conspiracy theorists.Sometimes the world...

Told through the eyes of two seasoned detectives, Skull and Violet, Cliff by John Spagnoli has as many twists and turns as the sinuous cliff side roads where mysterious murders occur. When Skull returns from military service with PTSD, Violet covers for him as...

TRUST NO ONE. EVEN YOURSELF. __ 'Sucks you in from the first page, with twists and turns that will leave you gasping for air!' Netgalley reviewer, 5***** When Claire Wright wakes in hospital, she doesn't recognise the person staring back at her in the...

Balla creates a beautiful, thought-provoking, often funny portrait of human frailty. Consisting of fragments newspaper reports, TV news items, conversations, letters, voice messages and police reports related to a fragile middle-aged woman, Vargová, and her drug and alcohol dependent therapist, Dr Feleslegi. It is...

Midwest Book Award WinnerCan a good deed turn deadly? You bet!I stopped to save someone in a burning house, became an eyewitness to arson, lost my job, and found my mother stalked by a cold-case killer. To save her, I needed to uncover secrets...

This gripping work of Russian literature tells the story of a young man who struggles to find his place in a rapidly changing world. With its vivid characters, insightful commentary on society and politics, and beautiful prose, The Precipice is a true masterpiece of...

Helping people understand the neuroscience of anxiety. And how to cope with the types of anxiety.Author: Clyde N. III CookISBN-10: 8223019094ISBN-13: 9798223019091Publisher: Clyde N. Cook, IIILanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2023Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d

A mother and her two children struggle to live with a monstrous fourth figure in their house. "UNMAN", the debut screenplay from up-and-coming author Ella Skidmore, is a thriller about family, darkness, and escape.Author: Ella SkidmoreISBN-10: 8387164585ISBN-13: 9798387164583Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2023Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight:...

When your whole life becomes one big lie...The night my mum disappeared, after a panicked 3am phonecall, I knew something was wrong.The police tried to reassure me. There had to be a logical explanation they said - perhaps she's taking a break after the...

A shocking psychological thriller from bestselling author, J.A. Baker!Three troubled women. One deadly secret.Lissy and her daughter, Rosie, live a quiet life and keep themselves to themselves. But when shocking events at Rosie's school are revealed, their peaceful existence is shattered.Meanwhile, middle-aged women Erica...

When there's nothing left to lose... would you risk everything to find out the truth?A shock diagnosis forces Verity Casmere to consider how she wants to spend the time she has left.The one question haunting Verity is what happened to her missing sister, Ashlee....

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

A blackmail letter arrives at an inopportune moment, and the recipient's name is blurred out. Who is the ruthless missive meant for?In the powerful sequel to Watching Glass Shatter, Olivia is the first to read the nasty threat. When the mysterious letter falls into...

Martin is a naive young man, leaving behind his backward town to visit his friend George in the big city. He's under the impression they'll have a few laughs together, maybe dinner and drinks. However, since leaving home George has taken up wrestling, bulked...

Don't let her in.Mixing with others never came as naturally as mixing paint to artist Samara. Troubles with classmates and family leave her alone, trapped in her struggling mind. Only the girl with dark hair understands. A spectre, watching from afar but creeping closer...

Some scars are visible.Some scars are hidden.But the worst scars are buried within...Existing in their own private worlds, Robin and Sean are not really living. With a need to move forward, Robin attends a workshop geared to help her do just that. At his...

Exploration, healing, and forgiveness.A journey of love.Kane is still reeling with anger of betrayal at the deepest level. Hoping to find his way back to forgiveness, therapy is his only option. But he discovers so much more...Tania is struggling with her fear of intimacy...

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family and is regarded as one of...

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family and is regarded as one of...

Twenty-three-year-old Jessica Porter was orphaned as a baby and has always relied on Gran to help her through hard times. When Gran dies suddenly, Jessica must find a way to deal with her grief - and an unforeseen bequest. Seventh is a shadow-like entity...

A story of a young girl as she struggles with reality as she knows it. Her best friend has turned on her and she is soon finding out her entire life as she has always known it is no more than a lie. They...

Written in the shadow of the Yugoslav wars, yet never eclipsed by them, Mama Leone is a delightful cycle of interconnected stories by one of Central Europe's most dazzling contemporary storytellers. Miljenko Jergovic leads us from a bittersweet world of precocious childhood wonder and...

Landon Briggs is losing his memories.Diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, he and his wife Melody are doing their best to adjust, all the while keeping the news from their sons James and Peter.No need for the boys to worry. They've got their own lives to...

A man with multiple personalities can't hold it together any longer when the woman he loves gets involved with his alter. Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder) is a condition wherein a person's identity fractures into two or more distinct personalities. People diagnosed with...

2017 Reprint of 1930 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Influenced by the rise of the science of psychology and the turmoil of the early 20th century, The Hoax also translated as A Perfect Hoax] is an...

A hard-driving designer seeks acclaim by developing a Middle Eastern museum only to discover the project's real value is not what she imagined. Joanna and Ev have been partners for ten years--in business and in love--when one of the only women in government in...

Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915, through which Conrad achieved "popular success." The New York Times, however, called it "an uneven book" and "more open to criticism than most of Mr....

Jacob's Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 26 October 1922. The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and is presented almost entirely through the impressions other characters have of...

First published in 1899, this novel by best-selling author Frank Norris tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence and finally murder as the result of jealousy and greed. The book was the basis for the...

Detective Carter knows all about torture--but he's never known a case as dark as this one.The Six...An abandoned building goes up in flames. Six women are chained inside and left to die--the truth is left to burn with them. Only one piece of evidence...

The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James. This dark comedy, seen as one of the masterpieces of James's final period, follows the trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe in pursuit of Chad Newsome, his widowed fianc e's supposedly wayward son;...

Red Dashboard LLC Publications presents Matthew Kirshman's new Pulp fiction--Arthur Z. woke before the alarm, pursued by a series of bothering dreams. He was a teen in English class with a kid punching him in the ribs. Arthur gasped for air. The rupture of...

These three short novels, set in England and New Zealand during the early 2000s, combine elements of romance, medical mystery and the paranormal. The first two, Carmen's Roses and Blue Moon for Bombers, appear to be quite separate from each other but the third,...

In an age before psychology was a modern scientific field, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer of realist fiction and essays that explored the depths of the human psyche. Known for acclaimed novels Crime and Punishment, The...

It is 1897, and confined to his room in Carfax Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr Richard Renfield is dying from injuries which could not be self-inflicted. His door has been barricaded from the inside and the Night Watcher swears nobody has been allowed in or...

Renaissance art, past life experiences, and art terrorism lead to murder and suicide in modern-day Florence. David Rinaldo hears voices in his head that tell him to commit acts of vandalism. When he takes a hammer to Michelangelo's "David" in the Galleria dell Accademia,...

For the last nine years, Penney Divan visited her gynecologist, received an "all's well" diagnosis, and was told to come back next year. But this year is different for this well-respected and busy high school principal who loves her work and lives an active...

This story is less than a "who done it" and more of "why did he do it" and "where did he get it." Why would an 83-year-old Catholic bookkeeper leave a fortune to a Jewish Synagogue? Where did he get the millions he left?...

Charles Carr, T-Man, depends heavily on informants in his pursuit of pushers, passers and makers of "paper" - all those in the thriving business of counterfeiting. Informants are as much a part of the seamy, violent Los Angeles underworld as are the crooks they...

In Bloodless Affairs, Paul Grossman, a gifted mortician, gives into his sexual fetish with an embalmed female corpse. The act is accidentally video taped. When the 8mm tape is discovered by his adversary, the funeral home secretary, a blackmail scheme begins. Paul's continued sexual...

Author: Brian DuBoisISBN-10: 1403393575ISBN-13: 9781403393579Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2003Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.14w x 0.69d

A strange message sets Skylar Wilson on a perilous journey to rescue her sister from a deadly cult. Searching for answers, Skylar discovers that the cult stretches far beyond its pseudo-evangelical veil, penetrating the upper echelon of the United States government and pushing a...

Psychiatrist Stephen Forester and his wife Brea left the frenzy of New York City ten years before in search of a quiet life in a tranquil seaside community in New Hampshire. But when the elusive Eva Hathaway steps into Stephen's office and begins to...