Psychological

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....

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....

The people who call End of the Line need hope. They need reassurance that life is worth living. But some are unlucky enough to get through to Laura. Laura doesn’t want them to hope. She wants them to die....

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

Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century....

Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mother's love....

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....

¿Qué daño puede llegar a hacer la envidia en el mundo editorial? Descúbrelo en esta intrigante novela de la autora superventas número 1 del New York Times R. F. Kuang....

One of the most beloved and best-selling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special 25th anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author....

Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel is a brilliant crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons—atheist intellectual Ivan, hot-blooded Dmitry, and saintly novice Alyosha—are all at some level involved....

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri....

It was The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) that confirmed Thomas Mann as a Nobel prizewinner for literature and rightly so, for it is undoubtedly one of the great novels of the 20th century....

Nina can never forgive Maggie for what she did. And she can never let her leave. They say every house has its secrets, and the house that Maggie and Nina have shared for so long is no different. Except that these secrets are not buried in the past....

This magnificent novel is about the murder of a miserly, aged pawnbroker and her younger sister by a radical, destitute St. Petersburg student named Raskolnikov....

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently....

Two Couples. Three Secrets. One Murder....

I yearn to punish her for being so damn irresistible. I ache to own her, so I never have to know life without her. But more than anything, I’m compelled to slaughter anyone who comes between us....

The narrator and central character of The Adolescent is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy full of ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love.

Everyone needs a guardian angel! Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other's sentences. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other. Until the unthinkable happens....

A drama of patricide and fraternal jealousy unfolds, involving the questions of anarchism and atheism, and giving a portrait of Russian society in the turbulent 1870s....

On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing....

In this tour de force, a father, shaken by tragedy, tries to avenge his daughter's murder - and restore his family's shattered life....

Meet Noah - an A-honor-roll student, award-winning swimmer, and small-town star destined for greatness. There weren't any signs that something was wrong until the day he confesses to molesting little girls during swim-team practice....

Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life....

After a tragic chain of events led to the deaths of their spouses two years ago, D.C. philanthropist Sloane Chase and Senator Whit Montgomery are finally starting to move on. The horrifying ordeal drew them together, and now they're ready to settle down again....

Our protagonist comes to in a basement, tied to a chair, with a man looming over her. But someone has a knife. We follow her as she emerges from captivity into an unnamed, nightmarish city, seeking some meaning to her new reality. As figures emerge from the night, some offering sanctuary, and others judgement, she keeps moving, making her way through this fever dream of a narrative. SUPPLICATION is a haunting, embodied tale of alienation, fear, and the quest for respite.

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.

Ein Toter in einer Berliner Vorstadtvilla. Nichts Besonderes für einen Fallanalytiker. Aber warum ist das Opfer nackt? Und was hat es mit dem merkwürdigen Raum auf sich, in dem der Junge gefunden wird? Die Nachforschungen haben einen größeren Einfluss auf die Zukunft der Ermittler als zunächst angenommen. Ólafur Davídsson sieht sich im­mer wieder mit seiner eigenen Jugend konfrontiert, die alles andere als perfekt war. Plötzlich steht die Welt auf dem Kopf und eine zweite Jugend ist für ihn scheinbar zum Greifen nahe.

“As far as I know, you can only die once…” But when Aetna Simmons disappears from her lonely Bermuda cottage, she leaves behind not one but ten suicide notes. Ten different suicide notes. And no other trace to speak of, not even a corpse, as if she’d never existed. Drafts of a Suicide Note is the darkly enigmatic love letter of Kenji Okada-Caines, a petty criminal who once exposited on English literary classics and now, marooned on his native isle, nurtures an obsession with Aetna’s writing.

Bystander is a pitiless, bold work of intense psychological realism narrated by a professionally successful but socially bankrupt anti-hero who expects global connection and local anonymity. It excoriates the contingency of contemporary morality, and, at a time of growing isolation, forces the listener to examine what it means to be a good neighbor.

Kivousavé, on n'en parle qu'à mots couverts, à l'heure du thé. Kivousavé, c'est la mère de la narratrice, disparue quand elle avait deux ans. Depuis, l'enfant vit entre son père, trop faible, et sa grand-mère, qu'elle déteste. À 12 ans, elle découvre que sa mère n'est pas morte comme on le lui avait fait croire. Que cachent ces mensonges ? Pourquoi sa mère est-elle partie ? Qu'est-elle devenue ? La narratrice est sûre d'une chose : elle va la retrouver.

L’amore: un sentimento universale eppure al tempo stesso pieno di mistero. Che cos’è? Da dove proviene il modo in cui ci rapportiamo con esso? Queste e tante altre le domande che trovano risposta in questo straordinario “romanzo terapeutico”. Rifacendosi alla Teoria dell’Attaccamento di John Bowlby, gli autori – esperti psicoterapeuti dello sviluppo – costruiscono una vicenda fittizia che aiuti a fare luce sui diversi stili di relazione. La protagonista, Angela, ha avvertito fin dall’infanzia un forte senso di rifiuto da parte della madre.

Lou Manson is an outsider when she joins the final-year class at Highfield Manor, Dublin’s most exclusive private school. Beyond the granite pillars and the wrought-iron gates is a world of wealth, privilege and potential. But Highfield is also hiding a dark secret – and Lou is here to expose it. When Lou befriends the beautiful and talented Shauna Power, her plans are thrown into turmoil. Speaking out against the school would mean betraying Shauna, and Lou soon discovers that the Highfield elite will go to any lengths to protect their own reputation…even when the consequences are fatal.

Dr. Mick Strong has bought himself something unusual for his seventy-fifth birthday: a LifeTime projection. This new tech crunches data including your medical history, diet, and lifestyle to predict how much—or little—time you’ve got left. That’s all well and good, but he’s also bought them for his daughter, his grandchildren, and even his eleven-year-old great-grandson. He wants them each to wait until their next birthday to use the app. But whether they scoff at it, sneak an early look, desperately turn into a health nut, or die before their appointed time, the gift is wreaking havoc.

En este cautivador relato corto, seguimos a un hombre que, obsesionado con la idea de encontrar la paz lejos del bullicio de la sociedad moderna, se embarca en un viaje hacia una isla remota. El autor, con su característica maestría en la profundidad psicológica, despliega un escenario en el que el protagonista se enfrenta no solo a los retos del entorno natural, sino también a los enigmas de su propia alma. Este relato es una mezcla embriagadora de aventura, introspección y revelaciones dramáticas que cautiva y conmueve, manteniendo al lector en vilo hasta la última página.

Eine dramatische Liebe vor der rauen Kulisse Islands. Als Lillys herzkranker Zwillingsbruder stirbt, bricht für die Studentin eine Welt zusammen. Ihre Trauer findet in Berlin keinen Platz, also flieht sie kurzentschlossen nach Island, um den einzigen Menschen zu besuchen, der ihr in den letzten Monaten Halt geben konnte: Aron. Die beiden haben sich online in einem Forum für Angehörige von herzkranken Menschen kennengelernt. Doch als sie endlich vor ihm steht, ist er abweisend. Erst als Lilly ihm vom Tod ihres Bruders erzählt, tröstet er sie.

They were destined to be best friends. The four girls – all born that same hot summer. They predicted a safe and happy life for them all…More than thirty years later, it’s more than an unbreakable friendship – it’s more like a sisterhood. It’s the girls who Jess reaches out to because she’s worried about her grandparents who’ve raised her since her mother disappeared, who Erin tells about her new business idea, who Melissa calls to say she’s desperate to escape her toxic job. But then Chantelle messages saying she’s discovered her husband is having an affair.

Helena will ein letztes Mal ihren Vater besuchen und findet in Netes Hotel mehr als nur eine neue Aufgabe. Gedske droht durch den Verlust ihrer Tochter auseinanderzufallen und entdeckt auf einer Reise eine ungeahnte Kraft. Therese befreit gegenüber einer Pfarrerin ihre Liebe zu Aron, und Caroline erkämpft sich nach dem Unfall ihres Manns die zu sich selbst... In diesen Erzählungen überfällt die Klarheit die Figuren mitunter oder reißt Gewissheiten ein, aber sie öffnet stets neue Wege.

El cuento se centra en Tom Kernan, un comerciante que, tras una caída humillante en un bar, es persuadido por sus amigos para asistir a un retiro espiritual. A través de la figura de Kernan y sus interacciones con personajes variopintos, Joyce examina la hipocresía y la sinceridad dentro de la búsqueda personal de la gracia. La narrativa despliega con sutileza los esfuerzos de estos hombres por reconciliar sus vidas mundanas con sus anhelos espirituales, tejiendo críticas a las instituciones religiosas y sociales.

Un día en la vida de Farrington, un oficinista dublinés atrapado en la monotonía y la frustración. Farrington, acosado por su jefe exigente y atrapado en un trabajo que detesta, busca refugio en el alcohol y la compañía de otros hombres en los pubs de Dublín. Su jornada laboral se ve interrumpida por un acto de rebeldía que lo lleva a ser reprendido y humillado, exacerbando su deseo de escapar. La historia sigue su descenso por la tarde y la noche, destacando sus fracasos en el trabajo, en la taberna y finalmente en su hogar, donde su impotencia y su ira culminan en un acto de violencia hacia su hijo.