psychological fiction

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Shutter Island

A graphic novel adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel in which U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule begin to fear for their own lives and sanity when their investigation on Shutter Island into how a patient escaped the Ashcliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane yields more questions than answers.
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A long way down

A former talk-show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother, each intending to commit suicide, find themselves together on the roof of a London building and begin to contemplate their individual choices and circumstances.
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False memory

a novel
Dustin Rhodes, desperate to learn why his wife, a successful video game designer, has suddenly developed autophobia--the fear of oneself, discovers the shocking truth in the person of her therapist, the respected Dr. Ahriman.
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Choke

a novel
Victor Mancini, a medical school dropout, has devised a scheme to pay for his mother's elder care, but when he tries to scam the wrong person, his plan takes a nightmarish turn for the worse.
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Elsewhere

After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live.".
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Dracula

Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. Includes hundreds of insightful annotations from Mort Castle and a study guide.
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Of mice and men

Two close friends in the Salinas Valley of California dream of the time they will have enough money to buy their own farm.
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The red badge of courage

Presents Stephen Crane's novel about a youth whose dreams of glory on the battlefield clash with the realities of war; and includes an introduction, historical context, and explanatory and interpretive notes.

Being

After finding out he is part machine, sixteen-year-old Robert Smith runs from the covert government agents who are trying to pin a murder on him, and together with Eddi, a nineteen-year-old criminal, tries to uncover his true identity.

The invisible man

The tale of a scientist who discovers how to make his body become invisible, but, when he can't make himself visible again, becomes violently insane.

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