psychological fiction

A graphic novel in which troubled teen Miguel Serra willingly slips into a coma to escape his life and becomes an urban legend when he wakes up a year later completely unchanged except for his sloth-like pace.

Related stories, linked by recurring characters and an interwoven plot, recreate an American foot soldier's experience in the Vietnam War.

North Carolina deputy sheriff Miles Ryan, heartbroken over his wife's death in a hit-and-run accident two years earlier, considers love again when he meets his son's second-grade schoolteacher, Sarah--but he soon finds that his wife's death was anything but an accident and danger is not far away.

Cassie Barrett, a victim of abuse at the hands of her movie star spouse Alex, takes refuge with the parents of Native American cop Will Flying Horse to await the birth of her child and gather enough strength to publicly renounce her husband.

Anna records her struggles with anorexia--which she personifies as Tyranny, her tormentor--in her journal, and describes her efforts to overcome her deadly enemy through strength of character.

Gray Fallon has everything a sixteen-year-old boy could want, including a new, hot girlfriend, but when his sister is diagnosed with a serious illness, he embarks on a search for answers that leads him on a mission to live simply, "like a caveman," and brings him to the attention of the media.

High school senior Quentin Coldwater's real world never quite measures up to Fillory, the enchanted land in his favorite fantasy novels, and even an education at the mysterious Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy leaves him without purpose, but when he discovers a way into Fillory, his life becomes a dangerous adventure.

A deaf mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents.

Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen, two intelligent, incisive, and observant sisters pursue thrilling, torrid affairs, but their search for more mature emotional relationships reveals some startling information about themselves as well as their lovers, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich.

Ian Rutledge returns to his job at Scotland Yard after five years on the battlefield, keeping secret the fact that he is still suffering from shell shock, and almost immediately is sent to investigate the case of a murdered military officer in which the chief suspect is a much-decorated war hero.