Fiction - Psychological

Pulled into a deadly game of deception, secrets, and lies, a woman must find the truth in order to defeat a mysterious opponent, protect her daughter, and save her own life in this dazzling standalone psychological thriller with an unforgettable ending from the New...

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,...

From the multi-award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Testament of Jessie Lamb comes this riveting novel about the devastating secrets revealed in the midst of a disintegrating marriage.The story of a marriage, and of two lives in science.When Conrad fails to return from...

An intelligent and madly entertaining debut novel reminiscent of The Crying of Lot 49, White Noise, and City of Glass that is at once a missing-person mystery, an exorcism of modern culture, and a wholly singular vision of contemporary womanhood from a terrifying and...

Pulled into a deadly game of deception, secrets, and lies, a woman must find the truth in order to defeat a mysterious opponent, protect her daughter, and save her own life in this dazzling standalone psychological thriller with an unforgettable ending from the New...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders--in the ranks of Ruth Rendell, Deborah Crombie, Kimberly McCreight, and Tana French--makes her William Morrow debut with a dark and chilling psychological thriller in which a woman desperate to hide a devastating secret in...

Author: Carey BaldwinISBN-10: 006238709XISBN-13: 9780062387097Publisher: Witness ImpulseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2016Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.50w x 1.00d

A provocative and hauntingly powerful debut novel reminiscent of Sliding Doors, The Bookseller follows a woman in the 1960s who must reconcile her reality with the tantalizing alternate world of her dreams.Nothing is as permanent as it appears . . .Denver, 1962: Kitty Miller...

"Disclaimer is something special. . . an outstandingly clever and twisty tale that's been perfectly engineered to make heads spin. This novel's opening promise of menace is not overstated. Ms. Knight lives up to the initial deal she made with readers and delivers fully....

Carey Baldwin, author of the thrilling novel Confession, returns with a new story featuring two of her most beloved characters. Fans of Tess Gerritsen and Lisa Gardner will devour this riveting story of rivals caught in a killer's twisted web.When a coed falls prey...

Thirty years ago, on the date in June known as Midsummer's Day, a young girl is mysteriously orphaned. Now, after a life of bizarre and troubling circumstances, she becomes obsessed with the idea that she too will die on Midsummer's Day . . ....

From Yannick Murphy, award-winning author of The Call, comes a fast-paced story of murder, adultery, parenthood, and romance, involving a girls' swim team, their morally flawed parents, and a killer who swims in their midst.In a quiet New England community members of swim team...

Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut FictionA provocative debut novel about a young white chauffeur and his wealthy black employer, an NBA player--a twenty-first century inversion of what we've come to expect stories of race and class to look like, and...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY GQ - PopSugar - NPR - Huffington Post - Electric Literature - The New YorkerCHOSEN AS A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ PICK BYPublishers Weekly - New York Magazine - Buzzfeed - Refinery29 - Vulture - Nylon From...

From the critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Confessions of Max Tivoli comes The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, a rapturously romantic story of a woman who finds herself transported to the "other lives" she might have lived.After the death...

Moving and suspenseful, Lisa Ballantyne's The Guilty One is a psychological thriller about the darkness in each of us. It explores how we are all tied to our pasts, and what it means to be guilty.Solicitor Daniel Hunter is called to defend 11-year-old Sebastian...

Soon to be a major motion picture!"[Losing Clementine] is poignant and insightful and also surprisingly funny, thanks to its nasty, charming narrator." --Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone GirlA smart, sharp and moving debut--by turns hilarious and tragic-- Losing Clementine follows...

New York Times Notable author Deborah Crombie is regularly named among the greats of British-set crime fiction (P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Elizabeth George et al) for her riveting police procedurals featuring Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, Scotland Yard partners as well as devoted life-mates.A...

"If you like Mary Higgins Clark, you'll love Wendy Corsi Staub." --Lisa Jackson, bestselling author of DeviousOne of the most exciting of the new breed of thriller and suspense writers, Wendy Corsi Staub asks, "Are you ever truly safe...even in your own home?" With...

"[A] well-crafted and cunning debut novel...a testament to the resilience of the human spirit."--Publishers WeeklyThe Summer We Fell Apart by newcomer Robin Antalek is a poignant, funny, and totally engrossing novel of family disasters and sibling rivalry--and it marks the debut of a pitch-perfect...

"An unusual, exhilarating hybrid of high-stakes, propulsive narrative; erudite, yet breezy summations of specialized historical data; and strikingly evocative language." -- New York Times Book ReviewFrom PEN/Macmillan award-winning novelist and poet Tobias Hill, a thrilling novel of astonishing grace and power that explores the...

New York Times BestsellerThe profound and compelling story of a personal quest for meaning and faith from Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True"The beauty of The Hour I First Believed, a...

For more than twenty-five years, the antimelodic "noise" of Sonic Youth has assaulted us, exhilarated us, inspired us. Why?Katherine Dunn says it's because they operate in the foggy world between the real and the surreal. Mary Gaitskill says that Sonic Youth caught her, years...

Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house...

The exquisitely artful fiction debut of Vanity Fair columnist Elissa Schappell is a novel told in ten stories that resonate with the most profound experiences in the life of a young woman -- friendship and rivalry, the love for a man, the birth of...

From an author whose work has been called 'haunted and joyous and heartbreaking all at once' (Washington Post Book World) comes an unforgettable novel of two lost souls who find love and salvation against all odds. Can love save those who believe they are...

At first, all Lily Austin knows about 19th-century explorer Mary Kingsley is that, 100 years before, she was the first white woman to venture into the heart of Africa. But as Lily begins reading about Mary Kingsley, she becomes more and more fascinated -...

Haskell Maloney was cruelly orphaned when she was just a baby. Now, twenty-two years later, she receives confirmation of the bitter truth she always suspected: the fallen war hero whose name she shares was not her father. Her quest for answers--and a personal history--brings...

"The perfect haunted house story for these unnerving times." --New York Times Dream House, the riveting debut novel from Pushcart Prize-winning author Valerie Laken, tells the story of one troubled house--the site of a domestic drama that will forever change the lives of two...

On a summer night in Portland, Oregon, violence erupts at a Little League game -- and attorney Ami Vergano watches in horror as the quiet, gentle artist she recently befriended does the unexpected and unthinkable . . .In a cheap motel room in Washington,...

Samantha Ranvali can't sleep. Haunted by nightmares and the memory of a man who attacked her years ago, she seeks a cure for her insomnia through an experimental study called "Endymion's Circle." The treatment seems to be a success, but after her first full...

A New York Times Notable Book"A wonderful and wise novel, a story told with unflinching courage and honesty, and with keen insight into the most universal of all conditions, the struggle of the human heart." -- Ken Wells, author of Meely LeBauve"Lyrical and honest....Moynahan...

When Noire, a hip, Afro-wearing Ph.D. student, walks into Brown Betty Books, her righteousness kicks in to overdrive amid the self-identified "talented tenth" who wear their double degrees and five-hundred-dollar shoes like badges of honor. And then Innocent, a well-heeled investment banker from Ce...

Sara Rosario Gonz les is a restorer of rare books and manuscripts at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. When Sara restores a sixteenth-century manuscript about an Aztec princess enslaved by Cort s and sent to Europe to entertain the pope and Emperor Charles...

I was thirty-three years old when my husband walked out into a field one morning and never came back, and I went in one quick leap from wife to widow.Lucy Hatch never expected more of life than to spend it on an East Texas...

You never know who's watching... 'Spine-chilling ... makes you realise how little you ever know anyone!' The Sun 'A brilliantly creepy and insightfully written debut. I tore through it' Gillian McAllister 'Unnerving and spine-chilling' Mel Sherratt Corinne's life might look perfect on the outside,...

When every word's a lie, a picture is worth a thousand A dark psychological thriller about the secrets that destroy us, perfect for fans of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS and THE GIRLFRIEND. Oliver Molloy never meant to hurt his wife. It...

A stunning saga debut from an author destined to be a star of the genre - ELLIE PRIDE is an engrossing, heartrending story of love, passion, duty and family, set in the North-west in the early part of the twentieth century. A stirring, heartrending...

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...

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...

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...