psychological fiction

When Abby is told that her painting has "no heart," she makes a list of things she's never done before to enhance her creativity. She's also hoping that her best friend Cooper will realize that he feels the same way about her as she does about him.

"Successful New York editor Jen Gibbs is at the top of her game with her new position at Vida House Publishing--until a mysterious manuscript from an old slush pile appears on her desk. Turning the pages, Jen finds herself drawn into the life of Sarra, a mixed-race Melungeon girl trapped by dangerous men in turn-of-the-century Appalachia. A risky hunch may lead to The Story Keeper's hidden origins and its unknown author, but when the trail turns toward the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a place Jen thought she'd left behind forever, the price of a blockbuster book deal may be higher than she's willing to pay"--OCLC.

Odd Thomas and his traveling companion, Annamaria, think they have found a haven in Roseland, a magnificent West Coast property, but the manor has deep secrets and mysteries that make it more hell than haven.

Best friends almost since birth, Zoe and Hank navigate the shifting boundaries of their relationships during high school as one of them struggles with an eating disorder and self-harm.

Seventy-nine-year-old widower and artist Julian Jessop discusses the truth of his lonely life in a green journal and leaves it in a local cafe, as an invitation to others to express their truth. Monica, the cafe owner, finds it and writes her own entry, passing the notebook on to another location in the area. The green notebook touches the hands of seven other individuals from around the world, who express their own struggles and eventually gather together in person at Monica's cafe.

Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of justice.

Reverend Stephen Drew is shattered when Alice Hayward is murdered by her husband just hours after being baptized and finds his faith in God slipping away, until he meets Heather Laurent, whose work studying angels helps Drew renew his spirituality in the face of a police investigation that suggests he may have been connected to Alice's death.

Beautiful, mysterious Vianne Rocher and her young daughter arrive in Lansquenet-sous-Tannes at the start of the Lenten season where she proceeds to set up a chocolate shop, much to the chagrin of the local priest.

In an unnamed town in Northern Ireland during the 1970s, the middle sister of a family stands out because she's different: she reads while walking, and takes French night classes in the city. When a local paramilitary named Milkman starts pursing her, rumors spread that incite violence. Although nothing happens between them, the middle sister's inaction has consequences for all of them.

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule begin to fear for their own lives and sanity when their investigation on Shutter Island into how a patient escaped the Ashcliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane yields more questions than answers.