Fiction - Psychological

Between the pages of an ever-shifting eternal text known as the Patasphere, a coven of psychedelic fiction fanatics and a duo of agents working for a private intelligence firm known as The Geist, LLC navigate their ways simultaneously through a labyrinthian pilgrimage to the...

A tumultuous and unstable mind because it still holds morality on the foremost pedestal, frustrated at the state of affairs, not only of the world but also of self. The world functions not in sync with what we are taught but with its own...

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...

Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Moataz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Moataz has enough problems with his family's high expectations and the unrequited, idealized love that he left behind in Cairo. Now he has...

Eric G. M ller's classy title, Meet Me at the Met, invites readers to follow a rich tale of romance, idealism, scandal, and emerging self knowledge. The novel has a double story-the living of a life and the process of writing that life-both tales...

The effects of psychological development on any performance are vital for development. The way we utilize any negative external or internal psychological influences and factors can lead us to poor focus, poor concentration, poor preparation, poor performance, poor attitude, poor behaviors and, at times,...

He is attracted to her. Of course he is. But what he feels for her, it is more than something carnal. It is inspired, almost otherworldly. This is it. The last weekend. They will all be dead by dawn.Every fall, Pagan Moore meets up...

Incarceration is a taut thriller of powerful writing and poignant characters, from the grieving widower who teaches prison inmates, to the mysterious new convict and his beautiful wife, to the biker gang members who haunt Ontario s windswept lake country. This suspenseful debut novel...

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes this electrifying novel of terror and suspense. C.J. Osborn was ten years old when the boogeyman came for her. Ever since, she has feared...

When eight people go on a cruise in the Bahamas, they plan to swim, sunbathe and relax. Getting shipwrecked is definitely not in the script. But after the yacht blows up they're stranded on a deserted island, and there's a maniac on the loose.Author:...

Journeying up the Mountain is the captivating story of a group of spiritual seekers discovering they are incarnate souls called to travel through higher realms, called to find the most revered teacher. Ammaji, the celestial guide, is living at the top of the world,...

Can anyone really stay hidden from the world? A powerful novel of solitude, survival, and psychological suspense from the author of Unravelling Alice . . . For three years, Ida has been living in the remote Welsh countryside to stay safe from a world...

A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.The mystery of three missing teens and a traumatizing murder unearths decades of buried secrets in a shocking novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author.Twenty years ago, five teenage campers disappeared. Two eventually...

For a bride-to-be and her fiancé, secrets and lies make this a killer celebration in this psychological suspense.Carrie and Oliver. A couple completely in love and the hosts of a wedding to remember at Colorado's legendary Stanley Hotel. This is Carrie's fairy tale come...

"Hunger" portrays the irrationality of the human mind in an intriguing and sometimes humorous manner. The novel is loosely based on the author's own impoverished life before his breakthrough in 1890. Set in late 19th-century Kristiania (now Oslo), "Hunger" recounts the adventures of a...

In 'The Secret Life of Insects', a forensic entomologist tries to solve the murder of his wife, who impossibly seems to have been killed in a forest at the same time she was asleep in bed with him. The husband in 'The Dream of...

The Edgar-nominated, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Daughter and The Playground weaves a breathtaking tale of betrayal, family, and secrets from the past in this crackling novel of psychological suspense.Two women. Two secrets. One terrible night.PAXOS, GREECEThe vacation house is a luxurious getaway...

"Explosive and propulsive, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty proves Charlene Elsby to be a formidable talent. This book will haunt you."-Juliet Escoria, author of Juliet the Maniac"Depraved, stark, and dripping in blood, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty by Charlene Elsby is an experience that...

A single act in the heat of the moment sees Sally's life begin to spiral out of control. In her panic, she reaches out for help from her only friend Miriam, who walks straight into a nightmare. Later, when the psychologist, brought in to...

At thirty-two, a man's life is brought to a close by a concoction of fentanyl-laced Percocet.As his life ends, an extraordinary spiritual voyage begins - sparked by a burning quest to unravel the circumstances of his untimely end.Samuel's spirit is welcomed into the ethereal...

How do you go on your first date after losing your husband on 9/11? It's been three years and yet Lilly struggles with hope and courage to meet the right kind of man who can help her find herself as a woman again. Kind...

To Frances, an only child living in McCarthy-era Brooklyn, her mother, Hilda, and her aunt Pearl seem as if they have always been friends. Frances does not question the love between the two women until her father's job as a teacher is threatened by...

When Scott Nelson first meets Natalie, all he can think about is slitting her throat. Until he realizes they share alarmingly similar homelives. Scott is an outcast with an abusive father, while Natalie is a punk with colorful hair and dreams of being an...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Six years after their cousin vanished from their home while they were sleeping, two sisters set out to learn the truth behind what happened--even if it puts their own lives in danger--in this haunting thriller from the internationally bestselling author of...

When Scott Nelson first meets Natalie, all he can think about is slitting her throat. Until he realizes they share alarmingly similar home lives. Scott is an outcast with an abusive father, while Natalie is a punk with colorful hair and dreams of being...

Can the secret love child of a U.S. Senator deliver the cure for a bioterror threat before time runs out? Lily Tso is bored and unfulfilled. Orphaned at birth, the twenty-two-year-old Hotel Guest Service Officer is overwhelmed to discover her parents are alive. But...

"Reinvents the medical thriller."--Library Journal Dr. Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labor has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other...

Some think love is color-blind, Torres and Christina Sosa thought so, but will quickly learn to be in an interracial marriage could lead to disaster.After moving to beautiful North Charleston, South Carolina, anxious about their new surroundings, Torres and Christina hope for some southern...

A wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, High Fidelity, and About A Boy.New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line....

Given a second chance with an old love, a coolly detached archivist questions the life he could have had, and whether it's not too late to live it. A poignant, ingeniously constructed new novel from "one of Europe's most exciting writers" (New York Times...

A Narcissist. A Murderer. Or Both?Kieran Harrison's life is outwardly perfect. When he meets the charismatic and beautiful Serena, he believes he's met his perfect mate, unawares of the narcissism embedded in their relationship. One toxic encounter after another, slowly hooks him, bound by...

Young Ephraim Goldman is the author of a perennial bestseller. A celebrated academic lion, he hobnobs with the movers and shakers of his era, such as Einstein, Berenson and Bertrand Russell.Ephraim's son Bernard is a young writer, desperate to make his own reputation in...

Set in both England and colonial India, The Woman in the Bazaar follows Captain George Coventry as he wrestles with guilt and the consequences of his actions. Rigid even by old fashioned standards, George Coventry holds misogynistic beliefs regarding the role women fill in...

Author: Yoko OgawaISBN-10: 8200064948ISBN-13: 9798200064946Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2013Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbs

First published in 1909, "Martin Eden" is a novel by American writer Jack London. The story revolves around a young lower-class autodidact named Martin Eden and her struggle to become a writer in the face of great adversity. John Griffith London (1876 - 1916),...

Siddhartha Hermann HESSE (1877 - 1962), Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment. On the...

If you're incapable of telling the truth, then ensure you are the Last One To Lie... Fear and dread fill Matt Walker's veins as he returns to his West London apartment. He promised himself things would be different this time, yet here he was...

One of LitHub, Bookshop.org and i-D's most anticipated books of 2024With her novels The Exhibition of Persephone Q and The Visitors, Jessi Jezewska Stevens has proven herself as our preeminent purveyor of comical, techno-millenarian unease. Now, with this first collection of her acclaimed short...

Inspired by contemporary "creepypastas," ROOM OF CLOTH is a horror novel for the Information Age that will appeal to fans of literary horror and psychological suspense. Discretion advised: this novel contains scenes of graphic violence and allusions to physical/emotional abuse and sexual trauma." ....

An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from an exciting new voice in horror for fans of Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones."Edenville is a delightfully gooey blend of gothic, cosmic, folk and body horror churned by a sharp-bladed critique of academia."-- Lucy...

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war.Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in...

An immersive and multifaceted novel--The Talented Mr. Ripley by way of Elena Ferrante--that explores the lies at the heart of an old woman's identity and the desperation of a young woman's struggle to belong. Today's Athens is a city of contradictions and complexity--it is...

"A rock solid follow up to Craving Control and I'm fully invested in this series. Did I say invested? I meant hooked." Goodreads reviewer, SachaBW On her eighteenth birthday, Lilianna Mayberry survived every woman's worst nightmare. Sure, she was left with permanent scars and...

Eleven years ago, Carter "Slash" Hudson was ready to end it all. Lost and shattered, devoid of hope, he was saved at the bell by the frankness of one little Cherub. Back then, he swore he'd always put her first, even if that meant...

From Francis Levy, author of Seven Days in Rio, which The New York Times called "a fever dream of a novel," comes The Kafka Studies Department, a highly original collection of short, parable-like stories infused with dark humor, intellect, and insight about the human...

A haunted paleontologist returns to the museum where his sister was abducted years earlier and is faced with a terrifying and murderous spirit in this chilling novel from the author of A History of Fear--perfect for fans of Simone St. James and Katy Hays.Curator...

Axel Petersen's life imploded when his teenage daughter disappeared. Manyyears later, no one knows where she is or what happened to her. On the twentieth anniversary of his daughter's disappearance, Axel meets a girl ona train. She's almost exactly the same age as his...

Cama Truesdale's ex-husband and young son leave Boston for a fishing trip in South Carolina's Low Country. In the early morning hours, Cama is jolted awake by a phone call. There's been a fire on board the boat. Her ex-husband is dead. Her son...

One small mistake can have life-altering consequences... Veteran social worker Ellen Moore is a fiercely dedicated children's advocate and a devoted mother and wife. But one blistering summer day, a simple moment of distraction will have repercussions that Ellen could never have imagined. Meanwhile,...

In this razor-sharp novel of marriage and divorce gone awry, Elizabeth Benedict navigates the turbulent waters of love, power, and vengeance with biting wit and penetrating insight. When the Manhattan psychotherapist Eric Lavender meets the sexy, stylish lawyer Colleen O'Brien Golden, his bachelor life...