Fiction - Psychological

Embark on a journey through the poetic and mystical landscape of Rumi, as it comes alive in an entirely new light. "Romper Rumi: 101 Tales based on the words of Rumi" is a treasure trove of stories, each weaving the timeless wisdom of the...

Mel is a quirky, fragile teen with deep resentments and a pathological need to tell the truth.Markus is a lonesome drifter, big for his age, and feared by many.Their paths get closer and closer in the small, rural town of Kimble Wells.At last they...

From the author of The Devil Took Her comes a collection of ten fresh tales of horror.A South Island road trip turns murderous as a dangerous drifter smells a secret in her co-dependent pal.Millionaire Kiwi conservationists learn too late how little Mother Nature cares...

From Francis Levy, author of Seven Days in Rio, which The New York Times called "a fever dream of a novel," comes The Kafka Studies Department, a highly original collection of short, parable-like stories infused with dark humor, intellect, and insight about the human...

A story told with insight and tenderness, My View of the Bright Moon, follows Kyle and Joe, two once-close brothers whose family's long-hidden secrets grow too large for the present day to hold. Driven to the brink of destroying themselves and the relationships they...

You should be scared.Already a father to a six-year-old daughter with his ex-wife, Cash makes a spur-of-the-moment decision to marry his girlfriend of five months, Lexi, when she unexpectedly falls pregnant.Three months later, still in the throes of newlywed bliss, Lexi is brutally attacked...

When a lonely bachelor takes in an orphan, he knew they would face special challenges, but nothing they couldn't get past. He couldn't have been more wrong. The truth about who they are and what brought them together will either drive them apart or...

Does Jessica know what the truth is? A stunning psychological debut with a shocking twist When she arrives at work to discover every trace of the company she was working for has disappeared, Jessica's life spirals into freefall. Her romance with Michael, a celebrated...

This brand-new novel by bestselling author Anya Mora will take you take you on an emotional rollercoaster.It's as if my heart is bursting out of my chest. I turn around, looking at the little girl behind me. Nine-year-old Jubilee, our new adopted daughter, is...

After suffering a savage assault in a bathroom as a girl, Gertie meets the man of her dreams. Her trauma soon vanishes as they begin to build a life together. However, with the sudden death of her beloved Jack, and the return of her...

The stories in Transitory consist of familiar locations turned bizarre and longstanding relationships sacrificed to singular obsessions. Unearthly figures appear on a city street, the crew of a vessel in the North Atlantic see disquieting visions in the sky, and students become fixated on...

When Jenny was published in 1911, Undset found herself called immoral -- "this is a side of the free, artistic life that the vast majority of citizens would rather not know." The novel tells the story of Jenny Winge, a talented Norwegian painter who...

How could she cope without her Magic? The thought never came to her until that day changed her life for good. And it is in this heart wrenching landscape that we follow Teresa as she seeks to escape this consistent pain that has her...

In 1912, a young girl is found dead. In present day, young Jeremy's parents are involved in a murder-suicide. Soon after, he is committed to an insane asylum.Years later, Jeremy turns eighteen and is released. After he returns home to live with his uncle,...

Imagine this: you're sixty years old, divorced, broke. You've squandered away being the husband and father you should've been to your wife and children in your quest for status among your architect peers.Don't worry: that's all about to change. Unfortunate encounters with large trucks...

Years have passed since the attack on washing D.C. but questions still remain about Operation Vanguard/ The Matthews Incident. The F.B.I. mobilizes at a small team of investigators to track down and interview those that were involved in Vanguard or who were direct witnesses....

Adam is a local carpenter much admired for his integrity and intelligence, in love with Hetty. She is attracted to Arthur, the charming local squire's grandson and heir, and falls in love with him. When Adam interrupts a tryst between them, Adam and Arthur...

Luca West is a partner at a prominent Chicago marketing company. Luca, otherwise known as Lucia Westwood, is an unconventional escort, choosing to accept gifts and sex as her payment. Introduced to an extravagant lifestyle by a pilot when she was a freshman at...

Tell a lie once, and all your truths begin to crumble one by one...Fran made the biggest mistake of her life when she had an affair with Ben. Both their families live in the small, tight-knit town of Oakheart, and their daughters are the...

A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.The mystery of three missing teens and a traumatizing murder unearths decades of buried secrets in a shocking novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author.Twenty years ago, five teenage campers disappeared. Two eventually...

"Loved Ed.""5 stars.""Funny, gripping and edgy.""A riveting read packed with fantastic characters, taut action, and excellent dialogue."Now retired, Ed should be unwinding from his 30-plus years terminating over 70 people. But to his chagrin, he's starting to see some of the dead on the...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true storyThere are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine.Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the...

"Having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be me..." Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl boards her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to...

As Book 5 ended: Oh my! That spot on the back of Janet's neck! What a shock for her to realize he had that power over her! It was an important attitude adjustment for my friend and it showed! John has been cautioned that...

I remember this time so clearly. Janet suddenly felt the responsibility for others fall on her shoulders. And these others were families; husbands, wives, children. People she considered more experienced than her in living life. Suddenly she had a lot more respect for the...

"The Moon and Sixpence" is a novel written by W. Somerset Maugham. The book is loosely based on the life of the French painter Paul Gauguin and explores themes of creativity, passion, and the clash between societal expectations and individual desire. The story revolves...

As the January wind whips down the stairs to the train platform, Ellen Randall huddles into her coat, shivering. Suddenly, a flash of red catches her eye and she turns. It's a scarf. Red and cream, in a large, checked pattern. And the person...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEListed Among Time Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005In eighteenth-century Peru, the collapse of a fabled bridge sets in motion a profound exploration of fate, love, and the interconnectedness of human lives. The Bridge of San Luis...

Author: Nella LarsenISBN-10: 1554815150ISBN-13: 9781554815159Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2023Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.7Point Value: 5Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 60413 / Passing

BRAND NEW FROM DANIELLE RAMSAYFive women; pretty, privileged, perfect, and ultimately protected... but not for long...It was 'their' dark secret. For twenty-two-years 'they' kept it buried. Time hasn't healed my wounds. Instead, they've festered. Their actions went unpunished. Until now...Shamed, scarred, and shunned, I...

All I ever wanted was the chance to live. From the moment I left my cage, I've fought for every single breath. But my new life came at a cost.The rapture approaches.Hysteria is taking over the country.Michael Abaddon stole everything from me. My freedom....

Rachel Monroe (aka Jack) is in a marriage with a man that loves her and is absolutely devoted to her. Shane has never asked anything of her, and she gives him her body but doesn't give her love. Blackmailed into giving away their genetic...

Cara Munden opened herself to the unexpected attraction, falling hard into a new love that arrived when everything else in her life was falling apart. Instead of embracing Cara's kind, loving heart, Angel Anwir had other plans, preying on Cara's greatest fear to keep...

Grace Elliott is a grief-stricken woman confronted with ongoing tragedy and loss, whose fantasies of being liberated from her agonizing existence are paralleled by the gruesome tale of the lovelorn Kent Clark. Kent regards himself a hopeless romantic, ceaselessly pursuing his perfect mate. As...

Eve Kessler's life is a catastrophe. It's midnight in May of 1974 and she's driving alone to the home she's just been commanded to vacate. Drunk and wallowing in self-pity Eve impulsively decides enough is enough. Then, too late, she about-faces and attempts to...

Giving voice to the hardworking Italian immigrants who worked, lived, and died in New York City shortly before the Great Depression, this American classic ranks with Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath as one of the 20th century's great works of social protest. Largely autobiographical,...

Not everyone comes home.Ricki Wagner and her husband, Brock, are thrilled when they get an invite to her boss's stunning lake house, never imagining the weekend of horror that awaits them. When a woman's body washes up on the shore, they soon find themselves...

I just met my new son-in-law . . . And he's my ex-husband.They're here. I watch them arrive from the kitchen window. My pregnant daughter and her new husband. They've barely known each other six months.I greet him with a tight smile that he...

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...

"A fun, rapid fire thriller crammed full of domestic drama. Unputdownable." --John MarrsLuxury villas on hot white sand, views for miles over turquoise water.Flawless hostess Penny gathers guests to an island for her husband's birthday celebrations. But she soon regrets inviting self-obsessed Eloise...When a...

From the author of Sasquatch, Baby! and Dead Spread, Shimmerfish is an unputdownable, coming-of-age horror filled with quirky characters and spine-tingling suspense. After a bizarre accident leaves her motherless, Amy Jay escapes her violent stepfather and is taken under the wing of a small-town...

1916, Bois de Bolante, France. The battles in the trenches are raging fiercer than ever. In a deserted mineshaft, French sappeurs discover an unconscious man, and nickname him The Mole.Claiming he has lost his memory, The Mole is convinced that he's dead, and that...

This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.Craft shop owner Amelia Ryan has more than just a talent for giving old barn materials new life. She can see Life Shadows: spirits of the dead.When...

This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.Kidnapped and abused by two cowboys, Daisy Dale sees an opportunity for escape. Running for her life, she hides in a farmhouse.Step by step, Daisy grows closer...

They stared at each other, and Maggie felt the tightness in her middle expand as it shifted, burning its way up... Painful sobs rose in her throat as Colin, his face expressionless now, reached for his mobile and tapped 999. When three-year-old Olivia disappears...

Young author Paul Overt arrives at a country house weekend summer party hoping to meet the celebrated writer Henry St George. He is slightly shocked by his wife Mrs St George, who announces that she once made her husband burn a 'bad' book. Overt...

Wilkie Collins lived in London from 1824 to 1889, a period in which 'the inevitable self-assertion of wealth, so amiably deplored by the prosperous and the rich; was] so bitterly familiar to the unfortunate and the poor.'Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 1979406960ISBN-13: 9781979406963Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

A black, Religious Studies professor is contacted, controlled, and possibly abducted by alien creatures-at least in his daydreams. He travels to France for a conference and meets a graduate student who may be his lost daughter. Along with an African shaman, they journey back...

Roderigo, a rich and dissolute gentleman, complaining to Iago, an ensign, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He is upset by this...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES An incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects of guilt, and the function of justice. A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest...