Fiction - Psychological

His birthday is slipping past. On this grey day, a lonely man faces the mirror. In his stare he knows. Yes, knows he will die by his own hand. A husband. A father. A physician, too. He is distant. Disturbed. Depressed. Fractured. The soft...

It's 1981 and the South African Defence Force is fighting a secret war against the forces of Black Liberation. Over-promoted Police Sergeant Joshua Smith is called in to investigate the possible use of poison gas after an international media outcry. Joined by Captain Trudi...

A multiple-time Amazon Best Seller, The Dark Locket draws readers into a chilling maze of memory and madness.The past isn't buried-it's waiting.When Harold's fiancée, Emily, vanishes without a trace, his search pulls him into the decaying heart of Lyaeus Sanatorium, an abandoned asylum cloaked...

The forest is alive.While visiting fellow writer, Frank Harlan Marshall, Derek Gray senses a palpable dread within Frank's house and the forest that surrounds it; a subtle, malignant sentience. What should be a joyous event, as they await the surprise arrival of a long-lost...

Following in the tradition of fables (from Bidpai, Aesop, and La Fontaine, to Don Marquis), Miss Lilly: My Life is a light-hearted, thought-provoking tale told by Miss Lilly, a feline bard of royal persuasion. Offering a fresh exploration of ideas and possibilities in a...

Eve La Salle Caram's new short novel, published here in Trio for the first time, is a story not only about a search for a lost relative, but about finding the lost pieces of several lives. It is also the story the author's students...

Megan, disfigured and disabled, could never have known she would be tortured by the man in the apartment upstairs. He claims innocence against her seemingly outrageous accusations while relishing in the pain of the once beautiful socialite, now shattered. But he wants more than...

With the shadow of the Appalachians calling her back home, Tess desperately struggles to claim her individuality in a world of debauchery without the painful remnants of her past and fear of a fragmented future overwhelming her.Author: Priscilla a. RoddISBN-10: 1933202076ISBN-13: 9781933202075Publisher: Vandalia PressLanguage:...

"Ripe with truths, secrets and lies, The Secret Wound is a beautifully conjured story of the depths of the human heart." --Richard Rohr, New York Times-bestselling author All that glitters is not gold . . . In the seemingly tranquil ex-pat community of Mallorca,...

Hope is a woman like no other. She is a pocket dynamo, a bundle of energy, drive and ambition. But underneath the surface Hope is hurting and as her self-esteem sinks ever lower she finally seeks some answers to the questions she cannot even...

Fragments is a sequel to Infinitybut can be read as its own story'She is a true ice princess. Beautiful and delicate, but her heart doesn't seem to be warm. I have visions that it is not even beating, that I have imagined she is...

True life drama and suspense. A broken man who appears well adjusted, rescues and mentors eight people who are floundering and about to destroy themselves. Fear is their enemy, fear is also their comfort.Author: David J. BrownISBN-10: 1796675946ISBN-13: 9781796675948Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/26/2019Pages: 366Format:...

The two novels included in this book are works of Russian magic realism. In the first novel, Shadowplay on a Sunless Day, Anatoly Kudryavitsky writes about life in modern-day Moscow and about an emigrant's life in Germany. The chapters of this multi-layered novel form...

"Beautifully written, compelling, challenging and thought-provoking." N. Jennings"Magnificent! ... extremely well written; I enjoyed every minute of it. Casts a critical and compassionate light on the Indian residential school system." T. MooresIn August 1947, Mary Brock boarded a train in Toronto. She was headed...

Five friends at the end of their schooldays dream of the long summer ahead.Their band, Friendly Fire, is just beginning to gel and out of the blue they receive the offer of a lifetime - to play at the wedding of a young football...

From the author of The Madness comes a haunting folk horror fable of lost sisters, old gods, and the terrible power of belief left to rot in the woods.After the tragic death of their parents, the seven Ward sisters are sent to live with...

Succesful illustrator, Julia Green, believes she's living the American dream in suburban Houston until she begins having sleepwalking nightmares featuring her husband, Austin, as a knife thrower with scantily clad Julia strapped to his target. And Austin's aim is regrettably poor. Julia paints scenes...

At twenty-one, Karla Most finds Saxton Perry, the man of her dreams, and also discovers that her recently deceased mother was not the Holocaust survivor she purported herself to be, so Karla must now learn exactly who she is, and how to be that...

A lighter thriller, in the vein of Nelson Demille, unfolding in the world of Silicon Valley billionaires and the women who seek and use them for their money. The man: Wolfgang Schmitt: former model, newly single, habitual wiseass. It's a profile only his ailing...

John Doe has amnesia and is seeking help to regain the memories of his past and his identity. Karl Otto, a man stressed by life, discovers that his wife, Grace, with whom he has just spent the night, has been dead for months. How...

Travels with Lovers flows with humor and grace, and one can feel the laughter and sadness in these couples' journeys. Within these classic short stories one comes to understand the bizarre nature of various loving encounters and the inherent difficulties involved in any relationship...

Author: Pradeep KanthanISBN-10: 1483646556ISBN-13: 9781483646558Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/2013Pages: 128Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Author: Adonna MohebISBN-10: 1436303192ISBN-13: 9781436303194Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2008Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Illumination is a psychological and empowerment novel which is a blend of fiction and non-fiction used to analyze and synthesize the authors' observations of human systems which led them to conclude that there are negative impacting forces robbing African people in America and throughout...

Hanns is a restless engineer, photographer and film-maker ready for his next adventure. Tino is a brilliant painter and flamenco guitarist. Anna is an uninhibited dressmaker and chocolatier who delights in life's absurdities. Antonio is an amateur bullfighter determined to prove himself in the...

Novelist Donald T. Beldock offers two storylines that depict widely diverse social and commercial settings which in turn demonstrate the fascinating evolution of American society over a seventy-year period ending in the 1990s. In its postmodernist impressionist style, Bloodline begins with Peter Klein's first-...

Russell and his family live under tight armed security in a hidden valley, controlled by their wealthy father who is determined to keep them from the world outside. Although over-indulged, Russell's life of ease is a form of imprisonment.Unlike his siblings, Russell questions the...

Never knowing love makes you crazy. Finding love feels like heaven. Losing love hurts like hell. Sharlotte Swanson is a cliché. She's single, educated, and talented. Her life, however, is like an unscripted television show for a southern diva who migrated north. When it...

Leland is a tale about ordinary people living amidst the extraordinary beauty of the storied National Lakeshore; about the not-so-good side of good people, and the good side of the not-so-good; about the young and the old, and how they become enmeshed in circumstances...

'If you dig up the past . . . you're going to get dirty.' Davy had spent most of his life running but never figured out why. Forced to return to Gallows Close where he grew up he may at last get an answer....

At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis a damaged Soviet nuclear submarine receives orders to attack the flagship of the American blockade with an atomic-tipped torpedo. Are the orders genuine, or are the scientists behind the ultra-secret telepathic experiment that transmitted the instructions...

The startling descent of an idealistic young physician into a spiral of desperation caused by events beyond his control. His life becomes a battleground between ancient destructive forces and an elusive unidentified guardian.Author: Mark R. WadeISBN-10: 075964263XISBN-13: 9780759642638Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2001Pages: 196Format:...

Katrina makes a deal with the devil for the love of a Russian sculptor, Sergei. In an ironic twist she becomes enamored with the devil's disciple George, causing complications when she receives Sergei's love as compensation for her soul.Author: Kallya ValanisISBN-10: 0759614261ISBN-13: 9780759614260Publisher: 1st...

In a future dominated by a brutal, self-righteous empire, the old man, Jenchae, has been sentenced to death for speaking on behalf of his colonized people. When Elek, a murderer at the mercy of his own fury, is thrust into a prison cell with...

Cash has been abolished in a strategic move to force the population to be 'marked' with identifying barcodes. When a friend uses just his hand for payment, Emily explains that he now has the "mark of the devil". Elisha Dullard is warned of the...

"We're not asking you to leave a bag full of explosives on a crowded train. Every user gets a dirty bomb sooner or later - we're just expediting the process."And so begins a young man's descent into a mouth of madness where lethal drugs...

'Know thyself' is a Greek aphorism. But how can she? Something is missing. She can't think what it is. A mysterious amnesiac art dealer, Ruby, is jailed in Australia for the traumatic murder she cannot recall. In her high society life in London, acting...

It was one of the most perfect days, only just warm enough, an ever so slight breeze I could see in the hairs on my arm and in the flutter of flags across each end of the pool but couldn't feel. It must have...

According to the author, The Other Shore is a work of true fiction, a picaresque novella, woven of tissues of truth and make-believe. Any truth to be found in it exists in the eye and inner ear of the reader.It is a story of...

How do you take care of them after you're gone?Evie Danvers has three beautiful, if slightly out of control, children; a stray cat named Dr. Moxley and a best friend who drinks unapologetically at 9 a.m. Evie also has stage four bone cancer and...

Robert Begay had no idea his studies and lectures on Evil, and those who pursue power for pleasure, would lead him to a surprise confrontation with the personification of evil itself. Photos of himself and his girlfriend are left dipped in blood, and his...

When Dylan, an average wave of middling ability, realizes he is about to crash on the shore, he is terrified and miserable. But when he encounters a magnificent wave named Serena, Dylan learns that he is not separate and alone, but One with every...

Malcolm Hepburn is a brilliant surgeon with a beautiful wife and a stellar career. He is also a vicious killer with a stunning gift. Detective Jacob Sparks is heading up the task force to take him down. But he knows he's going to need...

Alex Moon Peoples knows he's one of the walking wounded. As an international journalist, he knows, too, that no one wins a war on terrorism. Having witnessed one massacre, famine, epidemic, or civil war after another during his years in Africa, he dreams every...

Malcolm Ward's struggle to survive in a 1950's state hospital continues into the general population where he finds allies in his assigned group therapy and he and his friends confront and joust with a megalomaniac superintendent and a charge attendant bent on destroying Malcolm...

They used to be partners--Greg Monarch and Ira Sullivan, a couple of do-good lawyers in central California. But it all went bad for Ira. Bad enough that he wakes up in jail one day staring at a death sentence for murder. Only Greg Monarch...

What if the greatest inheritance a family carries isn't land or money, but silence?Mijo: We Bend, Not Break is an unforgettable novel about three generations of Mexican American men bound by distance, unspoken love, and the heavy weight of survival. From the cracked soil...

Author: Philip RothISBN-10: 1598531999ISBN-13: 9781598531992Publisher: Library of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/07/2013Pages: 468Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.90d

A dark past. A fresh start. A new nightmare waiting to begin.Willow McAllister is desperate to start over. Quiet town. Blank slate. No attachments. When she meets her friendly new neighbour, Priya, it feels like a lifeline: the start of something good.And then there's...

The internationally bestselling author of the "brilliant, gripping must-read" (Glamour) Try Not to Breathe brings suspenseful thrills in this unputdownable novel following three women as they face an incoming nuclear attack. Nuclear missile threat to South England. 59 minutes until impact. Seek immediate shelter....