psychological fiction

Twelve individuals travel to the Big Oakland Powwow for their own reasons. Following each one, their stories reveal a unique glimpse into the struggles faced by modern Native Americans in urban America, highlighting the complex history and inheritance of both a profound spirituality and a propensity for addiction and suicide.

A man mourning a lost past and a woman trapped in modernity connect through the medium, meaning, and hopefulness of the season of Spring, which also unites such historical figures as Charlie Chaplin, Katherine Mansfield, William Shakespeare, and Beethoven, as well as modern issues like Donald Trump and "Brexit.".

"Accepting what she believes will be a dream job from a prominent political family, a young nanny is dazzled by her employers' glamorous life before a mysterious stranger draws her into a menacing web of secrets"--OCLC.

"Motherhood is tough. But then, so is daughterhood. When we first meet Claire, she's living in Sedona, Arizona with her boyfriend Cal and ducking calls from her mother. Her mom is a world class psychic on the East Coast and Claire doesn't want her to discover the truth. Claire works in the family business and calls herself a psychic, but she doesn't really have "the gift" and hasn't for a long time. She's a fraud. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, Rena, a young mother, has family issues of her own. She's divorced and her four-year-old daughter, Stephanie, suffers from mysterious, seemingly incurable stomach problems. No matter how many specialists Rena drags her to, no matter how many mommy-blog posts she makes about her child's health issues, trying to get help and support from her online community, Stephanie only gets sicker. When Claire and Rena meet by chance on an airplane, their carefully constructed lives begin to explode. Can these two women help each other and can they help Stephanie before it's too late?"--Publisher's description.

In an alternative 1980s historical London, Charlie is a drifter, avoiding full-time employment, with a crush on the smart student Miranda, who herself lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie unexpectedly comes into money, he buys one of the world's first synthetic humans and with Miranda's help designs Adam, the android, and his perfect personality. A love-triangle forms, and Charlie, Miranda, and Adam must confront moral dilemmas.

"A murder at an elite New England college tears apart a group of friends--one of whom is playing a dangerous game"--Provided by publisher.

As Marilyn approaches middle-age, she struggles to discover herself outside of a passionless marriage, a demanding family and an ever-growing list of dreams deferred. With three children in college, a demanding mother-in-law, a senile mother and a drug-addicted sister, Marilyn has more on her plate than she expected at this stage of the game.

When privileged Ig, who comes from a prominent family, wakes up one morning with a terrible hangover after a night of drinking and doing terrible things, he discovers he has grown horns. Confused about this new development, Ig learns that he has the ability to know the darkest secrets of anyone he touches. Baffled by his new powers, he becomes more and more determined to find out who viciously raped and murdered his high school sweetheart a year ago and vows revenge on the guilty murderer.

"Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth-century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters homes at will. She stands next to children's beds for nights on end. Everybody knows that her eyes may never be opened or the consequences will be too terrible to bear. The elders of Black Spring have virtually quarantined the town by using high-tech surveillance to prevent their curse from spreading. Frustrated by being kept in lockdown, the town's teenagers, decide to break their strict regulations and go viral with the haunting. But, in so doing, they send the town spiraling into dark, medieval practices of the distant past."--Jacket.