Psychological category: 8170 books

David Lehner, a private school teacher, has written in Unwelcome Light a powerful, riveting, disturbing prep school novel, to join the company of such novels as John Knowles’s A Separate Peace, Tobias Wolff’s Old School, and Alice Hoffman’s The River King. In each of these novels, including Lehner’s,...

Hester Thursby has given up using her research skills to trace people who don’t want to be found. A traumatic case a few months ago unearthed a string of violent crimes, and left Hester riddled with self-doubt and guilt. Caring for a four-year-old is responsibility enough in a world filled with...

From the very start, Enter the Witness draws you into a state of virtual communication with beings beyond your planetary experience.  They've come to assist you in the realization of your current circumstances, and with an offer of certain rescue.  Ever felt as if you didn't quite belong here?...

**How far would you go to save a child? ** Six-year-old Abdullah Anwar loves getting gifts from the birds. They flock to his back garden, bringing everything from buttons to broken light bulbs. Then one day, much to his devout father's bafflement, they leave a key. What can it possibly mean? Meanwhile,...

After Bill Wilson's supreme achievement in founding Alcoholics Anonymous, why would he have suffered a serious depression that lasted more than a decade? This book attempts to throw light on the question, one that has never been answered and rarely asked. In doing so, it involves the reader in many...

How To Make Life Nice is a novel, sparkling with gems of self-help wisdom. Journalist and academic Charlie Lee-Potter has called it: "A compelling examination of love, loss and family ties... beautiful, assured, lyrical... complex, ambitious and clever." Category: Fiction, literary,...

A girl is lured into fanaticism in this psychological thriller with “stunning twists”—by the New York Times–bestselling author of Turn of Mind (San Francisco Chronicle).   Never one to conform, Anna always had trouble fitting in. Earnest and willful, she quickly learned, as a young girl,...

This is a novel, but only in the most basic sense. Actually it's a novel wrapped around eleven separate short stories. Or maybe it's a short story collection enclosed in a novel. The novel itself consists of a prologue and several intermissions, one after all the short stories except the last...

The chilling psychological thriller from the best selling author of DON’T TRUST ME When Jenny, a concert violinist, moves to an atmospheric old house in Blackheath, it seems like the answer to her prayers after grubby house shares and a broken relationship. The eccentric owner, Bridget, is keen...

Every family has secrets, none as dangerous as the writhing beast consuming Michelle, a desperate mother and convicted murderer, who's intent on revenge driven by motives known to only herself. Brittany has not seen her mother for twelve years, then two weeks ago she was permitted to visit...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: It may sound odd to say so, but the very earliest fact that impressed itself on my memory was a scene that took place - so I was told - when I was eighteen years old, in my father's house, The Grange, at...

London, a capital at the height of its banking boom. Over one hot early-millennium summer, the detritus of urban life starts to spill over onto the streets just as the façade of Joe’s charmed life begins to crumble. A string of women are being found, burned to death. The press are heralding the...

Anna Édes is a dark and deeply moving naturalistic novel, a classic work of twentieth-century Hungarian literature. A skillful portrayal of the cruelty and emptiness of bourgeois life, Anna Édes was first published in 1926 and enthusiastically received by the intellectual coffee-house society...

A taut psychological thriller about a visitor from war-torn Georgia who brings paranoia to a peaceful family.