Fiction - Psychological

In June 2001, Rachel Vanderweck's daughter, Annie, is kidnapped. Greta Calders, an African American detective, has just fled an oppressive family situation in Detroit. On her first day in the majority white, all-male detective squad, Greta is asked to interview distraught Rachel Vanderweck. Greta...

The Arctic summer is short.Jennifer is working hard to experience all the intensity the Arctic has to offer. But she struggles with old scars of childhood trauma and new wounds from climate crisis. As polar night descends, Svalbard is haunted by an ancient monster,...

"Chilling... through every page. Through this book is a man fighting against bullying and what happends in the mind of someone who is bullied. It opened my eyes to just what you say to someone can have so much impact and may just end...

Enough with Never Enough is a collection of poems that describe common, but unspoken, struggles with mental health. These poems bring light to difficult thoughts and emotions that people with various mental health diagnoses deal with on a daily, weekly, or sporadic basis. While...

I'm about to jump into the canal and pull her to safety when I stop at the edge of the towpath.What if I do nothing...?The must-read psychological thriller for 2021.If you're having an affair and you don't want to get caught, you must read...

The international best seller: read the book that launched a genre."If John Grisham were female, he might write a twisty thriller such as Nest of Vipers." Fortune Magazine"Enough action, financial know-how and international hokey pokey to satisfy any reader." The New York TimesSarah Jensen...

From the Amazon India Bestselling author in the horror genre, comes this bone trembling psychological horror based on absolute reality.After her husband Punit's death, Sanjana wakes up to a chilling nightmare of Punit trying to kill their son. She rushes to his room and...

Cracked Surface is the sequel to Surface Tension and continues exploring my personal struggle with the desire to lead a "normal" life through the eyes of David Mathew. In Surface Tension, David is sixteen years old, represents the USA, and wins the gold medal...

Emotional intelligence master your thoughts and feelings.Author: Cice RiveraISBN-10: 8642303042ISBN-13: 9798642303047Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2020Pages: 62Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.15d

**Gifted Storytelling ****Part of my memories now.****A roller coaster of a story ****Another great read by Paul Hood ****A path worth traveling.****Keeps you guessing ****You'll find yourself captivated by the slow, unrolling mystery surrounding the characters.****Vivid and lively ****Engaging to the past page.****A literary...

It's 1967. Taking refuge from the psychedelic cullture of Los Angeles, Jake Acree and his brother Evan go back to the land on the central California coast. But their organic meditation commune is disrupted by a strange and compelling yogi-shaman who is bent on...

From the bestselling author of The Social Affair and HER comes an intense and deadly provocative thriller that follows a woman who, in a fight for survival, realizes her job may cost more than it pays. "This tale of seduction, obsession, and murder will...

A perfect life, a perfect love - and a perfect murder.For over forty years Carol Cage has been living as a recluse in her mansion, Oaktree House. Fear is her constant companion. She's been keeping a secret - and it's about to be unearthed.When...

The Amazon Charts #1 bestselling mystery series. A missing twin. A wayward sister. A "jaw-dropping" twist. The shocking disappearance of a young woman and a suspicious death put Hanna and Alex back in the crosshairs of the ruthless Dellahousaye crime family. Hanna and Alex...

So what do you do when you've lost your instruction book to existence, all the answers you had all fizzled, and the dragon is closing in for the kill . . .Author: Barry B. LongyearISBN-10: 1674074646ISBN-13: 9781674074641Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2019Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize:...

Dr. Peter Andresen is a broken man. Once a highly-respected psychiatrist, he is sixty-three, lives alone, bankrupt and surviving on a VA stipend. He manages his Parkinson's unusually well. Understanding and applying the intricacies of his bodymind, he takes no Parkinson's medication. The opposite...

"A rocket ride of action, political intrigue, and suspense."-San Diego Magazine"A sharp thriller. Russell has us in the palm of his hand."-Chicago Tribune"Ingeniously imagined and skillfully told, Political Suicide must be included in any list of this year's best thrillers."-San Diego Union-Tribune"Political Suicide takes...

Jane longed for security, something her childhood never afforded her. She found it and love being Stewart's wife. When she hired Shana to help him with his stress, though, Jane found out that sometimes inviting a stranger into your home means they never leave.Tossed...

Years ago, Ray was sworn to silence. Now he's going to speak. Even if it kills him. Ray Watts is in a deep funk. His girlfriend Liz has abandoned him. So has the muse that inspired the art that supported him. If he doesn't...

"I do not want to lose you. I don't know what to do. This relationship was such a mess the whole time, and never, never worked. And I know it was because of me. It was and still is only my fault. My fault...

Reproduction of the original: The Gambler by Fyodor DostoyevskyAuthor: Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN-10: 3734059895ISBN-13: 9783734059896Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2019Pages: 142Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

"I had Jake Basson's baby. He left to chase his dream. Now he's back, demanding a second chance he doesn't deserve." A STANDALONE SECOND-CHANCE ROMANCEIf a man tells you he's no good for you, best heed the warning. I learned the hard way. I...

Sometimes you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Such is the position in which Associate Supreme Court Justice Katherine Helena Ross, the first black female on the U.S. Supreme Court, finds herself in "The Fifth Letter," the new political thriller by...

Peter Orner zeroes in on the strange ways our memories define us: A woman's husband dies before their divorce is finalized; a man runs for governor of Illinois and loses much more than an election; two brothers play beneath the infamous bridge at Chappaquiddick....

Blessed Are the Wholly Broken is the harrowing story of a modern family in the midst of self-destruction.After the heartbreak of losing their newborn son to a previously undiagnosed genetic condition, Phillip and Anna Lewinsky manage to pick up the pieces of their broken...

Mark Robarts is a young vicar settled in the village of Framley in Barsetshire with his wife and children. Mark has ambitions to further his career and begins to seek connections in the county's high society. He is soon preyed upon by local Whig...

Aufzeichnungen eines Wahnsinnigen ist eine Erz hlung in Form von Tagebucheintr gen des russischen Dichters Nikolai Gogol aus dem Jahre 1835. Dieses Werk ist eines der bekanntesten von Gogol und wird auch von seinen russischen Kollegen als Verweis genutzt (Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski: Aufzeichnungen aus...

Ellernklipp spielt von 1767 bis 1781, kurz nach dem Siebenj hrigen Krieg am Nordrand des Harzes. Der Forstaufseher und "Heidereiter" Baltzer Bocholt lebt mit seinem Sohn Martin und der Pflegetochter Hilde Rochussen, der unehelichen Tochter des ortsans ssigen Grafen, im Dorf Emmerode. Bocholt kann...

Zur Handlung: Protagonist ist der sch chterne Beamte Jakow Goljadkin in Sankt Petersburg, der durch einen pl tzlich auftauchenden Doppelg nger aus seinen Positionen verdr ngt und am Ende seiner zwischen Realit t und Einbildung oszillierenden Krankheitsgeschichte in eine Psychiatrie eingeliefert wird. Seinem Ebenbild...

Neben der weltber hmten "Schachnovelle" ist die "Verwirrung der Gef hle" ohne Zweifel ein weiteres Meisterwerk deutschsprachiger Novellenkunst. Diese neun Erz hlungen von Stefan Zweig (Der Stern ber dem Walde, Die Liebe der Erika Ewald, Vergessene Tr ume, Geschichte in der D mmerung, Die...

Stanislaw Przybyszewski (1868-1927) war ein polnischer Schriftsteller, der zu Beginn seiner Laufbahn auf Deutsch schrieb. Przybyszewski war ein fruchtbarer Schriftsteller. Zu seinen heute noch bekanntesten Werken z hlen Die Gnosis des B sen (auch als Die Synagoge Satans erschienen), 1897, eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem...

Der ewige Spie er ist der erste Roman von d n von Horv th. Der sozial- und gesellschaftskritische Roman wurde 1930 abgeschlossen und erschien zun chst im Propyl en-Verlag, in dessen Theaterabteilung Arcadia zuvor auch schon Horv ths St cke ver ffentlicht wurden. Episodenhaft...

Dark prophecies and ominously symbolic events beset the romance of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood, and Lucy Ashton, daughter of the man who has displaced the ancient Ravenswood family from its ancestral home. Sir William Ashton, the wily and self-seeking Lord Keeper of the Great...

This collection of four stories by Leo Tolstoy was published in 1885, a few years after his religious conversion to radical non-violent Christianity, and the stories reflect his concerns at that time. Includes "What Men Live By", "The Three Questions", "The Coffee House of...

It so happened that the very same year Ricardo-the physical Ricardo-was a fellow passenger of mine on board an extremely small and extremely dirty little schooner, during a four days' passage between two places in the Gulf of Mexico whose names don't matter. For...

The Caretaker (Originally Published by Bantam Books December 1998) The Caretaker is a wholly twisted and terrifying thriller. Nothing inside these pages is as it seems. Lies, manipulations, and seductions abound. The Caretaker will keep you dangling until the last word. For just when...

A Shipwrecked Business Man Is Now Forced To Come to Terms With Hiself. Looking at John Callaway's life from a distance, some might say that he's "living the dream." At the helm of a successful development company built by his father years before, business...

Fresh writing about Appalachia...14 short stories by Timothy Dodd. Writing that shares and opens the landscape of people and the land of contemporary AppalachiaAuthor: Timothy DoddISBN-10: 1947504169ISBN-13: 9781947504165Publisher: Bottom Dog PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2019Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.35d

Kirby writes with skill and gusto. --The Times Birmingham, England, 1885: Cora Burns has always struggled to control the violence inside of her. Does this temperament come from the mother she never knew, a convict who gave birth to her in jail? Or is...

A Hieronymous Bosch Ship of "Souls" for the 21st century. Stories, interactions, and aleatory philosophical asides in flash fictions that come together as an experience of life.Author: Evald FlisarISBN-10: 1945784059ISBN-13: 9781945784057Publisher: Texture PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/25/2017Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.59d

Sometimes a secret is in plain sight. But Alex just can't see it. While the police have moved on from investigating the deaths in her neighborhood, Alex's life is getting more complicated in other ways. Things are resurfacing that she thought were settled. A...

Desire and death await in the dark. The murder next door is unsolved. But Alex knows she's covered her tracks. Now, her life is complicated by the discovery of a woman's body closer to home. As detectives seek the identity of the dead woman...

Sometimes, a bedroom is the most dangerous place on earth.ALEX NEEDS TO RUN Eager to remove herself from the scene of her latest crimes, Alex accepts a job offer in Australia.Joining a startup company with her boss, Tess, is the perfect excuse for leaving...

Blood is a scary thing.When Alexandra Mallory sees a woman writing on an apartment window in what appears to be blood, she becomes obsessed with discovering the secrets that lie within. While she tries to unravel this mystery, she must decide about the job...

A ghost that haunts the human mind is the most terrifying of all. It's 1967 -- the summer of love. Mary's four sons are grown. Her husband has left her for a woman who is young, beautiful, and unencumbered by children. He also left...

Menashe Everett is a tormented man. He's ruled by depression and addiction. He's haunted by his past. At 37, he barely keeps his job and lives in a haze of blurred reality.But to many in his life, he's their only hope.For the past ten...

Alice Denham's My Darling from the Lions portrays the passionate conflict between a young painter and her macho composer husband, their lovers, her female rage, his brutality, and her struggle for self-realization as an artist.The Sunday New York Times Book Review said, "When Miss...

Demons. We all have them. They take various forms and affect us in different ways. Some are obvious like drugs and alcohol. Loneliness and depression and self-doubt are not so apparent if that is all you've known until college. In Holmes on the Range,...

You have goals, you have plans, you have a brilliant future ahead. But you also have Candy Crush, Facebook, and 1,035 unread emails that you decided now is a good time to sort. Welcome to Cristina's brain, an entity of its own, with its...

'We could not, in that place, just lead peaceful and uncomplicated lives, ignoring the fact of our longing. To ignore it, to pretend, to divert ourselves with a thousand trivialities - this would be worse than death itself.'Unfolding before the reader like a richly-woven...