psychological fiction

Psychologist-detective Alex Delaware probes into the dark life of Lauren Teague, a young woman he treated years earlier when she was a troubled teenager, whose corpse has been found dumped in an alley.

Presents the text and criticism of Thomas Mann's classic novella, and includes the author's working notes translated into English, selections from Mann's essays and letters, and period maps of Munich, Venice, and the Lido.

Presents Stephen Crane's classic novel about Henry Flemming, a young Civil War Union soldier who experiences his first battle and then has to come to terms with his own fears and feelings of cowardice.

Set in a future world, one man defies the ideals of collectivism, makes his own decisions and personal choices, seeks knowledge, and ultimately becomes a target for death.

An unnamed social media star travels the world meeting and responding to her fans in a digitally constructed world she refers to as the portal. When real-life trauma calls her back home to aid her younger sister in Ohio, she confronts the realities between both worlds to figure out a way they can coexist.

Arden Maynor suffered a childhood trauma: she was six years old when she was swept away in a storm while sleepwalking. She was the girl from Widow Hills who was miraculously found. After her mother wrote a book about the incident, fans and stalkers arrived. As soon as she was old enough, Arden changed her name to Olivia Meyer and disappeared. However, now, as the twentieth anniversary of the rescue nears, she feels she's being watched and starts sleepwalking again. Then one night she wakes in her yard with the corpse of a man she knew from her old life at her feet. Her past has found her and this time, Olivia can't run away.

Fifteen-year-old Vanessa is in awe of her teacher Jacob Strane and the power she has over him, and he is obsessed with her. They begin a secret affair that changes her. Seventeen years later, he is accused of sexual abuse by a former student who reaches out to Vanessa for corroboration. Vanessa explores her memories and must either admit that her teenage self willingly engaged in the relationship, or admit that the man was a predator and she was a victim.

Twenty-something Edie has finally gotten brave and started creating the art she has always wanted to make, but that is about the only good thing going on in her life--she shares a dirty Bushwick apartment and works a grueling administration job, and her sexual choices have been sub-par at best. Then she meets Eric, a New Jersey digital archivist, whose wife invites Edie into their home as part of an open marriage with rules. Edie takes the invitation, and hesitantly becomes an ally of Eric's wife and, as the only black woman in her life, to her adopted daughter Akila. However, such arrangements often do not last or end well.

Lizzie's work in the library of a university where she was a once-promising grad student is overshadowed by her side hustle answering letters for "Hell and High Water," a podcast hosted by her old mentor, characterized by doom and gloom. Lizzie is supposed to be answering these letters as an unofficial shrink, but as her own life as a wife and mother begins to suffer from her obsession with disaster psychology, writing notes of hope to the podcast correspondence becomes harder and less fulfilling.

After a mad dash to safety out of a windowless shack in the woods where her captor had been holding her, a young woman calling herself Lena returns to the world after fourteen years missing. However, this is only the beginning of a new nightmare--her family swears she is not their Lena, in spite of the matching scar she has. The little girl who Lena escape with is also a question mark--she is not saying everything she knows. Meanwhile, Lena fears her tormentor is not done with her, and will not rest until the whole truth about what happened in that shack in the woods.