paranoia

Syah Walker is a peer counselor at Emdaria North Middle School and she believes that Aman, a new boy at school, needs her help--and when an emergency MindLink session allows her to Drift into his mind she finds he is suffering from severe anxiety and fear of failure, and his mental constructs are a complex of secret societies, conspiracies, and threatening monsters that she must overcome if she is to help him.

When a single mother hears a rumor outside her son's school, she never intends to pass it on. But one casual comment leads to another . . . and now there's no going back. Rumor has it that a notorious killer, a woman who has been released from prison years after her brutal crime, is living under a new identity in Joanna's seaside town. So who is the supposedly reformed murderer now living in their neighborhood? Suspicion falls on everyone. As Joanna becomes obsessed with the case, her curiosity will expose her son and his father to a heartless psychopath who has killed--and may kill again. And she will learn how dangerous one rumor can become . . . and just how far she must go to protect those she loves from harm. She is going to regret the day she ever said a word.

"If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust? Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside--the woman who was killed. She's been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have done, really? It's a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm. Her husband would be furious if he knew she'd broken her promise not to take that shortcut home. And she probably would only have been hurt herself if she'd stopped. But since then, she's been forgetting every little thing: where she left the car, if she took her pills, the alarm code, why she ordered a pram when she doesn't have a baby. The only thing she can't forget is that woman, the woman she might have saved, and the terrible nagging guilt. Or the silent calls she's receiving, or the feeling that someone's watching her..."--.

"Explores the history and consequences of conspiracism, and offers insights into why so many of us are drawn to implausible, unproven and unprovable conspiracy theories"--Dust jacket.

James Dunne, a naive young officer newly graduated from the Royal Interstellar Service Academy, enters a world of corruption and paranoia aboard the starship "Eclipse, " where disrespect toward one's superiors can find one left for dead in the "dark.".

Follows Elizabeth Hall through twenty-four turbulent hours in which she witnesses the seedier activities that take place on New York's streets.

"Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have. When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben's infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. Ben soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking double life. And now someone is out to stop Ben from uncovering the truth about Diana's illicit affairs"--from publiser's web site.

Presents profiles of eight men who preyed upon the fears and prejudices of people to attract followers to their causes, whether pursuing alleged witches, pointing a finger at imagined communists, or persecuting minorities.