Fiction - Psychological

Phoebe Wong would do anything to escape a British winter. But it may cost her more than her airfare. Sunsets, tacos and margaritas all sound perfect to exhausted forty-three-year-old single mum Phoebe with a dead-end job in Southwark. When her long-distance boyfriend in New...

Author: F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN-10: 1789433428ISBN-13: 9781789433425Publisher: Benediction ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2022Pages: 242Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8.8Point Value: 20Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 8674 / Tender Is the Night

Unique Elements About the Author About the Translator A Literary Classic by ANTON CHEKHOV. The Darling and Other Stories by RUSSIAN author ANTON CHEKHOV is a collection of short stories first published in 1916 in the UNITED KINGDOM. The title story of this collection,...

First-ever paperback edition of Joel Lieber's posthumously-published 1972 semi-autobiographical novel Two-Way Traffic. Set in the late 1960s and early 1970s and presented as a series of journal extracts, it is the harrowing portrayal of a young, successful writer's efforts to reassemble a life shattered...

Santiago sets out at his ranch in Phoenix, Arizona every Halloween and waits for an appearance from his friend, the legendary ghost man Greybeard.It's been six long years for Retired US Deputy Marshall Santiago Ramos since he lost his best friend Jimmy "Douglas" Greyson,...

The Ebb-Tide (1894) is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. Published the year of Stevenson's death from tuberculosis, the last of three collaborations between the legendary Scottish storyteller and his stepson is a story of adventure, friendship, and greed. Although less...

In the touching novel A Simple Twist of Fate: Destiny, David Greene's life is changed instantly.His brother, Josh, and sister-in-law, Honey, are killed in a terrible car accident. The only survivor is their three-year-old daughter, Ariel, who was saved by being in her child...

From the internationally bestselling author of Three Floors Up, a gripping novel that delves into the deepening cracks in a carefully constructed public persona. A writer tries to answer a set of interview questions sent to him by a website editor. At first, they...

A mind-bending psychological thriller revolving around the failure of the War on Drugs and its victims."I highly recommend this if you are looking to read something with great depth... a story that is captivating, chilling, and uniquely thrilling." -Brianna RemusNew Orleans; our lady of...

Winner of the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Best First Novel "Dawes offers vibrant characters and locales in this diaspora of black culture and strong emotions, bordering the fine line between love and madness between two troubled people." --BooklistKofi, a Jamaican reggae musician, and...

The narrator, an elderly, unnamed Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business, already employs two scriveners to copy legal documents by hand, Nippers and Turkey. An increase in business leads him to advertise for a third, and he hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby in the hope...

Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of "The Ambassadors," which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the...

Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son is a novel concerning Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company whose dream is to have a son to continue his business. When his son is born his wife dies shortly after giving birth. Dombey employs a...

"Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible." Written shortly after his conversion to Christianity, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is one of Tolstoy's masterpieces in fiction. A man facing death is forced to reconcile the contradictions of...

"Intensely readable and beautifully observed . . . full of wisdom, generosity, humor, and sharp insights."--Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or and The IdiotThree Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor...

The author of the acclaimed City of a Thousand Gates returns with an intense, page-turning love story between a twenty-seven year old Canadian woman and a nineteen-year old Israeli soldier, set in contemporary Israel.The story of Allison and Eyal unfolds primarily in Tel Aviv...

After the successful restoration of his vision, renowned blues musician Seymour Wright finds himself faced with an unanticipated hardship--happiness. Part science fiction, part psychological horror, The Yellows explores the relationship between suffering and art; given the choice between a contented life and a meaningful...

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...

"She still believed I saved her, without knowing I was repaying her for rescuing me." AddisonHow could someone possibly love all of my broken pieces?For so long I asked this question, until I met James. Marrying a psychologist was never in my plans, not...

They arrive alive. They leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions.My name is Jack Steen, and for those who arrive on my 'death' ward at the Asylum, I'm the last face many will see before they die. I am the night nurse at...

A terrifying novel about internet dating, secret desires and a chilling serial killer. From bestselling authors Mark Edwards and Louise Voss. He's posted on your wall.He's following you on Twitter.He knows where you are right now... When Amy receives an email from her older...

Over 1 Million Copies Sold! Don't miss the New York Times and USA Today bestseller and addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that's burning up Instagram and TikTok--Freida McFadden's The Housemaid is perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Lisa Jewell, and Verity. Every...

After the appearance of YouTube but before the invention of smartphones, a disconsolate young writer hears, from an apartment window, a soft rock song from his youth. He decides identifying and owning the song will transform him into the confident man he needs to...

*Now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal* A taut, psychological thriller from Iain Reid, "one of the most talented purveyors of weird, dark narratives in contemporary fiction" (Los Angeles Review of Books). Severe climate change has ravaged the country, leaving...

Based on a true story, Under Authority is Kate Elliot's unusual account of what took place at Cross Independent Baptist Church in New England during her childhood and teen years. The pastor, Rhuttland Abbott-or the Reverend as people referred to him-believed he had been...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Time, Financial Times, Slate, The Chicago Public Library, Kirkus, The TelegraphA Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick"[A] savagely satirical thriller." --People The Booker...

"What raises Deighton's genre to art is not only his absorbing characters but his metaphoric grace, droll wit, command of technical detail . . . and sure sense of place."--Washington PostPeter and Paul Winter, sons of a German businessman, are bonded by childhood trauma....

A man, nameless, wakes up in Manhattan in a stranger's apartment with few memories of who he is. He remembers a life in California and the love of a girl named Sarah-memories that don't match the life he now finds himself in. Losing hold...

The second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons...

An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from an exciting new voice in horror for fans of Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones."Edenville is a delightfully gooey blend of gothic, cosmic, folk and body horror churned by a sharp-bladed critique of academia."-- Lucy...

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. "This taut little novel is set in postrevolutionary Mexico. For years, Antonio Cuitla fought to wrest the land away from the aristocracy. Now he leads a small village, but he feels the people there don't give him the respect he deserves...

My whole body is shaking, my breath catches in my throat. I'm stuck here. Trapped. With the one person who will do anything to destroy me...When I step into the elevator that sweltering morning, I barely notice the woman standing next to me. She...

The Professor (1857) was Charlotte Bront 's first and least regarded novel, rejected by all publishers during her lifetime and published posthumously by her widower A. B. Nicholls. Charlotte herself defended the novel passionately. "I said to myself that my hero should work his...

What if your deepest, darkest fears were inked on your skin for the world to see?Famous plastic surgeon Derek Hollinger has it all: money, success, luxury cars, and an L.A. penthouse near the beach. Who cares if he has no friends or lovers? He...

Author: F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN-10: 178943341XISBN-13: 9781789433418Publisher: Benediction ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2022Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8.8Point Value: 20Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 8674 / Tender Is the Night

If you could change any one moment of your life, would you?Author: Bobby AlvarezISBN-10: 0595742211ISBN-13: 9780595742219Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2002Pages: 208Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.46w x 0.81d

A New York Times Notable Book andProvidence Journal Best Book of the YearFrom the incomparable Peter Ackroyd: a brilliant re-imagination of the classic tale that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries. Victor Frankenstein, a researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley form an...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

'One of the great feminist novels of the 19th century' - Vivian GornickGeorge Gissing's intensely modern The Odd Women is one of the truly great novels of nineteenth-century fiction. The impoverished Madden sisters are ill-equiped to support themselves when their father dies, and Monica...

In a near-future, 'gender recognition' legislation is repealed, and it becomes illegal for males to identify as females and females to identify as males. However, due in part to the continued conflation of sex and gender and in part to the insistence that gender...

When fourteen-year-old foster child Johnathan Thomas Woods is suspected of murdering his foster mother, an old letter and a tacky billboard advertisement lead him to the office of attorney Brian Stone. Unbeknownst to John, Stone is having a bad day. Attacked by an angry...

Through the story of the brilliant but conflicted young Raskolnikov and the murder he commits, Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through suffering. Crime and Punishment put Dostoevsky at the forefront of Russian writers when it appeared in 1866 and is now one...

"Miracle baby" Nakoa Jamar discovers a mosquito bite in the center of his chest on his 12th birthday, which rapidly grows into an evil Siamese twin. The older Nakoa gets, the more terrorizing his twin brother, Marcus, becomes. Distressed by the changes in their...

Peter Stamm's best-selling debut novel, Agnes, now available for the first time in paperback. "Write a story about me," Agnes said to her lover, "so I know what you think of me." So he started to write the story of everything that had happened...

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) was a Russian novelist, essayist, short story writer, journalist, and philosopher. His literature often examines human psychology during the turbulent social, spiritual and political atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and he is considered one of the greatest psychologists in...

Do you want to see real changes in your life? Then Keep ReadingYour problem is solved because this book will help you to know the ways you can adopt to start organizing your mind and your life. You will be encouraged to adopt certain...

Forato House is looking for test subjects: Are you between the ages of 21 and 61? Are you depressed, anxious, unfulfilled? Join us at our state of the art residential testing facility where we have perfected trepanation, the ancient art of drilling a hole...

"A valid and important human situation . . . The book is vivid with the characteristic Braine sights and smells." - Kenneth Allsop, Daily Mail "Triumphantly underlines the point that Room at the Top was no flash-in-the-pan. He alone, of the generation that has...

Freycinet is about obsessive love and cruel murder in the Tasmanian wilderness, as Ginny O'Byrne experiences disturbing visions of torturous fates for two missing young women. In Freycinet (pronounced Frey-sin-ay), Ginny is simultaneously enchanted but also strangely horrified by the looming peaks of the...

" I]t belongs with her very best novels ... marks a new departure in its bold and delicate exploration of human psychology and in its economy of style." - Robert Lee Wolff Pregnant and unmarried, seventeen-year-old Irene Thelliston has been sent home from India...