Fiction - Psychological

Like tales set in the South? Like St. Augustine? Like history? You will love Bobby Marcos' story of survival among the poor and the rich. He was fine growing up in Waycross until he turned seventeen and strange voices started telling him to do...

Canna Medici Series 10th Anniversary EditionEighteen months have passed since Canna Medici's second near-death experience. Her new life has taken shape in the Corsican seaside town of Bonifacio, married to her soul-mate, Spanish baritone Claudio Ramos Ibáñez. With a successful boatyard to run, Canna...

Overview Disturbing tales of male/female relationships tracked through a series of inter-connected short stories that may remind you of early Amy Tan or Tobias Wolff. Stories that engage readers on several levels and cause them to ponder the disparate elements of their own lives.Author:...

A psychological thriller about murder of a coed on a small college campus and how a black police chief struggling to be accepted in a small southern town comes together with an aging heiress and a recovering addict to solve the mystery before the...

Author: Cedric BuhagiarISBN-10: 1493194240ISBN-13: 9781493194247Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2014Pages: 178Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

An enigmatic short story that cuts into the darkness of the male soul. A simple story of a retired man. A lunch under a mulberry tree that opens the doors to the simple joys of life, the hidden pain, drama and despair. A Kafka...

Hunter Fairchild fled his hometown of Madison twenty years ago and vowed to never return. An accomplished surgeon, he has repressed bitter memories of his childhood and buried them far beneath his beautiful home, his fancy cars and his gorgeous wife, who can't be...

Shots ring out in the sanctuary of Littleton's True Liberal Church, and in the end two people are shot. Congregants and friends of the church are plunged into despair as a beloved member is killed. Witnesses point fingers, but are they pointed in the...

Blackburn Village is a quintessentially beautiful Colonial enclave on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, "a place where psychiatric diagnoses are inconsequential and organizing a chapter of A.A. would be a terrible waste of time." In the summer months, the salt-of-the-earth townspeople are joined...

Basil was a successful filmmaker and the golden child of an ordinary, middle class family until the day he was found naked and staring in his apartment one morning. No one knows how long Basil has been in this catatonic state. There is no...

Twelve year old Celeste Dusty faces abuse when her parents' sudden death and the actions of a dishonest child services employee result in Celeste being taken from idyllic farm life to Lincoln, Nebraska where she spends the next four years with Aunt Sylvie, a...

Noreen Mayr suffers through her marriage for 4,745 days--nearly thirteen years--before she finds the courage to change her life. At that point, one terrifying night, she packs her children into the old Plymouth and slips away into the night. As she leaves the house...

Beri Baines is ready for a change. When the independent Trenton State College student is selected to study abroad in England in the 1970s, she boards a plane headed toward her home for the next five months-Portsmouth City College of Education-without any idea that...

These stories are based on episodes and materials from my personal life, and are widely varied. Most are set in Montreal, between 1967 and 2012, while a few are set in Newfoundland, and 1 is set in Africa. They are about women, men, children,...

Jane's life is crashing down around her. Brought low by drugs, alcohol, and a partying lifestyle that nearly killed her, Jane realizes she needs to change. Fueled by new determination, she quits the drugs and alcohol and even gets a respectable job. She thinks...

Sometimes when you fall over you don't get up again. And sometimes, you get up to find everything has changed: An ordinary man who sees his face in a tabloid newspaper. A soldier haunted by the images of those he has killed from afar....

The Magnificent Ambersons By Booth TarkingtonAuthor: Booth TarkingtonISBN-10: 1484001842ISBN-13: 9781484001844Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2013Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.36dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8.2Point Value: 18Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 28457 / Magnificent Ambersons

The Gambler is a short novel following Alexei Ivanovich, a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general who is indebted to the Frenchman Des Grieux and has mortgaged his property in Russia to pay his debt. The story reflects Dostoyevsky's...

Author: Murray AnnalsISBN-10: 148368895XISBN-13: 9781483688954Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2013Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Author: D. F. Les Pierre-LukeISBN-10: 1483648583ISBN-13: 9781483648583Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/11/2013Pages: 622Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.38d

Author: Pradeep KanthanISBN-10: 1483646548ISBN-13: 9781483646541Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/2013Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30dReview Citation(s): BlueInk Review 08/13/2013

Psychology graduate, Heidi Harper, is appointed to work with Professor Mala, pioneer of a new project to rehabilitate dog-reared feral child, Nicki. Heidi is soon asking questions and her mission takes on sinister overtones. As the truth outs, the lives of all concerned begin...

In the Emma Quinn Mystery trilogy, Emma finds truth by exploring the mysteries of the soul journey. In book 1, THE RETURN, a web of secrets is exposed after a long hidden crime comes to light. The Fitzsimmons family and community are caught up...

A father loses nearly a decade of his life. A daughter grows up without knowing why her heart keeps reaching for someone she cannot name. A River in the Ocean follows two souls who were never supposed to be apart and the quiet force...

AWAKENING is a story of eleven rising-star managers who gather together in a secluded luxury lodge for a mysterious five-day leadership training course. Asked to pick a leader from amongst themselves, they soon realize that nothing is what it seems at this place, where...

A world-renown trauma surgeon/Pullitzer prize winning jounalist on a humanitarian mission in the wilds of Iran is taken prisoner and nearly beheaded and behanded. He excapes after four years and returns physically and emotrionally scared, but in the desire to forget it all and...

"Love Me, Need Me: A Narcissist's Tale" is about a bumbling sexual predator, narcissist, and author of three insipid zombie books. Middle-aged Arlen J. Stevenson hails from Alabama. His relentless and often hilarious pursuit of women online leads him to our other protagonist, Los...

Ellie O'Donnell needs something to live for. Manic-depression and Alcoholism dominate her life. She is recovering from her latest boutof depression when she is released from hospital on a day pass. Ellie has a chance meeting with Jimbo, a homeless man. His story has...

What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming? Dr. Stephanie Walker knows what it is and how to use it. In fact, she murders people with it. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Walker works with her very wealthy clients by taking control of their unconscious mind, enabling her to...

Arlen J. Stevenson is a narcissist who uses his scant literary accomplishments to entice his online victims. Meeting, seducing and destroying vulnerable women is what drives this Alabama-born man. He flirts heavily with them via email or instant messages and often meets them in...

Author: Leone Mary BrittISBN-10: 1479799130ISBN-13: 9781479799138Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2013Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d

Esteemed Psychiatrist, Dr. Eliza Bremann has it all-an amazing family, a rewarding job, and a fulfilling lifestyle. She is overflowed with recognition for being one of the best psychiatrists in the Palm Beach, Florida, area. She is a true hero. All that changes when...

I bind myself up in regrets, someone else's chains and I let them hold me and attack me to no end... Astor had a great life. A professor at a University in Paris, a published author, a family with children...the question was what was...

A riveting story that paints a remarkably realistic portrait of combat stress reactions. Thirty years after the Vietnam War, eight U.S. veterans - still scarred from the psychological shrapnel of combat and seeking the healing that has long eluded them - bravely return to...

Fugue depicts our emotional lives as onyx-like patterns of colors, shades of gray, the deep black of a feather and the white light of clarity. What if one day you were checking your email and discovered an email sent from a dead friend? What...

"To the medical world, I was a host body, surviving only to bring a new life into the world. And while I wanted to die more than anything in the world, I never wanted this. No, I never wanted to cease to exist. This...

It must be born in the mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching our goals. The tragedy lies in not having a goal to reach for. This is what Mr. Idos Ukechukwu realised when he lost his job as a...

In her work within the justice system, forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange has dealt with some of the most twisted and depraved minds ever documented. Now, one of those minds wants to deal with her. Lucas Watson has escaped from prison. A grotesque embodiment...

In 1978, the white government in Rhodesia is holding on to power while losing its grip on the war-torn countryside. The war has been ferociously fought in the rural areas for a number of years, and now those living in the cities are gripped...

Arthur and Joyce Richardson, a couple who had it all, thanks to a lifetime of unswerving control over every aspect of their lives, were stunned when Joyce became pregnant in her forties. Once the shock wore off, they swore to control-and keep control over-their...

Alina Sherwin has had to fight for every victory in her life. Raised in Poland, she moves to Australia with her family as a young girl. There, in the early 1970s, she becomes the first woman in her state to graduate with an engineering...

34/4 is the honest story of a family that's forced to deal with the harsh realities of life. Bill Taylor is forced to deal with results of his actions and decides to hide in a bottle. Anne Taylor must decide if she wants to...

When Alejandra German first immigrates to America, she has great hope that her new life will be much better than the one she left behind in Uruguay. But as the years pass, Alejandra discovers that her challenges have followed her. Now the mother of...

All human beings struggle to live with our own missteps and transgressions and those of others. In this compelling collection, stories with the depth and resonance of novellas offer a window into the challenging lives of contemporary men and women. From Alec and Mira,...

Rory Carter grew up obsessed with her looks. Teased relentlessly about her weight, Rory was happy to leave her past behind when she enrolled in a Washington, DC, college and met her new best friends, Sierra, BJ, and Neekoo. Now a loving wife, devoted...

When Serena Skye applies to work with abused and troubled horses in the round pen at an isolated Nevada guest ranch, she instantly notices that her prospective boss, Julian Rose, is drop-dead gorgeous. After he hires her, Serena begins to work her magic with...

David Carter hates the cheap, paper-thin, blue-green swath of inadequacy better known as his carpet; he is disappointed in what it says about him as a man. A disgruntled architect, frustrated husband, and debt-ridden homeowner, David is a man of many unfulfilled ambitions--until he...

On Trinidad, the island of the steel pan, calypso, and carnivals, Annabelle Castello grows up in the impoverished Bristol Village before circumstances transport her to the affluent city of Port-of-Spain. At an early age, Annabelle achieves more than she could have ever imagined in...

A beloved merengue song-a phantom from the fifties-connects a haunted cast of characters, each in search of redemption. Elderly merengue star Ignacio dos Santos wrote this popular song-"Estrellita Luminosa." He once did the mambo with Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe and lived a fulfilling life....

Richard Montgomery is about to discover what happens when he enters a wrong number on his phone. As a resident of a one-horse town, Richard has nothing else to do but think about settling down and having children. Everything changes when he accidentally proposes...