Fiction - Psychological

Is He Popenjoy? (1878) by Anthony Trollope is a novel of British Victorian mores, based on an infamous social scandal of the day having to do with a disputed noble inheritance. In true Trollope fashion, marital issues and heartwarming sensibilities are mixed into a...

The explosive novel by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger, which the Providence Journal called "A simmering tale of romantic obsession and angst in the tradition of Body Heat or Fatal Attraction, laced with the noirish spirit of James M. Cain. Wonderfully crafted...

Murder has a way of ripping all wounds wide open, but Marion Mae has been a survivor all her life and she was not about to stop now. Looking upon her brother's battered remains'; she tries to absorb the details of his homicide. The...

An Amazon Charts most-read and most-sold book.Author Barbara Davis deftly explores an emotionally charged landscape of pain, loss, and despair--and the risk one woman will take in the hope of loving again.As a teenage runaway and child of an addict, Christy-Lynn learned the hard...

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL'S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS Ruth Rendell is widely considered to be crime fiction's reigning queen, with a remarkable career spanning more than forty years. Now, in Portobello, she delivers a captivating and intricate tale that weaves together the troubled...

As to the staff, both nurses and doctors were treating patients with a mixture of prejudice, ill-understood physical interventions such as shock therapy (in all its forms), and sedation. We all conducted our care within the provisions of the Mental Health Acts of 1959...

Un encuentro casual da comienzo a una impenetrable red de mentiras en este nuevo y apasionante thriller psicol gico de Mary Kubica, cuya primera novela, Una buena chica, alcanz gran xito de ventas. Heidi Wood ve a una adolescente en el and n del...

It is 1966, and Tim Halladay, in his senior year at William and Mary, is in the process of discovering his true sexuality. He spends his weekends living in the basement apartment of his aunt Blade's Georgetown home. There, he uncovers the darker side...

A thrilling new whodunnit series, fast-paced and funny, featuring a detective as sharp as his suits and a heroine who's trouble. DI Leo George has been invited to a friends' reunion weekend at a lodge in the grounds of the exclusive Piccadilly Club in...

The book "The Magnificent Ambersons", 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...

"Provocative...a Frankenstein for the digital age...a rich text about power, autonomy, and what happens when our creations outgrow us." -- Esquire"Unexpected and subtle...delicious and thought-provoking." -- New ScientistFor fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the...

Named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR"This weird, lovely and sweetly satisfying novel [is] engaging and accessible...Clover's emergence from a shuttered life is moving enough to elicit tears, and Brammer's take on death and grieving is profound enough to feel genuinely instructional." --The...

She knows everything about you... and she's about to share your deepest, darkest secret.Alice has everything, I mean everything. A stunning suburban house, Instagram-perfect in its soft grey walls and textured neutrals. And then there's her handsome husband, with his flat stomach and that...

"Told through interlocking narratives, this poignant debut novel captures a year in the life of a small Vermont town--but don't let the pastoral locale fool you; this book is anything but sleepy. Moving effortlessly from the steamy to the heartbreaking, the novel handles themes...

**Re-released with major updates** Shaena is struggling with binge eating and has decided to attend Overeaters Anonymous (OA) to address her issues. She is facing other problems as well, but she is not ready to confront them yet. All she knows is that her...

Two women. An old friendship rekindled. A growing fear. Not everything is as it seems in a dark and twisty novel of suspense by the Edgar Award-winning author of Deer Season.Gwen Maner is a widowed single mom, returning to her Ohio hometown with her...

This first collection from storyteller J.A. Barrios takes themes that haunt us in everyday life - grief, loneliness, desire, addiction - and twists them into horrific nightmares.We've all faced the challenge of accepting our own fate and releasing fear, but could you make the...

Spencer Mazio is an idiot and a genius. A hero and a coward. A star athlete who suffers from debilitating panic. He's a bookie and a brawler, a womanizer and a fool. Last of the Famous International Playboys is his uproarious and heartbreaking story-a...

This book is about the energy that's inside of us to be great examples to others and how to tap into it to change the world around us. Its the lost information that we think about at the end of the day when no...

Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he's having a midlife crisis. He lives a dissolute existence in a tiny apartment with three (sometimes four) slacker roommates, holds a mind-numbing job at the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, and has a chronic inability to make up...

Introducing "The Perfect Mother in the Mirror" by acclaimed author Mark R. Wilson. Step into a world of shadows and whispers as you embark on an enthralling journey through a mysterious tale. When a devoted mother of three finds herself at the center of...

When the human condition is what directly induces the success or failure of a human being's endeavor, whoever does not evolve goes backwards... Likewise, although supposedly frivolous freedom is currently what governs the global market, its results are ultimately the consequence of man's influence....

The award-winning writer of White Tears and Blue Ruin takes an ultra-contemporary turn with the story of an Indian computer programmer whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer. Lonely and na?e, Arjun spends his days...

Syrah Barberra returns to Perth with expectations of joining the legal practice of an old friend and becoming a proper mother to her first child. The friend has a different understanding and when offered a specialist position by the Police Commissioner, Evan Watkins, she's...

INCLUDES THE NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED NOVEL In print for the first time ever, author and philosopher Ayn Rand's novel Ideal. Originally conceived as a novel but then transformed into a play by Ayn Rand, Ideal is the story of beautiful but tormented actress Kay Gonda. Accused...

She's on trial for murder... Now it's her turn to tell her story...The truth is that I loved James with my whole heart. We were soulmates: meant to be together forever. On the morning of our wedding, I had just found out I was...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - One of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century brings back ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the late middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, who has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild, and is looking...

From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a family story with a difference, a novel about the decisions one makes and the destiny they determine by one of Europe's most brilliant and stylistically subtle authors.Haru, a successful Japanese art dealer,...

In this taut and fascinating novel, the bestselling, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of The Sacrifice, The Accursed, and Lovely, Dark, Deep examines the mysteries of memory, personality, and identity and pierces the enigmatic force that drives human lives--love.In 1965,...

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a prolific German-speaking Bohemian author based in Prague, now widely regarded as one of the principal literary figures of the 20th century. His stories, infused with acute realism and the absurdly fantastic, often feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre, surrealistic predicaments...

The book everyone is talking about.My water isn't supposed to break while there's a storm raging, when my husband isn't on the island, and as the power flickers out. Darkness covers the cabin as I cling to my belly. I never imagined it happening...

There are two sides to every story. Joshua is getting ready to graduate from his final year in high school. He has always lived in a small colonial town in New England and looks forward to new adventures in a university in Illinois. Autumn...

She swims into the medals and then into oblivion - a sensuous, searing, compact debut from an outstanding new British writer. This is a striking, supple and direct debut from a new English writer that both promises an exceptionally exciting future and provides an...

Author: William Castano-BedoyaISBN-10: 8987734935ISBN-13: 9798987734933Publisher: Book & Bilias LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/04/2023Pages: 280Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

When the call finally comes, my life as I know it is over-my job as a teacher, my marriage, my family are all gone. In a heartbeat, I've lost everything that ever mattered to me. All because of one secret, and what someone thinks...

Infinitely Complex: Short Stories About Mental Illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bigotry, and Veterans is a collection of twenty-two short stories about broken people. They specifically delve into various psychiatric diseases, including schizophrenia, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and bipolar disorder; and the ravages of alcoholism and...

Margaret Saville's husband has been away on business for weeks and has stopped replying to her letters. Her brother, Robert Walton, has suddenly returned after three years at sea, having barely survived his exploratory voyage to the northern pole. She still grieves the death...

"A fast, fizzing cherry bomb of a debut" (The Observer [UK]) about power, intimacy, and the internet I stalk a woman on the internet who is sleeping with the same man as I am. Sheena Patel's incandescent first novel begins with the unnamed narrator...

"Spine-tingling fun." --People"Lisa Unger, you've done it again." --Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emmy Award-winning actressA couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making...

Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett. In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the...

Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award, this chilling police procedural is a masterpiece of psychological suspense. Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful Perugian industrialist. But nobody much wants Zen to succeed:...

A compulsive gambler himself at a certain period of his life, Dostoyevsky wrote this novel with real authority. Set in the appropriately named Roulettenburg, a German spa with a casino and an international clientele, it concerns the gambling episodes, tangled love affairs, and complicated...

"John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist."--Los Angeles Times Fred "Bogus" Trumper has troubles. A divorced, broke graduate student of Old Norse in 1970s New York, Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of...

AN UNPUTDOWNABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WITH A BREATHTAKING TWIST.All Tara longs for is her lost child to find her. But she should be careful what she wishes for . . .Tara's life is almost perfect. Her handsome husband Dino adores her. They have two beautiful...

Twelve short stories by "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe)--and the award-winning, international bestselling author of The Infatuations. Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories...

Suicide anyone? Young men and women make a suicide pact. As time passes, will anyone still believe that suicide is painless?Author: Renee FossISBN-10: 1494222086ISBN-13: 9781494222086Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2013Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.38d

Nicola Barker weaves humor and tragedy through this fresh and original collection, as her characters struggle to find love, independence, and fulfillment in this new addition to the Ecco Art of the Story seriesNicola Barker's collection of her nineteen most brilliant stories exemplifies her...

Dr Claire Roget's patient may have told her last lie, but can the truth about her death be uncovered? Poppy Kelloway was a liar. Forensic psychiatric Claire Roget's patient made up 'facts' that damaged other families, destroyed relationships and even resulted in an untimely...

Published in the UK as The Telling ErrorLisa Gardner calls it "mesmerizing." Liane Moriarty says it's "unpredictable, unputdownable, and unlike anything you've read before." See for yourself what these #1 New York Times-bestselling authors are talking about.She's a wife.She's a mother.She isn't who you...

Use Me at Your Own Risk: Visions from the Darkest Timeline by Anuradha Vikram takes place in 2046, a near future where both automation and climate collapse are more advanced. In five provocative sections, Use Me at Your Own Risk confronts the ethical challenges...