Fiction - Psychological

Author: Michael H. DanfordISBN-10: 1583481028ISBN-13: 9781583481028Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1998Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.01h x 6.01w x 0.43d

This is a novel about movie love. Set in Ottawa in the 1990s, it is the quixotic tale of tall, thin Harriet Browning, inflamed by the movies she was deprived of as a child. Harriet is a woman so saturated with the movies, seen...

Imagine Being Pulled Into the Hereafter. While You're Still Alive. A disillusioned business executive whose life has hit a dead-end, Nick Seagrave has lost loved ones to tragedy and his family to neglect. Now, at a point of great crisis, he unbelievably and inexplicably...

This repack of Randy Alcorn's gripping bestseller delivers us from ignorance of the devil's schemes. Foulgrin, a high-ranking demon, instructs his subordinate on how to deceive and destroy Jordan Fletcher and his family. It's like placing a bugging device in hell's war room, where...

An intricately woven, suspenseful novel of psychological and political intrigue, The Tesseract follows the interlocking fates of three sets of characters in the Philippines: gangsters in a chase through the streets of Manila; a middle-class mother putting her children to bed in the suburbs...

A long drive across Chile's Atacama desert, traversing "the worn-out puzzle" of a broken family--a young man's corrosive intimacy with his mother, the obtrusive cheer of his absentee father, his uncle's unexplained death--occupies the heart of this novel. Camanchaca is a low fog pushing...

Miguel is Cuban American, with the accent on American. But beneath the surface of his sun-drenched Miami lifestyle lurks an evil that threatens to destroy him. The chance reading of a newspaper article reporting a stolen skull and the ritualistic murder of a petty...

A fifteenth-century portrait painter, grieving the untimely death of his unrequited love, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, an island off the coast of France. He haunts the halls until the monks assign him the task of copying manuscripts - though he...

We're nothing like other families. We are self-made. We are an essence unto ourselves, unique and dissonant, the only members of our species. Livers of humdrum lives who flitted around us got their wings burned. We're not mean, but we can bare our teeth....

Middle-aged and short on prospects, Charles Wilson returns to Trempes, the village of his childhood, and discovers the body of his childhood friend, Paul Faber, hanging from a tree in the clearing where they played as boys. Thus begins Wilson's obsessive quest to exhume...

Herv , the friend with AIDS; his lover, Herv , also afflicted; Herv the hairdresser; Herv next door who has defenestrated himself: in A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning the narrator confronts the deaths of so many friends, all named Herv . But the dead...

In this blistering debut novel, author Adnan Khan investigates themes of race, class, masculinity and contemporary relationships. Omar Ali, twenty-seven-year-old line cook and petty criminal, gets a phone call from his ex-girlfriend's father at work, informing Omar that Anna has committed suicide. Unable to...

Jordan is a gifted artist, trying to heal from the life she was forced to live for many years. She is living in her own world, consumed by the past that threatens to destroy her young life.Randall lives in his own world, brought on...

Blind psychiatrist Mark Angelotti is faced with his most troubling case yet when he is asked to evaluate Rachel Lazarus, the estranged wife of a slain University of Chicago professor. Months earlier, the professor's body was found stuffed into one of the exhibits at...

Beautiful Mutants, Deborah Levy's feverish allegory of a first novel, introduces a manipulative and magical Russian exile who summons forth a series of grotesques--among them the Poet, the Banker, and the Anorexic Anarchist. Levy explores the anxieties that pervaded the 1980s: exile and emigration,...

When Sarah's seemingly perfect life begins to crumble, she is forced to confront the reality of her abusive marriage and dark past, and it seems all is lost-until she allows the support of friends and a long forgotten, unopened letter to help her find...

From the author of The Geometry of Love, a Booklist Top Ten Women's Fiction Title, comes Nothing Forgotten, a deeply moving literary novel about a mother's regret, a quest for self-forgiveness, and love transcending time.Author: Jessica LevineISBN-10: 1631523244ISBN-13: 9781631523243Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2018Pages:...

For most of his adult life, the only place he felt at peace was at home in Silver Lake, Ohio with his parents--but after their sudden death, he is left on his own. Eager to help their brother, Steve's siblings, Scott and Sylvia, who...

Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. A hymn to the city of Sofia, a series of whimsical character portraits, a literary mural of Bulgaria at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Is There Anybody There to Love You? is the first collection...

The narrator of this novel begins by introducing himself not as a speaker but a listener, spellbound by his friend Caracala's yarns, which blend accounts of youthful mischief with casual references to Cervantes and Laurence Sterne. At first, the spotlight is entirely on Caracala,...

David and Molly Jones live with their three-year-old son Michael on Manhattan's Upper West Side. David works at a prestigious New York literary agency. Molly is a freelance copyeditor. They are devoted to their son and secure in their love for each other.Then Deirdre...

A heart-stopping thriller by ED GORMAN WRITING AS DANIEL RANSOM author of The Serpent's Kiss A PLACE TO DIE FOR... Dr. Richard Candlemas's academy had been the place where Meredith Sawyer grew up-a place she had spent her adult life trying to forget. The...

With a wedge at last driven between Mat and Dougie Carmichael, courtesy of Nikolai Petrovic's expert manipulations, the brothers must each accept their new path forward: Dougie, a perfect slave, sweet and obedient and loving. Mat, a tightly reined dog, snarling and snapping but...

Max, a young anthropologist, discovers two handwritten pages written by a Victorian adventuress who lived with an unknown tribe in the Amazon. Determined to discover more, Max is dragged into a world of mysterious suicides, pagan sects, child prostitution and police harassment. Set in...

Mackenzie Morgan thinks she's doing the right thing by taking her teenaged daughter, Bella, into the Appalachians on a photography shoot. Fleeing a crumbling marriage, Mac needs time to bond with her daughter and escape the betrayal that still leaves her numb. But when...

Two men, two methods, two motivations, one darkness-step inside the twisted mind of a killer, and of the man determined to end him at any cost.Tony Hooper stands in shadow across the street, one amongst many in the crowd of curiosity-hounds gathered to watch...

"Desperate, degrading, wise, witty, these tales of addiction encompass family struggles, failed relationships, dirty sex, overdoses, and the constant drive for drugs that fuels each vein-digging author. Dispelling myths about the glamour of self-destruction, Stahl has chosen stories that are raw and real, focusing...

Ava Wilder's home in small-town Iowa is her sanctuary. A talented sketch artist with severe agoraphobia, Ava spends her days drawing a far more adventurous life than her invisible disability allows. Until she receives a package from London, explaining that she has inherited her...

Although Henri Barbusse grew up in a small town, he left for Paris in 1889 at age 16. In 1914, at the age of 41, he enlisted in the French Army and served against Germany in World War I. Invalided out of the army...

It so happened that the very same year Ricardo-the physical Ricardo-was a fellow passenger of mine on board an extremely small and extremely dirty little schooner, during a four days' passage between two places in the Gulf of Mexico whose names don't matter. For...

Author: Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN-10: 1613825196ISBN-13: 9781613825198Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2018Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.06d

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...

Rachel fends for herself in a country brought to its knees. Since Jason left two years ago, she only ventures beyond the safety of her storm wall when food supplies dwindle. Her one contact with the outside world is Noah, who runs the market....

Winner of the 2017 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation PrizeWinner of the 2019 Bernard Shaw Prize for its translationAt a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, Bret Easton Ellis. When a john...

J.-K. Huysmans' Stranded (En Rade 1887), published just three years after the iconoclastic Against Nature, sees him again breaking new ground and pushing back the boundaries of the novel form. Stamped throughout with his characteristic black humour, Stranded is one of Huysmans' most innovative,...

A first-person diary of a prisoner's final day before being executed for an unspecified crime, Victor Hugo's poignant tale vividly conveys the mental anguish of a man confronted with the intransigent mechanism of justice, as his mind seeks refuge in recollections from his past...

Martha Armstrong has started again - new city, new home, new future. Yet she is troubled by her partner Will's obsession with the paranormal and unwelcome face from her past. Troubles which threaten the happiness she thought she had found. Her friend Gabriel McKenzie,...

She's broken. She's vulnerable. She's just what Marco was looking for.Stella Wiseman was a child TV star, but there's nothing glamorous about her life now. Alone in her thirties, she's lost her parents and her friends and she's stuck in a dead-end job. But...

What if the perfect life you envy was rotten to the core? Three brand-new friends. Three very different families. Way too many secrets. Gisela, Sally and Kate become close when they move into the same new housing estate. But behind their shiny front doors,...

Beautiful, intelligent, and charming, Leslie Daniels is the wife of a successful Illinois physician. To her friends and family, she is happily living the American dream. But there is a hidden side to Leslie, a side propelled by lust and unsettling impulses that run...

What happened to Peter's first family?His wife, his children-all of them are dead, and rumors swirl around Peter himself as the culprit. My name is Aubree Van Lullen, once whispered about for all the wrong reasons. But that was before Peter Woodley entered my...

Two Cases. One location. The first case, a girl gone missing, seems a decidedly local affair. The second, the return of a violent criminal who had fled the country, instantly attracts the interest of Scotland Yard and Detective Inspector David Brock. When he learns...

Part mystery, part hospital soap opera, and part social commentary, Mary Roberts Rinehart's 1914 novel, K., is a look at a vanished world, a social artifact from the early 20th century, complete with rowdy, old-school roadhouses, forlorn lovers, and themes of revenge, altruism, and...

The Beast in the Jungle, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book...

Mystery, psychology, humor, and unforgettable characters blend seamlessly in this page-turner that keeps readers guessing until the end. A contemporary riff on Sartre's admonition that we are condemned to freedom: bound by personal responsibility to every decision we make.Author: John DefrankISBN-10: 1609100514ISBN-13: 9781609100513Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage:...

THE HERO (1901) by W. Somerset Maugham is a complex psychological exploration of the stifling of deepest personal urges and the resulting disillusionment. James Parsons returns home after military service in South Africa and finds his worldview changed. His family's affections are oppressive, his...

Two teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in this classic thriller from 1958, only to get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. Dolores Hitchens wrote crime...

"You look like a good truthful boy. Here are ten dollars for you." "Oh, thank you, ma'am You're a gentleman," said Mike overjoyed. "No, I don't mean that, but I hope you'll soon get a handsome husband." "My young friend, I don't care to...

2019 Readers' Favorite First-Place Gold Medal Winner in Fiction: GeneralA fire in a neighboring farmhouse has young farmer and volunteer firefighter, Mitch Garner, blaming himself for the tragic outcome. He loses all hope of forgiving himself. His only hope for redemption is to leave...

Margaret's War uses 15-year-old narrator Billy to juggle the broken heart, the trampled soul, and the fragile sanity of a beautiful young woman when male egos grab and grope at her with the absurd hands of war.The isolated small town where Billy and Margaret...