Fiction - Psychological

'Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier' - Samuel JohnsonEveryone has heard of MI5 and MI6, but what about plain old MI? Jon Comyn had heard of it, but had no idea what they actually did. He had served...

The King of the Sea Monkeys is a novel in two parts. Because the protagonist suffers from a traumatic brain injury, the first part is fragmented, finding its way in the larger narrative in disorderly pieces. The novel is centered on a young high...

Niet van der Zand's story begins in Vienna. He is a succesful businessman who meets a series of women which he begins a liaison with. In fact he falls in love with at least four of them. He is interested in Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology...

A gruesome murder... Radio psychologist Jacob Temple is found dead on the floor of his den. A gaping wound in his neck, lacerations crisscrossing his chest, a fork bored into each eye. No break-in. No evidence. Bouncing back and forth in time, the story...

Cliff and Jessica Pedersen loved their children. Twins born on Halloween. They raised them to the best of their abilities; a typical loving family. Yet something went wrong. Despite the love showered upon them, something changed in the children as they got older and...

Willa Cather was an early 20th century author best known for her novels, O Pioneers, My Antonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. In 1906 Cather became the managing editor of McClure's magazine. As a muckraker journalist Cather co-authored a scathing biography about the...

An irreligious, fallen military hero is chosen by God to conduct a ten year old girl, the next advance in human evolution, through a perilous contemporary world. Fleeing from the murderers of her family, they find refuge at the home of a dying minister....

A child's spirit has returned from an alternate reality through a mystical red butterfly. She will enter the hearts and minds of every woman on the planet. Her only purpose - to liberate women from the unspeakable crimes committed against them and their kind,...

Keith, Milly, Daz and Jack are a very lucky group of young-at-heart working countrymen-and lady-in the late 1800s.Foul Lowers tells the adventure of their journey, from their days as happy-go-lucky field workers to their life of leisure and luxury, when they bring to the...

No-one thought she had the courage... Those looking in from the outside think Lucy Lovejoy's life is like any other, but at the centre of her family there is a big empty hole where all the love and warmth should be. Over the years,...

Melissa Bonetti thought she had it all figured out.A steady job. An eight-year relationship. A life of comfortable, perfectly average normalcy. Then everything falls apart in a single day. She loses both her job and her boyfriend of eight years in less than 12...

Across Singapore's corporate towers, Rome's shadowed institutions, downtown New York's bath houses, and Tokyo's controlled chaos, a man known only as the Thin Man moves through systems designed to remain unseen. What begins as a series of professional encounters of contracts, negotiations, and strategic...

"A reminder of the effort it may be costing the one with whom we share our workplace or our bed to keep raving madness at bay to appear to be a nice person, normal, one of us."-JM Coetzee, Nobel LaureateA powerful novel of a...

A mother's love is supposed to be unconditional.But what if it shouldn't be?Noah is the boy everyone admires--an honor student, a champion swimmer, a hometown success story. Until he confesses to sexually abusing young girls during swim practice. In a single moment, his future...

"The Girl With the Golden Eyes" is a provocative and atmospheric masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac, forming a significant part of his monumental series, "La Comédie humaine." Set against the backdrop of post-Napoleonic Paris, this novella delves into the dark underbelly of the city's...

'Compelling, chilling and an incredibly impressive' Alexandra Brown 'Shocking, and very cleverly crafted' The Book Review Café 'Disturbing and chilling' Northern Crime Reviews 'A gripping psychological thriller with a level of tension that will leave you breathless' Tracy Book Lover They say every marriage...

A man in mourning must push through his despair to stop a serial killer once and for all in this complex and chilling psychological thriller. Connor Phelan had his dream job as a prosecutor. He was on top of the world until the sudden...

After surviving a car crash that left her companions dead, a woman must recover her memory-and keep her own secrets hidden-in this gripping thriller.When a car crash sends a group of musicians plunging into a lake, the sole survivor is amateur viola player Rosie...

Brooding and propulsive, Georges Simenon's indictment of American suburbia follows a Connecticut lawyer who, after years of jealousy and rage, finally tears down the facade of his perfect life.Donald Dodd has always envied Ray Sanders. A Madison Avenue adman with an actress wife and...

In trade paperback for the first time, the lacerating and brilliant novel of psychiatrists and patients--"[a] superbly incisive and witty sequel to Shem's bestselling "The House of God" ("Publisher's Weekly").Author: Samuel ShemISBN-10: 034546334XISBN-13: 9780345463340Publisher: Ballantine GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2003Pages: 576Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.50w...

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The...

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The...

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The...

Held captive in a dark basement as a child, only released as entertainment for her step-fathers drunken parties, The Nothing Girl manages to survive by emersing herself into the books that fill the basement prison. When she is finally rescued as a teen, her...

From the award-winning author of The End of Vandalism: "Equal parts heist caper, ghost story and romance . . . in prose that is spare and sly." (The New York Times)Set in the rugged region of the Midwest that gives the novel its title,...

A piercing satire about a journalist working the night shift at a tabloid and the explosive consequences of her "harmless" clickbait. Washed-up New York journalist Frankie Miller is getting desperate. Since the twenty-nine-year-old lost her dream job at a glossy magazine three months ago,...

From the author of Reese's Book Club Pick and instant USA Today bestseller The Unwedding, a novel of suspense and friendship about three friends who decide to disappear from their lives for a few days while on a trip to a national park--only to...

Amabel's Children is a razor-sharp, unsettling, and darkly hypnotic novel that bends reality, memory, and identity into a single, spiraling question: What does it mean to be born for an audience?Gregory J. Wolos delivers a story that moves between the living and the dead,...

Author: Daisy JohnsonISBN-10: 0593188985ISBN-13: 9780593188989Publisher: Riverhead BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2026Pages: 304Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.13w x 0.75d

Todo grapples with fear and self-doubt, questioning their abilities and place in the world. Despite setbacks and feelings of inadequacy, Todo find strength in embracing their uniqueness and pursuing their passions. Ultimately, Todo realizes that growth and fulfillment come from confronting challenges and sharing...

In the politically charged country of Bunolle, Zachary Woodbine's life spirals into chaos as he becomes entangled in royal rivalries that will test friendships, loyalty, and morality.Finding himself in the vibrant yet treacherous atmosphere of Bunolle, English ex-pat Zachary "Throat" Woodbine, discovers a country...

Author: Aethereal StoriesISBN-10: 1067613706ISBN-13: 9781067613709Publisher: Aethereal StoriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2026Pages: 378Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.84d

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...

Freemasonry on the American Frontier - Moral Order, Brotherhood, and the Shaping of a NationThe American frontier was not shaped by law alone. Long before institutions were stable or authority firmly established, communities relied on shared moral expectations-trust, restraint, obligation, and mutual aid-to survive....

Coming from a dysfunctional family background, Allen Prescott is a man who grew to believe that his performance is tied to his self-worth. Like many with similar stories, he's naive to what life is really trying to teach him. He believes that as long...

Jasper Price had built a life around certainty. Science gave him answers. Flowers gave him purpose. Distance gave him peace. When Jasper returns home to care for his mother, he is met with an impossible inheritance: the Trimardeau Estate, left to him by a...

In 1987, Dr. Edward Redwood leaves the controlled world of neurological research to begin clinical work at a large urban hospital. Methodical and reserved, he is more comfortable with data than with people, more at ease with theory than with uncertainty. His first major...

Christine Wilson is nearing forty when her life quietly collapses. Once a promising figure in London's restaurant world, she finds herself abruptly dismissed, emotionally adrift, and still shadowed by a childhood tragedy that refuses to stay in the past. Drinking too much, smoking too...

Ramona begins with a portrait of life on a Southern California ranch shaped by longstanding customs, shifting cultural pressures, and an undercurrent of personal uncertainty within the household. The narrative introduces a commanding matriarch whose authority defines the rhythms of the estate, revealing a...

Seventeen-year-old Trevor Taylor has lived his short life being ruled by addiction. Not wanting to be alone in his misery, he takes his little brother, eleven-year-old Dustin, along for the ride, until one fateful night when a freak drug lab explosion kills the elder...

Legalized sports betting has exploded into a multibillion-dollar arms race; one that is woven into the fabric of everyday American life. Hidden deep inside is a mathematical loophole few people know exists.Chase Dupree is one of them.A devoted husband and father of two, Chase...

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914-ish) was an American author, poet, journalist, and Civil War veteran. A prolific and versatile writer, he was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and - infusing his stories with his brutal and absurd wartime...

In 1986, with Chernobyl smouldering on the news and the Cold War casting a deep shadow, Scott becomes convinced that nuclear conflict is inevitable. Sensitive, watchful, and haunted by personal grief, he immerses himself in post-apocalyptic stories and survival games, drawn to the clarity...

Six-year-old Mark Nilsson has just arrived at his new home, and he is absolutely enthralled by the natural beauty surrounding his residence. It doesn't take long before he finds himself communicating with ancient voices, voices that have seemingly chosen him for a great purpose,...

Detective Maya Chen never planned to spend Christmas Eve crawling up a snow-choked mountain road, but a terrified 911 call changes everything. The Ashford family-wealthy, powerful, and deeply dysfunctional-has gathered at their private lodge for the holiday and the reading of the late Marcus...

They told him to eat the bars, take the pills, sleep when the screens went dark.That life was normal. Safe. Necessary.But when Ethan Cross stumbles across fragments of an ancient code-and dares to share what he remembers-the velvet cage begins to tear.The Directorate calls...

When do the sins of a child stop being her mother's fault? As Haylee sees one of her twin girls devolve into alcoholism, the monster of blame stalks her. Maybe if she hadn't drank herself. Maybe if she'd found better childcare instead of taking...

Australian Agent Steve Wallace has been waging a one-man battle against Terrorism all over the world. Once again, Wallace partners with a CIA Agent, but when they clash with the Assassin, things go very, very wrong.Steve Wallace finds himself in a cat-and-mouse struggle with...

After the Rain is a linked collection of short stories by Dina Sokal, a Baltimore-based psychiatrist who self-published this book for her MFA thesis at the University of Baltimore. These stories reveal the resilience of the human spirit and the "restorative magic" of creativity....

He resented bugs, and now he finds himself as one.Gregor, a dutiful office worker and the sole provider for his family, wakes up one morning to a horrifying discovery-he has transformed into a giant bug. Yet, as the initial shock fades, he realizes that...