Psychological

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide....

1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges.

Eve has a good life. She wakes up each day, kisses her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except… Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center.

There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information. 3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates....

In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest - nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past....

Kate Bennett vanished from a parking lot eleven years ago, leaving behind her husband and young daughter. When she shows up at a Montana gas station, clutching an infant and screaming for help, investigators believe she may have been abducted by a cult....

For 18 years, Jude Farraday has put her children’s needs above her own, and it shows - her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers....

Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria’s heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family’s restaurant....

Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries....

Writer Ben Mears has returned to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot with the hope that moving into a delapidated mansion, long the subject of town lore, might help him get a handle on his life and provide inspiration for a new book....

The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond....

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher, Winter Solstice (the basis for the TV movie) is the story of five unforgettable characters, lonely and haunted strangers who find love and loyalty as a reborn family of friends during the Christmas holidays....

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves....

Daphne and Amber Parrish are thrust back into each other’s lives upon the resurgence of a long-forgotten threat, forcing a vicious game of cat and mouse where everything is on the line....

Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more - a life of money and power....

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her....

Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist....

Marianne has a life others dream of. A beautiful townhouse, three bright children, and a successful surgeon husband, Simon. Then Simon says another woman’s name. The way he lingers on it, Caroline, gives Marianne a shudder of suspicion....

Alice Love is 29, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital, where she discovers she’s getting divorced, she has three kids, and she’s actually 39 years old....

From Atlanta's wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race....

The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably....

Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can’t refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home.

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful but slowly going under....

Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart....

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic.

A few years ago, David Alvarez had it all: a six-figure book deal, a loving boyfriend, and an exciting writing career. His debut novel was a resounding success, which made the publication of his second book—a total flop—all the more devastating. Now, David is single, lonely, and desperately trying to come up with the next great idea for his third manuscript, one that will redeem him in the eyes of readers, reviewers, the entire publishing world…and maybe even his ex-boyfriend.

Daisy Costigan is desperate to leave her violent, controlling husband, Bruce. But she knows he'll never let her go. And if she tries to escape, he's promised he'll do whatever it takes to track her down and have his revenge. She's trapped. One day Daisy meets a charming stranger in a bookstore. His name is Marco and he overhears Daisy's terrified phone conversation with controller Bruce. Marco makes Daisy an offer. He'll take care of Bruce if she'll help him with a little problem—his wife.

Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul—and the ability to love his fellow man.

Young married couple Heidi and Freddie just moved to Huntington Grove. All the neighbours see they are friendly and polite but why is one door in their house always locked? Across the street, Willow tries not to argue with her teenage daughter – even as her marriage is falling apart. And where does her husband really go each night, leaving the bed beside her cold?

A book about lost love, innocent romance, and ultimately the search for sublimity. Aron tells his story through the lens of a sensitive young author, and in between his life events there are little vignettes about evil gods that connect to the greater story being told.

This book presents the formative years in the life of Jack Duluoz—Kerouac’s alter ego—beginning with his high school experiences as a sporting jock in small-town New England and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack’s glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel the world. The more he experiences, the more he realizes the limits of his former plans and decides to and return to New York, where he collides with the start of the Beat movement—and a riot of drugs, sex, and writing.

Enola is approaching 30 and everything feels like a lot. The boxes aren’t ticked and she feels adrift in a way she thought she would have beaten by now. She wants to be a writer but can't finish a first draft; she romanticizes her childhood but won’t speak to her mother; she has never been in a serious relationship but yearns to be one half of a couple that DIYs together at the weekends.

One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times). Suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes The Age of Discretion, The Monologue, and The Woman Destroyed.

Haunted by a past trauma, Cathy yearns for sanctuary away from city life. She finds it with her boyfriend Alfie, at Blacksheep Farm, a haven in the Peaks of Derbyshire. But their peace is blighted by Bertha, the cold-hearted matriarch of Alfie’s family, who is hell-bent on keeping control of the farm—and her children. When a collection of hidden portraits is found by Alfie, Cathy is drawn to their mysterious beauty and embarks on a quest to return them to their owner. But her journey threatens to unearth long-buried secrets and tear her new life apart.

Christy Ward is the lead producer of Hindsight, a true crime podcast, and she has stumbled across an unresolved triple murder case that will make the perfect next feature. Sixteen years ago, the police were convinced that they had found their killer. But the case was unexpectedly shut down, it never went to trial and their main suspect walked free. Will Christy and her team be able to solve the case, or will they be silenced too....

»Mami, sie ist weg ...« Gemma Ballantine macht sich morgens für die Arbeit fertig, als sie erlebt, wovor sich jede Mutter fürchtet: Die Haustür ist offen und ihre sechsjährige Tochter Katie ist verschwunden. Voller Angst beginnt Gemma eine nervenzerreißende Suche nach ihrem kleinen Mädchen.

The son of a schizophrenic, Jared Gordon has lived his entire life with a genetic time bomb coded into his DNA. So when the night terrors and hallucinations arrive in force, it seems undeniable that the same disease responsible for his father’s suicide is to blame.

On the run from his shady past, Lynch has just arrived in London, still looking over his shoulder to make sure he isn’t being followed. His phone is dead, and he has no money, no contacts, no one at all. Until he runs into a young woman named Bobbie who mistakes him for her brother, Heydon Pierce, who disappeared five years ago without a trace. At Bobbie’s suggestion, Lynch goes to the Pierce family home, posing as Heydon to try to con some money out of them. But far from tricking them, his subterfuge is instantly discovered.

When Mab and Nessa's mother died and their father disappeared to New Zealand, their lives changed forever. But the loss of their parents wasn’t the only thing that cast a shadow over their childhood… Twenty years later, when Mab and Nessa receive the news of their estranged father’s death, it stirs up a storm of long-buried memories and emotions.

In compiling this anthology, it was my intention to focus on stories of crime motivated by hate. Not racially, politically, or religiously motivated violence, even though these are labeled ‘hate crimes’ in contemporary media.

When we meet Amy Shone, she is a young parent struggling to raise Kate, a precocious eight-year-old. Amy is an enigma—a brilliant scholar who has forgotten how to read. She is estranged from her wealthy English parents and lives a nomadic life in Scotland, dragging Kate from one school to the next, barely scraping by. And then there is Ash, a fiery Scottish actresss who cannot shake her demons—chief among them an unrequited passion for Amy that has obsessed her ever since they met as teenagers.

“Memorias del Subsuelo” es una novela corta organizada en dos partes. La primera, que consta de once capítulos breves y es llamada "La Ratonera", es básicamente un monólogo interior en el que se nos presenta al protagonista, un miserable funcionario frustrado, como un antihéroe contradictorio, enfermizo y excitable, que dirige su charla a un público inexistente. La segunda parte, que nace a propósito de la "caída de nieve húmeda", consiste en el relato de una memoria del narrador, donde cuenta algo ocurrido en su juventud, relacionado con la despedida a Zvérkov.

Una edició exclusiva del clàssic de Delphine de Vigan: perquè viure és saber dir gràcies. La bonica història de la Michka: "T'has demanat mai quantes vegades a la vida havies dit gràcies de debò? Unes gràcies de veritat. L'expressió de la teva gratitud, del teu reconeixement, del teu deute". Una novel·la que és un cant a la vellesa i als llaços de lleialtat i afecte que devem a les persones que han format part de la nostra vida. La Michka, una dona gran, va perdent l'habilitat per parlar i ha de lliurar-se a l'evidència: ja no pot viure sola.

“El pozo y el péndulo” (título original: The Pit and the Pendulum) es uno de los cuentos más famosos y celebrados de Edgar Allan Poe. Está considerado como uno de los relatos más espeluznantes dentro de la literatura de terror, pues transmite el abandono, la desorientación, el desconcierto y la desesperanza de una persona que sabe que va a morir. En él Poe demuestra su dominio sobre el lenguaje y las técnicas narrativas más efectivas para hacernos sentir partícipes de los agobiantes pensamientos que tiene el torturado.

Yael hat Nein gesagt. Nein zum Leben. Nun soll sie lernen, Ja zu sagen. Dabei will sie nur, dass man sie in Ruhe lässt. Denn sie sieht keinen Grund, Ja zu sagen. Wozu auch immer. Doch ihre Schwester lässt nicht locker. Nadine J. Cohen erzählt von Yaels Suche nach Gründen, für die es sich zu leben lohnt, und wie sie sie dort findet, wo sie sie niemals vermutet hätte: einer unkonventionellen Freundschaft, beim Meeresschwimmen vor Sonnenaufgang, unfassbar großen Mengen Speiseeis, trashiger Erotikliteratur ... und immer wieder in der tiefen Bindung zu ihrer Schwester.

Seemingly unprovoked, 15-year-old Tiara attacks a woman in a Vancouver coffee shop. When she is arrested, she claims not to remember anything. The severely injured victim is alive but has fallen into a coma and has no ID on her.

Malesia, 1931. La sveglia e ambiziosa Ji Lin ha dovuto abbandonare il sogno di studiare all’università per pagare i debiti contratti dalla madre giocando a mahjong. Per questo durante il giorno lavora come apprendista sarta e la sera ha un secondo lavoro segreto in una sala da ballo. Durante una serata viene avvicinata da un venditore che la invita per un tango, al termine del quale l’uomo perde un oggetto inquietante che rimane fra le mani di Ji Lin: una fiala in vetro contenente un dito mozzato.

Manny Grover is enjoying a peaceful life in a small North Texas town until an unexpected move to the big city turns his world upside down. As he navigates the challenges of his new environment, he encounters a cast of intriguing characters, including the scrappy and crude Jack Miller, who sticks by him through thick and thin. Manny’s growing confusion over Jack’s intentions adds to the complexity of his life.

Als Arthur Schnitzler 1925 seine Erzählung veröffentlichte, durchlief die Wiener Gesellschaft ein Schauder. Die Gnadenlosigkeit, mit der er den Seelengrund eines gesitteten Ehepaares bloßlegte, schockierte die Gemüter. Der Stoff erfuhr nach Schnitzlers Tod zahlreiche Adaptionen. Zu den bekanntesten gehört Stanley Kubricks Verfilmung Eyes Wide Shut mit Nicole Kidman und Tom Cruise in den Hauptrollen. 100 Jahre nach der Erstveröffentlichung der Novelle begeben sich Schauspieler Andreas Pietschmann und Musiker Stefan Weinzierl auf einen nächtlichen Streifzug.

Things are a little off in Ed’s world when his young son Henry receives an autism diagnosis, but when childish scribbling takes on a more sinister form, Ed knows he has to do all he can to protect his children. With no one on his side, Ed sets out to discover the secret behind the sketch and destroy it once and for all.