Fiction - Psychological

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts...

When grief weighs like a stone.Francesca's pain is so heavy, she can't breathe. Every lesson she's learned, every loss she's experienced, haunts her waking and sleeping hours. Moving forward isn't the same for everyone but she knows she'll be judged for her choices nonetheless....

A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families shattered by tragedy and the secrets that have been waiting decades to be revealed.On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small...

Every possibility lies ahead.At an early age, Darius knew what he wanted and would move heaven and earth to get it. He viewed his life critically as a brilliant, young, black boy and yearned to make a difference. His potential was limitless.After fighting a...

A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families shattered by tragedy and the secrets that have been waiting decades to be revealed.On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small...

Jealousy can be a killer...Ten years after her boyfriend Mitch's mysterious disappearance, Rebecca finally learns the truth about what happened.When he finally returns, a happy ending appears within their grasp but there is no escape from the past. And Arthur, Rebecca's friend who has...

A Bilingual New York Review Books OriginalVivant Denon's No Tomorrow is one of the masterpieces of eighteenth-century French libertine literature, a book to set beside Choderlos de Laclos' Les Liaisons dangereuses, except that where Laclos' icy novel tells of hellish depravity, Denon's ravishing novella...

In this richly unnerving tale about family secrets and expectations, two sisters are at lifelong odds with each other, their mother, and themselves--and as every hour becomes more twisted than the last, they are all pushed to their breaking point.Lovely and Beauty know their...

The girl who has spent her life running is about to be caught . . . by love After a shaky past, Kelsey LeBreck's future is looking good. She's been saving money for culinary school with her earnings from The Ranch, a private BDSM...

"What if I should discover that I myself am the enemy who must be loved? What then?" Carl Gustav Jung JUNG'S DEMON is a story of self-discovery gone amok, a book as hallucinogenic as Hunter S. Thompson and as powerful as Oscar Zeta Acosta....

Lights. Camera...die. Detective Scarlet Reid has spent the past three months trying to make her alter ego, Ms. December, a ghost of Christmas past. Forced to become the sexy centerfold in a high-stakes undercover assignment, she's spent more time pulling copies of her naked...

The Amazon Charts bestselling series.From the author of Dead Certain comes a twisting novel of friendship, love, and marriage--and all their cunning and deadly betrayals.Back in 1986, Clint Broden was a novice New York defense attorney building a family with his wife, Anne, and...

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy an translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious...

Fall in love with this small-town love story about a widower sheriff and a divorced schoolteacher who are searching for second chances -- only to be threatened by long-held secrets of the past.Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed...

Tourists flock to Beast House, but few ever return. Behind the cellar door lurks a creature of pure evil.Author: Richard LaymonISBN-10: 1477806253ISBN-13: 9781477806258Publisher: 47northLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/25/2013Pages: 309Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d

For fans of Eowyn Ivey, Rose Tremaine, and Kate Atkinson, The Orphan of Salt Winds is a bewitching debut about the secrets that haunt us. England, 1939. Ten-year-old Virginia Wrathmell arrives at Salt Winds, a secluded house on the edge of a marsh, to...

Jane Hawk--fiction's most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine--continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner. "No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this." These are the...

In this rollicking dark comedy about a failing hospital in Mars, Nebraska, Dr. Wave, a kind and well-meaning outsider, leaps into a year-long fight against an overwhelming bureaucracy upheld by a corrupt administrator who refuses to budge. Wave juggles some of the worst (and...

When her elderly father dies, Lissa Power, stripped of her identity as dutiful daughter, flees the narrow walls of her American farmhouse and escapes to France, seeking freedom and independence. Lissa studies French, loses her virginity, is accosted by troubling news from back home--...

When a group of college friends reunites for a trip to the Marshall Islands, they find themselves stranded on an uncharted island unlike any they've seen in the vicinity. They list their priorities-find water, food, and a way off the island-but the place itself...

"A nuanced, complex, and highly original novel." --Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown A fresh, unique work of metafiction that follows a graphic novelist who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught...

Well, here we are at the conclusion. I promised you the whole story of Janet's and my romances. You can't imagine what it has taken to write it. If you want to know about our lives after this story ends, please read the extensive...

A rich, multi-generational saga, set in Singapore and New Zealand. The mysterious disappearance of a young child sets in motion a series of events that will haunt future generations of the family. Singapore in the 1970s. A handsome army officer falls in love with...

An exploration of musical legacy, Overlook: A Rock and Roll Fable delves into the mysteries of intuitive talent and creation. It is a dance between art and appreciation, between star and fan. It is a chronicle of the last journey of a fictionalized incarnation...

Dostoyevsky's acclaimed novella follows the disturbances in the mind and life of an unnamed narrator, who struggles with his identity, freedom, and social norms. It explores existentialist themes such as anxiety, alienation, and morality.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important,...

In this heart-pounding debut thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Celeste Ng, a first-generation Vietnamese American artist must confront nightmares past and present. . . . Annie "Anh Le" Shaw grew up poor, but seems to have it all now: a dream career,...

In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy.During a scorching August in Kyoto, our protagonist and his worst friend, Ozu, are locked in...

Mary Salter is a city councilwoman trying to find solutions to poverty and homelessness in her city. She has built a team of activists to support those in need. John Gordon is an FBI Agent investigating a series of murders across the South Western...

This radical feminist work is an extraordinary gothic novel exploring themes of gender inequality, social injustice, and the indomitable spirit of a resilient woman. Maria is a courageous and intelligent woman, imprisoned in an insane asylum by her own husband. She defies societal norms...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a profound meditation on mortality and the meaning of a well-lived life. The novella delves into the existential crisis of a seemingly ordinary man, Ivan Ilyich Golovin, as he confronts his impending death. The narrative chronicles his pursuit...

A radio DJ is tormented by a twisted killer, who has a gruesome request.I was nineteen when I discovered my boyfriend's father was a serial killer.I stumbled upon his latest victim tied up in the basement of the house he was renovating, and it...

How did everything go so wrong...?A much-needed getaway for agent Ava James takes an unexpected and gruesome turn, as a friendly encounter leads to a fatal end. A week at a cabin on willow lake. A relaxing and picturesque getaway to escape from all...

I thought I'd found the one... But then I found him dead. The last time I saw Harry, he was smiling at me over a candlelit table. It felt like I'd known him forever. I sipped my wine, and let myself hope for a...

Holden Hosenheim is a Division 4 Agent, working under the Shio Branch. His job is to protect the Great Society of the Aarde Union and the Connected City, Shio, from the Revivalists, a narco-funded rebel group that produces and sells a memory enhancing drugs...

"Enthralling. . . . A story that burns with intensity and daring." --Iain Reid A propulsive novel about the power and paradoxes of desire, from the acclaimed author of The Amateurs. As small children, Francine and her twin Philip shared a seemingly unbreakable bond--but...

In this epic, original novel in which Hawaii's fierce, sweeping past springs to life, Kiana Davenport, author of the acclaimed Shark Dialogues, draws upon the remarkable stories of her people to create a timeless, passionate tale of love and survival, tragedy and triumph, survival...

During the height of Freaknik in the early '90s, the city of Atlanta was thriving as a black cultural mecca, attracting college students from around the world for the annual spring break event. Crystal, a college student who moved to Atlanta to attend an...

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you're not alone This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You...

Mick has never fully recovered from his service in Vietnam, and he has hit rock bottom. His fondest memories are of his late teens and early 20's, and the fabulously talented band that he led in those years as a gifted guitar player and...

He broke his vows. He broke her heart. Now she is going to break him. Alison is happily married to Graham, or at least she is until she discovers that he has been cheating on her. Her husband has broken the vows that he...

A NAIL-BITING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WITH ONE OF THE BIGGEST TWISTS YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR.After choir practice for midnight mass, college sophomore Rose Grandon takes a short-cut through Harbor Park. Grabbed from behind, she is violently assaulted, beaten and left for dead.The last thing she...

". . . Will have you chewing your fingernails down to the quick."-The Haphazardoushippo.Blogspot.com A few of the things Natalie Scott's stalker knows about her: She likes foreign films, cinnamon gum, and strawberry yogurt. She goes jogging along Chicago's lakefront every Monday, Wednesday, and...

In this sequel to "Live to Tell," is there such a thing as a perfect murder? On a cold December night, a single bullet rips through the marriage of Charles and Jillian Morgan, leaving one of them six feet under and the other under...

"A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters."--Denver PostBlack Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, one...

When he was a boy, Stuart Mullond's mother held him down while his urologist Dr. Ferguson performed a medical procedure on him that was so traumatizing and humiliating that its painful memory stayed with him for decades. For his entire life, his nightmares have...

Donnerville librarian Jane Kerry receives an envelope containing a 50-dollar bill and a note instructing her to "look homeward, angel" and signed "MOG (Master of Games)." So begins The Game--pushing Jane into crazy, immoral, and criminal actions. When she tries to quit, MOG has...

A gripping novel of romance, suspense, and the supernatural, The Orphan of the Rhine follows young Julie de Rubine as she unravels the haunting secrets of her past. Making a fateful promise to her dying mother, Julie resigns herself to marrying a Catholic man....

He's back and wants her son. Needs her son and will stop at nothing to get him. It had always been just Keira and her little boy, Daniel. There was no choice; the father deserted them, and her parents disowned her for being pregnant...

We had a plan, my husband and I.Settle down in Black Mountain.Raise two boys.Send them to Black Mountain Academy, the same school their father went to, the elite school that defined futures.We were going to give them the best possible life.Until our beautiful life...

From bestselling author Danielle Girard! Winner of the Barry Award!A widow and ex-FBI agent of hard-earned courage, Cody O'Brien is finally enjoying the quiet life, providing a good home for herself and her eight-year-old son, Ryan.Then Ryan is kidnapped in broad daylight.And Cody knows...