Fiction - Psychological

New York Times Notable author Deborah Crombie is regularly named among the greats of British-set crime fiction (P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Elizabeth George et al) for her riveting police procedurals featuring Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, Scotland Yard partners as well as devoted life-mates.A...

"If you like Mary Higgins Clark, you'll love Wendy Corsi Staub." --Lisa Jackson, bestselling author of DeviousOne of the most exciting of the new breed of thriller and suspense writers, Wendy Corsi Staub asks, "Are you ever truly safe...even in your own home?" With...

"[A] well-crafted and cunning debut novel...a testament to the resilience of the human spirit."--Publishers WeeklyThe Summer We Fell Apart by newcomer Robin Antalek is a poignant, funny, and totally engrossing novel of family disasters and sibling rivalry--and it marks the debut of a pitch-perfect...

"An unusual, exhilarating hybrid of high-stakes, propulsive narrative; erudite, yet breezy summations of specialized historical data; and strikingly evocative language." -- New York Times Book ReviewFrom PEN/Macmillan award-winning novelist and poet Tobias Hill, a thrilling novel of astonishing grace and power that explores the...

New York Times BestsellerThe profound and compelling story of a personal quest for meaning and faith from Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True"The beauty of The Hour I First Believed, a...

For more than twenty-five years, the antimelodic "noise" of Sonic Youth has assaulted us, exhilarated us, inspired us. Why?Katherine Dunn says it's because they operate in the foggy world between the real and the surreal. Mary Gaitskill says that Sonic Youth caught her, years...

Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house...

After the death of his wife, Scottish scholar Andrew Macleod finds solace in his research. Delving into an ancient text entitled Matrix Aeternitatis, Andrew allows himself to be drawn into an inner circle of evil from which there is no escape. Poised on the...

The exquisitely artful fiction debut of Vanity Fair columnist Elissa Schappell is a novel told in ten stories that resonate with the most profound experiences in the life of a young woman -- friendship and rivalry, the love for a man, the birth of...

From an author whose work has been called 'haunted and joyous and heartbreaking all at once' (Washington Post Book World) comes an unforgettable novel of two lost souls who find love and salvation against all odds. Can love save those who believe they are...

At first, all Lily Austin knows about 19th-century explorer Mary Kingsley is that, 100 years before, she was the first white woman to venture into the heart of Africa. But as Lily begins reading about Mary Kingsley, she becomes more and more fascinated -...

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and...

Haskell Maloney was cruelly orphaned when she was just a baby. Now, twenty-two years later, she receives confirmation of the bitter truth she always suspected: the fallen war hero whose name she shares was not her father. Her quest for answers--and a personal history--brings...

"The perfect haunted house story for these unnerving times." --New York Times Dream House, the riveting debut novel from Pushcart Prize-winning author Valerie Laken, tells the story of one troubled house--the site of a domestic drama that will forever change the lives of two...

On a summer night in Portland, Oregon, violence erupts at a Little League game -- and attorney Ami Vergano watches in horror as the quiet, gentle artist she recently befriended does the unexpected and unthinkable . . .In a cheap motel room in Washington,...

Samantha Ranvali can't sleep. Haunted by nightmares and the memory of a man who attacked her years ago, she seeks a cure for her insomnia through an experimental study called "Endymion's Circle." The treatment seems to be a success, but after her first full...

A New York Times Notable Book"A wonderful and wise novel, a story told with unflinching courage and honesty, and with keen insight into the most universal of all conditions, the struggle of the human heart." -- Ken Wells, author of Meely LeBauve"Lyrical and honest....Moynahan...

When Noire, a hip, Afro-wearing Ph.D. student, walks into Brown Betty Books, her righteousness kicks in to overdrive amid the self-identified "talented tenth" who wear their double degrees and five-hundred-dollar shoes like badges of honor. And then Innocent, a well-heeled investment banker from Ce...

Sara Rosario Gonz les is a restorer of rare books and manuscripts at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. When Sara restores a sixteenth-century manuscript about an Aztec princess enslaved by Cort s and sent to Europe to entertain the pope and Emperor Charles...

I was thirty-three years old when my husband walked out into a field one morning and never came back, and I went in one quick leap from wife to widow.Lucy Hatch never expected more of life than to spend it on an East Texas...

You never know who's watching... 'Spine-chilling ... makes you realise how little you ever know anyone!' The Sun 'A brilliantly creepy and insightfully written debut. I tore through it' Gillian McAllister 'Unnerving and spine-chilling' Mel Sherratt Corinne's life might look perfect on the outside,...

When every word's a lie, a picture is worth a thousand A dark psychological thriller about the secrets that destroy us, perfect for fans of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS and THE GIRLFRIEND. Oliver Molloy never meant to hurt his wife. It...

A stunning saga debut from an author destined to be a star of the genre - ELLIE PRIDE is an engrossing, heartrending story of love, passion, duty and family, set in the North-west in the early part of the twentieth century. A stirring, heartrending...

Phoebe Wong would do anything to escape a British winter. But it may cost her more than her airfare. Sunsets, tacos and margaritas all sound perfect to exhausted forty-three-year-old single mum Phoebe with a dead-end job in Southwark. When her long-distance boyfriend in New...

Author: F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN-10: 1789433428ISBN-13: 9781789433425Publisher: Benediction ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2022Pages: 242Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8.8Point Value: 20Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 8674 / Tender Is the Night

Unique Elements About the Author About the Translator A Literary Classic by ANTON CHEKHOV. The Darling and Other Stories by RUSSIAN author ANTON CHEKHOV is a collection of short stories first published in 1916 in the UNITED KINGDOM. The title story of this collection,...

First-ever paperback edition of Joel Lieber's posthumously-published 1972 semi-autobiographical novel Two-Way Traffic. Set in the late 1960s and early 1970s and presented as a series of journal extracts, it is the harrowing portrayal of a young, successful writer's efforts to reassemble a life shattered...

Santiago sets out at his ranch in Phoenix, Arizona every Halloween and waits for an appearance from his friend, the legendary ghost man Greybeard.It's been six long years for Retired US Deputy Marshall Santiago Ramos since he lost his best friend Jimmy "Douglas" Greyson,...

The Ebb-Tide (1894) is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. Published the year of Stevenson's death from tuberculosis, the last of three collaborations between the legendary Scottish storyteller and his stepson is a story of adventure, friendship, and greed. Although less...

In the touching novel A Simple Twist of Fate: Destiny, David Greene's life is changed instantly.His brother, Josh, and sister-in-law, Honey, are killed in a terrible car accident. The only survivor is their three-year-old daughter, Ariel, who was saved by being in her child...

From the internationally bestselling author of Three Floors Up, a gripping novel that delves into the deepening cracks in a carefully constructed public persona. A writer tries to answer a set of interview questions sent to him by a website editor. At first, they...

A mind-bending psychological thriller revolving around the failure of the War on Drugs and its victims."I highly recommend this if you are looking to read something with great depth... a story that is captivating, chilling, and uniquely thrilling." -Brianna RemusNew Orleans; our lady of...

Winner of the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Best First Novel "Dawes offers vibrant characters and locales in this diaspora of black culture and strong emotions, bordering the fine line between love and madness between two troubled people." --BooklistKofi, a Jamaican reggae musician, and...

The narrator, an elderly, unnamed Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business, already employs two scriveners to copy legal documents by hand, Nippers and Turkey. An increase in business leads him to advertise for a third, and he hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby in the hope...

Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of "The Ambassadors," which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the...

Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son is a novel concerning Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company whose dream is to have a son to continue his business. When his son is born his wife dies shortly after giving birth. Dombey employs a...

"Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible." Written shortly after his conversion to Christianity, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is one of Tolstoy's masterpieces in fiction. A man facing death is forced to reconcile the contradictions of...

"Intensely readable and beautifully observed . . . full of wisdom, generosity, humor, and sharp insights."--Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or and The IdiotThree Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor...

The author of the acclaimed City of a Thousand Gates returns with an intense, page-turning love story between a twenty-seven year old Canadian woman and a nineteen-year old Israeli soldier, set in contemporary Israel.The story of Allison and Eyal unfolds primarily in Tel Aviv...

After the successful restoration of his vision, renowned blues musician Seymour Wright finds himself faced with an unanticipated hardship--happiness. Part science fiction, part psychological horror, The Yellows explores the relationship between suffering and art; given the choice between a contented life and a meaningful...

A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families shattered by tragedy and the secrets that have been waiting decades to be revealed.On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small...

"She still believed I saved her, without knowing I was repaying her for rescuing me." AddisonHow could someone possibly love all of my broken pieces?For so long I asked this question, until I met James. Marrying a psychologist was never in my plans, not...

They arrive alive. They leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions.My name is Jack Steen, and for those who arrive on my 'death' ward at the Asylum, I'm the last face many will see before they die. I am the night nurse at...

A terrifying novel about internet dating, secret desires and a chilling serial killer. From bestselling authors Mark Edwards and Louise Voss. He's posted on your wall.He's following you on Twitter.He knows where you are right now... When Amy receives an email from her older...

Over 1 Million Copies Sold! Don't miss the New York Times and USA Today bestseller and addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that's burning up Instagram and TikTok--Freida McFadden's The Housemaid is perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Lisa Jewell, and Verity. Every...

I lie a lot. Big lies, little lies, whatever. All I'm doing is applying an Instagram filter to my life. Everybody does it. I do it because there's nothing remotely interesting about me. Unless you count the fact that I'm a psychopath. To be...

After the appearance of YouTube but before the invention of smartphones, a disconsolate young writer hears, from an apartment window, a soft rock song from his youth. He decides identifying and owning the song will transform him into the confident man he needs to...

*Now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal* A taut, psychological thriller from Iain Reid, "one of the most talented purveyors of weird, dark narratives in contemporary fiction" (Los Angeles Review of Books). Severe climate change has ravaged the country, leaving...

Based on a true story, Under Authority is Kate Elliot's unusual account of what took place at Cross Independent Baptist Church in New England during her childhood and teen years. The pastor, Rhuttland Abbott-or the Reverend as people referred to him-believed he had been...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Time, Financial Times, Slate, The Chicago Public Library, Kirkus, The TelegraphA Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick"[A] savagely satirical thriller." --People The Booker...