psychological fiction

The lives of three women of different generations are united by tragic love, a ghost that haunts a London hotel, and their quest to find the Third Angel that can restore their faith.

Sarah Lucas, unexpectedly alone at the age of seventy-five after her husband of fifty years dies from an injury, reflects back on her happy childhood and marriage, and finds new purpose and meaning in life when her rural Vermont home becomes a haven for others who are dealing with their own griefs and sorrows.

Dean Koontz s unique talent for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul is nowhere more evident than in this latest suspense masterpiece that pits one man against the ultimate deadline. If there were speed limits for the sheer pulse-racing excitement allowed in one novel, Velocity would break them all. Get ready for the ride of your life. Velocity Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don t take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours. It seems like a sick joke, and Bill s friend on the police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too. His advice to Bill is to go home and forget about it. Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been committed. But less than twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher is found murdered, and it s Bill s fault: he didn t convince the police to get involved. Now he s got another note, another deadline, another ultimatum ?and two new lives hanging in the balance. Suddenly Bill s average, seemingly innocuous life takes on the dimensions and speed of an accelerating nightmare. Because the notes are coming faster, the deadlines growing tighter, and the killer becoming bolder and crueler with every communication until Bill is isolated with the terrifying knowledge that he alone has the power of life and death over a psychopath s innocent victims. Until the struggle between good and evil is intensely personal. Until the most chilling words of all are: The choice is yours.

A Puerto Rican girl coming of age in the 1950s struggles to negotiate her own terms of survival within the confines of her culture.

On a December day in 1969 twins Rahel and Estha, born to a wealthy family living in the province of Kerala, India, find their lives changed after the death of their English cousin who was visiting for the holidays.

Sir William Golding reads his novel about a group of British school boys, stranded on a tropical island after a plane crash, who attempt to form a civilized society that descends into brutal anarchy.

Julia Cates, a child psychiatrist who has retreated, her career and confidence destroyed, to her Washington hometown in the wake of a media-heavy scandal, attempts to prevent the institutionalization of a traumatized, unidentified girl who has emerged from the forest.

A guide to studying Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness, " featuring an introduction, a profile of the author, background notes, a character list, a summary and analysis, selections from critical essays on the work, and an annotated bibliography.

An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the early twentieth-century novel "Heart of Darkness, " and its author Joseph Conrad.

Lucy Jarrett returns from Japan to her home in Lake of Dreams, New York, where she becomes caught up in solving the mystery of her father's death ten years earlier, and reignites the flame with her first love, glass artist Keegan Fall.