Fiction - Psychological

In her stunning debut, Nicola Monaghan lays bare the gritty underbelly of life in Nottingham, England. Very early on, Kerrie-Ann begins to dream of the world beyond the rough council estate where she lives. Her father is nowhere to be found, her mother is...

From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed screenwriter of Amores perros, 21 Grams, and Babel, A Sweet Scent of Death is Guillermo Arriaga's tale of deception, passion, and violence fused together by the tragic killing of a young girl in a small Mexican village. Early one...

Shira Nayman's riveting and haunting first novel of madness and passion is set in a psychiatric hospital just after World War II. Two years after the end of World War II, a mysterious figure, Bertram Reiner, appears at Shadowbrook, a private asylum whose elegant...

The controversial novel about food, love, and terrorism. Somewhere in the Middle East, an aspiring terrorist has been entrusted with a mission that will reverberate around the world: to deliver a bomb to a hotel in Beirut, where the detonation will destroy hundreds of...

From the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie comes this long-awaited follow-up. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside...

From the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, a bold, haunting novel about the uncertainty of memory and how we contend with the past. "It's his bravest novel yet; it's also, by far, his best." -- npr.org "The closest...

In this riveting domestic suspense debut, a woman's life shatters when she meets a girl she believes is the daughter she lost years ago--and she finds that reclaiming the life she lost might cost her the life she has. Tell Me You're Mine is...

After leaving behind a trail of drug-addled destruction, Jay finds himself confined to the walls of a psychiatric hospital, forced for the first time to confront his darkest demons. He is met with the torture of reliving painful memories without anything to blur them,...

Read Everything I write, poor spelling, Grammar and all with a Fine English Accent. (Oxford or Better). If Book is covered in plastic, (and this is all important), PLEASE remove slowly to prevent B.S. from falling out. To achieve optimum results, read with the...

Within these pages wait violent fights, disease, death, controversy, sexuality, tragedy and crime. This journal documents a hateful young man's path to darkness. Many events that occur are based on real events. You will find many moments from the authors own life sewn into...

Book Three in the Fire of Heaven Trilogy Suspense aficionados need to keep their calendars wide open for the release of Fire of Heaven--because once they start reading Bill Myers's thrilling story of Revelation's two witnesses, they won't be putting it down In this...

Dwight Evans is a state trooper with a grave medical prognosis and the lone law enforcement for the small town of Colebrook, Connecticut. When his niece, a recovering heroin addict, falls in love with a local pot dealer, he is drawn into the underworld...

Men Giving Money, Women Yelling is Alice Mattisons latest collection in which the characters lives are told in tales that overlap or echo one another. At the center of the stories is Denny Ring, a young man nobody quite knows. Other characters include John...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "Salman Rushdie's great grasp of the human tragicomedy- its dimensions, its absurdities and horrors-has made him one of the most intelligent fiction writers in the English language."--Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe "Fury is a profoundly, ecstatically affirmative work...

A breaved father stalks his son's killer. A woman cries alone by her television screen. A devout teenager wrestles with his faith and sexuality. Here, in these twenty-three stories, Andre Dubus turns fiction into an act of compassion. For readers new to Dubus, this...

A parody of a literary biography starring a 10-year-old novelist who is mysteriously dead at 11--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler.As a memorial, Edwin Mullhouse's best friend, Jeffrey Cartwright, decides that the life of this great American writer must be told. He...

One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity. "A series of intense, artful musings that are exhilarating and visionary. . . . Unsettling...

In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke--the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children--is up against a soft-spoken messiah, who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes....

Andrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction for an age in which guilty secrets are obsolete and murder isn't even worth a news headline. And in the person of his haunted, hell-ridden private eye Burke, Vachss has given us a new kind of hero: a...

As a child, Renne showed promise of becoming one of the world's greatest cellists. Now, years later, his life suddenly is altered by two events: he becomes a juror in a murder trial for the brutal killing of a Buddhist monk, and he takes...

A vacationing English couple find more than they bargained for, in this inventive and unsettling novel from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement. Visiting an unnamed city, Mary and Colin attract the interest of Robert, a charismatic older man with a...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the...

During her decade in prison, Kate Fitzgerald has learned a few things: absorb yourself in your own world, never make eye contact with your fellow inmates, and the last person you can trust is your prison psychiatrist. When Kate's psychiatrist, Dr. Gardonne, offers her...

Based on the author's own experiences a "heartrending" (People) and haunting story about a magazine editor and mother whose life is changed by a phone call revealing that her husband has vanished without a trace. On a steamy August morning, Sarah Larkin drops her...

Everyone says her mother was crazy. Is she doomed to repeat the past? Up in the attic, that's where Alice's mother used to escape to...and it's where, so Alice has been told, she plotted the murder of her own stepfather. Now, years later, with...

"The Brothers Karamazov" is Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky's last novel, considered one of his four masterpieces together with "Crime and Punishment" (1866), "The Idiot" (1869), and "Demons" (1871). Set in 19th-century Russia, this philosophical novel explores the questions of God, morality, and free will...

Attorney John Garcia, caught up in the web of his profession's demands, feels trapped and is seeking a way out. Two independent events change his life-he undertakes the criminal defense of a young Chicano, and he's being pursued by persons who mean to harm...

Author: Jerry S. JonesISBN-10: 1403355215ISBN-13: 9781403355218Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2002Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.28h x 5.90w x 0.73d

Return to Gull Haven is about the life of Shelby Francis. Glimpses of tragedy in her past, a doomed romance, danger and kidnapping in the present, and a glimmer of hope for her future gives her the will to survive.Author: Mary Earls WellsISBN-10: 1403316163ISBN-13:...

Part love story and part psychological thriller from best-selling author Trevanian, "a tour de force... A story that explores meticulously some of the darker corners of the human soul." -- The Washington Post In the quiet Basque countryside in 1914, Jean-Marc Montjean, a handsome...

Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying house in Nottinghill, where he plans to pursue his two abiding passions--supermodel Nerissa Nash, whom he worships from afar, and the life of serial killer Reggie Christie, hanged fifty years earlier for murdering...

The unforgettable story of a housepainter turned doctor in Big Sky country who finds himself on a darkly funny journey to salvation in this "irrepressibly comic and optimistic" novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade...

"I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret." For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen...

Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it...

In his critically acclaimed new novel, Tim Gautreaux fashions a classic and unforgettable tale of two brothers struggling in a hostile world.In a lumber camp in the Louisiana cypress forest, a world of mud and stifling heat where men labor under back-breaking conditions, the...

"The truth might be hard to bring to light, but that didn't mean it didn't exist, because it did exist: fixed in its moment, unalterable, and certainly not a matter of 'belief.' " When an old flame accuses him of sexual assault in her...

Elle's 33 Best Books of the YearA Searing Debut Novel from One of the Most Imaginative Minds in Fiction Kelly Luce's Pull Me Under is a suspense novel with a female protagonist that gets more right about women than so many others I've read...

Caroline Webb knows what it means to lose the person you love most. Twenty years ago her five year-old daughter, Hayley, was kidnapped and later found dead. Now Caroline has started over with a new husband. She thinks she has put the ghosts of...

A haunting, luminous debut novel about a man and his relationship with his daughter, his captor, his past, and his future. "Like Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, All That's Left to Tell celebrates not just the power of storytelling but the deeply human need...

Watch your back. Trust no one. And when a killer closes in, hide yourself away. It should have been an ideal week during a perfect summer in America's First Resort. But just hours before the KEY News crew arrives for their broadcasts from Newport,...

For Better... Deborah Robinson lived on a quiet street in a small town with her handsome husband and darling twins. It was the picture-perfect life---until the day Deborah's husband vanished without a trace. Or For Worse... Before he disappeared, Steve had been on edge....

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the award-winning author of The Infatuations comes the mesmerizing story of a couple living in the shadow of a mysterious, unhappy history--a novel about the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love. "A literary mystery ... calls to...

A profound and dazzlingly entertaining novel from the writer Louis Menand calls "Jane Austen with a Russian soul" In her warm, absorbing and keenly observed new novel, Lara Vapnyar follows the intertwined lives of four immigrants in New York City as they grapple with...

***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD*** A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an "examiner," charged with teaching the man a series of simple functions--this is a chair, this is a fork, this...

My second year of graduate school started like a new beginning. And I was interested in a new man. One I believed I could love for all the right reasons. The last two guys, as it turned out, were not good for me. At...

WHAT IF POLITICIANS COULDN'T LIE? That's the premise of Jerry Willbur's intriguing book.In this fascinating satire, Willbur posits that the world we know is about to end. The psychopaths are here and ready to take complete control. When an accidental hero emerges, the battle...

Los Angeles, 1942. Psychoanalyst Maxwell McKinney and his wife Joan await the return of their son after the sinking of the USS Yorktown. With sections of the city under camouflage and ordinances against "enemy aliens," McKinney is troubled by his ambivalent feelings for his...

Three college girls go looking for excitement in a cowboy bar east of the mountains. After their car breaks down on the way, they come across a campground closed for the winter where three older guys are hanging out, drinking in their car, having...

Mara is a Japanese-American girl with a history of personal tragedy. Though she still cuts to quell the pain, she thought she had left the worst behind her. But her boyfriend's sudden death and a visit to one of the most haunted places in...

From the "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark, a gripping and twisting mystery featuring a television news reporter who finds herself drawn into a terrifying web of treachery, where nothing is as it seems and the truth may be too devastating to pursue... The...