Fiction - Psychological

From the author of Accidents Happen, The Hidden Girl, and The Playdate--called "a supremely accomplished debut thriller by a writer to watch" (Booklist, starred review)--comes a new, heart-pounding novel about a journalist setAuthor: Louise MillarISBN-10: 1476760136ISBN-13: 9781476760131Publisher: Atria BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2016Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize:...

A mother's worst nightmare: the subway doors close with her baby son still on the train. In this suspenseful debut novel, a woman goes to unimaginable lengths to get her child back. A struggling, single mother, Emma sometimes wishes that her thirteen-Author: Abbie TaylorISBN-10:...

"A riveting new novel" (Kirkus Reviews) about finding evil close to home and how far a woman will go to protect her family: Named one of "The Top 10 Things We Love This Week" by Entertainment Weekly. Growing up in the 1960s in one...

Our childhood is an intricate part of who we become as adults. Everyone has difficulty, despair and disappointment in their past. How we choose to overcome these challenges determines the course of our lives. Through it all, love has the potential to heal old...

Ten years ago, six-year-old Catalina Mateo hid under the porch of her family home while a knife butchered her mother and a bullet killed her father. Now a rough-sleeping orphan, Cat arrives at the house of Detective Jonathan Stride, pleading for protection. Drenched in...

Spunky television sports reporter Lyla Garcia has just received a proposal from her boyfriend, Stedman. After she accepts his offer to accompany him to Japan on a professional golf tour, Lyla requests a leave of absence from work and secretly hopes the trip will...

It only takes one day and then I'm dying. For the rest of my life I will be dying. One day and suddenly nothing matters. In death, I am free. Dive deep into the blood and cum covered depths. Meet Jane a young junkie...

Professor Peyton Wilde has an enviable life teaching sociology at an idyllic liberal arts college--yet she is troubled by a sense of fading inspiration. One day an invitation arrives. Peyton has been selected to attend a luxurious all-expense-paid seminar in Iceland, where participants, billed...

When the protagonist Ivan Ilyich Pralinsky drinks a little bit too much with his colleagues one day, he expresses his desire for a philosophy founded upon the value of kindness and charity to those who are worse off than oneself. After he leaves, Ivan...

This volume contains Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1877 short story "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's streets while musing upon how ridiculous his life is, as well as its distinct lack of meaning or purpose. This train of...

This vintage book contains a collection of short stories by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, including his famous 1848 story of the tragic drunkard: "An Honest Thief". Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) was a Russian novelist, essayist, short story writer, journalist, and philosopher. His...

WARNING: THIS IS AN EXTREME HORROR NOVELLA. Although not as bad as some of Matt Shaw's other titles, there is still gore. There is bad language. There are scenes of a sexual nature. But hidden underneath it all is also a chilling story. Please...

Welcome, come in. Make yourself comfortable. I invite you to take a journey through these pages as they temporarily draw back the gauze veil that separates us from what crawls around in the dark of night, as well as that which brushes your sleeve...

After Therese's mother dies, her father sends her to live with her aunt, who marries Therese to her sickly, spoiled and selfish son, Camille. Camille moves the family to Paris so he can begin a career, there, Therese meets Laurent. The two begin an...

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco is a novel about love, obsession, murder, and greed. McTeague a young dentist becomes obsessed with Trina, one of his patients. The pair eventually marry and descend together into depravity and moral decay. A powerful harrowing book.Author: Frank...

Maggie is "regarded as the first work of unalloyed naturalism in American fiction." According to the naturalistic principles, a character is set into a world where there is no escape from one's biological heredity. Additionally, the circumstances in which a person finds oneself will...

Arthur sat in the library of the theological seminary at Pisa, looking through a pile of manuscript sermons. It was a hot evening in June, and the windows stood wide open, with the shutters half closed for coolness. The Father Director, Canon Montanelli, paused...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Clara Bell and James Waring, Honore De...

Twenty feet away, a stout, elderly woman interrupted the girl's persuasions. The elderly woman's back was turned, and the back--loose, bulging, and misshapen-began a convulsive heaving. "Gawd " she cried out. "O Gawd " She flung wild glances, like those of an entrapped animal,...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us-whose writing is emotionally wrenching and utterly original (Sarah Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series)-delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one...

On April 20, 2017, Ledell Lee, an African-American man in Arkansas, was executed for the 1993 murder of his neighbor, Debra Reesed despite maintaining his innocence until the last moment.On Tuesday, August 22, 2017, at 6 pm Marcellus Williams should, according to the law,...

Best Thriller and Mystery of the Year - Washington Post Best Thriller and Mystery of the Year - San Francisco Gate From the award-winning author of Quicksand, a gripping legal thriller that follows one woman's conflicted efforts to overturn what may be a wrongful...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Named an NPR "BEST BOOKS OF 2017"Named the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year by the Swedish Crime Writers AcademyAn incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects...

From the acclaimed Nordic Council Literature Prize winner, a story that reveals the devastating effects of mistaking silence for peace and feeling shame for inevitable circumstances Eva and Simon have spent most of their adult lives together. He is a physician and she is...

A new novel of artful understatement about mortality, estrangement, and the absurdity of life from the acclaimed author of Unformed Landscape and In Strange Gardens On a day like any other, Andreas changes his life. When a routine doctor's visit leads to an unexpected...

Building can be seen as a master metaphor for modernity, which some great irresistible force, be it Fascism or Communism or capitalism, is always busy rebuilding, and Houses is a book about a man, Ars nie Negovan, who has devoted his life and his...

Alexander Herzog, a young writer, goes to Vienna to escape his debts and a failed love affair. There he is pursued by book-loving Ganna: giddy, girlish, clumsy, eccentric, and wild. Dazzled and unnerved by her devotion to him, and attracted to the large dowry...

Blindness and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylor's great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she turns her unsparing gaze on the emotional and sexual politics of a seedy seaside town that's been left behind by modernity. Tory, recently divorced, depends more and more...

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a startling tale of murder and madness set in a time of troubles like our own. Robert Wringhim is a religious fanatic: one of God's chosen who believes himself free to disregard the strictures...

Author: John a. CurryISBN-10: 1587210975ISBN-13: 9781587210976Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2000Pages: 468Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 8.02h x 4.98w x 1.15d

An autobiographical incantation of adolescent shame, religious masturbation, and the salvation embodied in the creative act.I believe that destiny is the hesitation between whorehouse writing and poetry, Evil and Good. In my body almost deadened to stupidity by its growing length, I am carrying...

Interweaving history, myth, rumor, and news, this first novel explores what it means to grow up as a girl in a culture of girl-killers In Everyday Psychokillers spectacular violence is the idiom of everyday life, a lurid extravaganza in which all those around the...

From a bar hosting its nightly Sad Hour to the moonlit sandbox of a retired army general, Jim Heynen's new collection of micro fiction presents character sketches of strange yet fascinating men and women. Modeled after Theophrastus' Characters--brief, verbal snapshots of people created by...

Praise for Rikki Ducornet: "A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat." --New York Times "Ducornet--surrealist, absurdist, pure anarchist at times--is one of our most accomplished writers, adept at seizing on the perfect details and writing with emotion and cool detachment...

Diana of the Crossways is a novel by George Meredith which was published in 1885. It is an account of an intelligent and forceful woman trapped in a miserable marriage and was prompted by Meredith's friendship with society beauty and author Caroline Norton. The...

The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham first published in 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English...

Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915, through which Conrad achieved "popular success." The story runs as follows: through a business misadventure, the European Axel Heyst ends up living on an island...

A thriller of murder, redemption, and breakneck twists by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Dead Certain.After her sister was murdered, Ella Broden meted out her own punishment, then abandoned her career to pursue her passion as a singer. But another murder that hits...

Living decades apart, two women get caught in the web of an infamous serial killer.In 1938, at the height of the Great Depression, a madman hunts his victims through the hobo jungles of Cleveland, terrorizing the city. Ethel Harding, a prostitute struggling to survive...

From New York Times bestselling writer Jeff Abbott, a psychologically intense and emotionally gripping new suspense novel about a daughter's desperate search for her missing mother-one that may lead her closer to home than she ever anticipated. My mom would never leave me. This...

From New York Times bestselling writer Jeff Abbott, a psychologically intense and emotionally gripping new suspense novel about a daughter's desperate search for her missing mother-one that may lead her closer to home than she ever anticipated. My mom would never leave me. This...

Returning to the now-renowned locale of Kindle County, Scott Turow gives us Mack Malloy, ex-cop, not-quite-ex-drunk, and partner-on-the-wane in one of the country's most high-powered law firms. A longtime ally of the wayward, Mack is on the trail of a colleague, his firm's star...

"I did something terrible Grace. I hope you can forgive me..." Grace hasn't been the same since the death of her best friend Charlie. She is haunted by Charlie's last words, and in a bid for answers, opens an old memory box of Charlie's....

A split-second decision sends Marta Crawford's life spiraling out of control. On a business trip she meets the charming Todd Wilson and, much to her regret, wakes up the next morning in his bed. Filled with remorse, she tells Todd she's made a terrible...

Two very intelligent, very idealistic young women leave the convent school where they became the fastest of friends to return to their families and embark on their new lives. For Ren e de Maucombe, this means an arranged marriage with a country gentleman of...

"A novel you devour in one sitting: elegiac, beautiful, and very strong." --Herman Koch, author of The Dinner Roxy's life is turned upside down when her husband is killed in a car crash, his naked body found entangled with his lover's. Twenty-seven-year-old Roxy is...

Doug Anderson has come a long way from the sequestered childhood that left him inventing friends and feeling clueless about the outside world. The transformation culminates with an epiphany on the day Doug's father passed. Doug believes only a writer could interpret the significance...

A man is being held in a forensic psychiatric facility for his inability to stand trial for a crime he cannot remember anything about. A court-appointed psychiatrist interviews him several times to ascertain if he can attest to the man's sanity. Meanwhile, someone is...

The Death Chamber, set in both the past and the present, takes us to Calvary Gaol, a former prison where a TV crew has turned up for a shoot. But the ghosts of the prison's gruesome past have a way of reaching into the...

A bank internship in Japan's booming 1981 economy is supposed to be twenty-three-year-old Dorothy Falwell's ticket into a prestigious international MBA program. But the internship is unpaid--so, to make ends meet, she accepts an evening job as a hostess in a rundown suburban bar,...