Fiction - Psychological

This is a story of blooming love and betrayal, about children coming of age, of conscience and the sociopaths who lack it; it is a story about trust and how true love empowers and heals us. In the end, it is a story about...

Obscure Destinies Is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1932. Willa Sibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, works such as O Pioneers , My ntonia, and The...

The news is very shocking. Russian troops are terrorizing Ukrainian civilians, raping their women, abducting their children, looting their homes and killing indiscriminately. Shocking, but, sadly, nothing new. The same thing happened in Myanmar, in Syria and Bosnia.This book, set in 1992 as the...

When Alejandra German first immigrates to America, she has great hope that her new life will be much better than the one she left behind in Uruguay. But as the years pass, Alejandra discovers that her challenges have followed her. Now the mother of...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM They thought they would be friends forever--but what comes first, friendship or love? Revised edition: This edition of The 30th Candle includes editorial revisions. Linda, Dikeledi, Nolwazi and Sade spent their twenties pursuing fast-paced careers and love lives in...

Margo learns how to manipulate from a very early age. She grows up with a single mother who enjoys her drink every night after her shift at the restaurant and brings a different man home every day. Margo wants to be nothing like her...

An outsider threatens to expose the secrets at an elite private school in this suspenseful debut novel for readers of My Dark Vanessa and Dare Me Louise Manson is the newest student at Highfield Manor, Dublin's most exclusive private school. It seems nearly perfect:...

A harrowing, unforgettable masterpiece by the winner of the Booker International PrizeA confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld's international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story...

The Bannerman Shortlist has been announced.Six authors. Six stories.And Gideon Bannerman is missing.'Colin Batrouney's new novel is unexpected and alluring. Balancing out satire which hits home with feelings which run deep is something only truly accomplished writers can achieve - and he does.' -...

For two sisters, confronting the past could come at a terrible price in a riveting novel about a family tragedy--and family secrets--by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author Elle Marr.Fiona and Violet Seng were just children when their family's Cessna crash-landed in the Washington...

In Book 2, Ramon's Dream travels continue, and the discoveries he makes start to lead to physical healing in the real world. Ramon also learns more about Lt. Steven Brisco, both during his time in Vietnam and in the present day, leading their lives...

A moving, page-turning story of two families in crisis and the unexpected places from which love can grow."The true mystery Lapid seeks to unveil is one of the most burning questions of our time: What does it mean to be a woman in today's...

Relaxation. Recovery. Revenge...The sunlight sparkles on the bright turquoise of the pool, next to the freshly painted house with its trailing pink flowers and terracotta roof. I feel a jolt of pride. My partner José and I have dreamed of this moment, opening our...

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...

On the anniversary of her husband's death, forty-nine-year-old Emily Holt runs away, leaving an unmade bed, an unlocked house, two college-aged sons, and an overabundance of bad memories. Struggling to make peace with the death of a husband who'd been lost to mental illness,...

The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter--both in their violence and in their maddening unreality. The blaze of events which followed was,...

They promised you'd be safe. They were wrong. It started with a convicted killer's first threat of revenge... "For every precious thing I lose, you lose two." DA Kirsten Lord saw her husband gunned down before her eyes. Now Kirsten is living in fear,...

The first novel from New York Times-bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence--now back in print for fans of America's most prolific storyteller.Written when Joyce Carol Oates was in her early...

"Oates is a fearless writer." --Los Angeles Times "Oates is a master of the dark tale--stories of the hunted and the hunter, of violence, trauma, and deep psychic wounds."--Booklist (starred review) Sourland is a gripping, haunting, and intensely moving collection of short stories by...

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts...

When grief weighs like a stone.Francesca's pain is so heavy, she can't breathe. Every lesson she's learned, every loss she's experienced, haunts her waking and sleeping hours. Moving forward isn't the same for everyone but she knows she'll be judged for her choices nonetheless....

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...

Every possibility lies ahead.At an early age, Darius knew what he wanted and would move heaven and earth to get it. He viewed his life critically as a brilliant, young, black boy and yearned to make a difference. His potential was limitless.After fighting a...

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...

Jealousy can be a killer...Ten years after her boyfriend Mitch's mysterious disappearance, Rebecca finally learns the truth about what happened.When he finally returns, a happy ending appears within their grasp but there is no escape from the past. And Arthur, Rebecca's friend who has...

A Bilingual New York Review Books OriginalVivant Denon's No Tomorrow is one of the masterpieces of eighteenth-century French libertine literature, a book to set beside Choderlos de Laclos' Les Liaisons dangereuses, except that where Laclos' icy novel tells of hellish depravity, Denon's ravishing novella...

In this richly unnerving tale about family secrets and expectations, two sisters are at lifelong odds with each other, their mother, and themselves--and as every hour becomes more twisted than the last, they are all pushed to their breaking point.Lovely and Beauty know their...

The girl who has spent her life running is about to be caught . . . by love After a shaky past, Kelsey LeBreck's future is looking good. She's been saving money for culinary school with her earnings from The Ranch, a private BDSM...

"What if I should discover that I myself am the enemy who must be loved? What then?" Carl Gustav Jung JUNG'S DEMON is a story of self-discovery gone amok, a book as hallucinogenic as Hunter S. Thompson and as powerful as Oscar Zeta Acosta....

Lights. Camera...die. Detective Scarlet Reid has spent the past three months trying to make her alter ego, Ms. December, a ghost of Christmas past. Forced to become the sexy centerfold in a high-stakes undercover assignment, she's spent more time pulling copies of her naked...

The Amazon Charts bestselling series.From the author of Dead Certain comes a twisting novel of friendship, love, and marriage--and all their cunning and deadly betrayals.Back in 1986, Clint Broden was a novice New York defense attorney building a family with his wife, Anne, and...

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy an translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious...

Fall in love with this small-town love story about a widower sheriff and a divorced schoolteacher who are searching for second chances -- only to be threatened by long-held secrets of the past.Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed...

Tourists flock to Beast House, but few ever return. Behind the cellar door lurks a creature of pure evil.Author: Richard LaymonISBN-10: 1477806253ISBN-13: 9781477806258Publisher: 47northLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/25/2013Pages: 309Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d

For fans of Eowyn Ivey, Rose Tremaine, and Kate Atkinson, The Orphan of Salt Winds is a bewitching debut about the secrets that haunt us. England, 1939. Ten-year-old Virginia Wrathmell arrives at Salt Winds, a secluded house on the edge of a marsh, to...

Jane Hawk--fiction's most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine--continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner. "No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this." These are the...

In this rollicking dark comedy about a failing hospital in Mars, Nebraska, Dr. Wave, a kind and well-meaning outsider, leaps into a year-long fight against an overwhelming bureaucracy upheld by a corrupt administrator who refuses to budge. Wave juggles some of the worst (and...

When her elderly father dies, Lissa Power, stripped of her identity as dutiful daughter, flees the narrow walls of her American farmhouse and escapes to France, seeking freedom and independence. Lissa studies French, loses her virginity, is accosted by troubling news from back home--...

When a group of college friends reunites for a trip to the Marshall Islands, they find themselves stranded on an uncharted island unlike any they've seen in the vicinity. They list their priorities-find water, food, and a way off the island-but the place itself...

"A nuanced, complex, and highly original novel." --Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown A fresh, unique work of metafiction that follows a graphic novelist who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught...

Well, here we are at the conclusion. I promised you the whole story of Janet's and my romances. You can't imagine what it has taken to write it. If you want to know about our lives after this story ends, please read the extensive...

A rich, multi-generational saga, set in Singapore and New Zealand. The mysterious disappearance of a young child sets in motion a series of events that will haunt future generations of the family. Singapore in the 1970s. A handsome army officer falls in love with...

An exploration of musical legacy, Overlook: A Rock and Roll Fable delves into the mysteries of intuitive talent and creation. It is a dance between art and appreciation, between star and fan. It is a chronicle of the last journey of a fictionalized incarnation...

Dostoyevsky's acclaimed novella follows the disturbances in the mind and life of an unnamed narrator, who struggles with his identity, freedom, and social norms. It explores existentialist themes such as anxiety, alienation, and morality.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important,...

In this heart-pounding debut thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Celeste Ng, a first-generation Vietnamese American artist must confront nightmares past and present. . . . Annie "Anh Le" Shaw grew up poor, but seems to have it all now: a dream career,...

In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy.During a scorching August in Kyoto, our protagonist and his worst friend, Ozu, are locked in...

Mary Salter is a city councilwoman trying to find solutions to poverty and homelessness in her city. She has built a team of activists to support those in need. John Gordon is an FBI Agent investigating a series of murders across the South Western...

This radical feminist work is an extraordinary gothic novel exploring themes of gender inequality, social injustice, and the indomitable spirit of a resilient woman. Maria is a courageous and intelligent woman, imprisoned in an insane asylum by her own husband. She defies societal norms...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a profound meditation on mortality and the meaning of a well-lived life. The novella delves into the existential crisis of a seemingly ordinary man, Ivan Ilyich Golovin, as he confronts his impending death. The narrative chronicles his pursuit...

A radio DJ is tormented by a twisted killer, who has a gruesome request.I was nineteen when I discovered my boyfriend's father was a serial killer.I stumbled upon his latest victim tied up in the basement of the house he was renovating, and it...