psychopaths

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The you I've never known

With both joy and fear, seventeen-year-old Ariel begins to explore her sexuality, while living with her controlling, abusive father who has told Ariel that her mother deserted her years ago.
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American psycho

a novel
1991
Twenty-six-year old Patrick Bateman is an educated, intelligent, and handsome New York businessman, who comes from old money and murders people in his spare time.
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My sister Rosa

When his father's business takes the family to New York City, a seventeen-year-old Australian boy must balance his desire to protect his ten-year-old sister, a diagnosable psychopath, from the world with the desperate need to protect the world from her.

My sister Rosa

When his father's business takes the family to New York City, a seventeen-year-old Australian boy must balance his desire to protect his ten-year-old sister, a diagnosable psychopath, from the world with the desperate need to protect the world from her.
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Batman

Harley Quinn
2015
"Head over heels in her devotion to the Joker, Arkham psychiatrist Harleen Quinzel gave up her career (and her sanity) to transform herself into the ultimate companion for crime's clown prince--the mad moll Harley Quinn. Of course, Harley's romance with the Joker hasn't been easy. The two are at each other's throats as often as each other's arms, and that buzzkill Batman is always sticking his nose in just when things are starting to get fun. But what great love story is without the occasional incarceration and life threatening peril?--Back cover.
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Finders keepers

2016
Iconic author John Rothstein hasn't published a book for decades, and a deranged fan named Morris Bellamy is livid. Bellamy kills the author and empties his safe of cash, also discovering a secret stash of notebooks containing at least one more novel. The killer decides to hide the money and notebooks, before being locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete finds the notebook, but later discovers he and his family are in danger from the vengeful and psychotic Morris when he's finally released from prison.
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Confessions of a sociopath

a life spent hiding in plain sight
2013
Diagnosed sociopath M.E. Thomas draws on her own experiences and scientific literature to describe characteristics of sociopaths, discusses suspicions and myths about them, and argues they are not inherently evil and can be useful to society.

The devil you know

Exhausted and rebellious after three years of working for her father and mothering her brother, eighteen-year-old Arcadia "Cadie" Wells joins two cousins who are camping their way through Florida, soon learning that one is a murderer.

The special ones

"When four young people are taken against their will to become part of a cult, they are worshipped by their followers and become lost in their new reality--but what happens if they rebel against the one holding them captive?"--Provided by publisher.

Tattoo atlas

"After Franklin commits a horrific crime and is sent to a special lab for rehabilitation, only Jeremy believes that Franklin might actually be better...but when crimes start up again in their small town, Jeremy begins to wonder if evil can ever truly be quelled"--Provided by publisher.

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