Narrative theme: Interior life Books

Come si fa a dimenticare una persona quando è stata, per tutta la vita, una specie di ossessione? Gli amori ci accompagnano per tutta l'esistenza. Alcuni durano per sempre, altri si riducono a pochi attimi divenendo dei ricordi inscindibili da noi stessi...

Undine arbeitet im Aquarium eines Zoos und umgibt sich auch sonst mit allem, was Wasser und blau ist, so als könne sie diese Traumwelt dauerhaft vor der Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer Vergangenheit bewahren. Eines Tages platzt der Student Adrian in ihr...

Tom, ein sechzehnjähriger Junge, entwickelt in seiner Pubertät eine starke Sehnsucht nach seinem Vater, der ihn und seine Mutter sehr früh verlassen hat. Die Frage, warum sein Vater in die Welt hinauszog und nie mehr zurückkehrte, lässt ihn nicht zur...

Was ist lebensmüde?Ein Schritt auf die Straße und der Autobus prescht herbei. Zwei Möglichkeiten: Man liegt kurz darauf sterbend auf dem Boden oder es passiert einfach gar nichts, weil der Busfahrer rechtzeitig bremst. Der Roman 'Wie ich die Angst vor...

Set somewhere in the Midwest, Catch Me follows young JP, a high school senior at odds with his teachers, his parents and society in general. Tired of the weight the world imposes on him, he finds ways to rebel, through alcohol, cigarettes and any act of...

A Love That Was Dangerous To Herself And Others To look at ourselves - divided and taken apart. And then find out how we go together again. In Pola, that journey is a vividly personal exploration into the sacred unity of Art, Mind and Nature. Pola is...

Hands around her neck, he squeezed...Maria thrashed and scratched with long, manicured nails, but the man was much too strong.He squeezed harder and bent to better catch every glimpse of life after death, every reality of life from the Other Side.Alex...

One Saturday afternoon, three friends head north for a long weekend. On Monday, they will return home, having buried a body in the woods.For Hazel, reeling from the discovery of her long-term partner's infidelity, a getaway to a remote coastal village...

Hidden away in the backstreets of Amsterdam is a secretive whorehouse, open only to those in the know, where pain and extreme sexual sport are the vehicles to understanding and self-knowledge. Run by the obscure Madame Zhu, the establishment is a magnet...

The two novels included in this book are works of Russian magic realism. In the first novel, Shadowplay on a Sunless Day, Anatoly Kudryavitsky writes about life in modern-day Moscow and about an emigrant's life in Germany. The chapters of...

"Un escrito maravilloso, convincente, desafiante y lleva a la reflexión." N. Jennings"¡Magnífico! . . . muy bien escrito, disfruté cada minuto. Emana una luz crítica y compasiva sobre el sistema del Indian residential schools." T. MooresEn agosto de...

*Cover art by Kealan Patrick Burke's Elderlemon Design is exclusive to the hardcover edition.Addiction is the perpetual epidemic, where swarms of human moths flutter to the flames of hell. Because that warm blanket of a heroin high, that joyful...

In the 1970s in the United States, many medical professionals held psychiatry in contempt. An innovative study designed by psychologist David Rosenhan, and published in Science in 1973, provided strong evidence that psychiatrists could not reliably...

“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.” Sherlock Holmes is a timeless character. His quick wit, incredible memory and penchant for observation and deduction have entertained readers across the...

At the moment of death, one soul faces the biggest decision about life.Coping with mental health challenges, Tony Golden is drawn to the positive spiritual energy of the Southwest.But when he becomes a victim of a murderous crime at his volunteer...

Travels with Lovers  flows  with humor and grace, and one can feel the laughter and sadness in these couples’ journeys. Within these classic short stories one comes to understand the bizarre nature of various loving encounters and the...

“I am thirty-four years old, married, a professor of neurobiology; I have two sons, aged nine and seven. I grew up in Brownsville and I left it behind, and I was diagnosed as having cancer in January. I know that these facts are connected; I have...

A vibrant young woman traumatized from the utmost betrayal by her father, sexual misconduct, slips further into self- imposed oblivion as her son Damien is brutalized by her husband. Following the break-up of that highly dysfunctional family by court...

This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in 1835 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Memoirs; or, Diary of a Madman' is a short story about the life of a minor civil servant during the repressive era...

This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in 1836 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Inspector-General' is a play allegedly based on an anecdote recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, the great Russian...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Dr. Dale McCowan is comfortable in his secluded corner of huge Hunter Scientific, Inc., until his calm, family-centered life is troubled by an impromptu interview with Assistant Vice President Janet Hunter. The unsettling meeting is only the beginning...

Hannah is on a mission to purchase the Grand Hotel. She embarks on a dangerous journey that will lead her down a winding trail of deception, family secrets, and murder. And in the darkenss of shadows, a killer waits silently

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Having graduated college with an eating disorder and a rapidly worsening drinking problem, our narrator is set adrift in the real world. After drunkenly sabotaging her plans to move to New York for a lucrative job in investment banking, she finds work...

Secrets and lies. Be careful what you seek, because some secrets are best left buried...Rose and Suzanne were sisters, so much alike that people mistook them for twins. They had always been the best of friends - until Doug arrived on the scene. Doug fell...

First published in 1897, this novel explores the impact of repressed emotions on the human psyche. The central character, Isabel Meredith, struggles to reconcile her duty-bound existence as a wife and mother with her unfulfilled desires for passion and...

After his own bizarre behavior ruins his wedding, a groom seeks psychological help but quickly discovers that he is already under the control of someone who has been manipulating his memory without his knowledge. Trying to keep a firm grip on his sanity,...

A mysterious parcel.  An unsolved crime.  A spell from beyond the grave.After returning from her last strange quest, Selkie Moon is more than ready to settle down. So when she receives a parcel from her great grandmother 35 years after her...

On the anniversary of her husband's death, forty-nine-year-old Emily Holt runs away, leaving an unmade bed, an unlocked house, two college-aged sons, and an overabundance of bad memories. Struggling to make peace with the death of a husband who'd...

Cultown is the story of Thomas Swan, a charismatic figure who forms a cult called the Milinish. With an odd mix of scientific and religious beliefs, the Milinish begins in Sydney, then moves overseas to become the fastest growing cult in...

Detective Brian Boise is about to embark on the biggest case of his career. After being thrust into law enforcement on the footsteps of his father, Detective Boise finds himself on the trail of a murder suspect he could never have imagined, the...

Joseph is haunted. His mermaid bi-sexual girlfriend died under mysterious circumstances. Naked Pete may have the answers, if he would pick up his phone. Joseph doesn't pay for sex; the price is more than he or his friend with benefits could have...

Sister Maple Syrup Eyes is one of the first books published from the historically under-reported perspective on rape: from that of the lesser and oft-forgotten "other victim," the individual's partner. With terse lyricism, this novella radiates the...

An unnatural natural phenomenon precedes a multitude of events that changed the world forever. The battle of the surreal topples the imagination. How strong is your reality? Take the trip with Belena and travel through the darkness of a demented mind.

Seventeen year-old Ticker Naft can't read or write; his sister won't get out of bed; and his father has a worrisome health problem. Then there's that big mystery Grandma keeps hinting at about Grandpa and the long ago house fire next door. When Grandpa...

A personality disorder savant becomes the gateway for a Doctor's lost family and the open door for a tormented writer. The writings of a young patient become an obsession for a failed writer while The prestigious Doctor of the St Dismas Psychiatric...

Selling real estate in Marsh Creek becomes a deadly profession for Andrea Jordan when she sells a rural home to charismatic Steve Jamison who has a hidden life.Steve casts a spell over Andrea and she soon finds herself falling in love with him, not...

Gabrielle is drawn home to find her mother and father dead. Soon she finds herself mixed up in a web of lies and deceit fighting something she never imagined even existed. She finds there's no way out she must fight to stay alive for this evil will not...

Imagine having the power to observe the dreams of others -- to have intimate knowledge of the most secret desires, the most dreaded terrors, the childish delights, the sexual fantasies of anyone you might choose. Then imagine having the power to enter...