Fiction - Psychological

The second in a three book series, Delia's Heart continues from Delia's Crossing, featuring a young girl who comes to the United States from Mexico to live with her wealthy aunt in Palm Springs. Delia Yebarra survived a treacherous desert crossing to protect her...

"Miss Heyer's characters act and speak with an ease and conviction that is as refreshing as it is rare in the ordinary mystery novel."--Times Literary SupplementA family tyrant whose murder has shocking and far-reaching consequences...Hated for his cruel and vicious nature, yet ruling his...

In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling colour--a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the...

Longlisted for 2019 International DUBLIN Literary AwardLonglisted for 2018 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut FictionKirkus Reviews's Best Fiction of 2017Kirkus Reviews's Best Debut Novels of 2017Booklist's Top 10 First Novels: 2017The New York Times Book Review's Editors' ChoiceIndie Next Pick for September 2017Kirkus...

She helps people put their demons to rest. But she has a few of her own... In the lockdown ward of a psychiatric hospital, Dr. Nadine Lavoie is in her element. She has the tools to help people, and she has the desire--healing broken...

"Jones's sense of place is acute, and his passion for the landscape--for its colors, its creatures, its textures, its scents--is absolutely magnetic."--Sarah Waters"A dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing."--The Guardian"It is a book about the essentials:...

A psychiatrist grapples with his own sanity as murder evidence mounts against him.Police investigator Susan Adler is ready to close the book on a deadly car accident, but after the medical examiner discovers evidence of foul play, she knows she has a murder on...

She's cold, calculating, and can deceive with a smile. Jane Doe is back in the Amazon Charts bestselling series--and this time she's met her match.After a brutal childhood, Jane Doe has been permanently wired to look after herself and only herself. Now, looking next...

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Sister and The Gift, this is an unputdownable psychological thriller which asks how far we will go to create our perfect family. Kat and her husband Nick have tried everything to become parents, and are on...

Daniel Collum's quiet life as an antique shop owner is suddenly turned around when a photograph taken by a historical journalist is seen by a group of men who thought Collum dead the past thirty years.Now on the run with Veronica Jenkins, the journalist...

The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia....

"Evoking Emmy limited-series winner Big Little Lies, Whalen's novel is about a Georgia town ripped apart when an outcast boy kills three cheerleaders in a car accident, bringing secrets and simmering tensions to the surface." --The Hollywood Reporter When the sound of sirens cuts...

From the bestselling author of Burying the Honeysuckle Girls comes a riveting novel about a mother and daughter separated by grief, secrets, and a conspiracy that threatens to destroy their lives.If there's a healthy way to grieve, Erin Gaines hasn't found it. After her...

In this "brilliant...deeply felt" (Stephen King) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Chet and Bernie mystery series, a deeply damaged female soldier home from the war in Afghanistan becomes obsessed with finding a missing girl, gains an unlikely ally in...

How far would you go to keep your daughter safe?Everyone knows Leona would do anything for her daughter, Beth: she moved to Church Langdon to send Beth to the best school, built a business to support them and found the perfect little cottage to...

Pop music blares from the radio. She sings drunkenly from the backseat. The thrash of windscreen wipers against the driving rain. The screech of tyres. A thud. Naomi and I are best friends. School runs, dog walks, a shoulder to cry on over a...

The perfect family... or the perfect lie? To the outside world, Gemma Bradley has it all - a doting husband, high-flying career and two delightful kids - but inside the four walls of her tastefully renovated home, she is a mother at her wits'...

Some secrets you can never tell. Everyone thinks the Thomases are the perfect family: grand London house, gorgeous kids. They don't know wife Dominique is a paranoid wreck. They don't know husband Ben is trapped in a web of deceit. They don't know daughter...

Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is Wemyss's "sweet girl," and to Lucy, Everard is the whole world. The only blot on Lucy's happiness is the shadowy figure of Wemyss's...

Two brilliant, multi-layered stories from the winner of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best contemporary Japanese writing. On the eve of the Iraq War, a man and a woman meet in a nightclub in Tokyo. They go...

"one of the most excoriating, compelling and remarkable books ever written; and without question one of the greatest" -- A. C. Grayling (Philosopher, Author, Master of New College of the Humanities) "The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts which hiss and...

A brooding uncle takes an au pair's passport. Years of tension between a father and a son erupt with violent consequences. A man disappears along a lonely mail route . . . and it has happened before. From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The...

A masterful mix of horror and absurdity that tells the story of traveling salesman Samsa, who wakes up one day to find out he has turned into a giant insect. Kafka's novella has beenadapted for film and television a number of times, most recently...

Author: Fyodor DostoevskyISBN-10: 1731705492ISBN-13: 9781731705495Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2018Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d

2018 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Tristessa is a novella by Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac set in Mexico City. It is based on his relationship with a Mexican prostitute (the title character)....

"Why isn't Jonathan Buckley better known? His novel of love, death and melancholy comedy, The Great Concert of the Night, is captivating." --John Banville David has just spent New Year's Eve alone, watching Le Grand Concert de la Nuit, a film in which his...

A unique political coming of age story, now in English for the first time An NYRB Classics Original Walter Ferranini has been born and bred a man of the left. His father was a worker and an anarchist; Walter himself is a Communist. In...

Henry Green's first novel, and the book that began his career as a master of British modernismBlindness--Henry Green's first novel, begun while he was still at Eton and finished before he left university--is the story of John Haye, a young student with literary airs....

A devastating novel about the treachery of love by Maupassant, now in a new translation by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator Richard HowardOlivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name as...

During the Blitz, Henry Green served on the London Auxiliary Fire Service, and this experience lies behind Caught, published when the bombing had only recently ended. Like Green, Richard Roe, the hero of this resolutely unheroic book, comes from the upper class. His wife...

Dennis McLeary, sexually abused at age 6. At 18, he accepts sexual advances of a 14 year-old girl hoping to prove to himself that he is a normal man. Jailed for 17 years for having sex with the under-age girl, he is abused in...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE "Knausg蚌d is an impressive writer" --Publishers Weekly "Knausg蚌d's writing is crystalline and careful" --Kirkus Reviews "Bostr Knausg蚌d's careful exploration of mental illness is restrained and entirely unsentimental. (...) Her prose is unobtrusive in its...

Based on the author's true story, this is the account of Iraqi refugee Samir, who spends nine years in an asylum center in the Netherlands. "Two Blankets, Three Sheets does for the beleaguered political asylum seeker stuck in legal limbo what Joseph Heller's Catch-22...

"Cool, sparse, and delicious, Esther Gerritsen's Craving hits all the right notes. This is an author who is unafraid of both complex characters and complex emotion (Thank God!)." --Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones"Funny, angry, feminist...Droll and horrific and incredibly moving"--The New York...

Note: This book was previously sold under the title: Thin Blood."This thought-provoking story of a woman reviewing her life as she faces her last days is a riveting page-turner that never fails to surprise. Quiet Sins will make you laugh, cry and empathize with...

Rancher Juan Aragon has begun to revive the Pleistocene, and everyone must pay the bill.In the high country of southern New Mexico, home of the oldest wilderness and the biggest roadless area in the lower 48, ghosts are stirring, waking shadows of things that...

"Originally published in Japanese as Tomoe by SHINSHOKAN Co., Ltd., Tokyo Copyright (c) 2001 by Hisaki Matsuura."Author: Hisaki MatsuuraISBN-10: 162897026XISBN-13: 9781628970265Publisher: Dalkey Archive PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2014Pages: 209Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 04/14/2014

The first novel in Arno Camenisch's celebrated "alpine" trilogy is set during a single summer. The four main (unnamed) characters are a dairyman, his farmhand, a cowherd, and a swineherd who all live and work in close proximity--but this is no "Heidi." Theirs is...

THE WAY WE LIVE NOW (1875) by Anthony Trollope is possibly his most influential novel, a satire, and a biting expos of the financially interconnected British Victorian society. The arrival to London of the mysterious Augustus Melmotte who offers brilliant opportunities for financial investments...

"I enjoyed The Unit very much...I know you will be riveted, as I was." --Margaret Atwood on Twitter A modern day classic and a chilling cautionary tale for fans of The Handmaid's Tale. Named a BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH by GQ. "Echoing work...

A luxury hotel in 1920s Berlin is a microcosm of modern society in this classic that inspired a hit Broadway musical and the classic film starring Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and John Barrymore. "Prefigures Downtown Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs by examining multiple characters from...

The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapist's couch, and her smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice immediately captures and holds...

Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal's rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly rou tells the...

The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age, a...

The bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish--a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick--returns with a psychological thriller, filled with chilling serpentine twists, about a woman fighting to hold onto the only family she's ever loved--and how far she'll go to preserve it.Named one of...

If you are looking to truly understand the cause of war, conflict and man's inhumanity to man - and if you are willing to think outside the box - this book will give you a new perspective on history. It explains why every society...

Lily Cardew, returning home from doing Red Cross work during the war, finds herself feeling restless and unable to fit back into the familiar but rather empty social life of her wealthy family. Looking to occupy herself and to assert her independence from her...

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella by American author Stephen Crane. It depicts a poor family in a New York neighborhood, whose parents are drunk and abusive. As the children grow up, Maggie attempts to better herself, but is defeated by...

Barns are burning in Blackwood Township, and the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office realizes they have a firesetter to flush out. Investigation efforts ramp up when a body is found in one of the barns. Meanwhile, deputies are getting disturbing deliveries on their doorsteps. Why...

As a young girl, Katya Geller learned from her mother that math was the answer to everything. Now, approaching forty, she finds this wisdom tested: she has lost the love of her life, she is in the middle of a divorce, and has just...