Fiction - Psychological

Can you keep a secret?Alice is a young, budding professional, on a seemingly slippery slope. Struggling with life and drinking excessively, she doesn't want anyone to know how bad her problem is becoming.Power couple Hannah and Craig can't conceive, which sends them down separate...

Above Lifes Turmoil is basically a self-help and inspirational book by James Allen. For the starters, a self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems. Comprising twenty chapters related to various aspects that could...

Beautiful, welcoming Channellers is a fictional city where extraordinary things can happen and where many psychics, energy healers, and mediums come to study or work. These unique people can accurately sense invisible energy realms, amazing their clients and even a few perplexed scientists and...

I have no idea why he thinks I had anything to do with Danielle's accident. My only crime was being in the vicinity when she fell down the stairs.Being forced into therapy for stalking, though, is well over the top. But my therapist, Justine,...

One hot Colorado afternoon, physician-turned-archaeologist Sarah MacLeish unearths the skeleton of an Ancestral Puebloan girl with a deformed leg. Her efforts to understand something of the long-ago life of that girl confront her with the flaws in her own body and her marriage. Sarah...

"A courageous novel, beautifully imagined and written." --Elena Lappin, The Washington Post "De Cespedes' work has lost none of its subversive force"--The New York Times Book Review * "De C駸pedes's melancholy testament to a hidden life feels timeless and vital." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)...

Six months after the sudden loss of an unplanned pregnancy, Hannah Moore is almost ready to think about living again. That is until one fateful day when a reckless, young motorcyclist changes the course of both their lives forever. One terrible, momentary decision ends...

In this rollicking dark comedy about a failing hospital in Mars, Nebraska, Dr. Wave, a kind and well-meaning outsider, leaps into a year-long fight against an overwhelming bureaucracy upheld by a corrupt administrator who refuses to budge. Wave juggles some of the worst (and...

Having attempted suicide in New York and accused of stealing $3 million, DAVID BLOOM travels back to his Irish home when informed that his father died. There, he encounters his ghost. Frightened, David meets his boyhood girlfriend, Irishwoman DOLORES. With her, he goes back...

Tully becomes entangled in an incomprehensibly disturbing situation, when she and her pre-teenage son, Harry, move into a rented apartment following her marriage breakdown. Unable to obtain any constructive action, even after showing police evidence of home invasion and stalking, she becomes silent about...

One woman's haunting journey when her husband returns home and everything she thought she knew about their life together has suddenly changed."From beginning to end you are sucked in with the evocative narrative, realistic traumas and characters who get under your skin!" N Brooks"This...

When journalist Adam Chapman returns to the village of Little Bassington after inheriting his great aunt's estate, what he finds at first glance is an English idyll, untouched and unspoiled. The fields are as green as he remembers, the WI still gossip in the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: John BanvilleISBN-10: 0525564349ISBN-13: 9780525564348Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2023Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.60h x 5.30w x 1.10dReview Citation(s): Shelf Awareness 10/06/2023

The first book written by American novelist Willa Cather is named Alexander's Bridge. Bartley Alexander is a well-known bridge builder and construction engineer going through a midlife crisis. After being married to Winifred, Bartley brings back his relationship with an old flame in London,...

"Stark and beautiful, horrifying and lyrical, Black Dove's pages thrum with flight, transformation, grief, revenge, transcendence, the remorseless power of stories and the very nature of creation. Ever since reading, Black Dove has drifted in and out of my dreams." --Helen Macdonald, author H...

Mia Strauss is trying to be a good mother. She's worked hard to build a stable life since losing her memory at eighteen when the assailant, who shot and killed her famous father, pushed her from the third-story landing of their gold coast mansion....

Hidden by his sharp wit, worldly charm and inspiring music, there's a cynical, egoistic strain behind how Jeremy sees those around him. The Italian villagers reject this morally grey Londoner, but a few of them secretly see him as useful to their purposes.Jeremy tries...

In a seemingly serene countryside home, there's a dark and twisted history that threatens the lives of its new occupants... When pregnant Alice Warren and her husband Paul settled into their dream home in the woods, all was blissful. But as Alice attempts to...

A book about consciousness & unlocking the inner child within. We are here in life to grow & have fun. Not to be serious & ego driven. This book will help the reader heal from trauma & find the inner child within them so...

"Truly terrifying" - Jenna Dietzer, author of "The Lovebugs""Creepy as hell" - Sheri L. Williams, author of "Forest of Blood'Obsession. Lies. Greed.Chelsea is vain, self-absorbed, and driven in life only by want and her obsession with being the best. Even though she is desperate...

This edition of TFBPresents features a collection of literary horror from Elin Olausson, one of the finest new talents in genre fiction. STORIESThe Old ManLoveWishesThe Lion GameScar "Olausson (...) is a must-read for anyone who appreciates literary horror."- Rebecca Rowland, Review of 'Growth', Horror...

The Painted Veil, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This...

2023 Reprint of the 1919 Edition. Based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin, this book relates the life of a Paris stockbroker who abandons his home, family, and business to live as an artist in Tahiti. Charles Strickland is a staid banker,...

Two women wrenched apart by a family member's disappearance must find a way back to each other in this haunting page-turner by the author of A Crooked Tree.Nessa Garvey's sister Deena vanished without a trace in Philadelphia in 2004. In all that time, Nessa...

From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about love, an epic daydream for a broken-hearted worldAnnie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace...

After leaving his favorite bar, a wild womanizing advertising executive takes a woman back to his place and immediately regrets it. Jack begins to hear a strange voice telling him to do horrible things. Initially thinking his house may be haunted, he becomes extremely...

Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim is a 1921 novel based on her disastrous second marriage, to Frank Russell. It is a frightening analysis of the naivety of a young woman, as she falls into the power of a pathologically narcissistic husband. In outline, this...

Are we all subject to the violence and secrets of our mind, forever marked by them?Haunted by the memory of her parent's gory murders, Abigail Moore's life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. She is sent off to her loving grandmother who...

AN ABSOLUTELY BREATHTAKING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WITH A STUNNING FINAL TWIST.The Nanny . . .She lost her mother far too young. And now she's lost her best friend, too.She needs to escape, so she takes a job with a wealthy family.They live in an isolated...

An accused witch is banished from her home in Portland, Maine. A young socialite in New Orleans dabbles in magic to get rid of a rival. An acrobat in a traveling circus learns her greatest enemy lives in the mirror. An Irish immigrant may...

Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His ChildhoodSigmund Freud Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood (German: Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci) is a 1910 essay by Sigmund Freud about Leonardo da Vinci. It consists of a psychoanalytic study of Leonardo's...

HIDDEN SECRETS TO OVERCOMING DEPRESSION & ANXIETY Forget the old conception that says your life is not in your hands because of depression. This is so bad when the doctor will say there is nothing I can do anymore. What if you are told...

"The way this story was handled was brilliant from beginning to end. This is a dark, twisted tale of love and obsession, an intense psychological thriller, and a crazy story of mental illness and its effects on others. Truly a masterpiece of fiction."-Picky Bitches...

Imagine yourselves falling in love at first sight with some divine beauty, but alas That beauty couldn't be seen any where again.Finally after a lot of struggle, after a lot of searching, alot of longing, you are able to find her, win her heart...

Elephant's Kitchen - An Aspergirl's Study in Difference is about a quiet teenage girl named Delphine who has Asperger's, but just as with the television shows Bones and The Big Bang Theory, the condition is never mentioned. Instead, the story walks the reader through...

Gristle is alchemical theatre, a collection of weird tales, twelve fingers on the steering wheel, with D.H.Lawrence and Sylvia Plath asleep across the back seat, Chekov shivering on the hard shoulder...Gristle is a post-beat riddle, a comedy, a nightmare...Gristle is Salinger descending from his...

Churchgoer and family man George Mancuso doesn't want to be a killer. But he's unemployed, despondent, and desperate. When his boyhood friend, now Mafia capo, Big Nick Lombardi, offers to take him on as a hitman, George realizes that it's the best deal he...

Stewart is a world-class worrier who forsakes his wife and career for a simpler existence. He falls further and further down the rungs of life, until he ends up in a tent city run by a vengeful psychopath called Scrap-Iron who prides himself on...

AMAZON #1 BEST SELLERREADERS' FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL WINNER IN FICTION - DRAMABOOKS SHELF FIRST PLACE WINNER IN FICTIONBOOK EXCELLENCE AWARDS WINNER - LITERARY EXCELLENCE, INC. "Over the course of this novel, Lukas does an excellent job of blending genres in a story that's part...

Book II of the Regarding Hayworth Series: Gaby Ridgway is forty and widowed. She moves to the small town of Hayworth, Alberta the summer of 1977 in an attempt to rebuild, restore, and renew her life. Her career as a family counsellor for the...

This delightful, whimsical, and often profound book depicts the legendary wise fool Nasreddin as a modern psychologist dispensing astute and ludicrous advice to gullible seekers. The exquisite illustrations come from the hand of Idaho artist Linda Hawkins. Nasreddin Hoca or Nastradin Hoxha or Nastradini...

Using an array of characters familiar with the trappings of a jet-set lifestyle, author Lane Lee Lansing conjures up a startling tale weaving greed, indulgence, deceit, and corruption together with gluttonous sexual abandon and ravenous drug abuse in the novel Cage of Privilege. The...

Much of this Novel is true. An insight into life on a Reservation and within a Maximum Institution is shown with brutal clarity in violence yet within both worlds the two 'cultures' share a morbid humor and history. Our notion and fears of the...

Like a ship in the mist, there emerges from these tragicomic lives, fraught with desires and delusions, a recognition of ourselves. "Well-crafted ... character-driven. An impressive book of short stories about people going about their lives, experiencing change, facing hardships. Finn writes skillfully and...

Another Carolina Coast novel from the author of Becalmed. It takes a town to save a child. That town in Beaufort. Annie Mac's estranged husband vows that nothing will stop him from getting his baby girl. Not Annie Mac and certainly not that boy...

When Herald Lloyd, an attorney and family man, learns he's been cursed with a catastrophic legal-malpractice lawsuit, his recurring Vietnam War nightmares flood his daytime consciousness, and he medicates his post-traumatic stress with alcohol. He was reckless to quit college to join the Army....