Fiction - Psychological

Do you want to read Metamorphosis? If so then keep reading... Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is...

A criminal prosecutor is bound to make a few enemies over a decades-long career, and Dana Hargrove is no exception. Who has it in for her?In 2015, the former prosecutor is in her second year as a trial judge in Manhattan. It's a new...

The bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish returns with a psychological thriller, filled with chilling serpentine twists, about a woman fighting to hold onto the only family she's ever loved--and how far she'll go to preserve it.Named one of the most anticipated thrillers...

Blanka takes a summer job at a center for people with physical disabilities in the French city of Marseille, where her encounter with their severe conditions ends badly. A deeply unsettling, visceral tale of a young woman unraveling, evolving from carer to cared for....

Dr Maxwell Stein, a seasoned child psychologist practicing in New York, is about to head off on vacation, when the past comes back to haunt him. A visit by a former patient, now a mysterious adult, takes him by surprise to deliver a priceless...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE QUARANTINE STATION. "Get some tissues ready ... you will need them." - Sunny Shelley Reads "So emotional, moving and heartbreaking but so full of love..." - Emlovesreading "It grasps at the heart strings..." - HappyValley Booksread "This...

In this "thrilling, suspenseful journey" (Chicago Tribune) Patricia Conley is trying to find out why her man did her wrong and who did him in--and she's ready to fight back. Patricia Conley considers herself to be a brother's worst nightmare. A lifetime of hurt...

Two years after a family tragedy, and still consumed by her grief, Willa receives a strange letter from halfway across the globe. She has inherited a house in Australia, in a town she's never heard of, from a woman she doesn't know... Following the...

Opportunity: Teacher needed in one-room schoolhouse on remote island in Maine. Find the freedom in a fresh start.Julie Weathers isn't sure if she's running away or starting over, but moving to a remote island off the coast of Maine feels right for someone with...

Investigator Tawny Lindholm loves her boss, renowned criminal attorney Tillman Rosenbaum, but his troubled teenage children scare her. Her resolve to keep her distance goes out the window when his honor student daughter overdoses. Now Tawny can't turn away from the girl whose life...

A boxing bildungsroman - a collage of memories, love, resistance, and the spectacle of Muhammed Ali in Apartheid South Africa. In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy, Joe, becomes obsessed with Muhammad Ali. He begins collecting daily newspaper clippings about him, a passion...

Jimmie John Hall wasn't anything until he was a killer, and Betty Dienhardt wasn't anything until she met Jimmie John Hall. When they get together, sparks fly and bullets follow. The first to go are Betty's parents, but Betty isn't bothered. She only wants...

Darcy Hogan's perfect life is all over social media. She's beautiful, she's successful, and she and her childhood sweetheart are about to become parents for the first time. But behind all the followers and the superficial likes lurks a darker truth...In reality, Darcy feels...

Named as one of Vogue's Best Books to Read This Winter "Richly atmospheric and warmly romantic, Alexis Schaitkin's brilliant debut novel is part 'true-crime' thriller and part coming-of-age novel and irresistibly suspenseful." - Joyce Carol OatesHailed as a "marvel of a book" and "brilliant...

"An unabashed tale that does not pull punches and looks at love's underside...This breathless story should only be read in one sitting. It hits hard and never lets up. Terse, brusque, etched on one's inner thigh with an old serrated knife." --Andr Aciman, author...

She didn't understand why he called her that day. Five years of silence and suddenly they were both hiking the familiar trail they both enjoyed long ago. It wasn't until they reached the edge of a beautiful cliff overlooking the beautiful canyon that he...

From the bestselling author of the Annabelle Schwartzman series comes a chilling story of a woman with a forgotten past and a town with dark secrets.After surviving a car accident on an icy road in Hagen, North Dakota, Lily Baker regains consciousness with no...

An admired but cold and ruthless surgeon lies and cheats to rise to the top of his profession as a member of the President's cabinet. He founds a hospital in Nepal where he conquers 8000-meters peaks. Fame and self-esteem rise but he fails at...

Nostalgia can be severely corrosive. This is what thirty-six-year old Josh will come to find out as he wakes up in his childhood bedroom with no recollection of how he got there. As he ventures out into the world, he's dumbfounded to discover that...

Trent's Last Case is in fact the first novel in which the sleuth Philip Trent makes his first appearance. The novel breaks new ground in detective fiction history because it is the first novel of any substance that breaks all the rules of the...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Apartment comes a powerful, poetic, and haunting exploration of loss, love, and isolation. An American living in London receives a phone call from a German policewoman telling him the nearly inconceivable news that his sister, Miriam, has...

- "The Archivist, Martha Cooley's first novel, was a national bestseller and a "New York Times Notable Book.- With the assurance, complexity, and depth of a work by Bulgakov, DeLillo, or Poe, Martha Cooley's extraordinary second novel is further evidence that she is one...

"Reminiscent of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects" Christina Kaye, award-winning author of Presumed Dead Now a USA Today besteller! A twenty-year-old local mystery that has never been solved.A bone-chilling VHS tape depicting a horrific crime.Neighbors with something to hide.And a sister who is missing.Emily has...

Feeling herself being drawn towards a life in law enforcement, Vahn Carver enters into the police academy. As a cop on the streets she longs to become a detective in the Homicide Division. Once there, she is assigned to a serial murder investigation. Her...

Jesus' Cat is the first book by this young prose writer. The stories involved in this collection reveal, on the one hand, a unique writing style, and on the other, an original perspective on the world and people. This combination allows characters to develop...

If you are looking to truly understand the cause of war, conflict and man's inhumanity to man - and if you are willing to think outside the box - this book will give you a new perspective on history. It explains why every society...

After ten years in Paris, Galal returns to Cairo, where he finds a society in transformation. Egypt is Galal's home, but he feels he no longer belongs there. He is caught between his two identities: his Jewish mother's family are cosmopolitan business people, while...

On the eve of Salma's twenty-first birthday, scattered friends and family converge on New York for a celebration organized by Darwish, her obstinate grandfather. Each guest's journey to this fated gathering takes on an unexpected significance, as they find themselves revisiting the choices they...

After ne'er-do-wells spread rumors about a widowed mother's weak moral character among the people of a slum on the outskirts of Tunis that festers with migrants who have come to the metropolis from the heartland in search of a better life, her twenty-year-old son...

This multi-layered novel about the depths of human experience and the struggle between polarities, on the surface presents a love story of unrequited passion between Rama--the symbol of multiplicity and creativity--and Mikhail--the symbol of unity and constancy. Their story reflects the relationship not only...

In The Last Dance, Anmol Arora explores themes of identity, love and ambition in a compelling debut novel that carries the reader along with it till the end.The year is 1991. The Kurdish-Turkey conflict is at its peak, and eleven-year-old Ayla's family is caught...

Late in the 22nd century, an unprecedented and possibly unnatural exosolar signal is detected. Although inscrutable, it bears a strong resemblance to a series of paintings by a mute woman in Burkina Faso. A team of scientists are sent to the unusual place where...

Prince Amerigo, an impoverished but charismatic Italian nobleman, is in London for his marriage to Maggie Verver, only child of the widower Adam Verver, the fabulously wealthy American financier and art collector. While there, he re-encounters Charlotte Stant, another young American and a former...

When their father dies, Doctor Thomas Thorne and his younger, ne'er-do-well brother Henry are left to fend for themselves. Doctor Thorne begins to establish a medical practice, while Henry seduces Mary Scatcherd, the sister of stonemason Roger Scatcherd. When Scatcherd finds out that Mary...

Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) war ein sterreichischer Erz hler und Dramatiker. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter der Wiener Moderne. Schnitzler schrieb Dramen und Prosa, in denen er das Augenmerk vor allem auf die psychischen Vorg nge seiner Figuren lenkt. Gleichzeitig mit dem Einblick...

Oblomow ist ein 1859 erschienener Roman von Iwan Gontscharow (1812-1891). Romane Gontscharows bilden eine thematische Einheit. Sie alle sind dem Typus des begabten, gebildeten, Idealen verpflichteten aber durch Herkunft und Standesgewohnheiten zu ergiebiger Faulheit und g nzlicher Passivit t resignierten russischen Adligen gewidmet, dem...

What is the cost of being human and leading a human life? Both Cassidy and Cassendre are about to find out. Two women, one soul. Cassidy on earth whose life stems from her other self, Cassendre- born in the afterlife. Amid the broken streets...

When Father Henry McGrath hears a confession that sends a cold chill throughout his body, he's unsure what to do. To divulge the private confession would violate holy canon law. When he refuses to go to the police, people begin to die, and the...

In the isolated ski-resort town of Gold Flume, longtime Sheriff Jay Isaacs, prepares to confront three teens for a condo break-in. On his way to the county seat of Aureole, with the teens in custody in the dead of winter, an earthquake shakes the...

Here's one reviewer's take: "Originally marketed as "occult horror", Ariel is neither. It's a story of the madness that lies just under the surface, and what it takes to bring it out; the need to give evil a face and a name. Who better...

The last novel written by Leo Tolstoy, "Resurrection" was first published in 1899 amidst huge anticipation. What surprised the world was Tolstoy's story of a guilt-ridden nobleman, haunted by the sins of his past and seeking a way to atone for them. The aristocratic...

First published in 1899, this graphic depiction of urban American life centers around its title character, McTeague, a dentist practicing in San Francisco at the turn of the century. While at first content with his life and friendship with an ambitious man named Marcus,...

It is arguably the most common theme in ABDL fiction - becoming a baby again, perhaps forever and perhaps completely so. For many Adult Babies, the idea of being able to give into our wishes and desires completely and without restriction is a wonderful...

Author: Jeff LindsayISBN-10: 1432875027ISBN-13: 9781432875022Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/2020Pages: 577Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.10dLarge Print

Marcheline Fay claimed the father of her child wasn't in the picture. Now her daughter is all grown up and asking questions. When a decades-old letter gets mailed without Marcheline's permission, the lie she told might not be enough to keep them safe.Scrambling to...

Adrian Webster thought he had lost everything when his younger brother died in a tragic accident ten years ago. But when his best friend's son, Wyatt, vanishes while riding his bike through Green Swamp in Central Florida, Adrian finds himself obsessing over finding him....

The Metamorphosis' is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins...

A shocking thriller by the bestselling author of Girls of Glass.It seems like an open-and-shut case for FBI special agent Lucy Thorne when Eliza Cook walks into the field office. The teenage girl confesses to murdering a young boy. Disturbingly composed, she reveals chilling...

BOOK ONE OF THE GIVEN TRILOGYThe world no longer tolerates vicious, repeat offenders, and deals with criminals accordingly. The survivors of these heinous crimes are sent to private establishments around the globe, known as, The Given.The Louisiana's Given is run by the ever charming...

The story is about Gregorio Samsa, whose sudden transformation into a huge insect makes it more and more difficult for his social environment to communicate with him, until he is considered intolerable by his family and finally perishes.One morning, after a restless sleep, Gregorio...