Fiction - Psychological

The Housekeepers Daughter "True love may lay claim on your heart, but a first love brands your soul."I loved Atticus with my body and soul.Until he broke my heart and shattered my trust.He betrayed me.But worst of all, Six years later he's made me...

Ernst Kohl has spent nearly half his life in prison after being convicted of murder as a young man. Upon his release, with nowhere else to go, Kohl returns to his old family home on the outskirts of a small Michigan town, hoping for...

A provocative new novel from bestselling author T.C. Boyle exploring the first scientific and recreational forays into LSD and its mind-altering possibilities.In this stirring and insightful novel, T.C. Boyle takes us back to the 1960s and to the early days of a drug whose...

When Wendy returned from Neverland, moving out of the nursery was only the beginning. Told it's time to "grow up", she's forced into volunteer work with her mother, where she must learn the role of a proper lady by helping those less fortunate in...

Dear Doctor Woodruff, I hope you don't mind me writing to you. I think I'm your daughter.... This international bestseller is a startlingly assured first novel of deception, ambiguity, and shattering revelations. At the height of his career, a British surgeon has found success...

In the Austrian state of Styria lies the Helianau Institute, a boarding school for children born with a mysterious condition known as Indigo syndrome. Anyone who comes near them immediately suffers from nausea and vertigo. Clemens Setz--a fictionalized doppelg舅ger of the author--is a young...

The sea wrote her fate as surely as if it could mark her soul. Atlantic to Pacific to Indian, the rip currents of her life always shortened the dead calm.The devil wears a Hong Kong tailored suit. Ava's mama warns her that he hides...

Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul, but Barbara doesn't know who sent it. On the plane, she avidly reads the memoir, a...

An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library-esque novel from one of Japan's most popular authors.Our protagonist, an unnamed junior at a prestigious university in Kyoto, is on...

An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library-esque novel from one of Japan's most popular authors.Our protagonist, an unnamed junior at a prestigious university in Kyoto, is on...

Bella Mills survived the brutal slaughter of her family by a madman.Only 11-years-old, she was assaulted and left for dead. Twenty-three years later, the past returns in the form of her devil, free of his chains. A disturbing family history full of dark secrets...

Emotion in the Digital Age examines how emotion is understood, researched and experienced in relation to practices of digitisation and datafication said to constitute a digital age. The overarching concern of the book is with how emotion operates in, through, and with digital technologies....

Pride. Greed. Lust. Envy. Gluttony. Wrath. Sloth.The sins that make us our own worst enemy. And at any given time, we all could fall victim to them.Fighting those demons at times seems impossible.Especially when they come to life... FBI agent Emma Griffin has seen...

Detective "Doc" Wiley, an ex-Army Ranger Medic, a veteran of Vietnam and the Nassau County Homicide Squad, no longer knows what he wants, only that what he has falls short. Madeline Maclear, director of nursing at an area hospital, is a widow whose husband...

A near-future story in the form of a narrative poem about a college student and aspiring astronaut from Upstate New York whose career is traumatically interrupted and who ends up in New York City in a job she never imagined in an age of...

2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist For readers of My Dark Vanessa, a mesmerizing, disturbing, and thoroughly compelling novel about one woman's role in preserving--or destroying--her famous father's legacy. In front of me are hundreds of pages of work. Already I feel it leaving me....

By-the-book Detective Asante Royo can only clean up Fall River's filth for so long without getting dirty. When he's called to an apparent suicide at an apartment complex notorious for its prostitution and drug trade, he doesn't shed a tear for the life wasted....

Twelve-year-old Connor has moved house yet again. His mum has signed him and his wee sister up to another new school, just so they can get fed. He is dreading the barrage of looks and stares he will get, being the newcomer again. And...

A stunning deluxe edition of the stand-alone novella from Proust's masterpiece--an intoxicatingly witty story of infatuation and jealousy--delivers the most memorable reading experience A new translation commemorating a century since the monumental masterpiece was first published in English--and since Proust died--Swann in Love is...

Winner of the 2022 Lammy Award for Transgender Fiction From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and trans identity. Gala, a young trans woman, works at a hostel in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. She is obsessed with...

A fatigued traveler discovers a girl with a mysterious power in a city that simultaneously becomes the center of a global hoax setting a new political paradigm. A young man wanders into and out of an incredible inheritance in a scenario set up to...

Are you happy with the current state of your life?The notion of an Unmade Mind is that you have not made the choice to become your true self. You are living a life trapped within a shell that has diluted your purpose. The reason...

Marjorie Moore always wants more--and often feels she ends up with less. Forever searching elsewhere, she is consumed with wanting, or in her opinion, needing. Feeling trapped by her town and her family, she escapes through shopping, pill popping, and fantasizing about a possible...

Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert's lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of...

Hannah Cooper's daughter is leaving for college soon. The change is bittersweet. A single mother since the age of eighteen, Hannah isn't eager to confront the pain of being alone, but she's determined not to let her own hang-ups keep Ellen from the future...

A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert's lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated mountaintop in...

A famous film director, a cinematographer, an artist, and a novelist team up to make a movie in which the world, called Medialennium, is controlled not by governments but by media conglomerates. Mergers have created economic totalitarianism. Nation states are obsolete, and politics is...

A well-known architect disappears without a trace, and a photographer is hired to take pictures of his house for a trade magazine. On the way to the home of the architect he has a car accident and discovers the truth on what happened to...

Author: Joann GuidryISBN-10: 1441545115ISBN-13: 9781441545114Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/2009Pages: 386Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.86d

The classic crime thriller from the Anthony Award-winning author of TWISTED CITYCAN YOU TRUST YOUR FRIENDS?The DePinos are miserable, living in a tiny rundown apartment above a deli in Hell's Kitchen. The Sussmans live in an upscale building on the Upper East Side. When...

Launceston's iconic Caretaker's Cottage, nestled into the rock face overlooking the South Esk River, is the perfect setting for an Artists and Writers in Residence Program. For Clare Towns it offers a new beginning and a means of escaping Levi, a cyber stalker with...

Reminiscent of story themes of Sapphire, B.A. Paris, Anna Quindlen and Colleen Hoover, Autumn J. Bright's Love Sick is a fast-paced, can't-put-down, psychological drama that questions how much one is willing to endure for love.Toni Jones, Charleston's rising radio personality, has everything going for...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of "The Remains of the Day "comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place...

*Cover art by Kealan Patrick Burke's Elderlemon Design is exclusive to the hardcover edition.Addiction is the perpetual epidemic, where swarms of human moths flutter to the flames of hell. Because that warm blanket of a heroin high, that joyful intoxication of a pint of...

The girl shivers in the boat, trying to hold back her sobs as the man silently rows them towards the lighthouse under a dark sky. She thinks desperately of her big sister, how they'd laughed just a few hours before as they rode the...

Arthur Malcolm knows one thing to be true: wealth, notoriety, and success are the sure path to happiness. Determined to escape his past hardships, he rises through the ranks of society. This new prosperity lands him at the feet of heiress Sophia Kingsley, a...

A floundering priest. A woman in a wheelchair. An ancient curse. On the run from a cursed king and his army of assassins, priest Niels Bosch seeks sanctuary in rural Briscona. What he gets is a barrage of intimate and unsettling questions from his...

SANDCASTLES IN THE RAIN delves into the oppression and injustice Sydney experiences in the courtroom. The controversial sexual assault trial exposes the classism, misogyny, and victim-shaming prevalent during one of the most self-indulgent periods in history. A doomed love affair blossoms despite tragic consequences....

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Poetic Suspense Thriller⭐⭐⭐⭐ Alluringly mysterious and thrillingCan she save the missing girl ... and herself?Dana Fairchild feels the atmosphere of the marsh seeping into her skin with each day she spends in the cold unwelcoming mansion of her father's family. When her young...

A Priest and a Boy is a work of fiction reflecting real-world events. In 1956, Peter Madigan is an eight-year-old altar boy in a Sydney parish. Bernard Cassey is the parish's assistant priest. The story recounts the growing relationship between the two key characters,...

Elizabeth Devereux is a prolific painting prot g e whose true inspiration comes when she is drug-free. The trouble is, going off her medication for bipolar disorder can also bring on the black cells. When she finally leaves the halfway house will she be...

Meet Elodie Harrington, college student and medical anomaly. From chicken pox to tuberculosis, Elodie suffers such a frequent barrage of illnesses that she moves into the Brown University infirmary. When charismatic Chess Hunter enters the infirmary with two smashed knees, he and Elodie begin...

Jim Paul muses on Western philosophy and the medieval mind as he makes his way through a harried weekend in Los Angeles, yielding a "delightful...humorous" book (Bloomsbury Review) whose every "sentence bursts with information, gorgeously put" (New Yorker).Author: Jim PaulISBN-10: 0156005379ISBN-13: 9780156005371Publisher: Harper PaperbacksLanguage:...

In the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchett--an astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the 1950s whose dutiful life takes a sudden turn into a pitched battle between propriety and unexpected passion."With wit and dry...

A GMA Buzz Pick "Kim McCreight's thrillers are smart, propulsive and impossible to put down." --Laura Dave, author of The Last Thing He Told MeIn this relentlessly twisty literary thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight, a desperate intervention brings together a...

"Darkly delicious . . . Nice Girls is about the girlhood we never really leave behind, and what happens when we dare to confront our past demons. A pulsating mystery with a narrator you won't soon forget." -- Laura Dave, #1 New York Times...

The acclaimed author of Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever and The Gospel of Anarchy makes his hardcover debut with a piercing collection of short fiction that illuminates our struggle to find love, comfort, and identity.In a new suite of powerful and incisive...

Answering a call that summons her to a stranger's deathbed, a reluctant Sophie Shepard is too late to hear what he was so anxious to tell her. What was so important that a dying man would think of her in his final moments? With...

"Gritty and suspenseful, Chosen draws us into the obstacle-strewn path of domestic adoption." --Juliette Fay, author of Shelter MeA young caseworker increasingly entangled in the lives of adoptive and birth parents faces life-altering choices when an extortion attempt goes horribly wrong in Chosen. Written...

Henry's got it good. He's a semi-successful, if not yet famous novelist. He's got a good job and good buds. Best of all, he's got Layla, his long-time, live-in lover, a fast-track associate at a New Jersey law firm. Henry loves Layla and she...