Fiction - Psychological

A drifter working as a ranch hand in East Texas must protect a widow and her young son from the ruthless criminal who is determined to destroy them.Carl Herbold is a cold-blooded psychopath who has just escaped the penitentiary where he was serving a...

Originally published pseudonymously in 1893, "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" follows the tragic tale of Maggie and her life in the harsh streets and tenements of the New York City Bowery district. Initially rejected by publishers for being viewed as too brutal and...

One of America's most acclaimed suspense writers now serves up a bracingly original nail-biter that takes us deep into the rugged terrain of the Utah mountains. Sherry Carrigan O'Toole can't seem to apply the prescriptions she offers in her bestselling self-help books to her...

Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. We learn of Rudolph's sister, whose help he invites,...

Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling streets that seem increasingly alien to him, he's confronted by life's pressing questions with an urgency he has never known...

From an award-winning author comes an audacious, high-concept noir set in Auschwitz that straddles past and present New York, the present: An old woman and her husband sit down for a breakfast of black bread and coffee at a table set for ten. Eight...

The secret is out: Mary Jane Clark is one of the most exciting novelists in America today. Do You Want to Know a Secret? is an unabashed, edge-of-the-seat, page-turning stunner. - Dan Rather Secrets can really kill your career. Beautiful New York TV anchorwoman...

Duncan B. Barlow delivers tender shocks and the profundity of mercy in this poignant, delicate novel of loss and love. 'A Dog Between Us' holds the reader between what can be said and what is unspeakable in our most vital relationships. This is an...

A looming menace lurks within the towers of American medicine. One young doctor is determined to uncover the truth. Follow him on a journey you will never forget.Don Newman, a resident physician at the renowned University Hospital, awakens to the screams of his pager...

Nikolai Semjonowitsch Leskow (1831-1895) war ein russischer Schriftsteller. Durch seine Erz hlungen und Novellen erlangte er jedoch schlie lich Anerkennung und galt zu Lebzeiten, neben Dostojewski und Tolstoi, als der bedeutendste russische Prosaautor. Inhalt: - Die Lady Makbeth des Mzensker Landkreises - Der versiegelte...

"Now I am going to tell the story of something that happened one night years ago, and the events of the morning and afternoon that followed."The Incompletes begins with this simple promise. But to try to get at the complete meaning of the day's...

Theodore Dalrymple, almost singlehandedly, revived the languishing Essay and in so doing became Britain's answer to Montaigne. In this, his first foray into the Short Story form, he proves himself a rival of Anton Chekhov. His many devoted fans will be delighted. -------------------------------- Some...

Diagnosed with a brain tumor, Geoffrey returns to his hometown for a reunion of the Jokers Club (his childhood gang) with the hopes of unearthing the imagination he held in his youth. Upon arriving, he discovers the creative juices that drove his writing many...

"Where once was a beautiful wood now stands a desolate field smothered in ash and garbage, and here a young man named Waller has terrorizing encounters with grotesque figures named 'the garbagemen.' As Waller fixates on these desperate men who eke out a living...

This is the story of a man who shot his wife's lover and thus created a memory which wrecked his own life. Arnold Dudley loved his wife and killed the man who stole her from him. Hunted by justice, pursued by bitter remorse, he...

Two childhoods destroyed. One story they will never tell. Until now. Beth ran away from her family when she was a teenager. She left behind a terrible evil that took her innocence. She also left behind her sister, Sara. When Beth returns home, she...

A 49th Shelf Editors' Pick MyMum said sometimes refugees don't eat anything for days and days. Sometimes weeks and months so I am really lucky. I think she exaggerates. But I think she is right about the lucky bit. Or maybe not. Sometimes I...

A moving tale about middle age, divorce, modern love, and returning home by one of the great American storytellers. Asher's career as a Hollywood screenwriter has come to a humiliating end; so has his latest marriage. Returning to New York, where he grew up,...

Back is the story of Charley Summers, who is back from the war and a POW camp having lost the woman he loved, Rose, to illness before he left and his leg to fighting. In other words, Charley has very little to come back...

"With unnerving conviction, this novel inhabits the mind, heart and voice of Belgium's 'most hated woman', the ex-wife of murderer Marc Dutroux - the authenticity makes for a compelling narrative." --Blake MorrisonThe most hated woman in Belgium sits in her prison cell preparing for...

It is a hot June night in upscale Orange County, California. When young, beautiful Consuelo Vargas turns up mutilated and left for dead in a strawberry field, the Irvine Police Department and OC Sheriff call in top FBI Forensic pathologist, Catherine ("Cat") Powers to...

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 Portuguese as Um Homem: Klaus Klump by Editorial Caminho, Lisboa, 2003."Author: Gonocalo M. Tavares, TavaresISBN-10: 1628970340ISBN-13: 9781628970340Publisher: Dalkey Archive PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2014Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 04/28/2014

A darkly melancholic tale that combines Scorsese's Taxi Driver and Camus's The Fall --Nakamura's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel is here translated into English for the first time and is another high-water mark in this important writer's career. As an unnamed Tokyo taxi driver works a...

A studio executive leaves his family and travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to hide for 20 years. "You won't be able to put down this exhilarating debut novel... brave and touching." --Marie Claire In her tour-de-force...

Author: Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN-10: 1613825188ISBN-13: 9781613825181Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2018Pages: 24Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

Drowned, set in the idyllic countryside during a short-lived Swedish summer, gets under one's skin from the first page, creating an atmosphere of foreboding in which even the perfume of freshly picked vegetables roasting in the kitchen becomes ominous. Marina has left behind her...

The debut from the author of Mouth to Mouth, a novel about obsession that makes for obsessive reading. All Owen Patterson wants is an normal life, a happy marriage, and a stable family. But following the brutal and random murder of his brother-in-law, that...

Sliding into the Rabbit Hole... Would She Ever Return? On the surface, Alice Laxton seems no different from any other college girl: bright, inquisitive, excited about the life ahead of her. But for years, a genetic time bomb has been ticking away. Because of...

A missing laptop, a petulant critic, a sojourn in communal living--Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love is a bracingly intelligent examination of grief, autonomy, aging, desire, information overload, and the condition of being a thinking and feeling inhabitant of an often...

A meditation on memory and futility among the ruins of artistic ambition, family myth, and the fall of the South.Author: Sam SavageISBN-10: 1566893720ISBN-13: 9781566893725Publisher: Coffee House PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2014Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.30h x 4.60w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 09/22/2014Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2014Library Journal...

The only available edition available of a gripping exploration of the border between our perceptions and our imaginings. Author: Margaret OliphantISBN-10: 1554814189ISBN-13: 9781554814183Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2019Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50d

For fans of The Haunting of Hill House comes a dark tale of a mansion haunted by a legacy of tragedy and a family trapped by lies.Margot and Myron Spielman move to a new town, looking for a fresh start and an escape from...

''The story pulled me in straight off the bat and just consumed me. I was so invested in it and its characters, I lost time and could not bring myself to put it down.'' - Amazon Review''Un-PutDownable Keep You Up All Night Read!'' -...

The Professor's House is a novel by American novelist Willa Cather. Published in 1925, the novel was written over the course of several years. Cather first wrote the centerpiece, "Tom Outland's Story," and then later wrote the two framing chapters "The Family" and "The...

A Passage to India is about how friendship may be difficult or even impossible when there are racial tensions and prejudices in peoples from different cultures and countries. It was included in its "All Time 100 Novels" list by Time magazine. Thanks to this...

Dear Louise. It's time we all put the past behind us. We're meeting for my birthday. I want you there. Love, Amy. XWhen Louise receives an invitation to her old friend Amy's birthday weekend in a cottage next to the woods near their old...

She rolls over and reaches for her instinctively: her baby. Her hand hits air and flaps redundantly. She stumbles out of bed and switches on the light. But this only confirms it. The baby is gone. Someone has taken her.Sixteen years ago, Lizzie Armitage...

I didn't mean to get involved with a married man - I had no idea he had a family at home. But by the time I found out about Helen I was head over heels in love with him. I would have done anything...

Peter Bush, winner of the Ramon Llull Prize for Literary Translation, brings to English this most prolific and influential of Catalan writers. Dripping with a panache that can turn in a comic instant to the most conciliatory humility, Josep Pla's foray into the land...

Life-changing moments. Impassioned encounters. Twelve stories at the crossroads of heartbreak and desire.When a long-lost love comes knocking, a loyally wedded rancher is tempted by old passions. A bartender wrestling with sobriety is pushed to the edge by a familiar barfly. After her husband's...

The lump in my throat dissolves into tears. "They're going to take Noah away, Pete." "No judge will ever rule that a child should be taken away from his parents." My husband's voice is defiant. "Even if it turns out we're not his parents?"...

"Italian novelist Maurensig spins an intriguing historical narrative of Indian chess master Malik Mir Sultan Khan (1903-1966)...Maurensig's tragic tale of genius and destiny duly salvages a forgotten hero." ―Publishers Weekly In 1930s British India, a humble servant learns the art of chaturanga, the ancient...

In the Forest is a newly reissued edition of the terrifying novel from one of the greatest writers in the English-speaking world (The New York Times), Edna O'Brien. O'Brien brings together the earthy and delicately poetic: she has the sound of Molly Bloom and...

The truth can set you free, or make you a prisoner...Thirty years ago, Nicola Watson lived with her parents and older brother in a respectable suburb. At ten years old, she didn't yet understand why her stomach tightened when she heard her father's heavy...

Suspected of a murder she can't remember, a troubled woman takes an unusual approach to proving her innocence in this gripping thriller from the bestselling author of Little Voices.When Jules Worthington-Smith's wallet is found next to a dead man, she becomes the prime suspect...

From "a master of slow-burn suspense" (Shelf Awareness), a simmering family drama about a father and daughter who embark on a road trip through the American South -- but what they're leaving behind is as important as what lies ahead. When we first meet...

'WOW Amazing, phenomenal, unputdownable.' NetGalley Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Hooked from the first page ' Goodreads Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Utterly gobsmacked... unputdownable.' Goodreads Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Easily one of the best books I have read this year.' Goodreads Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A jaw-dropping, heart-stopping page turner.' By the Letter...

From the bestselling author of What Have You Done comes a mind-bending page-turner involving a series of dark crimes from the past.When police investigator Susan Adler is called to the roadside murder of a fellow state trooper, she's tasked with finding the people responsible...

Grappling with his son's death, the painter David explores his grief through art and writing, etching out the rippled landscape of his loss. Over twenty years after his son's death, nearly blind and unable to paint, David turns to writing to examine the deep...