From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Moshfegh, OttessaSummary: - Author:Loe, ErlendSummary:
The narrator of this funny and poignant novel is searching for meaning, going back to his childhood, onto the web and off to New York to find it. He writes lists, obsesses over the nature of time, and finds joy in bouncing balls--all in...
- Author:Sartre, Jean-PaulSummary:
Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of...
- Author:Stachniak, EvaSummary:
From the author of The Winter Palace comes Eve Stachniak’s first novel about the discovery of secrets and lies that stitch together empires and individual lives. Winner of the 2000 Amazon.com/Books in Canada First Novel Prize Necessary...
- Author:Block, Francesca LiaSummary:
Forty-year-old Weetzie Bat ends her once-passionate relationship with secret agent Max and checks into an enchanted pink hotel, where she meets an otherworldly host of fawns, angels, and mermaids.
- Author:Moriarty, LianeSummary:
Neuf parfaits étrangers en quête de sérénité. Une station thermale de rêve. Dix jours de cure pour tout changer... Neuf citadins stressés, prêts pour un break dans une sublime station thermale. Le Tranquillum House leur propose...
- Author:Abbott, JeffSummary:
Each of us has a question we dread. In a quiet neighborhood in the wealthy Austin suburb of Lakehaven, the body of Danielle Roberts is discovered on a park bench. Danielle was a beloved member of the community, an adoption consultant...
- Author:Koryta, MichaelSummary:
Witness to a gruesome crime, Leah Trenton entered the state's protected witness program. When her children embark on a journey home, they encounter danger. Now Leah must come out of hiding and protect her family.
- Author:Jackson, JoshilynSummary:
New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson-"an admired writer who deserves to be a household name" (Kirkus Reviews)-displays her masterful talent in this dark and deliciously addictive tale of domestic suspense. In this game,...
- Author:Ishiguro, KazuoSummary:
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But,...
- Author:Kurian, VeraSummary:
"I devoured this riveting book through a day of travel...My desire to rush to the end clashed with my desire to savor every word. Who would be the last psychopath standing?" - New York Times Book Review "Fresh, fast-paced and fiendishly...
- Author:Dallas, SandraSummary:
Nora Bondurant is divorced--unfathomable for a woman in 1933--and has inherited a house from a dead aunt she never even knew existed. But when she travels to Mississippi to claim her inheritance, she finds her eccentric neighbors would...
- Author:Rodman, SeanSummary:
Ever since he watched his little brother drown last summer, Dylan has felt like he's losing it. He can't shake the nightmares that plague him, dreams from which he wakes up screaming every night. Dylan takes a summer job at a remote...
- Author:Ragnar JónassonSummary:
When a policeman is shot in the dead of night, Ari Thór must solve a murder involving tangled local politics, a compromised new mayor, and someone held against their will in an asylum.
- Author:Wright, Richard B.Summary:
James Hillyer, a retired university professor whose life was evocatively described in Wright's novel October, is now barely existing after the death of his beloved daughter in her forties. On a whim, he tries to locate the woman he fell...
- Author:Saso, EmilySummary:
A thrilling novel about two people stranded under mysterious circumstances in the South China Sea, battling the memories of the crimes that haunt them. A U.S. Navy intelligence officer, Jess is serving on an aircraft carrier (the first...
- Author:McCarthy, CormacSummary:
Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Texas/Mexico border when he stumbles upon several dead men, a big stash of heroin, and more than two million dollars in cash. He takes off with the money--and the hunter becomes the hunted. A...
- Author:Kamal, SheenaSummary:
Two years ago, Bonnie was kidnapped by the wealthy Zhang family. Though Nora rescued her, she made a powerful enemy in Dao, a mysterious triad enforcer and former head of the Zhangs' private security. Now Dao is out for revenge, and she...
- Author:Muddiman, RebeccaSummary:
This is the predicament Polly Cooke faces when she returns to her new home. The first weeks in the house had been idyllic, but soon Jacob, a local man, is watching her. What does he want and why is he so obsessed with Polly? In a...
- Author:Fallis, TerrySummary:
This is the story of a middle-aged copywriter in New York City. He's worked at the same ad agency for fifteen years, but one morning this copywriter finds himself fired from his job, and after he catches his live-in girlfriend moving...
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