Fiction - Psychological

Return to Gull Haven is about the life of Shelby Francis. Glimpses of tragedy in her past, a doomed romance, danger and kidnapping in the present, and a glimmer of hope for her future gives her the will to survive.Author: Mary Earls WellsISBN-10: 1403316163ISBN-13:...

Part love story and part psychological thriller from best-selling author Trevanian, "a tour de force... A story that explores meticulously some of the darker corners of the human soul." -- The Washington Post In the quiet Basque countryside in 1914, Jean-Marc Montjean, a handsome...

Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying house in Nottinghill, where he plans to pursue his two abiding passions--supermodel Nerissa Nash, whom he worships from afar, and the life of serial killer Reggie Christie, hanged fifty years earlier for murdering...

The unforgettable story of a housepainter turned doctor in Big Sky country who finds himself on a darkly funny journey to salvation in this "irrepressibly comic and optimistic" novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade...

"I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret." For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen...

Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it...

In his critically acclaimed new novel, Tim Gautreaux fashions a classic and unforgettable tale of two brothers struggling in a hostile world.In a lumber camp in the Louisiana cypress forest, a world of mud and stifling heat where men labor under back-breaking conditions, the...

"The truth might be hard to bring to light, but that didn't mean it didn't exist, because it did exist: fixed in its moment, unalterable, and certainly not a matter of 'belief.' " When an old flame accuses him of sexual assault in her...

Elle's 33 Best Books of the YearA Searing Debut Novel from One of the Most Imaginative Minds in Fiction Kelly Luce's Pull Me Under is a suspense novel with a female protagonist that gets more right about women than so many others I've read...

Caroline Webb knows what it means to lose the person you love most. Twenty years ago her five year-old daughter, Hayley, was kidnapped and later found dead. Now Caroline has started over with a new husband. She thinks she has put the ghosts of...

A haunting, luminous debut novel about a man and his relationship with his daughter, his captor, his past, and his future. "Like Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, All That's Left to Tell celebrates not just the power of storytelling but the deeply human need...

Watch your back. Trust no one. And when a killer closes in, hide yourself away. It should have been an ideal week during a perfect summer in America's First Resort. But just hours before the KEY News crew arrives for their broadcasts from Newport,...

For Better... Deborah Robinson lived on a quiet street in a small town with her handsome husband and darling twins. It was the picture-perfect life---until the day Deborah's husband vanished without a trace. Or For Worse... Before he disappeared, Steve had been on edge....

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the award-winning author of The Infatuations comes the mesmerizing story of a couple living in the shadow of a mysterious, unhappy history--a novel about the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love. "A literary mystery ... calls to...

A profound and dazzlingly entertaining novel from the writer Louis Menand calls "Jane Austen with a Russian soul" In her warm, absorbing and keenly observed new novel, Lara Vapnyar follows the intertwined lives of four immigrants in New York City as they grapple with...

***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD*** A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an "examiner," charged with teaching the man a series of simple functions--this is a chair, this is a fork, this...

My second year of graduate school started like a new beginning. And I was interested in a new man. One I believed I could love for all the right reasons. The last two guys, as it turned out, were not good for me. At...

WHAT IF POLITICIANS COULDN'T LIE? That's the premise of Jerry Willbur's intriguing book.In this fascinating satire, Willbur posits that the world we know is about to end. The psychopaths are here and ready to take complete control. When an accidental hero emerges, the battle...

Los Angeles, 1942. Psychoanalyst Maxwell McKinney and his wife Joan await the return of their son after the sinking of the USS Yorktown. With sections of the city under camouflage and ordinances against "enemy aliens," McKinney is troubled by his ambivalent feelings for his...

Three college girls go looking for excitement in a cowboy bar east of the mountains. After their car breaks down on the way, they come across a campground closed for the winter where three older guys are hanging out, drinking in their car, having...

Mara is a Japanese-American girl with a history of personal tragedy. Though she still cuts to quell the pain, she thought she had left the worst behind her. But her boyfriend's sudden death and a visit to one of the most haunted places in...

From the "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark, a gripping and twisting mystery featuring a television news reporter who finds herself drawn into a terrifying web of treachery, where nothing is as it seems and the truth may be too devastating to pursue... The...

A powerful voice in contemporary American fiction, Larry Watson is the award-winning author of Montana 1948, hailed as "a work of art" (San Francisco Chronicle), and White Crosses, praised as "one of the most irresistible novels of the year" (The Globe and Mail). In...

A deeply moving fiction debut, GATHERING STORM is the compelling and thought-provoking story of a young British woman's journey through the heart of Australia in order to free herself from the curse that has been haunting her family for generations.English artist Storm Cizekova grew...

In The Zigzag Way, the critically acclaimed novelist Anita Desai offers a gorgeously nuanced story of expatriates and travelers adrift in an unfamiliar land. Eric, a young American historian, has come to Mexico on his first trip abroad. His search for his immigrant family's...

A sweeping transcontinental novel of secrets and lies buried within a single family Thirty-two-year-old Gabriel Glover arrives in St. Petersburg to find his mother dead in her apartment. Reeling from grief, Gabriel and his twin sister, Isabella, arrange the funeral without contacting their father,...

Kirsty Gunn's spellbinding third novel is a portrait of the small town of Featherstone and the interior lives of its inhabitants. Over the course of one weekend, years after the beautiful and spirited Francie Johanssen fled town, rumors of her return stir memories that...

"A true grit coming-of-age novel" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), Saints of Big Harbour is a funny, brutal, and vivid story about small-town life and the inescapable power of gossip. Lynn Coady gives us the unforgettable Guy Boucher, a fatherless teenager and recluse, who finds himself at...

In stories that move deftly from the magical to the mundane, the simple to the surreal, The King of Limbo showcases a mature talent that calls to mind such greats as Alice Munro and Andre Dubus. Here are drifters, waitresses, horse trainers, housewives, a...

Under the guise of mentor and muse, a frustrated writer and her ambitious teenage protégé take an illicit summer road trip fraught with racial and sexual tension. This is a compelling psychological novel about social norms, artistic ambition, and obsession.Maggie Barnett works in the...

Drawing on years of experience working with survivors of trauma and their children, psychologist Michael Milgraum takes the reader on a riveting journey from trauma, loss and despair to hope, healing and renewed faith. "Never Forget My Soul" provides an honest and uncompromising look...

"This summer's "Gone Girl"- I gobbled it down in one sitting." - Anne Lamott, "People" Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as...

"Mangham's talent grows stronger with each book he writes." -- Jeff Minick, Smoky Mountain News Suspense, action, murder, romance, mystery. Different than anything you've ever read. A young man's nude body is found in a dumpster; it has a finger freshly amputated. A beautiful...

Alive and Cutting takes you into the world of self-harming behaviour. Katie had a difficult childhood. Neglected and alone she spent much of her time consoling herself as best she could with her doll and teddy bear. Taken into care and fostered, she was...

One Night explores the events surrounding the violent fall of the communist regime in Romania in December of 1989 as seen through the wide eyes of its young lead character. Smart, bright eyed, later hurt and damaged Andrea Tudor is a fluid mirror of...

In rural Buford, Alabama, Elba Rae Van Oaks has two options after a messy confrontation with her nemesis takes place in the faculty lounge of the local elementary school: resign her long-held position teaching fifth grade, or submit to mandated counseling sessions with the...

John Koch was a man who had it all, looks, a successful law career, a loving wife, three sons, and all of the trappings of success. However, John carried demons in his head from an abusive childhood, and these demons carried into his adult...

Imagine having the power to observe the dreams of others -- to have intimate knowledge of the most secret desires, the most dreaded terrors, the childish delights, the sexual fantasies of anyone you might choose. Then imagine having the power to enter those dreams...

A former detective s wife is abducted by a serial killer known as the Paperman, a man who is responsible for the violent deaths of several local women.Author: Heywood SteeleISBN-10: 0595261620ISBN-13: 9780595261628Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2002Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d

Three Stories centering on Rayne Pilson and his battle against evil, Including the new story "Birthing Satan" about parents who teach their children racism, leading to murder, who are trapped in a society that will not condone it; Novel begins and ends in the...

Author: Walter LaneISBN-10: 0595131751ISBN-13: 9780595131754Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2000Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.97h x 5.98w x 0.42d

An old Victorian house in a quant New England college town provide the setting for this compelling ghostly mystery that crosses decades in a quest for peace and redemption.Linda Harner Metzner has spent almost 40 years away from the town where she met and...

It's 1987, and "God" has returned to Earth to goof on humanity once more. Equipped with a new message, and a bell that makes people happy, he opens up a new age store, ready to have a little fun. Fortunately for us, things don't...

It's the ultimate adult playground. Cyber World will use the latest technology in computer produced virtual reality to provide thrills and chills beyond any ever experienced at a theme park. Here children of all ages will live out their wildest fantasies: fly jet fighters...

In this electrifying novel of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen takes us deep below the surface, where a ruthless killer strikes without warning, without mercy--and with the deadliest intent. Marine researcher Melis Nemid is treading dangerous water--and she's about to...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Final Target, Iris Johansen raises the stakes and the heart rate with this relentless new thriller that follows the harrowing trail of a ruthless killer on the hunt--and the woman who is determined to hunt him...

From the acclaimed author of The Perfect Summer and other New York Times bestsellers comes the gripping story of a man fighting for his family, a woman searching for her sister--and the promise of a new life where both least expect it. Beneath his...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series The Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony award-winning Rick Riordan delivers a spellbinding novel of a man on an edge so extreme that his fall will destroy not only him--but...

Called "one of the most original talents to emerge in the '90s" by Kirkus Reviews, award-winning author Laurie R. King delivers an intelligent, terrifying, engrossing drama of good and evil, unlike any she has written before.... A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a...

From bestselling author Phillip Margolin, a fast-paced legal thriller packed with page-turning suspense. Peter Hale is a young attorney struggling to make his own mark in his father's venerable law firm when he is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. During the trial...