Fiction - Psychological

Stolen in broad daylight on her way home from school, for Ava Hanlon, the nightmare is only just beginning. So young and achingly na?e, Ava is no match for her depraved new master, Father Mathew Aaron, a well-respected priest, and a man hellbent on...

When disaffected KGB major Erich Stinnes is spotted inMexico City, British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice him to takethe final step and defect. With his domestic life in shambles and his careerheading towards disaster, Bernard needs to prove his re-liability. And he knowsStinnes...

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A place where families came. Homes were built. Children grew, left for war, and returned. Through it all, the river runs, as it always has.But people change and dreams shift and towns grow, and nothing good ever lasts... For years, Jack and Keira Sullivan...

Jenna McGarry longs for an escape from her grief after the tragic loss of her husband. When news arrives that her aunt's long-past death was a suicide, she is both shocked and intrigued. It is Aunt Adeline she remembers most when she thinks about...

A flickering fire above a town of everlasting bliss, smiles, and joy. A man in over his head, selfish and arrogant, seeking to tear down what brings others happiness.Henry is a man of ordinary living. All he wishes for is to be alone. With...

Mother: The glue that holds the family together...Matt Walker had just witnessed the murder of Graham Meadows, his psychopathic brother-in-law; or so he thought.After all he had been through, what, or who, could he believe anyway?Eighteen months previous, after meeting the love of his...

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.From debut author Jamie Sogn comes a twisty thriller about the allure of the past and the danger of the truth as a young woman dives headlong into a cult in a desperate search for answers.In...

From award-winning author Rebecca Hanover comes an emotional thrill ride about two women whose lives take a dangerous turn in the high-stakes arena of private school admissions.Audrey Singer revels in her position as the admissions director of an exclusive Manhattan private school. Parents cater...

In the near future, neuroprosthetics are evolving, with the possibility of neural transplants being used to restore damaged cognitive functions. Nina-a young journalist-receives a hippocampal implant after a devastating accident destroyed her ability to create long term memories. All seems well until memories of...

Confucius once wrote that those who travel down the path of revenge should dig two graves; one for their enemy, and one for themselves. The characters in this book do not abide by that suggestion.Whether it's the result of greed, rage, or romance gone...

WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist2022 National Book Award, Finalist2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, FinalistNew York Times Editors' ChoiceNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and BookforumWhat makes us who we are? And...

"My favorite millennial provocateur." --Bret Easton Ellis "There's no way a robot wrote this book. A no-holds-barred tour of the Millennial mindset's spiritual DNA. Anything goes." --Douglas Coupland NYLON Magazine Must-Reads September 2023 One of W Magazine's 25 Most Anticipated Books Fall 2023 One...

What happens when you take away hope? How do you force change on a global scale? When a child smiles, all the happiness shows - but under the dirt and grime of a refugee child sometimes a future of possibilities is impossible to see....

When Religion Hurts is a story about the potentially inhibitive effects of early childhood religious indoctrination. While the story itself is fiction, many of the events are based on the real-life experiences of the author and others who grew up as Jehovah's Witnesses. These...

A woman returns to Australia to clear out her father's house, with an eye to transforming the contents into an art installation in the tradition of the revered Chinese artist Song Dong. What she hasn't reckoned with is the tangle of jealousies, resentments, and...

Have you ever seen a buttercup standing proud and tall in a field amongst the weeds and tufts of grass, its delicate petals bright yellow, smiling up at the sun and swaying ever so slightly in the summer breeze?The sight evoked memories of years...

Explore the profound impact of prejudices and belief systems in "The War Within". This book is the recipient of the prestigious Rabindranath Tagore International Award for Literature and the LIFT award in the Short Stories Category. Delve into the lives of ordinary individuals confronting...

Rose leaves her home and her children in the Philippines to work with four other young women overseas. The work Rose is confronted with is far from anything she could have imagined, even in her worst nightmares. Rose's one desire is to earn enough...

URANIUM MINE And Other Stories by Jed Linde.From birth to old age, these seven "Charles" stories chronicle a daunting childhood; an adventurous and painful adolescence; a survival saga in Mexico City; learning from a Zen master; and benefiting from mystical experiences, contact with Mother...

As the FBI agent Jake Mott brought a swift and brutal end to a hostage crisis, he unwittingly ignited a vendetta that had been smoldering for generations in the hearts of a grieving mother and her devoted son. Decades later, Jake found himself back...

A killer is loose in a small Yorkshire town. The police are on the hunt, led by Detective Inspector Richard Platt and his team. The deeper they get drawn into the case, the more Platt believes that there's more to the killings than meets...

Tommy Jack is a mute, homeless man living in a cave at the far end of Duncan's Farm in Andover, Massachusetts. When he's not roaming Andover, he tends Duncan's honey bees in a meadow not far from Tommy's camp. When the body of Ally...

From the thought-provoking whimsical, the horrifying "what if," the wonderfully macabre, to the downright terrifying - Joe Pasquale delivers a dozen tales guaranteed to have the reader glancing over their shoulder as nighttime approaches, and those long, dark shadows begin to creep in.Skulking within...

A group of college friends got away with an unthinkable crime, or so they thought.Ten years after that fateful night, Riley and her friends all receive a mysterious invitation to spend the weekend at a cabin on Meadow Lake. It's obvious to all that...

Trickery is magic until you figure out how it's done....Richard Harjo's job is to counsel death row inmates in Oklahoma's notorious McAlester Prison. That usually consists of convincing them heaven is a sort of afterlife work release program, and God is the most gullible...

A killer is on the loose, and one detective's life will never be the same. Southbridge Homicide Detective Jim Haddick had always been a gifted officer with an impeccable service record, relying on his instincts to solve the cases others couldn't. His personal life...

Lucy Manor is an attractive young woman, 22 years old, an only child with loving parents and a mother who loves to cook. She also is a schizophrenic, and has auditory and visual hallucinations that can torment her for hours. Medicine helps for a...

It was temptation that broke the sinner.People say I have everything. They're wrong. I may have looks, money, and privilege, but I don't have the one thing that really matters, the one thing I crave: a woman with eyes only for me. I'm searching...

Convinced the beast that resided in Pennington's brain has been eradicated, the State of Georgia Appeals Board overturns Pennington Wentworth II's conviction for the murders of 12 people, and he returns to his life of leisure in his Atlanta Buckhead district penthouse condominium. Drinking...

When Bonnie Maldonado is incarcerated for driving the getaway car in a bank robbery, it's just another entry in the list of bad things that happen to her. A Dear John letter from her boyfriend, however, proves to be the final straw, and she...

A chance meeting at a drug deal gone awry and it's love at first sight for 18 year-olds Adam Kelvin and Ailsa McCann. Seduced by the temptation of a Bohemian life soaked in erotic abandon, Adam quickly leaves his unstable and overbearing mother and...

Dream Visits is the third book in the series Stories for the Inner Child by Steve Gallegos (E.S. Gallegos, Ph.D). The series explores the deep imagination as a living and vital part of human awareness. The focus in this book is on dreams. Once...

It's autumn, 1971 in Flint, Michigan. Alexander is a student at a small, parochial high school. The senior is captain of the top-ranked football team and is an excellent student in the classroom. He is also a deeply troubled, young man, struggling with low...

Eleven-year-old Darnell Cooper, malnourished and uneducated, is plucked by chance from the abusive horrors of a Philadelphia slum by Lionel, a brash, young, black lawyer struggling to find his own identity. Darnell is discovered to be phenomenally intelligent, and he also becomes the best...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: - The New York Edition of the novel, accompanied by Michael Gorra's introduction and explanatory footnotes. - Background and contextual materials centering on James as a writer, The Portrait of a Lady in revision, and reviews of the novel...

In her mind's eyes, she could see Wes, tall and elegant in his tailored tuxedo with a patterned vest, black tie, and snow white pocket square. Her red Valentino slip gown highlighted her honeyed complexion and chocolate brown eyes. The gown also picked up...

As we go along life's way, various things can happen. We can get lost. We can get lost and found. We can rest and start again, stop and remain, "wander aimless as a cloud" or navigate with GPS precision and purpose from waypoint to...

Hungry? Take one look at what's on this menu and your hunger pains will disappear. Don't let the welcoming, and attractive hostess lure you in. It may be your last pit stop. An intense, horror/thriller novella that will have you squirming uncomfortably by the...

Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness,...

Many Marriages (1923) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Inspired by his own decision to abandon his family and career in order to establish himself as a professional writer, Anderson explores the guilts, routines, desires, and disappointments driving the lives of many Americans in...

Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) is a novel by Charles Maturin. Written toward the end of Maturin's life, Melmoth the Wanderer was the author's fifth and most successful novel. Inspired by the story of the Wandering Jew and the Faustian legend, the novel is a...

On the morning of her fifth birthday, Miki Suzuki's aged grandfather gives her an unusual gift - the fragment of a story. The tale tells of a magical realm where all the women are beautiful, dressed in the finest gowns, and where the men...

"The frantic plot will keep readers on edge." Kirkus Reviews A mother he thought he'd lost. A father he's never known. An enemy that wants them dead.After a rebellious youth, Chase Day did his best to turn his life around-first as a Naval officer...

On the heels of an unplanned pregnancy, a broken relationship, and a murder too close to home, Iris, an art curator at a glass-blown sculpture studio in downtown San Francisco, is consumed by stress. She finds herself faced with the fear of having to...

This legal thriller combines the tale of eighteen-year-old Will Van Dalen, who finds himself betrayed and framed for a crime he didn't commit. Backed into a corner, struggling with attention-deficit disorder, and surrounded by a rash of recent suicides, is he desperate enough to...

"The Woman in the Alcove" is a 1906 detective novel by American novelist and poet Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935). Among the first writers of detective fiction in America, she is considered to be the "mother" of the genre for her legally-accurate and well-thought-out plots....

A day after closing down the Whispering Pines country club house for winter break, the narrator is surprised to see what looks like smoke emanating from the building's chimney. Upon investigating, he witnesses his sister's fiancé flee the building crying and, upstairs, finds her...

A golden girl.Mia Lowell has had her life handed to her on a silver platter. That is, of course, until someone decides to serve her. It might be time to reassess her priorities...A ghost.When Corey Rossi realizes that The Cutter has taken Mia as...

'The Crazy Wife: The Cheating Husband and The Loyal Friend' is a first in a collection of dramatic fictional stories based around true everyday events. The story of a Woman chasing the question of whether she is going crazy. Full of deception, deceit and...