Fiction - Psychological

In Josh Emmons's inventive and utterly engaging debut, ten residents of Eureka, California, are brought together by a mysterious man, Leon Meed, who repeatedly and inexplicably appears -- in the ocean, at a local rock music club, clinging to the roof of a barreling...

There is a secret back door to the Ivory Tower. Andrew Viam makes his escape and it takes him to places and people that threaten his very existence. Follow Andrew's odyssey to see whether he has what it takes to survive.Author: Michael BoylanISBN-10: 0692729100ISBN-13:...

A thought-provoking literary experience from D re McCain, author of Playing Chicken With Thanatos. A Scar Is Borne is a potent cocktail of ten grotesque yet true-to-life human condition tales driven by characters frequently encountered in the surreal and often absurd seriocomedy called Life....

A PARANORMAL SUSPENSE BASED ON END-TIME PROPHECY AND ON THE REAL-LIFE PHENOMENON OF INFANTS BORN WITH THE VEIL. Also known as the birth caul, this mysterious, translucent tissue covers the faces of some rare infants at the time of birth. After centuries shrouded in...

Like The Alchemist and Siddhartha, Once I was Lost is about the journey of spiritual transformation-with a difference. The four seekers in this novel encounter difficulties and barriers in raising their consciousness while striving for success. Their stories are interwoven, and together they explore...

What if someone stole your identity . . . but you didn't want it anyway? The New York professor Vera de Sica is tired of her life -- it hasn't turned out the way she hoped but, then again, it is her life. At...

ADDICTION: CUNNING, BAFFLING, & POWERFUL In this gripping debut novel by Andrew Seaward, the lives of three addicts converge following an accidental and horrific death. Monty Miller, a self-destructive, codependent alcoholic, is wracked by an obsession to drink himself to death as punishment for...

UNDER CURRENT CONDITIONS is based on actual events and not only illustrates the benefits of a keen instinct, but also underscores the dire consequences of its failure. Beginning in Boston in 1999, the story chronicles a lucrative business opportunity, but an innocuous change in...

"Jacqueline Laurent paints a picture with great detail, until you find you don't want to put the book down..."--Barbara Morris, Author and Screenwriter When Sarah Klein was born, there was no one who told her how beautiful she was, how her blond hair already...

Marian decides to leave NY and visit Paris in order to take some time away from her unfulfilling relationship with Richard, her husband of 7 years. Richard is also ready for a break but feels more comfortable having his wife take the initiative. Later...

Vincent Michelson, his sister Janice, and brothers Corbin and Ellis are preparing for their traditional Christmas celebration at their mother's home when an unexpected interruption comes-the siblings receive the disturbing news that their father has died. What follows is an odd chance meeting that...

Jimmy DiAnno is a thirty-four-year-old, hard-charging prosecutor in the homicide unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office. A talented trial attorney, he takes great pride in his ethical responsibility to see that justice is served. Jerry T. Savitch is not just the mayor of...

Then she leaned over and whispered, 'Pearlie, I had to kill him, that's the reason I'm here. I'm running from the law and need to stay here for awhile until things cool down." I looked up at her and stepped back because I couldn't...

In St. Jude's Gospel, SK Marinangel is a Fortune 500 CEO but wants to be a mother. She goes to an executive search firm for help finding a husband. Bill Motley, is a surgically sterile, forty-something burn-out. Reprising his role in Goddess Patrol, Bill's...

"Jacqueline Laurent paints a picture with great detail, until you find you don't want to put the book down..."--Barbara Morris, Author and Screenwriter When Sarah Klein was born, there was no one who told her how beautiful she was, how her blond hair already...

They were six academic fugitives from prestigious universities and elite private academies--Connor, Petra, Russell, Octavia, Iain, and Taleah--ronin child prodigies and castaway geniuses too smart for the traditional higher educational system. For Connor Randall, it is the great intellectual challenge he has been seeking...

Author: John Wingspread HowellISBN-10: 0595265545ISBN-13: 9780595265541Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2003Pages: 532Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d

Author: Milo L. ThompsonISBN-10: 0595226167ISBN-13: 9780595226160Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/22/2002Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

Author: Maximus Confessor+ISBN-10: 0595195296ISBN-13: 9780595195299Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2001Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.14h x 5.86w x 0.41d

Author: Vernon BargainerISBN-10: 0595005772ISBN-13: 9780595005772Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2000Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.03h x 6.01w x 0.69d

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Can't get enough of Joe Goldberg? Don't miss the latest thriller in Caroline Kepnes's compulsively readable You series, with an all-new plot not seen in the blockbuster Netflix show. "Fiendish, fast-paced, and very funny."--Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times...

A CIA analyst makes a split-second decision that endangers her country but saves her son--and now she must team up with an investigative journalist she's not sure she can trust in this electrifying thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Need to...

WINNER OF THE ITW THRILLER AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL "My Sweet Girl pushes the boundaries of what a thriller can do."--The Washington Post "Fiendish [and] full of twists.... Sri Lankan author Amanda Jayatissa keeps us guessing and worrying until the very end." --The...

A "witty and wise" (People) debut novel about love and commitment, celebrity and obsession, poetry and reality TV. "Palmer's novel wryly tracks an earnest interrogation of art and selfhood."--The New Yorker Reeling from a breakup with his almost fianc馥, the narrator of Andrew Palmer's...

"Ravishing... as if Saavedra were a modern-day Borges." --Luis Alberto Urrea, O, The Oprah Magazine A novel of dark obsession, missed connections, and violent love. Marcos has just been through a divorce and moved into a new apartment. He feels alienated from his ex-wife,...

Martin Rasmus has returned to the United States and spends his days intentionally underemployed and his nights listening to podcasts in the hospital emergency room. One evening, he gives a ride to an eccentric Russian named Victor and the two form an unconventional partnership....

Falling In is the first book in C.S. Robbie's young adult series called The Lakeville Project. With Chelsea Raleigh's parents off to Europe for the summer, she has the house to herself, every eighteen-year-old's dream come true. Except in Chelsea's case, her parents are...

In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society. Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to...

Myra and her husband Oswald return to their fictional hometown of Parthia, Illinois, to visit their relatives. Nellie and Aunt Lydia then leave to spend the Christmas holiday in New York City with them. They live on Madison Square. They dine with Ewan Gray,...

A gripping, illuminating novel about recent Russian aggressions and the humans caught in the crossfire.One evening in 2015, the journalist Pavel Vladimirovich and his wife Tatyana are at home when the news breaks that there has been a terrorist attack. Over a hundred people...

Three men are kidnapped on the eve of their high school reunion and wake up trapped inside a remote cabin in the Scottish Highlands. What comes next is the discovery that one of them is a killer. But which one? Will anyone confess? As...

It's a funny old house. They have this ceremony every summer . . . There's an old chapel, in the grounds of the house. It's half-derelict. The Hunters keep bees in there. Every year, on the same day, the family processes to the chapel....

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (1869) is a novel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore. Praised by some of Victian England's leading authors, including Robert Louis Stevenson, George Gissing, and Thomas Hardy, Lorna Doone was published anonymously and sold poorly in its first edition. Republished...

The Moon and Sixpence (1919) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Inspired by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin, Maugham set out to capture the disconnect between an artist's desire to create and their obligations to their loved ones and society. Praised...

"Susi Holliday is one of our best and most original creators of tense and twisty tales." --Ian Rankin Four hikers enter the mountains. Only two return. But is it tragedy? Or treachery?When sisters Cat and Ginny travel with their husbands to the idyllic Swiss...

For fans of Marie Benedict, Lauren Willig, and Diana Gabaldon, comes a Gothic romance about the charming and ambitious glassmaker René Lalique, the mysterious Englishwoman he falls in love with and their haunting encounters. Fascinated by the occult, René feels stifled, apprenticed to a...

When the first hate letter arrives in the aftermath of her patient Bonnie's death, obstetrician Dana Cavanagh reads it with shaking hands before placing it next to the small news article from the court's verdict: not guilty.Hate mail continues to trickle in, but one...

After Sydney Grey returns to her quaint hometown of Stoney Creek and begins renovations on her childhood farm, she discovers a set of journals written by her mother.Presumed to have abandoned her family 20 years ago, a long-hidden secret about her mother is uncovered....

Arrested for the suspicious death of his mother, "Bernard Novak" explains himself, in court and in prison: Spending the night by chance in a seedy hotel near a quiet cemetery, he hears the laughter and moans of a couple having sex in a nearby...

"'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall." William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure. He's no stranger to sin... A prolific serial killer is crucifying and 'baptizing' the working girls of Portland, and FBI Special Agent Luca Ramirez is locked in a desperate...

"A number of bombs . . . exploded, and several RPGs were fired at the massive electronic billboards in Times Square. There were] bodies lying all over the street and sidewalks . . . shards of glass and metal rained down from the billboards...

"Under our new banner which now flies above us all, we will truly have freedom, equality, and fellowship among men and women ... Freedom of sexual partners, freedom of recreational pharmaceuticals. Everyone will be equal in all financial matters ... Tolerance and equality are...

Murder can't always be planned.The antique key on the dead man's body was too beautiful to leave behind. Alex removed it from the key ring on a whim, but now she's obsessed with finding the lock where it fits. Visiting the dead man's house,...

As she waits to give her statement in one of the interrogation rooms of Arcata Police Department, Abigale recites the same line over and over inside her head. I did not kill anyone. I did not kill anyone. But there's a trail of bodies,...

The first Duckworth novel is Better than Silence of the Lambs . . . Macabre fun orchestrated with immaculate precision. It's a killer (Los Angeles Times) Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager...

It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse--the banality of work, the triviality of the holidays....

New Grub Street is a novel by George Gissing published in 1891, which is set in the literary and journalistic circles of 1880s London. Gissing revised and shortened the novel for a French edition of 1901. The BBC Radio 4 sitcom Ed Reardon's Week...

In this pulse-pounding debut novel, two women are pulled into the darkness of a terrifying plot that could threaten both their lives.No one has forgotten the unsolved kidnapping of four-year-old Nicol s Acosta. It galvanized Madrid, shaking it to its core.Two years later, another...

'I can't tell you what happened. I can't tell anyone.' It is a day that starts like any other day. It's cold outside but the sun is shining. It feels like a day that is full of hope. But two mothers' lives are about...

The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, due to...