Fiction - Psychological

The tell-all tale of Clark Schroeder: fraudster, hacker, and smuggler. Clark gets the idea for his own gun store during a pheasant hunt when a fellow hunter brags about his gun being a knockoff manufactured by his brother-in-law. Dollar signs float in Clark's head...

"We spent our entire childhood borrowing hundreds of thousands of dollars for schooling, and now we'll spend our entire adulthood working dead-end jobs just to pay those debts. The things that were supposed to elevate us have become burdens that ruin our lives."BURNING WINGS...

When do you tell the man you love that you suffer from an incurable identity disorder? When is it the right time to have that type of conversation?Multiple Personality Disorder is real and like her mother; Leslee Cramer, in the novel, Shadow in The...

Sometimes, fiction digs deeper and further into the truth.________________________________________ "This novel is a rarity these days: plotting, imagery, dialogue, scene-setting, characterization -- all masterfully done. I couldn't put it down."-P. Cresswell, Editor, Not PC. "A Sharia London elevates a great thriller into literary Romanticism."-W....

The mean streets of Skid Row teem with unhappy characters. Each has his or her own sordid tale to tell about their current condition and the sorry fate that deposited them there. Meet ""Narrator"", a documentary film maker who has come to interview these...

Born to the street and abandoned by his paranoid, drug-addicted mother, a young boy struggles to evade vicious predators, who hope to exploit him, and insistent authorities, who hope to save him. His only ally is his extreme natural intelligence, and his only home...

Football is big business in the United States, but it plays largest in Texas. In Texas, football money is BIG money, and the best players start young. During high school, college scouts come calling, but they're only seeking winners. Nobody likes to lose. Due...

They visit night after night, decades on end. The countless anonymous people that populate our dreams and plague our nightmares. Who are they? What becomes of them when we lay violent hands upon them in lividity of dreams?Author: Stephen Donald HuffISBN-10: 1533044244ISBN-13: 9781533044242Publisher: Createspace...

As a student in the late 1960s, Jack Mannheim was arrested twice: once for taking over an administration building, and once for a reason he won't share. In the thirty years since, he has lived a quiet life in Chicago as a German professor...

This book is a compilation of the criminology class thought to psychologist of the BA and MA levels for their research on criminology and victimology when it started back on 2000. Through the years, it has been modify for the trends that are happening...

In a lily-white northeastern city of Pittsfield, sixteen-year-old Jimmy Robinson (quarterback), and Billy Mack (fullback) are national high school all-American football players. They have been teammates since Pop Warner football. Billy is black and Jimmy is white. A racial tragedy occurs in this lily-white...

A hero is born and discovers his talent and passion for protecting the people around him. His point of view becomes skewed by his trials and experiences until he is forced to question which people are really worth saving. The line between good and...

Sam is just an eighteen-year-old high school kid and sometimes musician when his life changes dramatically during an innocent game of golf with his buddies. They witness some shady characters and a buried bag. Inside the bag is moneylots of money. The boys freak....

Set in the office of a psychologist in Paris, "The Magic of Flowers" describes a vivid picture of two women, and two destinies interweaved. Intriguing and gripping, this bittersweet contemporary tale of miracles and surprises is the unforgettable story of Amanda and her patient...

The Ultimate Killing Machine or Something Else? In this second book in the Greg Dorn Series, Denver police officer Dorn wakes up one day to discover he is handcuffed to a bed in a quasi-medical facility recovering from some serious wounds. He is in...

After directing an award-winning documentary in college, Harry Moreland, an idealistic, sensitive, promising filmmaker with a social conscience, goes on a two-year odyssey ending in Hollywood with hopes of becoming a film director. He is seduced by money, fame, and the glitz of the...

FBI Criminal Profiler, Clara Van Dorn, finds herself buried deep in an investigation dating back to the 1990's involving the kidnapping of a baby girl. Along the way, Clara unravels several clues and finds herself a lot more involved than she wished for. She...

Young women are being murdered and left dressed in fairy-tale costumes. Detectives Brick Henson and Timothy Daniels are at their wits end with no leads and no useful evidence. Fifteen-year-old Delilah was born with a gift: she can see what people are dreaming. Delilah's...

Chrissy's struggle to deal with her entrapment takes a dramatic unexpected turn. "Escape From Tuoyawon" from author R. Murrey Haist is book two of a chilling mystery trilogy series following Chrissy, a girl whose life from childhood had always been full of friends, family,...

Dolores Miller was living the American dream. She and her husband Lawrence lived in a small Southern California town with their two children. She was an elementary school teacher and Lawrence was a charismatic high school music teacher, but their idyllic life is suddenly...

Margaret Hale is unhappy when she is forced to leave her beloved Hampshire rectory home and settle in an industrial town in the north of England. Her situation is not helped by the frosty relationship she has with John Thornton, the master of a...

Peter could get caught, but it may be what he wanted all along.Peter's spent his life as a purposeful underachiever. Despite the chance of a promising career in business, Peter chose instead a career as a high school teacher solely to spite his parents....

What lengths would you go to in order to ensure a peaceful existence? Newlyweds Eve and Leigh Chandler are thrilled to be given a council house on a recently built estate after living with Eve's parents for a year, and are eager to get...

Tiegen, a determined grad student, cannot tell her dreams from waking reality. Her journal system helps her identify what's real, but occasionally, a dream slips through. Tiegen likes Geoff, from the UK, but hasn't detailed her dream disability to him, because her ex labeled...

The night Phillip Preston's parents were murdered has always been shrouded in mystery. One moment Phil, his sister Kim, and his parents were living an idyllic life in rural Wyattville, Pennsylvania, and then the next, his parents are gone, his sister has seemingly moved...

Christmas week, 1980. Peter Renke and his older brother Edmund commence a death trip. They are driving from New Jersey to Alleghany Falls, Virginia. There, they are to preside over the funeral of their estranged father. But, for Peter, this trip is no simple...

"Lucas Dionigi discovers a hidden natural law that governs our reality, The Septan Phase, he bends it to serve him, resulting in granting him perfect divine timing in speech, action and thought! The law's effect begins to lessen as it starts to take its...

When Nikki was nine, his best friend, Allison, and him were watched by their fathers. Next thing he knows it, he wakes up in a hospital. He doesn't remember anything of the incident, but Allison does. Neither his mother nor her mother will tell...

Whom God Hath Sundered (1910-1913) is a trilogy by Oliver Onions. Published toward the beginning of Onions' career as a leading novelist and short story writer specializing in genre fiction, Whom God Hath Sundered is a largely unknown trilogy of crime novels deemed a...

Whom God Hath Sundered (1910-1913) is a trilogy by Oliver Onions. Published toward the beginning of Onions' career as a leading novelist and short story writer specializing in genre fiction, Whom God Hath Sundered is a largely unknown trilogy of crime novels deemed a...

Fatal Revenge; Or, the Family of Montorio (1807) is a novel by Charles Maturin. Published under the psueudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy, Fatal Revenge; Or, the Family of Montorio was Maturin's debut novel. Largely ignored by critics and readers, it managed to draw attention from...

After the death of their patriarch, and a devastating fever that killed all but two of the children, the surviving Reece family, Mrs. Reece, Wolfgang, and Oscar, are left with just the vast property their family had owned for generations. Despite their poor financial...

Abandoned.Thrown away.Invisible. Every single one of those could be used to describe me. They can tell you my story-my sad past-without a single syllable passing through my lips. I hate them-those who lied to me. They claimed to love me, but in reality they...

Tookie, now fifteen-years-old, shares her memories as a survivor of unspeakable atrocities and heinous crimes committed by the very system in charge of her protection in this dark-fiction novella. Based, in part, on a true story. Emotional triggers, not recommended for those under age...

Have you ever felt like someone else's identity has taken over your own? Well, Split identity takes you on a twisted turn, through a young woman's journey. As she splits into several forms of her former self. Each identity horrifyingly tying closely to the...

Charles Montgomery is an unlikely hero. An eleven year old identical twin, he is torn from his God-fearing family, and institutionalized for his strange pronouncements. On the eve of his eighteenth birthday, he mysteriously disappears, only to return a decade later, transformed. The heros...

The path from a place of isolation, loneliness, and sadness to a place of happiness, self-fulfillment, confidence, and self-love wasnt an easy one for Sarah Woods. In this captivating autobiographical fiction, we read of the self-discoveries Sarah made to recover from borderline personality disorder...

A man dies while swimming off an Auckland beach. Georgina is out walking with her grandson when the rescue helicopter arrives, and becomes involved in the aftermath of the event. Was this man's death due to natural causes hastened by medical malpractice? Or was...

The daughter of a famous violinist, Emaline Rostenov views life with uncompromising honesty (most of the time). Although her father gifts with a violin on her seventh Christmas, she soon realizes her true passion is the piano, and succeeds in astounding the family with...

Guilt has caused Andy Roberts to imprison himself in a world devoid of happiness and love. He as built a wall of depression and refused to forgive himself. That is until an old friend returns and turns his life upside down. In a journey...

When eleven-year-old Landon Daniels is found wandering in a daze late at night, he is unaware of the events that brought him to an isolated stretch of highway. The girl he was last seen with, Emily Rose, has mysteriously vanished from the nearby town...

Harvard University Libraries. "Tales from Ahmetaga" is a collection of stories set in a fictional town in Greece of 1940 to the present. The manifest theme is friendship, loss or separation. Underneath the elegiac milieu there is a journey into the darkness of the...

The torments of the Fleischer family are coming to a head in what may be the end of a legacy of torment and abuse. Autumn's son Sam, along with others whose lives have been affected by the family, begin to work together to uncover...

John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures. John is a physician, and PERHAPS-- (I...

This fictional tale is based on the author's factual experiences as a psychotherapist and is set as a puzzle to test the reader's observational and analytical skills. In the main narrative, assorted stories serve as jigsaw pieces with a covert repetitive motif and clues...

KIRKUS INDIE BOOK REVIEW An engaging mystery with mystical overtones that also offers a wide-ranging discourse on New Age philosophy and entrenched belief systems. Dr. Lance Stavros is a 47-year-old, disaffected doctor ready to commit suicide when he gets a mysterious invitation to become...

We all have black thoughts. It's just some of us act on them. A van driver with abduction and murder on his mind. An eleven-year-old girl snatched on her way home from ballet. A tortured reporter, happy to use her death and the terrifying...

Author: Paul RafferISBN-10: 149905338XISBN-13: 9781499053388Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/26/2014Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001

What happens when a young woman is given the time, space, and inclination to honestly answer some of the deepest questions facing humanity, all while struggling to simply be herself in a very messy world, full of urban artists, geeky bicyclists, social media, and...

Maud Strand has an idyllic life with her parents in New Orleans, surrounded by family and friends. From childhood, she has had prophetic dreams which benefit Adele, the family housekeeper, who does a little gambling. Maud is in college when she's traumatized by the...