Fiction - Psychological

The Island of Anglesey... the mystical stronghold of the mighty Druids. Many call it the Mother of Wales... murder stalks the shadows.The life of American born profiler Ellie Shaw is thrown into chaos as she takes over a high-profile case from her mentor. There...

Bruges-la-Morte, which first appeared in 1892, concerns the fate of Hugues Viane, a widower who has turned to the melancholy, decaying city of Bruges as the ideal location in which to mourn his wife and as a suitable haven for the narcissistic perambulations of...

'Neither the old man nor Boga ever said more than was needed. And yet they understood each other perfectly.'Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man work side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná Delta, cutting reeds to sell...

Frances Pastan is a mess. Though a celebrated author of children's books, she's arrived at middle age depressed and alcoholic, alienated from her daughter and lost in regret for events of long ago. To conquer her demons Frances must undertake a journey both physical...

"A well crafted fictional account of a real life situation too common in the USA, the prospect of losing a small town's ambiance along with its farm lands. Tied to the land and each other in complex ways, the characters are Ohio angels with...

My life is like one of those cheap snow globes my twins collected when they were younger. Shiny and pretty on the outside, blurred beyond recognition when shaken. Ever since her twin girls left home, Marisa has felt there's something missing from her life....

A collection of 14 short stories that seek to venture into the darkest depths of twisted realism. From diving into the human condition to tales of monsters lurking in the shadows of modern society, each story differs vastly from the last, but they all...

Victim and Predator live out their most trying time in one duology. Kyrie is a girl who's been used as a living sex doll for most of her life. Now her mother and she have outlived their usefulness. Her mother is killed while she...

Falstaff arrives in Windsor very short on money. He decides, to obtain financial advantage, that he will court two wealthy married women, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. Falstaff decides to send the women identical love letters and asks his servants - Pistol and Nym...

Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria and she comes ashore with the help of a captain. She loses contact with her twin brother, Sebastian, whom she believes to be dead. Disguising herself as a young man under the name Cesario, she enters...

Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare's best comedies combining elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honour, shame, and court politics. The story follows two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance.William Shakespeare, an English poet and playwright, widely regarded...

This is a collection of tales set in the modern American West with characters who somehow dispel the rugged individualist myth while enhancing it at the same time.Jim Stewart says: The first edition of White Ravens was self-published via Smashwords, just to see if...

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans). The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829-32, and follows several distinct, intersecting stories with a large cast of characters. Issues...

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans). The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829-32, and follows several distinct, intersecting stories with a large cast of characters. Issues...

In the small town of Pepper Rock, there lives a family.A daddy, a mommy, a little girl.In the town, there are whispers.Don't get close.That girl isn't good.She's just like her parents.My name is Pippa.I like my life, the company I keep.And I'm not supposed...

Nathaniel Hawthorne is regarded as one of the masters of early American short fiction. Long-time fans and curious newcomers will appreciate this collection of Hawthorne's short stories, which brings together some of his most important early work and was praised by a chorus of...

The Anniversary Killer wants Lydia Janssen to have someone to mourn during The Day of the Dead Celebration. He's given her three anniversary presents so far. 'Who' will he present her with for the fourth?Tennessee Deputy Sheriff Rick Hadley has a couple of unsolved...

" Seaburn] does a good job of tracking the myriad ways that the different players react to the tragedy." -KIRKUS REVIEWS"I don't know how, and I don't know why, but I think I died today."So begins the complex and mysterious journey of Gavin Goode...

The Corn Husk Experiment is a captivating, entertaining novel that walks readers through characters' gritty reality before unexpectedly delivering light to their own situation.Author: Andrea CaleISBN-10: 1683506596ISBN-13: 9781683506591Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2018Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

Death Unmasked, written by a thirty-nine year veteran cop, is a suspenseful, mystery police thriller spanning lifetimes, using karma, psychic ability, remote viewing, and out-of-body experience to out-wit an evil incarnated entity stalking women in, Houston, Texas.With each murder, the madman quotes an excerpt...

When she becomes entangled with a charismatic lawyer at her work, recently widowed Mercedes Bell unwittingly drinks a noxious cocktail of deception, desire, legal intrigue, and grief-but when she realizes that her life and her daughter's safety hang in the balance, she is jolted...

In her eye-opening and heartrending fourth novel, award winning author Tanya J. Peterson takes us inside the anguished mind of Isaac Bittman-an average family man whose mysterious and progressively violent mood swings, many of which he cannot remember, begin to unravel the lives of...

The Director: Visionary and perverse, he coaxes and prods his cast and crew as he tries to bend them to his will in the pursuit of his surrealistic masterpiece. The Actress: Ravishing beautiful, she despises the filmmaker almost as much as she fears him....

Anthony Trollope, (born April 24, 1815, London, Eng.--died Dec. 6, 1882, London), English novelist whose popular success concealed until long after his death the nature and extent of his literary merit. A series of books set in the imaginary English county of Barsetshire remains...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyc. The story describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology,...

2015 Reprint of Original 1951 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with color, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the...

Abe Redden was very surprised when he found Seymour Ratner dead in the seclusion room. It was true that at one point or another almost everyone at Four Elms, a private psychiatric hospital, had expressed a desire to throttle Seymour. He was driving everyoAuthor:...

Author: Ayn RandISBN-10: 1613820437ISBN-13: 9781613820438Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2011Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.1Point Value: 3Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 53803 / Anthem

"Gravity's victory was inevitable. My fingers were losing their grip, slowly sliding off a rusty section of rain gutter... I felt a strong hand wrap around my swollen ankle and begin to pull. I couldn't hold on anymore." In a span of 100 hours,...

Decoration for Valor follows the lives of three people during the turbulent, early 70s. As the Vietnam War drags on, many in the United States are angry- or indifferent about the war and with the soldiers who fought it. A twenty-year old soldier is...

The discovery of a grisly body lying at the bottom of a subway entrance in mid-town Manhattan, leads NYPD detectives Gordon Hodges and Carl Furillo on the path of a monumental serial killer. As their investigation leads them to discover similar crimes around the...

An aging, disgruntled philosophy professor in search of some sense of self, retreats to his idyllic farm in the mountain village of Halfmoon, Vermont. What he finds there is not what he expected. Incongruous presences haunt Halfmoon and its environs.Author: Edward FotheringillISBN-10: 1601454309ISBN-13: 9781601454300Publisher:...

Enjoy Eileen's Mania; Empathize in her Depression Readers relish in identifying with Eileen as she masters her inner beast, Bipolar Disorder. Her exciting complex life is a captivating journey. Don't miss it The information in this novel is so informative that it provides healthcare...

Part murder mystery, part philosophical discourse, this novel chronicles the intersection of several lives gone strangely off course. At the center of it all is Father Dick Byron, a renegade Catholic priest who has become an instrument of God.Author: Edward FotheringillISBN-10: 1591138841ISBN-13: 9781591138846Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage:...

Caught in a blizzard, they expected to fight for their lives. What they didn't expect was a miracle... Renee and Gabe Roman are on the edge--relationally and spiritually. Both believe they are followers of Christ who know God. So why is their marriage so...

Author: Louetta OneyISBN-10: 1587212129ISBN-13: 9781587212123Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2000Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 7.44h x 5.30w x 0.74d

Father Duncan MacAskill has spent most of his priesthood as the "Exorcist"--an enforcer employed by his bishop to discipline wayward priests and suppress potential scandal. He knows all of the devious ways that lonely priests persuade themselves that their needs trump their vows, but...

"A full-bodied literary achievement bustling with sweat, regret, and sound." --KIESE LAYMONNdiya Grayson returns to her childhood home of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can't protect her from half-repressed memories of childhood trauma. One evening,...

AS MILLIONS STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE IN THE WASTELAND THAT AMERICA HAS BECOME, A YOUNG MAN FIGHTS TO MAINTAIN ITS FOUNDING PROMISE.Starvation, violence and death run rampant in the remains of our once-proud country. Federal troops, commissioned to protect the homeland, have turned their guns...

Macie just about has it all: her own salon, a personal cosmetics line, and a decently hot boyfriend who mooches off her. But when she meets John-a ruggedly handsome mortician, of all people-at the funeral of a family friend, her life changes forever. As...

Poor Folk is an epistolary novel - that is, a tale told as a series of letters between the characters. And oh, what characters these are Makar Dievushkin Alexievitch is a copy writer, barely squeaking by; Barbara Dobroselova Alexievna works as a seamstress, and...

The Aspern Papers is a novella written by Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year. One of James's best-known and most acclaimed longer tales, The Aspern Papers is based on the...

The Egoist is a tragicomical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental Laetitia Dale and the strong-willed Clara Middleton....

Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite, by Anthony Trollope, is a novel originally published in Macmillan's Magazine between May and December, 1870, and in novel form in 1871. The novel offers psychological dissection of the issues of inheritance, filial duty, noblesse oblige, gentlemanly behaviour, repentance...

The Session is about the birth, death, and rebirth of relationships. Characters find themselves in cycles of destruction, sinking in the darkness of the ego. Dr. River Meadows, a marital therapist, finds herself working with a couple she has an unnerving attraction to. There...

This novel begins with an overview of the main character's background. Louis Lambert, the only child of a tanner and his wife, is born in 1797 and begins reading at an early age. In 1811 he meets the real-life Swiss author Madame de Sta...

James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) is, arguably, the single most influential novel of the 20th century. Written in a wide variety of styles, chock-full of an encyclopedia's worth of allusions, rife with enough puns and jokes to fill a comedian's career, the novel focuses on...

Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to...

First published in 1859, this novella by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky is laced with deceit and greed. Maria and her daughter Zina decide to deceive an elderly and senile prince who comes to visit their town. The mother attempts to manipulate the prince into...

Private detective Eric Beckman can read minds. He's used to weird cases, but this one may be his most difficult yet. A beloved relative has disappeared into a suspicious psychiatric hospital and Eric has no choice but to go in after her. Getting in...