Fiction - Psychological

How did she get here? What series of events had led to her accepting complacency, thereby resulting in her destructive actions? She knew that others may consider her behavior a little unorthodox, if not extreme. Normally she would have agreed with that line of...

KIRSTEN'S The Rose Possessed is like a bag of M&Ms: you munch one down and you can't stop until they're all gone! It's like a sweet, plump plum, juicy and full of rich garden goodness. It's a book that is not shy about its...

According to his doctors, Tomas Stellar is no longer a danger to himself or others. He is released from the psychiatric hospital, only to be horrified by how much society outside the institution is a danger, both to itself and to people like him....

After a while, I wasn't me anymore. I missed the girl that I once was. The girl that was always smiling and happy. No matter how grim the situation was, I could always see the light. That light began to disappear. At first, it...

Mungo Joudry lives secretly in other people's homes while they are away, orchestrating their lives from his unseen position. As a promising neo-classical composer at Juilliard in New York, Mungo never expected to be accused by his best friend of plagiarism. He abandons a...

To fill gaping holes in their lives, the protagonists in The Quantum Theory of Love and Madness embark on bizarre quests that ultimately lead them astray. Whether a child savant who sings the lyrics to hundreds of songs (and never talks), a woman who...

A property harbouring a gruesome secret goes up for sale. Two men--perhaps, the wrong men--are shot in plain daylight. Nothing is what it seems. And matters do not turn out as anticipated. De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched...

Charlie Hill has a promising job, a wonderful best friend, a perfect husband, and an anxiety disorder that she is desperately trying to hide from the rest of the world. But the harsh reality of her mental illness comes to light when an unexpected...

Susan had worked hard these past few years to recover her self-worth, for herself and her children. She is back in the community, working again as Percy's director for the beauty colleges, feeling more alive, and now able to afford a home for her...

In Cry Heaven, Cry Hell, the author tries to open our eyes to show that even with good intentions roads can be paved to Hell. The story follows three men who lived evil ways and then repented. Two of the men die, but one...

Nothing could prepare Joanne for the secrets her husband left behind... As she stumbles through each day, trying to raise their daughters alone, Joanne soon learns that Jeff's basement tinkering had led to a remarkable invention: a machine that can record memories and play...

A voyeuristic journey into the mind of Timothy Stone, an orphan of the Modern Age. In the tradition of Faulkner and Joyce, this work traverses the simple complexities that bombard our young hero in the course of a single day. Violent and tender, passive...

Best possible adventure for a graduate is to spend the summer in Europe with his Spanish Exchange Student girlfriend...with too many drugs, too much drama, and way too many situations to juggle. Will Clever, hopped up on every hallucinogen imaginable, for days on end,...

Author: George GissingISBN-10: 1731705689ISBN-13: 9781731705686Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2018Pages: 672Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.63d

The effects of childhood experiences can last a lifetime. Memories may seem buried or even lost, but can recur when the attitudes and behaviour of others are similar to the past. These may trigger the same responses we had as children, making us feel...

For a year and a half, morning and night, Alexandria Tackleman prayed she would be able to escape from her abusive husband and isolated life. Was this day at the beach her chance? Winston Grover had been watching the mistreated woman who looked like...

Gripped by seduction, prejudice, and the need to control, characters in Small Lies, a collection of award-winning short stories, unshackle themselves from past hurts to confront possibilities both bold and uncompromising. Motivated by the desire for a more authentic life, these characters propel past...

It is an uncharacteristically rainy night when Robyn Briggs and her husband, George, return home early from a night out to retrieve their forgotten theater tickets. Robyn's grandfather, Joshua, volunteered to babysit their four-year-old daughter, Debbie. When Robyn enters the room and surprises her...

Michael woke up from a dream, a dream that would turn his life around. Suddenly, he would go from being a millionaire bachelor surrounded by women and riches to being surrounded by death and the dying. What or who led him to this overpowering...

Author Rodman Philbrick writing as Chris JordanHERE ARE THE FACTSFor the parents whose children have been taken, for the broken lives we piece back together one relentless investigation at a time, our town house is a sanctuary.My name is Alice Crane. I'm just one...

As she waits to give her statement in one of the interrogation rooms of Arcata Police Department, Abigale recites the same line over and over inside her head. I did not kill anyone. I did not kill anyone. But there's a trail of bodies,...

What if you could go back in time and change the past. Would you do it? In Dreams mixes the feel of a psychological suspense thriller and the mysterious concepts of dreams, coupled with a telepathic phenomenon between the past and the present. The...

On an ordinary Los Angeles morning, the lives of seven women are about to become inextricably entangled, as they converge upon LA International Airport for various purposes. Suddenly, the morning erupts into chaos, as black-clad terrorists charge into the terminal, guns blazing. As the...

Rose is seventeen and on the run, desperate to escape an unspeakable home life in Miami. She finds herself in Possum Kingdom, Tennessee, a tiny little town with secrets as dark as the woods that surround it. Here she meets Robbie Jo, her new...

This compelling work borders on psychopathological tragedy, exploring a world in which the act of writing itself is seen as a landscape for the liberation of fantasies, a place where characters create their own existence, emerging into a deformed suffering world.Author: AudeISBN-10: 1550965379ISBN-13: 9781550965377Publisher:...

Written as a series of journals, this novel features an author seeking to establish his real presence through his prose and to dispel the fear he's had since childhood--that he does not exist. What the journal poses is not the tragic question, the mad...

A human wolf who operates outside the bounds of conventional morality stalks human prey in this spell-binding morose masterpiece of psychic cannibalism, hatred, perversity, and predatory love. This unconventional and provocative story explores the world of male homosexuality.Author: Marie-Claire BlaisISBN-10: 1550961055ISBN-13: 9781550961058Publisher: Exile EditionsLanguage:...

Using delicate prose and intense imagery, this translation explores the relationship and struggle of the human body and its inner being. Completely paralyzed by Lou Gehrig's disease, Magali is imprisoned in her own body, able to communicate only by blinking her eyes. Feeling mentally...

"An Unpleasant Predicament" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in "Short Stories" (1963). Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) was a Russian novelist, essayist, short story writer, journalist, and philosopher. His literature examines human psychology during the turbulent social, spiritual and...

Lucy Doyle was raised in a normal world, yet she still felt strange. Most of her friends were dead - killed by a secret that most adults didn't know and couldn't conceive. She felt as though scoops of her brain were taken away as...

There came an episode in the life of Cecilia Holt which it is essential should first be told. When she was twenty-two years old she was living with her mother at Exeter. Mrs. Holt was a widow with comfortable means, -ample that is for...

At length I returned from two weeks leave of absence to find that my patrons had arrived three days ago in Roulettenberg. I received from them a welcome quite different to that which I had expected. The General eyed me coldly, greeted me in...

When a teenage boy is found dead in a Cambridge park, three women are determined to keep their secrets hidden . . .Emma, a detective's wife, watches the park outside her window where a body was discovered. She sees contagion everywhere-even in her new...

A young woman starts having doubts about her dream man in this unsettling thriller from the bestselling author of Girl in Bed Three. Nineteen-year-old Ellen is thrilled to have Jack Bryant as a best friend and roommate. She would be even happier to have...

"A smart, deep, black magic carnie noir existential bloodbath" from the acclaimed author of Boon (Gemma Files, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author). In the shadow of World War II, the barren, dusty streets of Litchfield, Arkansas, are even quieter than usual, leaving hotel detective George...

Part-time actress and full-time mother Britt Hinson thought that most of her life's drama was confined to the stage. Then a threatening presence entered her world, a mysterious stranger that no one but her pretty nine-year-old, Katie, had seen. Katie calls him the Flower...

Sarah has just finished her second year of medical school when she meets Roger Reynolds, a distinguished doctor who quickly sweeps her off her feet. Soon his charming ways persuade her to center her entire life on him. Despite a few red flags, Sarah...

This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in 1836 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Inspector-General' is a play allegedly based on an anecdote recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, the great Russian Poet. The Play...

This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social disgrace...

This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social disgrace...

The only female scout in the majors, hard-living Cassidy Sanderson impulsively hops a plane to the Dominican Republic to snatch up young phenom Alberto Cruz for the Los Angeles Dodgers. But Cruz may have something even Cassidy's well-trained eye can't catch -- "a bad...

Author: Ron de LabyISBN-10: 1403391823ISBN-13: 9781403391827Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/17/2002Pages: 308Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Author: Philip R. Jr. HirshISBN-10: 1403383375ISBN-13: 9781403383372Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2003Pages: 332Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.10w x 0.88d

"A writer who, more than any other crime novelist, combined a high literary reputation with popular appeal." --P. D. James Caught in a spiral of bitter seclusion and drinking since his wife abandoned him and their newborn child eighteen years ago, Hector Loursat, once...

"I always have a Simenon close at hand. In my youth I adored his Maigret books; nowadays I prefer his 'hard novels, ' as he called them, in which his mastery of human psychology is laid plain." --Julian Barnes Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of...

Joseph Conrad, master of psychological depth, explores the complexities of man-woman relationships in his compelling short story, "To-morrow." Set against the backdrop of a remote coastal town, this piece of literary fiction delves into themes of isolation and the yearning for connection. Conrad's signature...

An outcast intellectual schizophrenic attorney charged with murder in a dark metropolis employs the philosophy of a master to assess his own guilt. "It is difficult to successfully mine the roots of ones own adult agony as relates to past experiences that may constitute...

"Mary At The Window" is a love story unlike any other love story you have ever read. It is a sensitive and touching look at the true meanings of life and love. Follow Mary through her life in her search for love, and find...

Be careful what you pick up on the side of the road. In the Town of Lasting, summer is typically a time to relax and enjoy the warm weather with family and friends. That was before the arrival of Dale Hawks. He has it...

The chronicle of one man s descent into the world of borderline psychosis mimics with increasing fury the delusional world of his own patients. It s a frightening, real and utterly gripping thriller by highly touted first novelist David Post.Author: David L. PostISBN-10: 0931761298ISBN-13:...