Fiction - Psychological

When a pregnancy following years of infertility ends in late miscarriage, Margo Kerber sinks into a depression-one that leads her, when she encounters a briefly unattended baby, to commit an unthinkable crime.Author: Monica StarkmanISBN-10: 1631520547ISBN-13: 9781631520549Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/03/2016Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize:...

On the surface, it looks like Paul Callahan has it all. The family, the house, the job. But nothing is ever as perfect as it seems, and when a college friend contacts Paul out of the blue, he finds himself reliving his first year...

The Holy Mark is a dramatic monologue told from the point of view of a psychologically disturbed Catholic priest who continually rationalizes and justifies his relationships with teenaged boys. It combines the elements of a psychological case study and dysfunctional New Orleans Italian family...

Lovesick was a finalist for the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction. Spanning the 1930s to the present day, James Driggers' evocative Southern Gothic collection introduces the intriguing inhabitants of Morris, South Carolina--a small town where a mix of rich, poor, and in-between...

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...

Samuel Beckett's first novel and "literary landmark" (St. Petersburg Times), Dream of Fair to Middling Women is a wonderfully savory introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in the summer of 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was poor and struggling to make ends meet,...

"This story, if it is one, deserves the closure of a suicide, perhaps even the magisterial finality of what is usually called a novel, but the remnants of that faraway time offer nothing more than a taste of damp ashes, a feeling of indeterminacy,...

From the international bestselling author: "An inventively gratifying libertine comedy of errors . . . This monumental novel is satisfying at all turns" (Foreword Reviews). The Carousel of Desire is a sexual and romantic saga told with a master storyteller's feel for character and...

The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847) by Anthony Trollope is his first published novel. Possibly due to its unrelentingly grim and tragic themes, it did not appeal to the sensibilities of the Victorian reading public. The story of struggles among the landed gentry and one...

The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847) by Anthony Trollope is his first published novel. Possibly due to its unrelentingly grim and tragic themes, it did not appeal to the sensibilities of the Victorian reading public. The story of struggles among the landed gentry and one...

The tale of his celebrated love affair with George Sand in 1833-1835 is told from his point of view in his autobiographical novel La Confession d'un Enfant du Si鐵le (The Confession of a Child of the Century) (1836), which was made into a 1999...

Praise for Claudio Piñeiro: "An agile novel, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society."--José Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"Thursday Night Widows is a gripping story. The dystopia portrayed is an indictment not solely of an assassin but of Argentina's class...

"A world without truth would be an immensely sad place," states the magistrate in the murder trial of local boy, Janek. A young man with serious mental issues, Janek weaves a 'chestnut crown' from the leaves of a supposedly sacred tree in a attempt...

Set in Saint Petersburg during the Revolution of 1905, this classic of Russian literature draws comparisons to James Joyce's Ulysses for its display of symbolism and humor After enlisting in a revolutionary terrorist organization, the university student Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov is entrusted with a...

"An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society"--José Saramago, Nobel Prize winnerThe English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves!"Piñeiro's clever U.S. debut.. . illuminates the hypocrisies of the...

Praised by the New York Times Book Review as "an...affecting morality tale," Jim Lehrer's devastating White Widow brings the reader to the brink of one man's unstoppable, ruinous passion for a complete stranger. Jack T. Oliver has a solid marriage, a cozy house in...

From a young writer whose stories have graced the pages of today's most exciting literary journals, comes a masterfully elegant, sexy, and surprising debut. The publication of Rachel Sherman's first book heralds the arrival of a singularly fresh and remarkably assured new voice. In...

"A tight, gripping, erotic thriller." --Philadelphia City PaperWhat do Gary Condit, Woody Allen, and O.J. Simpson have in common with Leslie Cauldwell, protagonist of Nersesian's latest offering? They are Suicide Casanovas. What compels powerful men in the prime of their professional lives to risk...

"Marten's powerful novel focuses on a man trying to put the shards of his life together...Fans of Chuck Palahniuk and Jim Thompson, in particular, should take note." --Roberta Johnson, Booklist (starred review) Eugene Marten's In the Blind takes readers through a keyhole and shows...

This book is the first of three that take as their subject aspects of the author's life, reflects upon a period between birth and eight years of age. It is a piece of literature that furnishes an account of the methods of a mind...

A novel exploring the need to change and adapt to new life circumstances.Author: Willa CatherISBN-10: 1849023611ISBN-13: 9781849023610Publisher: Oxford City PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2011Pages: 182Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d

This story takes us back to the 1990s where our hero Tex is starting university and making new friends. Like most teenagers he doesn't know what life holds in store for him. Tex is having a hard time distinguishing life between his past and...

Mark Robarts, is a young vicar, settled in the village of Framley in Barsetshire with his wife and children. Mark has ambitions to further his career and begins to seek connections in the county's high society. Another plot line deals with the romance between...

My husband has been keeping secrets for a long time. He thinks I don't know what he does outside of this house. But I know everything... Karla watches silently as Jason hurriedly packs his belongings into a suitcase. She knows that her stillness is...

I look down at her, lying fast asleep - always my little girl, and so beautiful. She gives a low moan as her head turns restlessly on the pillow. It reminds me of the soft growl of a cornered animal. Where is my poor...

"There's no place like home" - that's what I tell myself as I pull another flawless meal from the oven. This perfect house on a quiet street was supposed to be my sanctuary, a place to recover. But everything changed the moment I saw...

You only let her go for a second... Now she's gone. Erika Rice is in an elevator with her four-year-old daughter Alice when it stops on the wrong floor and her little girl runs out. The doors close before Erika can follow, and the...

A terrible secret killed your husband... But which one? Robert kisses his wife on the head before heading out to the shop for more wine; he walks up the hill, takes a left across the footbridge and jumps to his death on the busy...

We're going to tell our story and then it will all stop and Mummy will be safe. You want Mummy to be safe, don't you? Three minutes. That's all it takes for Meredith's entire world to fall apart when she watches the videotape of...

The perfect wife. A fairytale family. Don't believe your eyes... Jeanie and Matthew are a happily married couple who both have teenage children from previous relationships. No one said it would be easy to raise a blended family under one roof but Jeanie and...

Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) was born into a German speaking Jewish family in Prague. He wrote in German and is regarded as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. His works examine the themes of transformation, alienation, bullying and the...

"an infectious little gem" --Whispering StoriesWinter Lyric is the emotional and poetic story of Elliot Stephenson and his relationship with Sarah Benton, two drinking buddies that suddenly become romantic partners. With a new found lust for life so profound he's not quite sure what...

Formally inventive, Simon Brousseau's Synapses orchestrates a series of beautifully crafted literary snapshots, each involving a different character, eloquently presented using a sole, twisting and turning, stylistically accomplished sentence written in the second-person singular. Brousseau depicts a vast society of differing psyches and souls,...

A NOW MAGAZINE MUST-READ BOOK FOR FALL 2019 Nearing thirty, with an abandoned degree and half-hearted dreams of becoming a writer, Bonnie Falls finally moves out of her parents' home and into a shabby flat. When her enigmatic landlady takes an interest in her--and...

A hallucinatory, fragmentary, and tragic fictional telling of one of the most fa- mous psychotherapy cases in history, A lex Pheby's Playthings offers a visceral and darkly comic portrait of paranoid schizophrenia. Based on the true story of nineteenth-century German judge Daniel Paul Schreber,...

Reviewers have called it "powerful" and "brilliant." Newly released for its 25th anniversary edition, Jack Engelhard's novel Indecent Proposal has found its place alongside such classics as Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Indecent Proposal remains one of the most widely-read and...

I never realized how much I wanted to live until the choice was no longer mine.I've spent my entire life unraveling mysteries of the human mind as a police psychologist, but somehow, I've ended up here: drunk, mostly naked, and locked out of my...

A narrator always gets to know the reader before spilling their deepest secret.I am a murderer.She was just a silly nothing of a girl until I made her rise to fame. A pennything.So, reader: sit down, cozy up. I'd offer a cup of tea,...

"The Portrait of a Lady" was, like "Roderick Hudson," begun in Florence, during three months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like "Roderick" and like "The American," it had been designed for publication in "The Atlantic Monthly," where it began to appear in...

In the tradition of Gone Girl and Behind Closed Doors comes a gripping, twisted, furiously clever read that demands your attention, and keeps you guessing until the very end. For fans of the anti-heroine and stories told in unorthodox ways, Speak of the Devil...

"From sea to shining sea, America is wired for a nightmare "Nerve Endings, William Martin's prophetic New York Times bestseller, returns to thrill readers again with suspense, excitement, and blockbuster action.Off the coast of Maine, a fishing boat explodes. On the shores of the...

A trusting wife, a perfect husband... a buried secret.Jane likes the quiet life, living in a cottage on the edge of a small village in Yorkshire.Her husband works in London during the week and comes home at the weekends.Jane thinks she has the perfect...

One night changes her life forever... But the past won't let her go...Harriet is trapped in an unhappy marriage to her abusive husband, Dan. She dreams of a life where she does not have to live in constant fear. One night, she finally summons...

Whitbread Award Winner: A novel by the author of In Patagonia, about a pair of twins and their long, remarkable lives in the farmlands of Wales.For forty-two years, identical twins Lewis and Benjamin Jones have shared a bed, a farm, and a life. But...

Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs...

Rose Bretano's world has fallen apart. Not only does her boyfriend leave, but the pillars of her working world also crumble. Unexpectedly gifted with a temporary, out-of-the-ordinary love experience, Rose's life takes a twist. She sets out to find meaning, not aware that her...

On the anniversary of her husband's death, forty-nine-year-old Emily Holt runs away, leaving an unmade bed, an unlocked house, two college-aged sons, and an overabundance of bad memories.Struggling to make peace with the death of a husband who'd been lost to mental illness, she...

Billy May Platte is a half Irish, half Cherokee Appalachian woman who learned the hard way that 1940s West Virginia was no place to be different.As Billy May explains, "We was sheltered in them hills. We didn't know much of nothin' about life outside...

One of the finest and best-selling horror novels of the 1970s returns at last to chill a new generation of readersIn the isolated farming community of Harlowe, New Hampshire, where life has changed little over the past several decades, John Moore and his wife...

A riveting debut psychological thriller about the power memory has over us. Portia Willows was a senior in high school in Los Angeles when her world fell apart. While dealing with the aftermath of the accident that took the lives of her mother and...