Fiction - Psychological

Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a...

"Brett, who has written a critical study of postmodern fiction, has hit upon an immensely interesting concept for her debut novel, one that allows her to dig deep into psychology, philosophy, physics, and, most importantly, politics as Daphne shakes Garrett out of his indifference...

Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white.Two men -...

Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, The Prince And The Pauper is a delight satire of England's romantic past and a joyful boyhood romp filled with the same tongue-in-cheek irony that sparked the best of Mark Twain's tall tales. Two boys, one an urchin...

The story is set in the city of San Antonio, Texas in the United States of America, during the time of the 1980s. The protagonist, Dylan Johnson, is a man in his late twenties working as an assistant professor at the Department of Geology,...

2021 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. Manhattan Transfer is considered to be one of Dos Passos' most important works. The book attacks the consumerism and social indifference of contemporary urban life, portraying a Manhattan that is merciless yet teeming with energy and restlessness. The...

Two sisters, a lifetime of secretsLilian and Rosie were once the closest of sisters, but the untimely death of their parents pulled them apart. Now, three years on, Rosie has reached out to her big sister, asking to meet. Driving on an icy road...

Two sisters, a lifetime of secretsLilian and Rosie were once the closest of sisters, but the untimely death of their parents pulled them apart. Now, three years on, Rosie has reached out to her big sister, asking to meet. Driving on an icy road...

At the age of 16, in 1959, Dalton Henson, an athletic but emotionally disturbed youth living in a small central Florida town, suddenly becomes sexually attracted to prepubescent boys. This attraction gradually intensifies until it nearly completely replaces the attraction he previously felt toward...

Jason is just out of high school when he discovers he has the ability to leave his body. After achieving an intense out of body experience, he encounters a luminous female entity that says to him, "This is how it is!" Believing she is...

"Exquisite" (Lisa Barr, New York Times best-selling author of Woman on Fire) and "utterly engrossing" (Katherine Gray, cohost of the Netflix series Blown Away), The Color of Ice will wrap you in its spell, all the way to its unforgettable ending.Set among the glaciers...

Evelin Ross is an assassin bound into a vile contract with a ruthless man known as Claudius, but, when his grandson is murdered and his life threatened, he offers her a way out. However, as she finds out who the killer is, she is...

Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to lower their expenses and get...

The dramatic story of the inner life of a world famous string quartet, taking place in the early 1950s. The author himself was a member of such a quartet and his vast musical knowledge is shared in the book.Author: David Milofsky, Bernard MilofskyISBN-10: 1544237995ISBN-13:...

A single lie becomes a defining moment in a family's life in an unforgettable novel of psychological suspense.After being gone for two decades, Maddy's half sister, Emily, is back in town to settle their late father's estate. Emily's not the troubled girl Maddy remembers...

From Amina Akhtar comes a viciously funny thriller about wellness--the smoothies, the secrets, and the deliciously deadly impulses.Lifelong New Yorker Ronnie Khan never thought she'd leave Queens. She's not an "aim high, dream big" person--until she meets socialite wellness guru Marley Dewhurst.Marley isn't just...

The story spans two generations of the Armadale families and the complex plot combines several of Collins's favourite themes, including the supernatural, identity, murder and detection. In the German spa town of Wildbad, the 'Scotchman' Mr. Neal is asked to transcribe the deathbed confession...

The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27, whose family is moving to lower expenses and get out of debt, at the same time the wars come to an end, putting sailors on shore. They rent their home to an Admiral and...

A gruesome serial killer calling himself the Lamb of God is stalking the streets of New Orleans and leaving a trail of blood and terror, but city officials, still reeling from the effects of a devastating hurricane the year before and desperate to reboot...

Widower Adam Verver is a wealthy American who has emigrated with his attractive daughter, Maggie, for the sole purpose of luxuriating in the brilliant shine of gilded society. Then Maggie falls in love and weds a charming Italian prince named Amerigo. Adam, too, finds...

Joseph Conrad; 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did...

Fanshawe - Nathaniel Hawthorne with an Introduction by George Parsons Lathrop Fanshawe is a novel written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was his first published work, which he published anonymously in 1828. Hawthorne had worked on a novel as early as his time...

Harriett is the Victorian embodiment of all the virtues then viewed as essential to the womanly ideal: a woman reared to love, honour and obey. Idolising her parents, Harriett learns from childhood to equate love with self-sacrifice, so that when she falls in love...

"These words are my only way out of this self-built dungeon. I am not seeking redemption or salvation- I long ago traded God's grace for pride and praise. This journal is meant for those who still fall for the fairytale of true love, to...

Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fianc is forced to take an extended trip to Canada's drier climes in order to recover his...

Michael lives in Edinburgh and is loved by his Mum and Dad. On his first day at school he makes a special friend, Harvey, and they remain the closest of friends. But growing up isn't easy for Michael, as his autism makes school and...

What if I told you that the way we perceive and take for granted time, space and true interpersonal connections can be misleading, even when their true nature lay before us?THE QUANTUM PILGRIMAGE is an existentialist, abstract and tortuous fable about the inner journey...

Almost a Meal - A True Tale of Horror tells the tale of how a man who was undiagnosed with Asperger's became acquainted with a chef who later proved to be a serial killer. It shows how Aspies do not recognize danger signs -...

Few of the eccentric inhabitants of her father's Main Line, Philadelphia estate have much time for Fleur Robins, an awkward child with a devotion to her ailing grandfather, a penchant for flapping and whirling, and a preoccupation with God and the void. While her...

"We were sent to take an unoccupied hill. Our maxim was that a hill is always unoccupied unless the enemy are actually firing from it. Of course, the place was chock full of Boers; they waited till we had come within easy range for...

A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 - HOWARD ENGEL AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL SET IN CANADA 2023 FINALIST"Freedman grips right out of the gate with dual timeline narratives that weave together more and more tightly until they meld into...

"Equal parts Harlequin romance, Gothic horror story and Camusian moral tale." -- GLOBE AND MAILNominated for the 2023 ReLit AwardFrom the bestselling author of Drunk Mom, comes a story of romantic obsession, mental illness, and self-discovery as one woman travels to a haunted quarantine...

Crime author Ann Rule wrote, "Fatal Flowers is a chillingly authentic look into the blackest depths of a psychopath's fantasies. Not for the faint-hearted . . . Smith is a cop who has been there and a writer on his way straight up. Read...

Skye Dancer - a modern-day, Native American teenager, living in a quiet fishing village on the coast of Washington state - becomes aware of the "Prospector" when she follows him up to his lair out in the wilderness area beyond the "haunted" Lake Odawa....

It all started with the Rook. Michael worries it'll end with the Rook, too. Increasingly horrifying disasters haunt Michael's every step, but it takes a gruesome decision, and blood on his own hands, for the Rook to finally introduce himself. A monster so cruel...

In this novel based on true events, a little girl kidnapped by her father must learn to survive in the midst of a chaotic existence. Once upon a time in an exotic land called Miami Beach, a Jewish American princess was born. Not lucky...

Murder has a way of ripping all wounds wide open, but Marion Mae has been a survivor all her life and she was not about to stop now. Looking upon her brother's battered remains'; she tries to absorb the details of his homicide. The...

THE PREDATOR New York City has a monster on the loose and his name is Tarryn Cooper Love. No one had given a second glance to the handsome taxi driver, but in reality he had been molded to be a killer since early childhood....

Jordy Blackwell is an educated guy from Ashton, Maryland who understands loss. As a young child, he loses his grandmother. A case that goes unsolved. He inherits most of her money with the condition that he attends college and law school. His grandmother wanted...

The novel, the second book by Maupassant, is about Georges Duroy's rise from a poor ex-NCO to become one of the most successful men in Paris.Author: Guy de MaupassantISBN-10: 1449555373ISBN-13: 9781449555375Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2009Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x...

Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. She suffered numerous nervous breakdowns during her life primarily as a result...

This semi-autobiographical short story details how Charlotte Perkins Gilman suffered from postpartum depression and was forced to endure lonely isolation intended to cure hysteria. An unnamed woman regales her story through diary entries as she suffers through enforced isolation. Following a bout of postpartum...

"One afternoon in February, Michael Movius, a thirty-six year old neurotic who had suffered a mild nervous breakdown and was recuperating at a small hospital in upstate New York, transported Edward Ortega, an unloved attendant at the hospital, from the physical world to an...

Willa Cather was an early 20th century author best known for her novels; O Pioneers, My Antonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. In 1906 Cather became the managing editor of McClure's magazine. As a muckraker journalist Cather co-authored a scathing biography about the...

The saga of Dan Kristich continues. First encountered in "Around the Horn" in 1949 as a five-year-old boy and then in "The Purple Bow" in 1962 as a seventeen-year-old high school senior nearing graduation, Dan now finds himself, in the early spring of 1973,...

"The off ramp came as a surprise. Mechanically, I turned the steering wheel. Windshield wipers were keeping time with the pulsing bass pumping out the amp in the trunk, rain sliced through the night sky pelting a dreary line of soulless metallic shells. My...

Cain, a quixotic anti-hero, navigates the foreign and hostile world of construction as he builds the Twin Towers prison in LA. The novel follows Cain through the seven stories, nine counting the foundation and roof, of this brooding building culminating with the violent LA...

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...

As a little girl, Yves Zoe Trieste's first experiences were magical, opulent, and dazzling - living in one of Japan's protected and exclusive enclaves reserved for Foreign Diplomats and their families. The change was sudden when the family boarded one of the last evacuation...

Corrie is the perfect girl. She lives in a nice middle-class home, gets perfect grades, dresses perfectly, and never causes trouble. She acts perfect and looks perfect. But perfection is in the eye of the beholder. In reality, Corrie hides horrible secrets about her...