psychological fiction

"A lifetime ago, every year Carole Shipley looked forward to her wedding anniversary. But then a celebratory trip to Mexico for the occasion with her husband and friends ended in the unsolved kidnapping of her infant daughter, Samantha. Now, fifteen years after that horrific time, divorced and isolated, Carole is forced to relive the kidnapping by reporters who call every year on the anniversary of Samantha's disappearance. However, this year when the phone rings, Carole hears the sweet voice of a girl claiming to be her long-lost daughter. Plunged back into the world of heartbreak, suspicion and questions that led the case to run cold so many years ago, Carole doesn't know what or who to believe. But when she starts to figure it out, she finds the answers dangerously close to home"--Provided by publisher.

A respected London doctor invents a formula which turns him into an evil and ugly person who stalks the streets at night killing people, and by the time his friends discover his secret, it is too late.

A group of six women, college friends who have been meeting biannually for thirty years, put aside their individual woes to provide a circle of strength when one of them is diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Contains sixteen critical commentaries of Nella Larsen's novel "Passing," that deals with the psychological issues of race and gender and includes reviews, textual notes, chronology, and introduction.

Presents three novels by Dean Koontz about ordinary people who find themselves in horrifying circumstances including "Cold Fire," "The Key to Midnight," and "Hideaway.".

Connie Nixon discovers a box belonging to her estranged daughter, Jessica, that reveals a secret life Connie wasn't aware of; but when she flies to New York City to track down Jessica, she begins to let her own hair down and experience things she never knew before.

The camaraderie of four mothers is tested when social cliques create trouble for the friendship between their middle-school-age daughters.

Historian Robert MacIver creates a strange tale about men in the trenches of the First World War, forcing himself to relive his own experiences in the war and the impact they had on his life.

Miles and Jack, two friends facing mid-life crises, take a week-long road trip through California's wine valleys and evaluate their lives and their respective futures.

Naomi, widowed eight years earlier, is faced with loss again when her adult son is killed in an automobile accident, and decides to move from New England to her hometown in South Carolina, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, where both are welcomed into a large and loving family that helps them deal with their grief.