Fiction - Psychological

Ell, a millennial of European and Mexican heritage, has one humorous children's book published, but her more serious writing projects are stalled, her boyfriend has dumped her, and she is deeply frightened by a recurring dream. To solve her problems, she delves into family...

DEATH BY SUGGESTION gathers together twenty-two short stories from the 19th and early 20th century where hypnotism is used to cause death-either intentionally or by accident. Revenge is a motive for many of the stories, but this anthology also contains tales where characters die...

England, 1932. The nation had just begun to recover from the wounds of the First World War when economic catastrophe struck with the Great Depression. It is against this background that Vernon Dexter arrives at the old manor house at Greystones, home of the...

Most mothers hope their little girl turns out like their dad, but not Zoe. She hopes the apple falls far from the tree.Zoe didn't meet her daughter the way most mothers do. She finds five-year-old Maddie alone and dirty on a countryside road. Frightened...

"Claude Houghton's novels are always interesting . . . Julian Grant Loses His Way is the best book of his that I have read . . . Houghton's talent is at its best." - Graham Greene, The Spectator "Fascinating, absorbing reading . . ....

A desperate woman. An irresistible invitation. An escalating nightmare of secrets, lies, and murder.Bree's new home is luxurious and private, with a fancy Beverly Hills address. What a shame it's not hers. Widowed, penniless, living in her car, and out of options, she's climbed...

For Lela White, a Houston sleep lab technician, sleep doesn't come easy-there's a price to be paid for a poor night's sleep, and she's the judge, jury, and executioner. Everyone around Lela considers her a private woman with a passion for her lab work....

Jude's story -- his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead -- shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects of prejudice and oppression upon innocent minds, and forms a passionate plea for tolerance....

The Moon and Sixpence (1919) by William Somerset Maugham is the complex story of Charles Strickland, a man who abandons his family and his secure life as an English businessman to pursue an uncertain but meaningful existence as an artist, from Paris slums to...

The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber....

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.From debut author Jamie Sogn comes a twisty thriller about the allure of the past and the danger of the truth as a young woman dives headlong into a cult in a desperate search for answers.In...

When New York brain surgeon Alexandra travels to New Orleans to face the tragedies and mysteries of her youth, a compelling secret is revealed, launching a journey that ends in madness.Author: Suzanne JenkinsISBN-10: 1492386944ISBN-13: 9781492386940Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/18/2013Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize:...

'I love how this seemingly quiet novel is also one of extremes: funny and tragic, captivating and disturbing. Joanna Campbell has written a mind-bending and enigmatic story that blurs the lines between thought and reality' -- Claire Fuller, author of Costa prize-winning Unsettled Ground'You...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Pat Conroy's classic semi-autographical novel of a harsh Marine father and his son's struggle to come into his own."Robust and vivid...full of feeling." --NewsdayThis is the story of Bull Meecham, the epitome of the Marine officer. Demanding, authoritarian,...

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...

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...

Eleven visionary indie writers deconstruct The Human ConditionTM in this mind-bending collection of short stories in a variety of genres. Each of these unique voices explores a divergent world as unnerving as it is unknown, unsettling, and unresolved. These stories are guaranteed to take...

In this psychologically based, fictional book of intrigue and mystery, Eddie Vuittonet spins an interesting tale of two homeless individuals coping with the ravishes of mental illness and that of homeless life.A homicidal, demented woman and a mysterious Vietnam veteran struggle to maintain their...

Sometimes the warning signs come too late... The brutal slaying of Boulder's controversial D.A. strikes deep in the heart of everything clinical psychologist Alan Gregory holds dear: After all, Alan's wife, Lauren, worked for the dead man. When a new patient walks into Alan's...

Winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, "lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging...

Conspiracies run deep within a recovering United States, where a small percentage of its population once suffered from a viral outbreak brought on by infected cats. Many believe the animals were dropped into low-income neighborhoods as a means of population control; others subscribe to...

It was happening again.I had to see her.I couldn't stand it: Sweating Being dizzyHeart pounding so hard you knew you were going to dieRight now. Die. Alone, in the middle of the street, in pain. Only I had been enough times to ER to...

Mattieu Macanan has fled his home in France, to work as a doctor in a remote region of South America where his past is unknown. There he tends to the local tribes and tries to avoid contact with European settlers. When Silke Khan and...

She wasn't crazy...right?So begins the story of Justine Hornbecker. At eighteen, she dreams of being a published illustrator living in Manhattan. But life isn't always what you want it to be or seems to be... After a suicide attempt lands her in a state...

In his usual hard-edged prose, for which he is internationally famous, bestselling novelist Jack Engelhard (Indecent Proposal) draws us into the mind of a compulsive gambler in a work stunningly brilliant and original, and seductively readable. Compulsive is a journey through today, with issues...

Billy May Platte is a half Irish, half Cherokee Appalachian woman who learned the hard way that 1940s West Virginia was no place to be different. As Billy May explains, "We was sheltered in them hills. We didn't know much of nothin' about life...

From the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny, her prizewinning novel about a sex-addicted woman in Paris She wants only one thing: to be wanted. Ad le appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a...

Identity theft, scams, and a serial killer. Username is a must-read for every person who has a credit card or uses the Internet. Who 's using your name? Your username? You may not know until it 's too late. See yourself as a mark...

Melanie Abrams's debut novel is a provocative tale about love, betrayal, and how one young woman's unconventional sexual reawakening uncovers the most guarded parts of her past. When Josie, an anthropology grad student, is unexpectedly offered a job as the nanny for six-year-old Tyler,...

Author: Bernard K. LewisISBN-10: 140333739XISBN-13: 9781403337399Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2003Pages: 728Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.75d

Right Livelihoods begins with a cataclysmic vision of New York City after the leveling of 50 square blocks of Manhattan. Four million have died. Albertine, the "street name for the buzz of a lifetime," is a mind-altering drug that sets The Albertine Notes in...

"Weak in Comparison to Dreams... is the most courageous and fascinating debut I have read since Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves." --Full Stop MagazineFor years, Samuel Emmer has monitored bacteria levels in drinking water for the small city of Guelph.He is content to...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND GLAMOUR! "One of those rare emotionally intelligent books that are also fun reads... Going to keep readers turning pages late into the night." -The New York Times "Ingenious...fresh and unpredictable." -The Washington...

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Jaw-dropping ... A darkly comic send-up of motherhood." --People"With devourable writing and pitch-perfect humor, Cutting Teeth is a sharp, original, wickedly astute look at the sting of modern motherhood." --Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The PushNew York Times bestselling...

From debut author Jamie Sogn comes a twisty thriller about the allure of the past and the danger of the truth as a young woman dives headlong into a cult in a desperate search for answers.In the far reaches of the Pacific Northwest, three...

"Mean Girls meets We Were Liars in this compelling, cat-and-mouse thriller" (Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author) set in a boarding school where secrets are devastating--and deadly. When Sarah Taylor arrives at the exclusive St. Ambrose School, she's carrying more baggage than just...

In this twisty new stand-alone novel from internationally bestselling author Nicci French, a young woman agrees to do a favor for her first love--but when things go horribly wrong, one small task turns into a murder investigation that completely upends her life, ensnaring her...

#1 BESTSELLER - Soon to be a new major motion picture - Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! "Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations,...

THE BOX Quinn thought he had all the angles figured. After all, taking over the Organization should be a piece of cake for such a smart guy. But what he didn't figure was that boss Ryder would stuff him in a large crate with...

2023 Reprint of the 1927 edition. The subject of this brilliant novel is the daily life of an English family in the Hebrides. "There are dozens of passages in which the secret relations of men and women, especially women, to the trifling events of...

In a relatively short amount of time, James Singer has lost his wife, his job, his home and his subsequent place in the world. Now, with appearance of a shadowy phantasm who has taken to terrorizing him every night, he's beginning to fear that...

"Ranks with Vonnegut's best and goes one step beyond . . . joyous, soaring fiction."--The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long...

Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he...

Stars. Lovers. Liars. Killers. This is Hollywood, and everyone has a part to play in a shocking novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author A. R. Torre.Actress Nora Kemp loves two men. One is Hugh Iverson, a philanthropic movie star who gives...

"Birnam Wood is terrific. As a multilayered, character-driven thriller, it's as good as it gets. Ruth Rendell would have loved it. A beautifully textured work--what a treat." --Stephen King "One of 2023's most sophisticated, stylish and searching literary works, a full-on triumph from a...

What happens when two serial killers begin to compete with each other?From #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Gardiner comes a new high-octane thriller in the acclaimed UNSUB series.FBI Special Agent Caitlin Hendrix faces a case from nightmares.In a Tennessee prison, Efrem Judah...

Set in 1960s Italy, this stylish, atmospheric debut spins a bewitching web of ruthless ambition, family secrets, and the consequences of forbidden love, as an ambitious American actress snags the starring role in a mysterious horror movie shooting on location in a crumbling medieval...

A new mother ventures into parallel worlds to find her missing child in this "wildly inventive" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel that turns the joys and anxieties of parenthood into an epic quest, "a powerful page-turner with deep wisdom" (People). "An original take on motherhood,...

A D.C. philanthropist suspects that her seemingly perfect employee is secretly plotting to steal her husband, her reputation--even her life--in this seductive novel of psychological suspense from the internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish. In this town, anyone is replaceable. ... After...