Fiction - Psychological

I know my sister didn't die by accident. Does someone know our secret?I swore I'd never go home to Brightwater. It would be safer for everyone if I stayed away.But now my sister is dead, and I am driving down the familiar highway, watching...

Based on the true story of author Barbara Follett and her mysterious disappearanceOn a December night in 1939, famous author Barbara Follett fought with her husband and stormed out of their Boston home, never to be heard from again. Now novelist Maryka Biaggio provides...

The Power of Darkness (1886) is a play by Leo Tolstoy. Forbidden for decades in Tolstoy's native Russia, the five-act play was first staged in Paris, where it earned praise from some of France's leading critics. Noted for its brutal depiction of violence and...

This Is the End (1917) is a novel by Stella Benson. Based on the author's experience in the movement for women's suffrage, This Is the End is a story of identity and social class set in the London neighborhood of Hackney. As Jay attempts...

Peter Whiffle (1922) is a novel by Carl Van Vechten. Framing himself as his character's literary executor, Van Vechten provides a satirical self portrait of his unusual life in the arts through the lens of a man whose sole gift is to identify and...

There are millions and millions of days, but only one today. There are billions and billions of people too--but there is only one you. There are so many things you can do with your day, just be sure that what you do is true....

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction From the award-winning author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, and Bitter Orange comes a brilliant novel about an unusual family held together by a string of lies, a small town with too many questions, and...

Beautifully elegiac and intricately plotted, this is Nordic noir at its best.--PeopleWinner of the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel - Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year - Shortlisted for the Best Swedish Book of the Year Award - One of...

After a woman's body is found in a local beauty spot, her heart surgically removed, D.I. Andy Ross and his team are called in to investigate.But this time, they face a criminal mastermind unlike any they have before, who soon becomes known as The...

What awaits you inside of these pages is an exploration of what we could all be in a different time, different place, or both. Every story in existence is simply another universe down a long hallway of doors. These universes are dark, miserable, vile,...

"Fifteen-year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery has only ever known two worlds: inside the riding arena, and outside of it. Both, for as long as she can remember, have been ruled by her father, who demands strict obedience in all areas of her life. The...

As soon as we sat on the ride I knew something was wrong. I couldn't relax. I couldn't hear the theme park music, the giggles of my two other children. I'd left my baby in someone else's care. And I knew I'd made a...

The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel "In Search of Lost Time," also known as "A Remembrance of Things Past," "Swann's Way" is the auspicious beginning of Proust's most prominent work. A mature, unnamed man recalls the details of his commonplace, idyllic existence as...

"One of the most exciting debuts of 2016," --Richard Peabody, Editor Gargoyle A novel in montage, Eisenstein's Monster is a wild romp through the terrains of our consciousness. A man with terminal cancer in the language centers of his brain meets a young woman...

Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks's wildly original debut novel, Getting Mother's Body, follows pregnant, unmarried Billy Beede and her down-and-out family in 1960s Texas as they search for the storied jewels buried--or were they?--with Billy's fast-running, six-years-dead mother, Willa Mae. Getting Mother's Body is...

Harry Mathews's brilliant final work, The Solitary Twin, is an engaging mystery that simultaneously considers the art of storytelling. When identical twins arrive at an unnamed fishing port, they become the focus of the residents' attention and gossip. The stories they tell about the...

Concluding--set in a single summer day--has at its heart old Mr. Rock, a famous retired scientist: he lives in a cottage on the grounds of a girl's boarding school. Living with him is Elizabeth, his somewhat unstrung granddaughter; his white cat; his white goose;...

Kosztolanyi, Anna Edes. Cruelty and emptiness of Bourgeois life permeate this novel.Author: Dezso KosztolanyiISBN-10: 0811212556ISBN-13: 9780811212557Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1993Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.01h x 5.38w x 0.68dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 11/01/1993Library Journal 01/01/1994Publishers Weekly 10/18/1993

I've been told I have a forgettable face. Ironic, really. I have a gift: I can browse through the library of your mind and remove individual memories.Author: K. J. ParkerISBN-10: 0765385295ISBN-13: 9780765385291Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PLLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2015Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x...

From "a master of precision" (The Observer, London) comes an explosive, provocative novel about John F. Kennedy's years in the White house: his political daring, his brave dedication to human rights, his devotion to his family--and his uncontrollable and unrelenting appetite for sexual adventure....

A stunning work of literary suspense by the the acclaimed author of All Things Cease to Appear."The memory starts here, in my apron pocket, with the gun." Lydia Haas is devoted to Jesus, her church, and her husband. Only recently, after it's too late,...

The classic first novel by Robin Cook, the New York Times bestselling "master of the medical thriller." "Dr. Peters, the patient has stopped breating and doesn't have any pulse!" The nurse's voice on the phone is desperate, but young Dr. Peters, in his first...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order. Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this...

The first Priscilla Hutchins novel from Jack McDevitt, hailed by Stephen King as "the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke." Humans call them the Monument-Makers. An unknown race, they left stunning alien statues on distant planets in the galaxy. Each relic...

When Sybill Hess drives over to the hypnotist's office, she hopes he can cure her of the headaches interrupting her sleep the way her friend Betty once saw a woman on TV cure a woman's stammer. But what Dr. Diamond uncovers from Sybill's subconscious...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a seductively suspenseful tale of one woman's shattered innocence, the terrifying search for truth and a heart's journey toward healing... Olivia's parents were among Hollywood's golden couples--until the night a monster came and took her...

David Kelsey, a young scientist, has an unyielding conviction that life will turn out all right for him; he just has to fix the Situation: he is in love with a married woman. Obsessed with Annabelle and the life he has imagined for them--including...

An NPR Best Book of 2013Laura van den Berg's gorgeous new book, The Isle of Youth, explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida,...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes "an intimate picture of middle-class family life" (The New York Times) that challenges the notion that home is a fixed place, and celebrates the subtle complexities of life on all sides of...

#1 WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER - "Jonathan Kellerman's novels are an obsession; once started it is hard to quit."--Orlando Sentinel Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, at nineteen, Tanya returns with a curious request:...

Rich, colorful and bursting with excitement, this remarkable story turns James Alexander Thom's power and passion for American history to the epic story of Tecumseh's life and give us a heart-thumping novel of one man's magnificent destiny--to unite his people in the struggle to...

A woman returns home to find a stranger living in her house in this "suspenseful and moving" psychological drama from an Edgar Award-nominated author (Meg Gardiner) -- perfect for readers of Shari Lapena and Liane Moriarty.There's a stranger living in Kimber Hannon's house. He...

Rowan Petty is a conman down on his luck. He's flat broke, living out of cheap hotels, and wondering how it all went wrong. His car quits on him in Reno, and he takes a job there on the bottom rung of a lousy...

The "breathtakingly brilliant" novel by the author of Infinite Jest (New York Times) is a deeply compelling and satisfying story, as hilarious and fearless and original as anything Wallace ever wrote. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary...

National Bestseller Strange things are happening at Biehl's Academy when this elite school opens its doors to a group of orphans and reform-school rejects, kids at the end of the system's tether. But the school is run by a peculiar set of rules by...

Colum McCann creates in Songdogs a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present. With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer,...

Grace is an exceedingly competent and devoted therapist living in Montreal. When she stumbles across a man who has just failed to hang himself, her instinct to help kicks in immediately. Before long, however, she realizes that her feelings for this charismatic, extremely guarded...

One of the most powerful and psychologically compelling novels from Joseph Conrad, author of Lord Jim and Heart of DarknessAxel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the...

Lucy gets the same bus every day. This Friday, her journey home will change her life. She can barely afford her bus ride, tries to avoid eye contact, and, if she's really lucky, she gets a seat and reads a chapter of her book....

'The first thing you should know, dear reader, is that I am dead...' Teacher Pippa wants a second chance. Recently divorced and unhappy at work, she uproots her life to renovate a beautiful farmhouse in the countryside, determined to make a fresh start. But...

What if trying to protect your child only put them in danger? Natalie is desperate to find her little boy. It has been more than three years since she saw Harry. Three long years in prison for a crime she knows she didn't commit....

'Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, what a book!... grabs you from the very beginning and doesn't let you go until the very last page... An absolutely fabulous, nail-biting thriller!!' 5 stars, Stardust Book ReviewsAlexandra Inglis is a respected family doctor, trusted by her patients...

The perfect family. A moment that will change everything. Emma thought she had the perfect life: a beautiful home, a loving husband and a gorgeous son.She was wrong.When she wakes up to find herself in hospital, Emma has no memory of how she got...

'Wow, wow, wow... I absolutely devoured this book. An absolute must read.' Into the Reading Corner You made a promise to your sister. It could destroy your daughter. The Daughter 15-year-old Rosie lies in hospital fighting for her life. She's trying to tell her...

You can run from your past, but it will always catch up with you... Susie was forced to do something she will always regret: giving her baby son up for adoption. Everything that led to this child, this choice, had to be buried and...

Thirteen years ago Olivia Adams went missing. Now she's back... or is she?When six-year-old Olivia Adams disappeared from her back garden, the small community of Stoneridge was thrown into turmoil. How could a child vanish in the middle of a cosy English village?Thirteen years...

Dark Laughter, Sherwood Anderson's best selling novel, is influenced by Joyce's Ulysses. It deals with the new sexual freedom of the 1920s and provides a unique fictional window into that era.Author: Sherwood AndersonISBN-10: 1781398321ISBN-13: 9781781398326Publisher: Benediction ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2017Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 6.00h x...

Set during World War I, this monumental philosophical novel about human despair inspired Albert Camus' own writing and prefigured the greater existential movement. Blood Dark tells the story of a brilliant philosopher trapped in a provincial town and of his spiraling descent into self-destruction....

2015 Reprint of 1896 Edition. "The Country of the Pointed Firs" is an 1896 short story sequence by Sarah Orne Jewett which is considered by some literary critics to be her finest work. Henry James described it as her "beautiful little quantum of achievement."...

Hollywood big-shot Vivien Spender has waited ages to produce the work that will be his masterpiece: a film adaptation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. He's spent years grooming young starlets for the lead role, only to discard each one when a newer, fresher...