Fiction - Psychological

Christian is on the brink of a new life, counting down the final 48 hours of his military service while battling the scars of combat and PTSD. He's ready to swap the chaos of war for the calm of civilian life. His farewells to...

Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work--and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier. Yet Philip claims to be cured--miraculously...

Author: Kazuo IshiguroISBN-10: 1665236582ISBN-13: 9781665236584Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/07/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.74lbs

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA psychiatrist is counting down towards his upcoming retirement. He lives alone in his childhood home and has neither friends nor family.Often, he resorts to drawing bird caricatures of his patients instead of taking notes. His social life consists of brief conversations...

A down-on-his-luck Hollywood director's actress wife is taken over by a Scientology-like mind game cult called Transformationalism.She disappears into the bowels of Transformationalism. He's determined to rescue her, to the point where pretends to be taken over too. Is he or isn't he? As...

Editorial note: This book is about the seduction of a young girl by the heir to an earldom, the resulting illegitimate pregnancy, and the young nobleman's struggle to decide whether to marry or to abandon the girl--certainly not the usual content of Victorian novels.Trollope...

Unsuccessfully trying to repress the memory of a horrible event in her past, Gale realizes that her current life has become unbearable and agrees to take a chance on an untested treatment that has just become available, even though there are profound and unknown...

The most perfect lives can hide the darkest secrets... Mary has everything. Beautiful and rich, she lives on an exclusive street in the heart of the city, in a house with gorgeous views and an immaculately maintained garden. Her life looks perfect. But behind...

During an interval in the Melvinski trial in the large building of the Law Courts the members and public prosecutor met in Ivan Egorovich Shebek's private room, where the conversation turned on the celebrated Krasovski case. Fedor Vasilievich warmly maintained that it was not...

Dystopia: Four Stages of Hell is a story composed of four stages, each about a man going through his own existential crisis. Each stage is distinct from the others, each layer deeper and darker than the one before it. "Dark Hair Blue Eyes-Reaching for...

Awoken alone in alien surroundings filled with the incessant hum and tapping of machinery, Doc finds himself blind, immersed in pain with no recollection of how he has materialized in the intensive care unit. The quest for insights begins..."Sojourner of Polar Discord" chronicles the...

Sylvie considers herself a team player at her artificial intelligence (AI) company, but when she uncovers her colleagues' illegal activities, pleasing everyone becomes impossible. Torn about what to do, she confides in her personal trainer, who's dismayed not only by the choices she faces...

Enter the madness and horror of the asylum with "Echoes of Insanity: Terrifying Stories of the Asylum," a collection of spine-chilling tales that will leave you questioning your own sanity. From the forgotten corridors of the past to the unspeakable horrors of the present,...

The Antichrist is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. Although it was written in 1888, its content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich Kelitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo. And while many simply regard Nietzsche as an atheist,...

A fractured account of family abuse, secrets, and the cost of pursuing the truth.In the most private spaces, the most intimate betrayals occur. Belén López Peiró places us squarely in the tenderest of times--young teenagehood, in a home about to be ruptured by sexual...

"Astonishing." -Claudia Dey, author of Daughter. A hallucinatory horror novel set deeply in the consciousness of a woman exploring a changed and frightening world. Our protagonist comes to in a basement, tied to a chair, with a man looming over her. But someone has...

Luz Ballesteros is grappling with the reemergence of painful memories of her lost family and Senior Chief Roy Thompson is still mourning the suicide of his lover when they meet in the wild and hedonistic Subic Bay, Philippines. Against the backdrop of past tragedies...

Id Book 1 takes you on a ride through the internal maze of the stories we tell ourselves when no one else is watching. Spend some time inside the mind of this recently single mother of two as she tries to make her new...

First published in 1919, it is a brilliant journey of the psyche written by one of Germany's most influential writers and thinkers-Herman Hesse. A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing. Emil Sinclair is...

A mesmerizing novel of two sisters whose lives are upended by an unexpected visitor--a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods, by the celebrated, bestselling author of Disappearing Earth An Oprah Daily, CNN, Publishers Weekly, and Lit Hub Most Anticipated...

A failed actress must decide how much she will give up--and what lies she will overlook--in order to live a life of luxury, in this irresistibly suspenseful and slightly surreal debut that is The Talented Mr. Ripley meets Nightbitch. Ever since her year as...

André Gide's The Counterfeiters explores complex moral and philosophical questions about personal freedom, identity, authenticity, moral responsibility, and the pursuit of truth. A novel-within-a-novel, The Counterfeiters is renowned for its innovative narrative technique. Gide employs a fragmented structure, incorporating multiple narrative threads, shifting perspectives,...

I is Another follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only...

A stunningly original, stylistically brilliant, and brutally honest novel from an award-winning Bosnian refugee and writer who, decades after escaping his war-torn home country looks back on his childhood, imploded relationships, and battles with addiction--offering powerful insight into the human cost of conflict. It's...

Every family has secrets. Would you kill to keep yours? It's midnight in the hospital when Jude's phone rings, interrupting her precious fifteen-minute break. When she sees it's her seventy-year-old mother, Margaret, she braces herself for the usual complaints. But her blood runs cold...

BRAND NEW FROM DANIELLE RAMSAYFive women; pretty, privileged, perfect, and ultimately protected... but not for long...It was 'their' dark secret. For twenty-two-years 'they' kept it buried. Time hasn't healed my wounds. Instead, they've festered. Their actions went unpunished. Until now...Shamed, scarred, and shunned, I...

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY HARPER'S BAZAAR, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BOOKPAGE AND MORE! "Emezi unspools a web of erotic danger in their entertaining latest...readers in search of a decadent good time will find it here."-Publishers Weekly A thrilling new novel from...

The year is 2112, and the United States has recently been torn apart by a nuclear world war and a civil war. Even Silver Creek, New York-the hometown of Devonshire Jones-has become all but a shattered, hopeless place to live. In the aftermath of...

However solid, secure, and together Rachel seems from the outside, she knows the truth about herself. She's lonely. She hides. She doubts everything she does.At twenty-six years old, she's learned to make the best of the life her past decisions created. But new demands,...

A tour de force about three friends affected by a campus murder, for readers of Donna Tartt, Meg Wolitzer, and Jeffrey Eugenides Georgia, Charlie and Alice each arrive at Harvard with hopeful visions of what the future will hold. But when, just before graduation,...

Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex-"really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene...

When Lucas Giraut inherits the family company from a father who never really cared enough to get to know him, it comes with a lot of unanswered questions...and an archenemy: Lucas's mother, Fanny. An ambitious and ruthless entrepreneur, Fanny believes her son is as...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A dazzling novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the "visionary" (New York Times Book Review) author of the International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian"Both a disquieting journey about the loss of sense and...

The perfect family... The perfect murders... A family massacred. A village in mourning. Can anyone sleep safely while a killer is on the loose? Laura Percival, owner of The Stables, notices something wrong at her friend's house when out on her morning ride. Further...

A Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller.A page-turning debut of suspense about a young couple desperate to have a child of their own--and the unsettling consequences of getting what they always wanted.Christopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture-perfect lives....

Six-year-old David learns quickly that life is not always what is expected. He has just overheard a devastating conversation between his parents and his understanding of the world has just been shattered. Because of this, David begins making choices that are not always the...

"Riveting from page one to the last breathless word."--Rebecca Makkai, New York Times bestselling author of I Have Some Questions For You "Brilliant, riveting .. an epic mystery, a family saga and a survival guide...I loved this book." --Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York...

She's changed her name. She's changed her life. She's moved away from everyone she's ever cared about. But he's going to find her . . . Sara is content to live a quiet life, living alone in her rambling old farmhouse in the sleepy...

A novel of a father, a son, and the mayhem a lie can wreak: "Mission is a book that will stay with me. A remarkable debut." -Sarah Haywood, New York Times-bestselling author of The Cactus A five-year-old boy and his father are separated by...

"Gripping . . . had me hooked from the very first page. I couldn't put it down and read it in a weekend . . . keeps the reader on their toes." --Amazon reviewer, five stars A darkly suspenseful story of troubled marriages, small-town...

The chilling, stay-up-all-night suspense thriller for fans of C.J. Tudor, Riley Sager and Stephen King.A missing child. A broken community. A horrifying secret.When a baby is kidnapped in broad daylight with no witnesses, an otherwise sleepy suburb is rocked to the core and ten-year-old...

Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective. Ji-won's life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa's extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother,...

A missing child. A deadly secret.In the stifling summer heat of 2018, Sarah Evatt suffered every parent's worst nightmare: her six-year-old son, Charlie, let go of her hand and disappeared into a crowd.He never returned.Three years later, Sarah's life is back on track. She...

The main character, Rachel, tells the story of meeting a childhood friend, Jenny. With Jenny, Rachel encounters Jenny's grandpa who molested her.What began as normal curiosity about the human body quickly turned into a gripping fear of being found out. For Rachel, this fear...

A murderous Nazi-sympathiser on the loose, a dead father who has left a mystery to solve and a lost love all mix in this contemporary classic of anarchist literture. Overwhelmed by feelings of anger, guilt and loss at the death of his father, we...

Every house has a story-some more terrifying than others.When Valerie meets the charming and handsome David, she finds herself captivated by the mysterious stranger. After a whirlwind romance, he whisks her away, far away from everything she has known-to a glass house hidden deep...

Who can you trust, if you can't trust yourself?Alice Hunter, grieving and troubled after a breakdown, stumbles on the body of her friend and trustee, Harry Rook. The police determine he has been ritually murdered and suspicion falls on the vulnerable Alice, who inherited...

Harboring a secret about the day that changed his life forever, eighty-year-old Walter tries to hide his struggles from his family. Suppressing the pain deep down in his soul, it only pulls him further away from them. Choosing to spend his days alone on...

Naomi Ash was born in New Orleans and raised by her mother, Patsy, a medium who schooled her young daughter in the parlor-trick chicanery of the trade. From Naomi recreating presences with table cloths to providing the voice of the dead by talking through...

During a snow flurry the week before Christmas, a young girl gives a blanket to a homeless man living on the streets, a simple gift that ends up saving both of their lives.A shy young boy is struck by lightning after witnessing a rainbow...