Fiction - Psychological

An eerie, hypnotic debut about friendship, desire, and memory set against the sultry backdrop of Florida's swamplands. "A mesmerizing, hallucinatory adrenaline rush of a novel."--Claire Luchette, author of Agatha of Little Neon LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE It's been years...

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: 9798895532676Publisher: Page PublishingLanguage:...

**The Fire We Cannot Touch** is a raw, unflinching novel about what happens when desire becomes indistinguishable from destruction. When Cassius matches with Darius on a late-night app scroll, he doesn't know he's stepping into the most consuming - and costly - relationship of...

Jennifer Soyvenus is a burnt-out Antifascist organizer craving connection. Chet Beefwell is a redpilled manosphere influencer searching for meaning. When the two accidentally swap phones during a political street brawl, they are pulled into a chaotic love affair that will expose-and test-everything they believe.Author:...

Al White has little patience with losers. They make him sick, and he seems to be surrounded by them. But he can handle anything. He has his whole future planned. He's headed for success and the good life, and everything seems to be going...

"A breezy retro novel with bite."--L.A. Times "A 1970s-Laurel Canyon version of My Brilliant Friend."--The Atlantic An electrifying novel about the complicated friendship between two ambitious writers and the ultimate artistic betrayal: one writes a book based upon the other's life, revealing everything...from the...

Jennifer Soyvenus is a burnt-out Antifascist organizer craving connection. Chet Beefwell is a redpilled manosphere influencer searching for meaning. When the two accidentally swap phones during a political street brawl, they are pulled into a chaotic love affair that will expose-and test-everything they believe.Author:...

A fractured love. A trail of betrayal. A marriage unraveled by conflicting desires.In this gripping psychological drama, Radek, a Polish émigré returning home after communism's collapse, builds a new life with Anna-his charming and much younger wife. But behind their seemingly idyllic marriage lurks...

BOOKER PRIZE LONGLIST - "A vibrant, heartstrings-tugging novel" (People) about a mother's love, in all its forms, as a woman searches for the daughter she gave up for adoption, from the prize-winning author of Golden Child "A beautiful story . . . explores what...

"A beautifully written, deeply moving novel that lingers like a fine malt-rich, complex, and quietly unforgettable." Something is broken in Dr Sandy O'Neill - and he's starting to realise it can't be fixed where he is. A respected stroke physician once grounded in science...

The ink isn't fading. It's moving.Mercer Cole is a master of silence and restoration. As the lead conservator at St. Jude's Scriptorium, he has spent his life coaxing secrets from the past, specializing in "Palimpsests"-ancient manuscripts where the original text was scraped away to...

Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardA haunting, unforgettable novel of obsession, pride, and forgiveness, exploring the friendship and rivalry between two gifted boys in harrowing circumstances, from the acclaimed writer of The RemovedMilton Muleborn has envied Matthew Echota, a talented Cherokee artist, ever...

Some pain never announces itself.It settles quietly into the body and waits.Elior Hale has built a life around silence.In a city that asks no questions, he lives with three friends who know him only in fragments-his routines, his politeness, his careful distance. What they...

Peggy is turning a dark girlhood romance into a novel and is trying to get her fellow inmate at the mental hospital, known as the Duchess, to read the manuscript. Frankly the duchess would prefer a Mills and Boon, but her friend's wartime tragi-comedy...

Some stories refuse to die.In a forgotten corner of small-town Indiana, Adriana McMahon serves up nuts and fudge at the mall while hiding from her dark past. When her seventeen-year-old coworker, Rebel James, drops off a bloodstained notebook full of stories about missing girls,...

All families need a helping hand sometimes - even if it means mass murderIt had been a bad day for Charles Moon. Suffering two events that will change him and his family forever.But is there a deeper connection to the events, and who is...

What would you do if your first date ended in murder?A year ago, after a perfect date, Miles Deverill was charged with murder. The handsome young actor became front-page news when he was accused of killing Caira Kennedy, a social worker he had just...

He survived what should have silenced him.Born into chaos and betrayal, this is the story of a man forced to wear masks just to make it through. Abused by family, wounded in service, and ignored by systems meant to help, he wrestles with invisible...

A quiet storm brews within Asmita-successful on the surface, yet silently crumbling underneath. Sleepless nights, anxious mornings, and a slow retreat from the world she once embraced. When a late-night call to a college friend leads her to clinical psychologist Paromita, Asmita begins a...

What if reality isn't what it seems?As timelines converge and unravel, Lyra and her companions lead you through a labyrinth of choices, memories, and reflections that blur the line between illusion and existence. With every page, you'll find yourself not just reading their story,...

CRACKING THE HUMAN CODE: BOOK DESCRIPTIONGaining the trust of people can be tricky. The reason is that, for every living being, there is a code to gain entrance to their heart and mind. It is necessary to connect and decode individuals using this unique...

To the world, Henry is an oddity-his behavior teetering between eccentricity and something far more misunderstood. Whispers follow him, questioning whether grief, war, or loss have left him this way. But those who truly see him know better.Henry possesses a rare gift-an unwavering kindness...

A loyal samurai. An impossible order.In a silent forest clearing, a lone samurai kneels and waits - for death, for judgment, for the return of the master who commanded this fate. Bound by honor and a final order, he is to commit seppuku (ritual...

In Hyperinflation: Dark Tales of a Broken Economy, the collapse of the financial system takes center stage, and the disturbing consequences of a world plunged into chaos unfold in brutal, unrelenting detail. This collection of 35 dark, twisted short stories explores the harrowing reality...

He sees 'the butterfly' in his dreams. She is the key to setting a child's soul free. She is the perfect sacrifice. Ex-soldier Kirkman 'Buffel' Potgieter lives by the motto of his former military unit: Tiri Tose, which is Shona for 'we are together'...but...

A marriage made in heaven, a murder made in hell.Why kill the man you love?Lizzy was struggling, everyone could see.He shouldn't have done those things.He shouldn't have pushed her so hard.And now her children, her marriage, her hope - gone. It was all her...

Have you ever wondered if we choose our loved ones during our lifetime - or before?Do you ponder the meaning of your existence; your destiny?What would life be like if your rivals didn't exist at all?Researcher Brian Sunderland has been looking for answers to...

After sisters Markie and Kam get tangled with the wrong people at the wrong time, long-buried family secrets begin to emerge.A serial killer is targeting people close to them. As danger inches closer and closer to home, twisted desires become a reality. The deeper...

Since Maylee was abducted from her high school the very month of graduation, her Aunt Autumn has never lost hope in finding her.It's been three years. Autumn has finally reached inside herself and found the courage to track down an old lead, and travels...

A portrait which hides the secret to a brutal murder. A secret military experiment which results in a terror beyond imagination. An invitation to a night of passion, too good to be true.A derelict asylum for the criminally insane, where one patient refuses to...

Marianne Gage is an old-fashioned writer in the best sense of the word. She develops characters organically through keenly observed gestures and spot-on colloquial language, and soon the reader is sucked into their lives, witnessing and caring deeply about the small dramas and traumas...

Villette (1853) by Charlotte Brontë is the story of Englishwoman Lucy Snowe who ends up a teacher at a girls' pensionnat in Villette, the capital of Labassecour, a fictional French-speaking country on the continent. Autobiographical in many ways, the novel shows stoic Lucy overcoming...

Awarded a Hewlett Foundation grant for combining a powerful story with practical ideas about relationships, career achievement, happiness, and success, this novel centers around a college student caught between family obligations and life.Author: Kirkland GableISBN-10: 1932842322ISBN-13: 9781932842326Publisher: Star Cloud PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2009Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Step into the shoes of Dallas attorney, Stan Turner, in the late 1970s. Then hang on for the ride of your life as Stan is determined to hang up his shingle even though he has no money. Starting his practice on a $2,000 cash...

'There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed menlong enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.'Ernest HemingwayOne serial killer terrified the world. Imagine what an army of them could do...A cult member is arrested...

Set in Vienna, the play's main themes include justice, mortality and mercy. The story starts with Vincentio, the Duke of Vienna, makes it known that he intends to leave the city on a diplomatic mission. He leaves the government in the hands of a...

From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery & suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her...

Betsy Ruscoe, a single university professor in her mid-30s, is pregnant, and the man she thought she loved is not interested in fatherhood. At the same time, her dying mother begs Betsy to find the woman who gave her up for adoption at birth...

Dorrie Gilbert, a potter who lives alone, is completely unprepared for motherhood when her oddball, overweight, and orphaned nephew, Hugo, comes to live with her, demanding to know the truth about his parents and horrified that she doesn't own a television so he can...

Heart of Darkness is the classic novella about Charles Marlow, an ivory transporter on the Congo River in Central Africa, who becomes obsessed by Mr. Kurtz, a notorious ivory procurement agent. The story deals with the conflict between savagery and civilization, and ranks as...

ALMAYER'S FOLLY: A STORY OF AN EASTERN RIVER by Joseph ConradAuthor: Joseph ConradISBN-10: 1480202894ISBN-13: 9781480202894Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/29/2012Pages: 142Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d

In Wicked Women, Dennis Stevens, a criminology professor and prison counselor, shares the fascinating life stories of fifteen super predators, detailing their early life experiences and criminal activities through the time they interacted with him in prison. Withholding their names and identities, he presents...

Sometimes, the pursuit of finding the truth in a secret is not worth the pain from the answer.Henry Hall's life was on the fast track to success until his employer moved his job to another country. Now he's working two jobs to pay bills...

Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862-1932), known as Goldie, was a British political scientist and philosopher. He lived most of his life at Cambridge, where he wrote a dissertation on Neoplatonism before becoming a fellow. He was closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group. Dickinson was deeply...

A mysterious parcel. An unsolved crime. A spell from beyond the grave.After returning from her last strange quest, Selkie Moon is more than ready to settle down. So when she receives a parcel from her great grandmother 35 years after her death, opening it...

The arrogance and folly of youth. The strength of friendship. The madness of obsessive love. During the long, hot summer of 1976, Charlie, Paul, and their friends wander the sun-soaked hill tops, searching for answers, looking for UFOs, discussing the occult, drinking, flirting, smoking...

A tragedy. A love story. An extraordinary journey to the heart of the human soul.For Jack and Alice Mann moving from the city to the coast is a dream come true, but when comedian Jack is struck down by a mysterious illness a Kafkaesque...

Another of Harry's remarkable discoveries. A literary novel; a love story with numbers; an exploration of identity and tarmac; a rediscovered gem - whatever. Edgar handAuthor: Paul EusticeISBN-10: 0992608813ISBN-13: 9780992608811Publisher: Justifiedtext.Co.UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2013Pages: 210Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.44d

After losing control of his Jeep on a patch of black ice, David Grace lies helpless in the snow, watching his best friend die. He awakens in a remote hospital, snowed in, cut off from the rest of the world, and badly injured. David...

A world of deception. A family torn apart by tragedy. A man who stands to lose everything. Richard Buell is surrounded by people that love him. But greater in number and in strength are those who want him to suffer. Peace and happiness are...