Fiction - Psychological

In a world of lies, the truth is her deadliest weapon. Sierra Coleman awakens from a horrific crash, her mind a blank slate. But as she claws her way back to reality, she discovers her amnesia is just the tip of a sinister iceberg....

Someone doesn't want Katherine to have her happily ever after. Thirty-year-old Katherine (Kat) has always dreamed of the perfect husband-a man she could love and who would love her for eternity. Her search comes to an abrupt and violent end when her perfect husband,...

AN INDIE NEXT PICK AND A LIBRARYREADS SELECTION A suspenseful dark comedy about a struggling writer who wakes up to find his date from the night before dead--and must then decide how far he's willing to go to spin the misadventure into his next...

"Molly, if you love me, kill me, please." - Frankie "Dealer" MachineDirected by Otto Preminger and nominated for three Academy Awards, The Man with the Golden Arm is an impressive 1955 classic film noir drama, based on the novel of the same name by...

Author: Simon ToyneISBN-10: 006344271XISBN-13: 9780063442719Publisher: William Morrow Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/2025Pages: 656Format: PaperbackLarge Print

Love Island meets Lord of the Flies in this must-talk-about-it read, as bingeable as the best reality TV. Lily--a bored, beautiful twenty-something--wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast...

'Fatally addictive!' real reader reviewThe Forrester Detective Agency is going from strength to strength: they've expanded their office space and even hired a new office manager - a qualified and astute woman named Carol.What starts as a simple burglary case soon turns into something...

'Fatally addictive!' real reader reviewThe Forrester Detective Agency is going from strength to strength: they've expanded their office space and even hired a new office manager - a qualified and astute woman named Carol.What starts as a simple burglary case soon turns into something...

This strikingly unique book offers a bold explanation of why you are here. If you hunger for more meaning you will find the path to discovery explained in the simple approach of believing in all possibilities that await you. Life is only limited to...

Our struggle with our humanness is about to implode. So, fearing we have reached the point of no return-intervention comes from courageous etheral beings who are willing to dwell among us to save us from ourseves. If you ever feel like you are being...

Shadows are often benign, nothing to truly fear, and yet our minds create from them. We see them twist and form into something sinister, something eerie, something that makes our skin crawl or our heart race. As the fog manipulates the landscape, so does...

In 1986 Soviet Ukraine, two boys and two girls are welcomed into the world in a Donetsk maternity ward. Following a Soviet tradition of naming things after prominent Communist leaders from far away, a local party functionary offers great material benefits for naming children...

After a woman's body is found in a local beauty spot, her heart surgically removed, D.I. Andy Ross and his team are called in to investigate.But this time, they face a criminal mastermind unlike any they have before, who soon becomes known as The...

Expanding upon The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias, this second volume brings thirteen* not-so-irrational fears much closer to home.Find out what happens when a family goes missing in their own home, an acquired piece of artwork turns out to be much more than bargained...

George Sand (1804-1876) war eine franz sische Schriftstellerin, die neben Romanen auch zahlreiche gesellschaftskritische Beitr ge ver ffentlichte. Sie setzte sich durch ihre Lebensweise und mit ihren Werken sowohl f r feministische als auch f r sozialkritische Ziele ein. So rebellierte sie beispielsweise gegen...

A bleak novel about the obsessions and insecurity of a high school teacher."The first English translation of Czech author Ungar's extremely interesting second novel, published in 1927, preceding the better-known The Maimed (1928, 2002). Josef Blau, schoolteacher, has a full-blown case of paranoia, driven...

A nurse in Carl's nursing home has been found dead. Carl, institutionalized for his mental disorder, thinks he may have killed her. Didn't she threaten to disclose his love affair with Gloria, which could deprive him of the person who was giving meaning to...

A brilliant modernist classic--now available for the first time in a stand-alone edition This dreamy, formally audacious story of a summer's day in the life of one family is a small masterpiece by Katherine Mansfield, hailed as "one of the great modernist writers. Virginia...

Save a man's life and your own life changes drastically as you live in constant fear from then on. The man had intended to kill himself and he now holds you responsible to do it for him, that is, to kill him. Contrasting life...

Twenty years ago, Jen's sister disappeared. Now, she's looking for answers.Jen Silver has moved to a new neighborhood in affluent, suburban Pennsylvania with her partner, Dan, and her daughter. It's a picture-perfect neighborhood where the residents hang out on each other's patios drinking margaritas...

Fantasy and reality clash in a twisted novel of psychological suspense, where a shared moment of female outrage changes one woman's career overnight--and her life forever.Beatrice "Bea" Ku is sure this is it. The moment she finally receives her hard-earned promotion at the Seattle...

In his debut novel, inveterate polemicist Fredrik deBoer shines a merciless light on our pervasive need to romanticize debilitating mental illnesses into dainty, loveable quirks. In a dorm room at her safety school, surrounded by cornfed boys and contemptuous girls, Alice is losing her...

A playfully macabre and utterly thrilling tale about orphaned twins on the run from their murderous uncle who find refuge in a bizarre traveling carnival, from a master of literary horror It's 1915 and the world is transforming, but for thirteen-year-old Bolt and Eleanor--twins...

From the mind of acclaimed reporter Gary Baum comes In Pursuit of Beauty, a striking debut novel that examines the nature of truth and allure in our modern world. What would you endure to fulfill your dreams? What would you do to have the...

"I can no longer survive the presence of memories. They are too strong and I'm much too weak."The Last Island Almanac records the four seasons of the final year of an old man's life. Alone, haunted, haunting, the fabric of the natural world around...

Henry Willis is a recently retired, timid, middle aged professor whose wife Martha dies mysteriously and it is ruled an accident by the police. Henry not believing this and feeling indirectly responsible for her death, feels compelled to find the killer by himself -...

Be Not AfraidThose three words have haunted me my entire life, and now I'm close. I know I am. I'm close to finding out the truth behind the words, the truth behind the Seraphim.The closer I get to uncovering the truth, to proving that...

How much can you trust your friends?Varian Morris is an average teen with an average girlfriend and a set of average friends. Against the backdrop of 2003, a camping trip turns into a horror game between Varian and two of his friends, Kacey and...

From the mind of acclaimed reporter Gary Baum comes In Pursuit of Beauty, a striking debut novel that examines the nature of truth and allure in our modern world. What would you endure to fulfill your dreams? What would you do to have the...

Baldur's Gate meets Paradise Lost in this deeply emotional fantasy novel. This novel stands at the intersection of classical Shakespearean tragedy, dark fantasy, mythological epic, and psychological realism. It draws on the tragic hero archetype while also engaging with the modern fantasy tradition of...

David was always put in diapers and plastic panties at night because he is a bedwetter and can't help himself. On the weekends and holidays, his Mommy keeps him in his diapers and plastic panties which he learned to like as well.David loves being...

The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1824 sonnet, which begins ""Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life"". Maugham uses a third-person-limited point of...

Jenna Ancelet has spent the last five years in prison for a crime she did not commit. But she knows who did: a trusted friend. How could she have been so naive?In her little red journal, she has maniacally hammered out the details of...

One of the great works of Western literature, Voltaire's Candide is a picaresque tale with profound philosophical underpinnings. Its plot, which sees the eponymous hero experience one calamity after another, elegantly delineates Voltaire's belief that no matter what may befall us, 'all is for...

Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an expressionistic picture of New York (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's...

A powerful picture book about a brave young girl who was born with a cleft lip. She discovers the power of her broken smile. She learns that her smile is powerful enough to make another person feel happy and better about themselves. If you...

Quincy O'Connell blows through identities as quickly as she creates them. She has to, to stay alive. They've been following her for years. Watching her. Trying to get close. She doesn't know why and she doesn't know who, but she knows she has to...

"A beautiful, dream-like, unsettling narrative in which every word, like a small jewel, feels carefully chosen, considered and placed. Rarely do debut novels come as assured and impressive as this one." --Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying GuestsElegant, sinister and...

When Joanne's friends reluctantly accept an invitation to her birthday party, it quickly becomes clear that there is more to this weekend than they are expecting.One of them is hiding a secret.And Joanne is planning to reveal it ...A weekend away in a cottage...

Volume 3 brings the Quadrilogy to its incendiary conclusion. Going back in time to the 1970s, and thus bringing the story full circle, the Jackson Moore clan is back - all of them. Now you can see how it all began, and find out...

On the run and desperate to evade the law, the Jackson Moores decide to take to the road, taking the law with them in a last-ditch attempt to outrun their fate. But this time something has changed. This time there is a significance to...

Making up the first story in this omnibus edition of the DANNY Quadrilogy 'Minor Works', is DANNY Volume 4, Two Dead Boys, an 83 page fragment from what was intended to be the final volume in the series. Set in Manchester, it revisits old...

In its nuanced portrait of a middle-aged suburbanite and his family, APPEARANCES challenges easy assumptions about the nature of kinship and selfhood, of crime and punishment, of appearance and reality. Steven Howe-Boomer, lawyer, family man-has settled into midlife contentment. Then, unexpectedly, Steven finds himself...

The master of Scandinavian crime fiction spins a dark tale of passion and deceit set during World War I: "A memorable and shocking psychological study" (Publishers Weekly). October, 1914. Swedish naval officer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is charged with a secret mission to take depth readings...

A line-dancing aficionado visits his brother in jail in hopes of mending their relationship, and instead discovers his own unwitting role in his brother's failed life. After the death of his wife and children, a logger tries to survive the Thanksgiving weekend on his...

A "disquieting" (The New York Times) and mesmerizing tale from an award-winning British author about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor--a tale that "[stirs] the imagination in the manner of Roald Dahl or C.S. Lewis"...

'The Master of Ballantrae' tells the story of two Scottish brothers whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745. It makes a splendid companion volume to 'Kidnapped', and is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's most riveting adventure stories.Author: Robert Louis StevensonISBN-10:...

"Dennis Palumbo's Head Wounds is a spectacular ride." --THOMAS PERRY, New York Times bestselling author"This is a book that'll make you lock your doors and check your computer's security settings." --JOSEPH FINDER, New York Times bestselling authorPsychologist Dr. Daniel Rinaldi consults with the Pittsburgh...

Author: Leslie I. SchomerISBN-10: 1414013493ISBN-13: 9781414013497Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2003Pages: 220Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.38h x 6.42w x 0.79d

Karyn Kiplinger's life is painfully banal. Every day seems like the last - until the moment the hypnotist's shop magically appears on her walk home, and changes everything. When lost time, lost memories, and lost sanity begin to plague her, she falls down the...