Fiction - Psychological

A ballerina spirals into a world of lust and luxury in this new addictive novel by Melanie Hamrick, author of First Position. Jocelyn Banks has always felt like an outsider in the ballet world. She was raised in rural Louisiana, taught to scrap and...

I have the life I've always dreamed of... but how long will it be until the past catches up with me?I can't believe how far my husband, Hayden, and I have come. I never expected that one day I'd be sipping a steaming coffee...

Author: Jessica Ward, J. R. WardISBN-10: 1982194871ISBN-13: 9781982194871Publisher: Gallery BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2024Pages: 384Format: Paperback

FROM THE BOXING RINGS OF NEW YORK TO THE SHADOWY CORNERS OF KOLKATA, A FEMALE FIGHTER'S BATTLE WITH ADDICTION TURNS INTO A THRILLING FIGHT FOR REDEMPTION AND SURVIVAL."Kali on the Ropes" by Ali Kaden takes readers on a raw, tumultuous journey with Arya, a...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEARThe New York Times Book Review - Publishers Weekly - CrimeReads - Book Riot A LibraryReads Pick The lives of two librarians become dangerously intertwined in this razor-sharp exploration of human nature and the lure of artistic obsession. No...

Kelly would not have had to die had her demands not been so crippling.Robert schemes that the body will never be found in the deep black water beneath the remote bridge. He does not know that in a swift-running current, concrete weights can be...

"Humiliated and Insulted" is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1861 in the magazine "Vremya". It is narrated by Vanya, a young author who has just released his first novel--a novel which has a clear resemblance to Dostoevsky's "Poor Folk"....

The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive...

The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the...

The Moon and Sixpence, is a fictionalized biography of the artist Paul Gauguin. The stand-in character for Gauguin is Charles Strickland, who deserts his wife and children to become a painter. In Paris, he is indifferent to the friendship offered by a fellow artist,...

A psychological thriller reminiscent of Shutter Island and Silence of the Lambs, Someday May Never Come tells the story of college student Anna Howard on her quest to discover a convicted murderer's darkest secrets before he is executed. Anna is intrigued that the prisoner...

At a time when the state of Poland was constantly undergoing political turmoil, Henryk Sienkiewicz wasn't afraid to ruffle feathers. Having already achieved success in his career around the end of the 19th century, the Polish journalist negatively portrayed the Teutonic Order at a...

It is the late 1960s. Cold war tensions and the Vietnam conflict dominate the media. John Bluderin, a drafted, dejected nineteen-year-old army specialist, has been assigned to military intelligence in Germany. Fluent in German and absorbed into the social fabric of Schw臙isch Gm?d, no...

Diane thought her long tapered fingers looked strong yet delicate--and pretty too, but they didn't seem to belong to her. They had rearranged her life, her conflicts, her dreams, and nearly her own death. With silent defiance, they laid limp and motionless in her...

Elena is a metal demon. She spends her time in dive joints dripping with human juices hunting for her next meal. Only the aura of a savage death metal singer can satiate her, until she feasts on Sage. Something has awakened within her. Cannibalistic...

Ruthie Flores is running out of time.Assembling a team who can discreetly breach the walls is a last-ditch effort to find out if her estranged daughter is in danger and to make up for what she's done before it's too late-literally. The old woman...

If you knew a dark secret about the past of the person you love -- something they don't even know about themselves -- would you keep it from them? Or would you tell them? When a young man wakes in the middle of the...

So this is Annie again. As I said in the last book, Diane thought it best she delegate the writing of Prologues and Epilogues to me. I am Annie, granddaughter to Janet and John. Remember, Diane is writing these books after the year 2000,...

I watched her from afar ever since she was born. I knew from the moment my eyes spied her that she was the one: the one I needed, the one I had searched for so very long. My careful planning and sacrifices would all...

A decade-old crime unites its devoted fans in a haunting novel about delusions in the dark and the dangerous games children play.Twelve-year-old Maddie Thompson and her friend Lana share a love of horror stories and wild imaginings. But Lana insists they are too old...

Alexia is your typical high school student, although the daughter of grizzly shifters, she has no special abilities. She does have a cheating mate, an annoyingly hot homeroom teacher, and a dad with a science lab. After one party leaves her confused about that...

For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control.Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her...

A serial killer's desire to protect children fuels a parallel drive to murder other sadistic men in this immersive and literary psychological thriller. Author: Preston L. AllenISBN-10: 1636141617ISBN-13: 9781636141619Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.Language: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2024Pages: 312Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.20d

Introducing "The Fragility of Light," Heather S. Lonczak's debut novel-a poignant exploration of mental health, resilience, and the enduring power of familial bonds.Sunny Zielinski is a beautiful and talented young woman with a promising future. A recent college graduate, Sunny has landed her dream...

A TV horror host broadcasts mysterious messages. Ghosts may be wandering the streets of a college town and hanging out at the corner bar. A student struggles to pay her rent. Welcome to the world of Dr. Bleak's Castle of Freaks, where BS'ing with...

From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune)--these ten stories show make everyday experiences seem utterly unprecedented, even as Baxter reminds us, gently and with a sly comic twist, that...

Justin Stokes would never forget the summer she turned fourteen, nor the woman who transformed her bleak adolescent life into a wondrous place of brilliant color. In the little pondside hut also known as the finishing school, eccentric, free-spirited Ursula DeVane opened up a...

"Harrowing in their frank detail and desperate tone, the selections in this anthology pack an emotional wallop...Should be required reading for anyone concerned about the violence in our society and the high rate of recidivism."--Publishers Weekly. Includes work by: Jack London, Nelson Algren, Chester...

Paranoid yet judiciously reasonable, innocent yet calculating, strange yet strangely endearing, Emmet Barfield finds the world around him looming larger and larger the more he struggles to make his way within it. With Emmet as our guide, Force of Gravity transforms the world through...

"That was the lesson: that what so often passed for love was mostly a desperate construct of your own vanity, a steamroller with which the self pressed the other flat until a smooth, reflective surface was all that remained..." In the summer of 2015,...

Author: Shirley JacksonISBN-10: 0553378333ISBN-13: 9780553378337Publisher: Bantam DellLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1997Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.66w x 1.13dReview Citation(s): New York Times 12/28/1997 pg. 16

They arrive alive. They always leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions. My name is Jack Steen, and for those who arrive on my 'death' ward at the Asylum, I'm the last face many will see before they die. I am the night...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND GLAMOUR! "One of those rare emotionally intelligent books that are also fun reads... Going to keep readers turning pages late into the night." -The New York Times "Ingenious...fresh and unpredictable." -The Washington...

Gabriel and Hannah's daughter Christa is missing. Has she run away with her older boyfriend or has something worse happened to her? As Gabriel and Hannah wait for the police to find her, they're forced to confront the fissures in their marriage and who...

A woman is left reeling when her former fiancé appears to take his own life, and she becomes desperate to prove it was actually murder--in the latest psychological thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kate White0As Kiki Reed heads out to a party...

"The story's two main characters, Beth and Charles, live completely separate lives and yet the parallels in their experiences tie into the knots of childhood. Eventually they cross paths, not knowing they share a struggle to untangle their troubles. It is a cautionary tale...

The southbound trail of a stolen spell book becomes a nightmare road trip in a propulsive novel about the unrelenting power of evil by the author of Lighthouse Burning.Harlan Winter has returned to his corner of Appalachia, where his fiery history with a depraved...

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose chronicles the lives of long-married couple Anne, the dutiful wife and librarian, and Harold, the debonair professor and autocratic husband, as a devastating car accident changes their lives forever. Harold, rendered a quadriplegic, becomes demanding, petulant and more...

Twisty and ingenious, A Friend Indeed is an engrossing psychological thriller perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Ruth Ware.When single mom Jo Dykstra was at her lowest--jobless and penniless--her childhood friend Dana McFarlane helped her out big-time by securing her a teaching job...

The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator providing a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a...

Maia is smoldering. College is not the career path she planned. COVID makes earning a living nearly impossible, and she'll do nearly anything to avoid sleeping on her mother's couch. Dr. Ben Lawson is three years into a medical residency, trying to keep his...

Maia is smoldering. College is not the career path she planned. COVID makes earning a living nearly impossible, and she'll do nearly anything to avoid sleeping on her mother's couch. Dr. Ben Lawson is three years into a medical residency, trying to keep his...

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and "one of the most gifted authors of her generation" (The New York Times Book Review), comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective...

Stumbling hazily through the days of her late husband's funeral services, Marla Mason's mourning period is interrupted when a moving truck appears across the street. As she becomes acquainted with her neighbor, Isaac, she finds his wife to be cold and unfriendly and becomes...

Karen is content with her peaceful, predictable life in a small northwestern Canadian mountain town. Life has been unfolding just as she planned . . . until suddenly, it isn't.One day, when she goes to wake her daughter, she finds her unconscious. The cat...

What awaits Brandy in the Devil's Bed?While touring an old castle in France, Brandy Petracus finds an old Templar Knight graveyard. Long forgotten by the world, this ancient cemetery is known to the locals as the Devil's Bed, and its occupants do not rest...

English psychic Clarissa Wilkinson is holidaying in the Canary Islands. Hoping to have an adventure, she boards a tour bus bound for Villa Winter, a secret Nazi base on the idyllic island of Fuerteventura.Instead, she discovers a body in a chest and finds herself...

Warning: This novella is not for the faint of heart. A book so twisted and taboo filled, you'll find yourself running to the nearest altar to pray. Some affairs are so heinous that some people never escape the mental turmoil of living through it....

Heather has to make a decision that could mean life or death. As she enters her journey into the spirit world, will she be destined for Heaven or Hell? Will a mother's prayer be the key to saving her life and perhaps her soul?Author:...

In a fictional Gulf country, with its gleaming glass towers and imported greenery, the routine of day-to-day life is suddenly interrupted when the national football team qualifies for the World Cup. The Emir issues an edict ordering all native Emiratis to travel to France...