Fiction - Psychological

An unusual novel form is created by the use of an actual crisis inside and around the author's life as subplot to the fiction. The time span in the fiction is meshed to a contiguous time span of autobiographical time by a voice situated...

Author: Russell Jack SmithISBN-10: 0910155291ISBN-13: 9780910155298Publisher: Bartleby PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1993Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.98h x 6.10w x 0.81d

Exploring what happens when love for family and love for religion overlap, this novel follows a woman swept into a religious cult, who believes she has been offered one last chance at salvation. With her deeper involvement in the cult comes increasing alienation from...

Claudia Moscovici is a Romanian-American fiction writer and art/literary critic. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Velvet Totalitarianism (2009), as well as Dangerous Liaisons (2011), a nonfiction book on psychopathic social predators. She has also written several scholarly books on Romantic...

An internet chatroom is one place to meet new 'friends', but remember no one tells the truth; especially when Jack met Rose. Jack was bored, often drunk, married - living in leafy Surrey. Rose was young, beautiful, delicate and dangerously psychotic - living in...

"Rayne, is launching a new series here, and if future installments are as gripping and intricately plotted as this one, it could have a long run." ― BooklistIntroducing professional researcher Phineas Fox in the first of a brand-new series of chilling mysteries.Phineas Fox has...

A small family moves to the Slovenian countryside to restore a large, dilapidated farmhouse. Then the relatives arrive--Cousin Vladimir, a former partisan writing his memoirs, Uncle Vinko, an accountant who would like to raise the largest head of cabbage on record, Aunt Mara, and...

Adrian Pomeroy teaches English at a boys' school 'full of bullshit artists in blazers'. When he finds himself at the centre of an allegation that might end his career, his life starts to unravel in spectacular fashion. With a police investigation underway, Adrian turns...

If you want something badly, you'll tear apart anyone who stands in your way. Ashley Wheeler is hiding from her past. The only thing keeping her going is the love of her daughter, Lucy, who Ashley will risk everything to win back from her...

Sophie Andrews's life is rather routine. She fights with her twin sister, Alyssa, she still lives with her parents, and she isn't sure where the relationship with her boyfriend is going. But everything changes one night when an intruder breaks into her home. Sophie...

What is the Divine art of being human, and what can it do for our world? They met in a deep fog, in California's country by the sea. She thought she knew herself, but now she thinks again as the wisdom he brings ignites...

'Well, you see, a great many people have the wrong idea about us Catholics. They think that we all have one purpose in mind, and that is to change everything around us according to the way we believe, and since you are the principal...

Suddenly, milliseconds after Clarice heard Robert scream, an almost invisible form emerged from the center of Jessie's stomach. Clarice spoke to what appeared to be Robert's face, though its translucent nature made it impossible to make out the eyes, mouth, or nose ... "It...

Author: Vincent PerriISBN-10: 0595267203ISBN-13: 9780595267200Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2003Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d

The Frayn family of Washington, D.C., is coping pretty well with twenty-first century realities of life--snipers, bomb threats, natural disasters, etc. Then, in the moment it takes Claire Frayn to dig for her umbrella, her politically outspoken brother Steven is shot down right next...

Five women become unlikely friends when they all stay in the same British public hospital. As they get to know each other, they discover that their lives intertwine--through bosses, ex-husbands and lovers. And the death of one of them, apparently from complications from surgery,...

Rob and Karen Catto are a newly married young couple settling into their lives together on the northeast coast of Scotland. Rob's job as a janitor at the local school involves him in both the lives of his students and issues of security. So...

This is the story of Seth, registered nurse, and his fight for an accurate mental health diagnosis. Read through Seth's life and determine for yourself what the cause of Seth's post-traumatic stress disorder is.Author: Paul SmithISBN-10: 0228889839ISBN-13: 9780228889830Publisher: Tellwell TalentLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/23/2023Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Are You a C*NT? is about getting curious about what is behind the discord in our lives and relationships. Why do we experience repeated drama, stress, disconnection, and unhappiness in our lives? With some self-awareness, tools and skills we shift towards purpose, joy and...

On a dead-end street in a Pacific Northwest suburb, a history teacher who has just purchased her first home discovers that her bedroom overlooks a field where, decades ago, a man murdered three women. Heading the derelict Homeowners Association, a President with a host...

"Fast paced, fantastical adventure""A potent mix of fantasy, noir mystery, cosmic horror"She's not crazy. She's just outnumbered by her own mind.Twenty-year-old Cherry is a survivor, a connoisseur of cheap diners and the unwilling host to three "Alternates" no one else can see. There's Uncle,...

Sam goes into the forest expecting quiet. What he finds instead are animals that linger longer than they should, a forest that seems to watch back, and a stillness that presses him inward rather than letting him disappear. Over the course of a solitary...

When the cure's deadlier than the disease...Dr. Emma Steele thrives under pressure. She must. As an ER doc, she juggles life and death on every shift. Still, nothing prepared her for the onslaught of evil. When a string of deaths floods her ER, she...

What do a gambler, a poet, a punk, and a writer of westerns have in common? Four college professors embark on a crime spree in Northern Arizona in 1993. They start by robbing an off-campus bookstore, but when things don't go as planned, the...

"A Woman's Life" is a landmark of nineteenth-century French realism, offering a profound and poignant exploration of the human condition through the eyes of its protagonist, Jeanne de Lamare. Following her departure from a convent to the family estate in Normandy, Jeanne enters adulthood...

Patrick, a married man in his early thirties with a white-collar job as his identity and alcohol as his salve, works himself to the bone, breaks down, and goes to Vegas with his friends - fellow hedonists under thin corporate veneers - to recoup...

From the moment Jade's charred remains are identified, Christine is thrust into a murder investigation that will haunt the rest of her life. Join The Support Group, and learn the dark secrets of the abused women within its circle.Author: Dana HarlowISBN-13: 9798899229763Publisher: Page PublishingLanguage:...

The Scarlet Letter, ranked No. 16 in The Guardian's Best 100 Novels in English (2015), is Nathaniel Hawthorne's haunting masterpiece of sin, secrecy, and moral judgment. In Puritan Boston, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet "A" as a public mark of adultery,...

How can you catch a killer when everyone is lying? When Detective Kim Stone is called to the crime scene, what she sees leaves her speechless and she knows she's up against a truly twisted killer. But when she breaks the devastating news to...

Born in war. Separated by fate. Bound forever by a mother's love.In the chaos of the Korean War, a young mother gives birth to twin sons whose lives will be forever shaped by a single moment of sacrifice. When tragedy strikes, the brothers are...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Jane Hawk--fiction's most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine--continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner. "No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you...

Life's little ironies presents a series of stories that examine how personal hopes collide with social expectations, revealing the quieter struggles that shape ordinary lives. The collection opens with the experience of a woman whose past choices and present limitations place her at the...

A Horror NovelSome towns don't forget their dead.They consume them.When Wren Voss returns to the sinking Louisiana town of Brackish Hollow, she's searching for answers about her sister's disappearance. What she finds instead is a silence so complete it feels engineered-an entire community bound...

A gorgeous, and bruising, collection. With a voice that balances grit and grace, humor and heartbreak, Daniel S.C. Sutter captures great truths of the human condition . . . love is imperfect, forgiveness is complicated, survival often looks like stubborn hope. Debris announces a...

Jarvis Lumen is a PhD candidate in linguistics at MIT who believes in facts and evidence. But when he is accused of faking his research, his future begins to fall apart. Soon, his mind and body start to betray him, and his everyday life...

"Neuroscientist and author Graziano has crafted a compelling fantasy based on a semi-plausible "what if." Imaginative, intelligent narrative...Twin ideas of forgiveness and mercy twist through this strange, moving, patiently wrought novel, making for a trippy but charming read."- Publishers Weekly "An hilarious, dark, brittle...

A rural romp through bisexual awakening and obsessive love, as told by one unforgettably unhinged millennial. Twentysomething and aimless in 2005, Drew moves to Vermont's countryside and takes a job at a stable. Through the musings of her lovelorn trainer Tristan, she glimpses Cleo--his...

A controversial arts collective is rolling out their most audacious project to date: a second moon, set to launch from the Mojave Desert and into the Earth's atmosphere at the summer's end. The problem? No one seems to understand how "Moon2" actually works, or...

The streets don't forget. After everything that went down, Indiya and Samiyra are left carrying secrets too heavy to bury. But when blood hits the pavement, the city smells it - and predators circle close.With trust unraveling, enemies closing in, and love turning dangerous,...

When Claire Adams receives a package days after her mother's suspicious death, it contains a journal, a childhood photo, and one word written in her mother's desperate hand: Beware.Her mother wasn't paranoid. She was right.For decades, Helen Adams was Subject #07 held captive by...

"Intersecting baseball with the horrors of war, The Batter's Box is a creative, compelling, and profound piece of historical fiction. You won't be able to put this book down." -Tim Kurkjian, Senior Baseball Analyst/Writer, ESPNDuring World War II, a star baseball player trades his...

Author: Nathaniel HawthorneISBN-10: 006348160XISBN-13: 9780063481602Publisher: Mariner Books ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2026Pages: 272Format: Paperback

Rituals and rules set the stage as The Celestial Guide (TCG) highlights the cost of sin and sacrifice. Obedience runs deep here-will devotion save or suffocate? This is an extended version of the original ebook.Author: Enoch SegalISBN-10: 1950822214ISBN-13: 9781950822218Publisher: Enoch SegalLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/29/2025Pages: 82Format:...

Emily Hathaway is too smart to fall for the wrong man-but somehow, she still does. At thirty-one, she has a good job, close friends, and a strong relationship with her mom. She's emotionally aware. Self-reflective. She knows what manipulation looks like. Or thought she...

In this captivating novel, a poet with borderline personality disorder writes out his experiences that mirror is painful past and crumbling inner world through the art of poetry. It's a gripping page turner as you read through his thoughts and feel his wrestling with...

When physicist Evan Carter uncovers an inexplicable anomaly during a groundbreaking experiment, his world is turned upside down. What starts as a scientific curiosity quickly becomes a harrowing journey through alternate dimensions, each more dangerous than the last. Thrust into a fractured multiverse, Evan...

Hidden Water revolves around the intense rivalry between cattlemen and sheepmen in the Old West, set in a desert town. The narrative explores the struggle for land and water rights, with tensions escalating between the two groups. A newcomer, with a pacifist inclination, is...

When Tommy Edwards was a young boy, holidaying with his parents and brother, he witnessed an accident which would forever change both the course of his life and his personality. Now a young man, he marks the anniversary of his brother's passing by watching...

--Havana Lunar named a Notable Selection in CrimeReads's 10 Best Crime Novels of the Last Decade"A sad, surreal, beautiful tour of the hell that was Cuba in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The writing is hypnotic, the storytelling superb....

'Reading The Failing Heart is like taking a trip; part escape into another consciousness, part suffocating delusion. The story - or rather the scaffolding upon which Smith displays elegant philosophical architecture - follows a young scholar whose mother has just died. Estranged from his...