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....

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

Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside....

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....

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....

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

Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there...the population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets....

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende der achtziger Jahre in Ost-Berlin, zufällig, und...

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....

Tero Salminen on Yhdysvalloissa asuva suomalainen liikemies, jonka elämän suunta muuttuu eräänä aivan tavallisena päivänä...

It is a June day in London in 1923, and the lovely Clarissa Dalloway is having a party....

Six teens murdered. A suspect behind bars. A desperate father. In a case this shadowy, the truth is easy to hide....

She's the successful wife, he's the struggling husband. He finds passion elsewhere and trouble ensues.

Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the 21st century....

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....

The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow....

Getting pregnant as a teenager was never part of Kate's plan, but when it happens she's determined to do right by her daughter, showing her the love she never had as a child....

In The Storyteller, Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined....

¿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....

You think you can trust the ones you love most. But what if one secret could make you question everything? Every day, a woman like Louise passes you in the street: elegant, confident, determined. But underneath, she’s struggling....

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....

For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of a "life of freedom"....

A young Southerner, Stingo, meets Nathan, a brilliant Jewish intellectual involved in a turbulent love-hate affair with Sophie, a beautiful Polish woman who has a terrible wound in her past....

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....

My husband was not a monster. No matter what they say....

En el corazón palpitante de Entra, por favor, una obra maestra tejida por la pluma magistral de D.H. Lawrence, yace una historia cautivadora de deseo y transgresión. Ambientado en la Inglaterra de principios del siglo XX, este relato corto nos sumerge en la vida de una joven pareja atrapada en la monotonía de su existencia, hasta que una visita inesperada desencadena una serie de eventos que transformarán sus vidas para siempre.

Esta es una obra maestra de observación y simbolismo, en la que la delicada danza entre la libertad y la restricción se despliega a través de la vida de dos pájaros cautivos. El autor, con su inigualable profundidad psicológica y su agudo sentido de la naturaleza, teje una narrativa que explora el deseo innato de libertad frente a las cadenas invisibles que nos atan. Este relato no solo es un estudio sobre la autonomía y la interdependencia, sino también una reflexión poética sobre las relaciones humanas y nuestra propia búsqueda de liberación.

It’s the tabloid sensation of the year: two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile text messages pointing towards their guilt. As the trial unfolds, Evan Keogh reflects on the events that have led him to this moment. Since leaving his island home, his life has been a lie on many levels. He’s a talented footballer who wanted to be an artist. A gay man in a sport that rejects diversity. A defendant whose knowledge of what took place on that fateful night threatens more than just his freedom or career.

Il libro ha come protagonista un giovane avvocato di successo, Luca Pertinelli, e il coro di amici (e colleghi di lavoro) che l'accompagnano "in scena". Fino a quando non arriva dall'Inghilterra la giovane Sabine, di cui Luca si innamora entrando in conflitto con il proprio ambiente, la moglie e le regole di un mondo in cui egli stesso è irrimediabilmente prigioniero. Nella seconda parte del romanzo, la scena si sposta su un'isola vacanziera dove la presenza di Sabine farà esplodere in modo drammatico le contraddizioni che dominano il circuito di sciagurati gaudenti attorno ai quali Bulgaro traccia un disegno collettivo di grande respiro.

Ce matin-là, sur la table de la cuisine, Mona découvre une lettre que lui a laissée l'homme dont elle partage la vie depuis plus de 30 ans. Il lui annonce qu'il part. Que faire quand tout s'effondre brusquement ? Privée de son futur, submergée par le sentiment d'avoir échoué, Mona fait un pas de côté. Elle s'échappe à son tour, et son voyage la mène entre la terre et l'eau : à la lisière des vagues.

Frank ha diciannove anni ed è figlio dell’attraente tenutaria di una casa di appuntamenti in una città del Nord durante l’occupazione nazista. Freddo, scostante, insolente, solitario, Frank vuole in segreto una cosa sola: iniziarsi alla vita. E crede che il modo migliore per farlo sia uccidere qualcuno senza ragione. Con sbalorditiva sicurezza, Simenon entra nella testa di questo personaggio al limite fra l’abiezione e una paradossale innocenza, e intorno a lui fa vivere il mondo della neve sporca – la sordida scena di una città dove tutto è tradimento, rancore, doppio gioco.

Муму — психологическая повесть Ивана Тургенева о глухонемом дворнике Герасиме, который из-за прихоти барыни вынужден был разлучиться с любимой и утопить единственного друга — собачку. Автор симпатизирует простому и доброму Герасиму, а его хозяйку изображает жесткой, циничной и капризной. Перу автора принадлежат и другие известные произведения, такие как «"Ася", "Отцы и дети", "Дворянское гнездо", «Бирюк", "Накануне", 'Пожар на море", "Постоялый двор', "Часы", "Три портрета", "Странная история", "Свидание" и т. д.

Philip Notman, an acclaimed historian, attends a conference in Bergen, Norway. On his return to London, and to his wife and son, something unexpected and inexplicable happens to him, and he is unable to settle back into his normal life. As he tries to make sense of both his personal circumstances and the world surrounding him, he finds himself embarking on a course of action that will push him to the very brink of disaster.

The plot centers on Anthony Beavis, a dilettante social theorist, a man inclined to recoil from life. The pleasures of the physical world disgust him and the universe of ideas is but a poor refuge. Having long lost the art of intimacy, he betrays friendships and toys with the affections of women. But as Beavis approaches middle age, his world of perfect detachment begins to lose its appeal. Finally realizing that his withdrawal from life has been motivated not by intellectual honesty but by moral cowardice, Beavis, devastated and at crisis point, meets the remarkable and redoubtable Dr Miller.

In un futuro non troppo lontano, raggiunta una certa età – cinquant’anni per le donne, sessanta per gli uomini – le persone che non hanno avuto figli vengono rinchiuse in un complesso chiamato L’Unità. Un luogo idilliaco, almeno in apparenza: una struttura all’avanguardia con eleganti appartamenti immersi in splendidi giardini, dove vengono serviti elaborati pasti gourmet e dove gli ospiti, finalmente liberatisi del peso del giudizio sociale, hanno la possibilità di fare amicizia con persone come loro.

When Shelley Woodhouse wakes up in hospital from a coma, the first thing she says is that her husband must be arrested. He’s the reason she’s in here. She knows it. She remembers what he did. Clearly as anything. But there are things Shelley has forgotten too, including parts of her childhood. And as those start to come back to her, so do other memories. Ones with the power to change everything.

This hilarious, thought-provoking debut novel is a brilliant examination of art, celebrity, the natural world, and the power of language. It is an unforgettable, unputdownable adventure with a small but global cast of characters shaken by the shocks of love, destruction, and creation in one of Europe's last great wildernesses.

From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia in 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. Estranged from her own mother, Dutchess, and their home in Bonaparte, Alabama, Ava is determined to give her son the chance of a better life. But when Toussaint’s father, Cass, reappears, Ava is swept off course by his charisma and his bold vision for racial justice. As Ava becomes more enmeshed with Cass and the radical group he has created, Toussaint begins to sense the danger and threat of violence simmering all around him.

Percival Everett by Virgil Russell is a story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his ageing father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of novel the son would write Not only is Percival Everett by Virgil Russell a powerful, compassionate meditation on old age and its humiliations, it is an ingenious culmination of Everett’s recurring preoccupations.

Сара Никерсон, работающая мать троих детей, хочет успеть все — и она успевает! Но вся ее жизнь, распланированная по минутам, меняется в мгновение ока... После аварии у женщины оказывается даже слишком много свободного времени. Последствия травмы на медицинском языке называются односторонним пространственным игнорированием — для пациента с синдромом игнорирования "не существует" левой стороны пространства. Теперь самое главное — научиться воспринимать мир заново, а для этого нужна огромная внутренняя работа.