Fiction - Psychological

In this blistering debut novel, author Adnan Khan investigates themes of race, class, masculinity and contemporary relationships. Omar Ali, twenty-seven-year-old line cook and petty criminal, gets a phone call from his ex-girlfriend's father at work, informing Omar that Anna has committed suicide. Unable to...

Jordan is a gifted artist, trying to heal from the life she was forced to live for many years. She is living in her own world, consumed by the past that threatens to destroy her young life.Randall lives in his own world, brought on...

When Sarah's seemingly perfect life begins to crumble, she is forced to confront the reality of her abusive marriage and dark past, and it seems all is lost-until she allows the support of friends and a long forgotten, unopened letter to help her find...

From the author of The Geometry of Love, a Booklist Top Ten Women's Fiction Title, comes Nothing Forgotten, a deeply moving literary novel about a mother's regret, a quest for self-forgiveness, and love transcending time.Author: Jessica LevineISBN-10: 1631523244ISBN-13: 9781631523243Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2018Pages:...

For most of his adult life, the only place he felt at peace was at home in Silver Lake, Ohio with his parents--but after their sudden death, he is left on his own. Eager to help their brother, Steve's siblings, Scott and Sylvia, who...

Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. A hymn to the city of Sofia, a series of whimsical character portraits, a literary mural of Bulgaria at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Is There Anybody There to Love You? is the first collection...

The narrator of this novel begins by introducing himself not as a speaker but a listener, spellbound by his friend Caracala's yarns, which blend accounts of youthful mischief with casual references to Cervantes and Laurence Sterne. At first, the spotlight is entirely on Caracala,...

David and Molly Jones live with their three-year-old son Michael on Manhattan's Upper West Side. David works at a prestigious New York literary agency. Molly is a freelance copyeditor. They are devoted to their son and secure in their love for each other.Then Deirdre...

A heart-stopping thriller by ED GORMAN WRITING AS DANIEL RANSOM author of The Serpent's Kiss A PLACE TO DIE FOR... Dr. Richard Candlemas's academy had been the place where Meredith Sawyer grew up-a place she had spent her adult life trying to forget. The...

With a wedge at last driven between Mat and Dougie Carmichael, courtesy of Nikolai Petrovic's expert manipulations, the brothers must each accept their new path forward: Dougie, a perfect slave, sweet and obedient and loving. Mat, a tightly reined dog, snarling and snapping but...

Max, a young anthropologist, discovers two handwritten pages written by a Victorian adventuress who lived with an unknown tribe in the Amazon. Determined to discover more, Max is dragged into a world of mysterious suicides, pagan sects, child prostitution and police harassment. Set in...

Mackenzie Morgan thinks she's doing the right thing by taking her teenaged daughter, Bella, into the Appalachians on a photography shoot. Fleeing a crumbling marriage, Mac needs time to bond with her daughter and escape the betrayal that still leaves her numb. But when...

Ava Wilder's home in small-town Iowa is her sanctuary. A talented sketch artist with severe agoraphobia, Ava spends her days drawing a far more adventurous life than her invisible disability allows. Until she receives a package from London, explaining that she has inherited her...

Although Henri Barbusse grew up in a small town, he left for Paris in 1889 at age 16. In 1914, at the age of 41, he enlisted in the French Army and served against Germany in World War I. Invalided out of the army...

It so happened that the very same year Ricardo-the physical Ricardo-was a fellow passenger of mine on board an extremely small and extremely dirty little schooner, during a four days' passage between two places in the Gulf of Mexico whose names don't matter. For...

Author: Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN-10: 1613825196ISBN-13: 9781613825198Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2018Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.06d

The story is about Gregorio Samsa, whose sudden transformation into a huge insect makes it more and more difficult for his social environment to communicate with him, until he is considered intolerable by his family and finally perishes.One morning, after a restless sleep, Gregorio...

Winner of the 2017 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation PrizeWinner of the 2019 Bernard Shaw Prize for its translationAt a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, Bret Easton Ellis. When a john...

J.-K. Huysmans' Stranded (En Rade 1887), published just three years after the iconoclastic Against Nature, sees him again breaking new ground and pushing back the boundaries of the novel form. Stamped throughout with his characteristic black humour, Stranded is one of Huysmans' most innovative,...

A first-person diary of a prisoner's final day before being executed for an unspecified crime, Victor Hugo's poignant tale vividly conveys the mental anguish of a man confronted with the intransigent mechanism of justice, as his mind seeks refuge in recollections from his past...

Martha Armstrong has started again - new city, new home, new future. Yet she is troubled by her partner Will's obsession with the paranormal and unwelcome face from her past. Troubles which threaten the happiness she thought she had found. Her friend Gabriel McKenzie,...

Beautiful, intelligent, and charming, Leslie Daniels is the wife of a successful Illinois physician. To her friends and family, she is happily living the American dream. But there is a hidden side to Leslie, a side propelled by lust and unsettling impulses that run...

What happened to Peter's first family?His wife, his children-all of them are dead, and rumors swirl around Peter himself as the culprit. My name is Aubree Van Lullen, once whispered about for all the wrong reasons. But that was before Peter Woodley entered my...

Two Cases. One location. The first case, a girl gone missing, seems a decidedly local affair. The second, the return of a violent criminal who had fled the country, instantly attracts the interest of Scotland Yard and Detective Inspector David Brock. When he learns...

Part mystery, part hospital soap opera, and part social commentary, Mary Roberts Rinehart's 1914 novel, K., is a look at a vanished world, a social artifact from the early 20th century, complete with rowdy, old-school roadhouses, forlorn lovers, and themes of revenge, altruism, and...

The Beast in the Jungle, 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...

Mystery, psychology, humor, and unforgettable characters blend seamlessly in this page-turner that keeps readers guessing until the end. A contemporary riff on Sartre's admonition that we are condemned to freedom: bound by personal responsibility to every decision we make.Author: John DefrankISBN-10: 1609100514ISBN-13: 9781609100513Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage:...

Two teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in this classic thriller from 1958, only to get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. Dolores Hitchens wrote crime...

"You look like a good truthful boy. Here are ten dollars for you." "Oh, thank you, ma'am You're a gentleman," said Mike overjoyed. "No, I don't mean that, but I hope you'll soon get a handsome husband." "My young friend, I don't care to...

2019 Readers' Favorite First-Place Gold Medal Winner in Fiction: GeneralA fire in a neighboring farmhouse has young farmer and volunteer firefighter, Mitch Garner, blaming himself for the tragic outcome. He loses all hope of forgiving himself. His only hope for redemption is to leave...

Margaret's War uses 15-year-old narrator Billy to juggle the broken heart, the trampled soul, and the fragile sanity of a beautiful young woman when male egos grab and grope at her with the absurd hands of war.The isolated small town where Billy and Margaret...

Seven Types of Ambiguity is a psychological thriller and a literary adventure of breathtaking scope. Celebrated as a novelist in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Philip Roth, Elliot Perlman writes of impulse and paralysis, empty marriages, lovers, gambling, and the stock market; of...

There are no old drug addicts. That's what everyone says, at least. So how did Chuck get to his forty-third birthday and find himself still neck-deep in this scene? He knows he's the creepy old guy with the drugs or the guy who's too...

Peter Stamm, short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize, breaks new ground in this haunting novel about survival, self-reliance, and art, available for the first time in paperback. All Days Are Night is the story of Gillian, a successful and beautiful woman. Married and...

Man Booker Prize nominee Peter Stamm explores in his sixth novel what it means to be in the middle of nowhere, in mind and in body. Happily married with two children and a comfortable home in a Swiss town, Thomas and Astrid enjoy a...

The Book of Blam, Aleksandar Tisma's "extended kaddish . . . his] masterpiece" (Kirkus Reviews), is a modern-day retelling of the book of Job. The war is over. Miroslav Blam walks along the former Jew Street, and he remembers. He remembers Aaron Gr n,...

Two lonely Londoners bond over a plan to free the sea turtles at the city zoo in this touching novel from a cult-favorite author who has drawn comparisons to J.D. Salinger and Kurt Vonnegut. A wise and touching classic that "crackles with witty detail,...

Aspiring therapists, counselors, and mental health professionals must first submit to their own analysis, regardless of the demons that are sure to be uncovered. Saints of Camarillo explores the hearts and souls of those who served at one of the largest, most progressive, but...

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research...

The predators become prey in a breathless novel of revenge from a USA Today bestselling author.Still haunted by his wife's murder--and stained by the blood of avenging it--FBI special agent Hatcher McGee can't believe he's being teamed up with rookie agent Korine Davenport. She...

Can you hide a secret with the whole world watching?When an explosion rips apart a Chicago building, the lives of three women are forever altered.A year later, Cecily is in mourning. She was supposed to be in the building that day. Instead, she stood...

When family man and war veteran Russell loses his job as a quarry worker, his life suddenly seems more like a waking nightmare than a chance to finally live the American dream. Facing bills, a new baby, and a bone-dry bank account, he's got...

A page-turning novel of suspense about the perfect family, and the perfect lies, by the bestselling author of When I'm Gone and The Waiting Room.Adopted by her controlling foster mother at the age of eight, twenty-year-old Tara has seen little of the outside world....

There's only one thing worse than doing the unthinkable: what you're willing to do to hide it.Helen lives a decent, uncomplicated life. Satisfied in her career, she's raising three happy teenagers, and her family has the most envied house on the street. Admittedly, she's...

What does the perfect family have to fear most? The perfect stranger.From the outside, Frank and Grace seem to have the perfect family. He's a loving husband, she's a devoted wife, and together they have two happy children. But appearances can be deceiving. A...

"... A] brilliantly constructed novel...Kirk draws the reader into a fascinating world of shifting truths whose details are by turns grotesque, funny, creepy, thoughtful, and exhilarating." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)The new tenants have a terrible secret. So do the landlord and his daughter...Ever since...

Would you know if someone was watching you?In the dark days since the sudden death of her surgeon husband, Julia's main worry has always been Tash. Her student daughter was broken--she worshipped her father. But six months on, Julia thinks the light is returning....

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been called one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across...

Kevin is an unpleasant man who loses his job. He finds it difficult to deal with other people. He has those he considers friends, and he theoretically spends time with them, but he mostly prefers to focus on code, alcohol, and good old-fashioned cynicism....

A gripping and suspenseful psychological thriller that Booklist calls "intriguing from start to finish," perfect for fans of New York Times bestselling authors Paula Hawkins and Gillian Flynn. It begins with a phone call. It ends with a missing child.On a warm summer's morning,...