Fiction - Psychological

Anne Elliot is 27, and unmarried. Years ago, she fell in love with a man named Frederick Wentworth, a handsome young naval officer, but as he was poor, he was considered to be an unsuitable match, and Anne's friend, Lady Russell, convinced her to...

The three novels in this Library of America volume from Henry James's middle period explore some historical and social dilemmas that belong as much to our time as to his own. The Princess Casamassima was published in 1886, a year that saw riots of...

From its spectacular opening-the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair-to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy's finest...

Adam Austin hasn't spoken to his brother in years. When they were teenagers, their sister was abducted and murdered, and their devastated family never recovered. Now Adam keeps to himself, scraping by as a bail bondsman, working so close to the town's criminal fringes...

This stunning novel from Tatiana de Rosnay, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Sarah's Key, plumbs the depths of complex family relationships and the power of a past secret to change everything in the present. A Secret Kept is now a major...

Part thriller, part character study, part drama of deceit and self-betrayal, The American (A Very Private Gentleman) shows Martin Booth at the very height of his powers. The basis for the 2010 action-packed film starring George Clooney! The locals in the southern Italian town...

Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as an "utterly irresistible heroine," Darlene O'Hara--the brilliant, hard-living, obsessive, and somewhat self-destructive detective introduced in Peter de Jonge's acclaimed crime fiction masterwork Shadows Still Remain--returns in Buried on Avenue B.An edgy and suspenseful noir thriller, Buried on Avenue...

Now available for the first time in trade paperback, Lisa Jackson's chilling, New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel returns to the merciless winters of Grizzly Falls, Montana to pit two of her most fascinating characters--detectives and friends Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli--against...

An aspiring actress finds herself the only person still alive after a plague has devastated the world. With no purpose left, she finds herself almost unable to go on; until she meets literally the last man on earth.Together the pair find a reason to...

Stephen Amidon's Human Capital is a gripping novel of new money, old jealousies, and the secret lives of parents and children in the suburbs. Now a major motion picture! It's the spring of 2001. Drew Hagel has spent the last decade watching things slip...

A-lady-of-a-certain-age, Ellen Lane finds a man's body in her driveway. Her neighbor, who operates an illegal tree trimming company in the alley behind her garage, is the assumed the killer. After all, everyone heard him arguing the day before with the dead man. Ellen...

The much-anticipated finale of the epic saga of Hidden. A modern western classic. Sully, a wounded Marine, struggles to adjust to civilian life. The dark secrets that destroyed his parent's marriage slowly come to light. Though furious, Sully is forced to live and work...

Praise for the gypt sequence: "With Little, Big, Crowley established himself as America's greatest living writer of fantasy. gypt confirms that he is one of our finest living writers, period."--Michael Dirda"A dizzying experience, achieved with unerring security of technique."--The New York Times Book Review"A...

This third volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works presents three markedly different novels that together trace a crucial period in the bold evolution of one of America's indispensable novelists. In The Great American Novel (1973), a hilarious,...

"Are you a Nicci French fan? Then read The Dinner Club."--Beau Monde"A thrilling read."--De Telegraaf"An exciting novel that is also a morality tale laced with biting satire."--Het ParoolWhen Evert dies in his burning villa, everything points to suicide. The other members of the "dinner...

THE CHOICEAfter a brilliant career at Oxford, Harry Clavering lost his beloved Julia Brabazon to the dissolute Lord Ongar. Now Lady Ongar is a widow and attempts to rekindle her old romance.However, Harry is engaged to the daughter of his employer.Harry has to choose...

The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince Lyov, a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. The 26-year-old Prince...

By Nobel Prize Winner Peter HandkeProvocative, romantic, and restlessly exploratory, Peter Handke is one of the great writers of our time. Slow Homecoming, originally published in the late 1970s, is central to his achievement and to the powerful influence he has exercised on other...

Originally published in 1836. Sheppard Lee, Written By Himself is a work of dark satire from the early years of the American Republic. Published as an autobiography and praised by Edgar Allan Poe, this is the story of a young idler who goes in...

Living on a diet of fried Spam, vodka, sardines, cupcakes, and Southern Comfort, Andrew Whittaker is slowly being sucked into the morass of middle age. A negligent landlord, small-time literary journal editor, and aspiring novelist, he is--quite literally-- authoring his own downfall. From his...

Experimental novel by James Joyce. Extracts of the work appeared as Work in Progress from 1928 to 1937, and it was published in its entirety as Finnegans Wake in 1939. The book is, in one sense, the story of a publican in Chapelizod (near...

"Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible." Written shortly after his conversion to Christianity, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is one of Tolstoy's masterpieces in fiction. A man facing death is forced to reconcile the contradictions of...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

"Tender, hilarious, and packed with delightful surprises . . . If Einstein and John Cleese had written a novel together, this would be it."-Joseph Weisberg, author of 10th Grade Four friends set out into the night in Cambridge, Massachusetts, undeterred by the fact that...

From the internationally renowned author of In a Different Voice, a remarkable debut novel: a love story that introduces an unforgettable character in modern fiction, Kyra, and a superb new fiction writer, Carol Gilligan. Kyra is an architect designing a new city, a woman...

Like beauty, madness altered perception, but instead of offering illusion, it offered delusion. Moranna leaned the tricks madness played on perception the hard way as experience showed her how persuasively madness distorted reality. Experience also showed her that if she hung on long enough,...

Frederick Forsyth, master of the international thriller, retums with an electrifying story of a man of immense power and a conspiracy to crush the President of the United States. Only one man--Forsyth's most unforgettable hero yet--can prevent the plan from succeeding. His name is...

In Mutation, Robin Cook's masterpiece of techno-medical suspense, Dr. Cook tells a story as chilling and real as today's headlines. On the forefront of surrogate parenting and genetic research, it is the explosive tale of a brilliant doctor who sought to create the son...

Stephen Amidon's Human Capital is a gripping novel of new money, old jealousies, and the secret lives of parents and children in the suburbs. Now a major motion picture! It's the spring of 2001. Drew Hagel has spent the last decade watching things slip...

At age sixty-five, retired anthropologist Stella Brentwood buys a cottage in Somerset, England, and slowly acquires neighbors, a dog, and a professional curiosity about the country village where she intends to settle and put down roots for the first time. She has spent her...

Meet the Hennarts: Samantha Hennart, a poet with writer's block; her husband, Bernard, obsessed with the life of a nineteenth-century Belgian mystic with stigmata; their son, Ryan, a mediocre rock musician; and their eighteen-year-old daughter, Marguerite, who is quietly losing her mind. A meditation...

Embark on Esteban's captivating journey of resilience and self-discovery in "Love's Irony." From the evocative streets of Las Cruces, where he battles illness and solitude while revitalizing a forgotten church community, to the vibrant city of Kochi in southwest India, Esteban's life takes unexpected...

Chaos.Control.In a broken mind, it's all merely an illusion.KaneI'm an interstate trucker who's left hundreds of bodies behind him. She's a woman who's running from her past. When she gets in my truck, she unwittingly becomes my next victim.I test her will to live,...

"[Laura van den Berg is] a master of the short story form. Hers are deliciously unnerving, moving, and monstrous tales." --Karen Russell, author of Orange World and other stories "A smart, fun, noir-y treasure map . . . Van den Berg somehow packs a...

For the first time since discovering the hidden society of the Velieri, Remy is free from her pursuers. But her new-found freedom is cut short when Prophet Jenner reports that Ephemes from all over the world have gone missing. Before Remy and Arek can...

My husband is accused of killing my best friend. Can I trust anything he says?It feels like all the air has been knocked out of me. My best friend is dead, killed at her own daughter's birthday party. All I want to do is...

In Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, deception lurks beneath the veneer of Edwardian society. Narrated by the unreliable John Dowell, it unravels the intricate web of affairs, lies and tragic misunderstandings between two couples. A haunting exploration of love, betrayal and the unraveling...

Unauthorised Departures is a new anthology of quirky tales by some of today's best short story writers, your tour guides out being Maxim Jakubowski, James Goddard, Hunter Liguore, Rhys Hughes, David Quantick, Paul A. Green, Ana Teresa Pereira, Tom Frick, Eugen Bacon, Lawrence Russell,...

A New York Times Editors' Choice Named a Best New Book of the Year by Harper's Bazaar Named a Best Book of the Summer by Shondaland, SheReads, The Boston Globe, Harper's Bazaar, and Reader's Digest From an acclaimed senior editor at Vanity Fair comes...

Uncovering her husband's family secrets could cost her everything...Ally's perfect marriage to Tim Hawthorne is crumbling under the weight of one trial after another. Forced to visit Tim's mother on her secluded island off the coast of Maine, Ally uncovers a sinister secret: years...

Disaster catapults three children into the careof their Caribbean grandparents, before another relative, elusive and perhapsunstable, makes a conflicting claim to guardianship. Balancing domesticcalamity against her own compulsive writing, Aria faces physical andpsychological threats, as a pandemic creeps up on the world and the...

It was meant to be the perfect getaway...As I board the plane, all I can feel is hope and excitement. One whole week away. Just me and the man I have promised to be with forever.Time to repair what has been broken. Maybe even...

A loving mother. A notorious murderer. They both have reasons to hide their secrets in a novel of escalating shock and suspense by New York Times bestselling author A. R. Torre.Perla Wultz lives with her husband, Grant, and their precious daughter, Sophie, in a...

The Wayside is a haunting, elegantly drawn psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Secret History, Big Little Lies, and The Maidens.When Kate Cleary's son, Jake, dies at his elite liberal arts college, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Something sinister is at...

A beautiful jacketed hardback edition of Franz Kafka's classic novel, Metamorphosis, with brand-new, full-color illustrations by Gaby Verdooren. A masterful mix of horror and absurdity which tells the story of travelling salesman Samsa, who wakes up one day to find out he has turned...

Bestselling author Sebastian Fitzek sends you on an ingeniously disturbing journey with his brand new psychological thriller. A missing child. A desperate father. A terrible secret. Guido T has already confessed to two horrific child murders and led Berlin police to the bodies. The...

Author: Erik ThermeISBN-10: 1786819244ISBN-13: 9781786819246Publisher: BookoutureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2019Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.48d

A psychiatrist working at the University of Wisconsin is sent to Italy with his assistant to aid local priests with deciphering the possessed and the ill. They also search for a missing friend during their stay in none other than the sumptuous La Terra...

A drowned man. A sinister circus. And murder... murder... murder.Nod Blake, the cynical, wise-cracking private eye, is back. He's an aging throwback to a bygone era of detecting on the mean streets; a dinosaur of a private eye who never got the memo that...

About This Book "No amount of wisdom could possibly make sense of the mysterious verdict which God intended through this duel." A new translation of a key work by one of European literature's most important early writers. One of the few novellas written by...