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Jack had a tough childhood. He was bullied because of the way he looked and became introverted. He relied heavily on the close relationship that he shared with his Grandma—a relationship in which they shared one major secret. They had a special...

It's a moment everyone dreads: that moment before death. But what if it's just an ordinary moment when nothing happens? What if it's no different from any other moment in life, when a dying person can't even tell what's coming? That moment could attract...

"Is my husband lying? Is he having an affair? Why doesn't he see me?" Jacki asks herself as dissatisfaction creeps into her seemingly perfect life with her husband, psychologist James Whitehead.Jacki is a writer. She also harbors her own...

Reyansh faces new challenges after relocating to Pune. His new roommate Pulkit turns out to be a writer and insists on writing a romance novel based on the past love life of Reyansh. He agrees but with some conditions. He would narrate the story every...

Highly atmospheric, often lyrical, filled with quirky and memorable characters, Emperor's Reach intertwines a fascinating psychological portrait with history, humor, romance and suspense.There's much to admire about Darrol Yount. He's one of...

From the author of The Geometry of Love, a Booklist Top Ten Women's Fiction Title, comes Nothing Forgotten, a deeply moving literary novel about a mother's regret, a quest for self-forgiveness, and love transcending time.

Fear for your life.FBI Agents Hank Garrison and Billy Boddicker are called in to try to piece together the murders of three people found in a Massachusetts house. When a video tape turns up at the crime scene, they soon realize that the murders were...

The Rider of the White Horse (1888) is a classic German novella, in which the individual wrestles with the mass, the man with the most elementary forces of nature. It is Theodor Storm's (1817-1888) last complete work. --- The scene of the novella is...

In this suspenseful thriller, a journalist writing about a reclusive billionaire finds herself caught in a madman’s maze.Sophie regrets leaving her much-loved ex-boyfriend over Christmas, but she can’t pass up the opportunity of a lifetime:...

C D SWANSON has produced another enriching piece of work. The Progressive Intern is a "story within a story" of two women from two different generations and backgrounds. The illustrious fashion in which the author engages the reader is spellbinding. The...

A Poetic-Psychological Novel. . . Continuing the themes of Angelyn Arden's other works, Purcell Wrengt is a story where depth psychology meets Christianity resulting in a lyrical language exploring a healing of the soul.

Rory Carter grew up obsessed with her looks. Teased relentlessly about her weight, Rory was happy to leave her past behind when she enrolled in a Washington, DC, college and met her new best friends, Sierra, BJ, and Neekoo. Now a loving wife, devoted...

Ralph Barns leads an easy and simple life-or so he thinks. With the perfect home, a nice job, a devoted wife, and three beautiful daughters, Ralph seems to have it all. Unfortunately Ralph is never satisfied and his life is about to change for the worse...

No matter where you run, the most terrifying evils will always find you. Unemployed and existing in squalor living arrangements, life in Detroit couldn't be moredisillusioning for Eddy Sloan. His psychosis leaves him unsure about his own...

Haunting Novel: Marty receives a Chain Letter in the early 1950s and finds herself caught in a web of bizarre murders, taking her to the Dark Side. Does she find out who sent the Letter before her own demise?

Foundation: a drug extracted from the blood of 'unwanted' newborns. Setting: San Francisco and the Tuscan archipelago. Story: two shattered lives, an ocean apart, must search for one man with a deadly secret. Together, they can save more than...

When Sheila Traventi discovers she's pregnant with her second child, she's ecstatic. Happily married to her handsome husband, Richard, and the mother of a two- year-old boy, Tim, the future can only be promising. That's until genetic testing uncovers a...

This is a novel of ideas, particularly ideas about psychology and philosophy. It’s also a novel about the politics and circumstances of a particularly unsettling year – 1939 – and about travel at that time. The main character is an...

Born to parents who died shortly after her birth, twenty-year-old genius Sarah Sims has been hidden all her life in a secure CIA facility. Yet her days of anonymity are limited because her aunt has discovered her existence and is determined to lead Sarah...

A lonely reporter on a southern daily newspaper becomes obsessed with a beautiful young woman only to find himself entangled in the bleak life of a prostitute. The complicated relationship is mired in a small city's political shenanigans and journalistic...

Annually, about 300,000 African babies are bornwith sickles cell disorders. A bold deception threatensto plunge the family of ex-miss Nigeria when hertwo sons are diagnosed with sickle cell Anaemia.Intrigue and family crisis mingle in one of the...

Do we ever learn if the mistakes we make have purpose? Meet Camille Sawyer and her daughter Elizabeth. Camille is immersed in regret over the bad choices she has made. Kids, men, her health, you name it. No matter how hard she tries, it seems she always...

The Poems are varied and touch on many human emotions familiar to us all.*A young love destroyed by alcohol*A woman ponders a long ago love affair*A woman wonders if she is to blame for the deaths of her lovers *Critics and observers of society*Grief and...

Sophie Andrews's life is rather routine. She fights with her twinsister, Alyssa, she still lives with her parents, and she isn't surewhere the relationship with her boyfriend is going. But everythingchanges one night when an intruder breaks into her home...

Brilliant scientist Aaron VanDieter has apromising future. If he can discover themeans for DNA messengers to synthesizeproteins, genetic mutation for behavioralmodification could be possible, greatlyaffecting the mental health field. ButVanDieter's...

Loughshinny, IrelandTwenty-two year old Patrick Quinn is thrilled. Not only did he just recently graduate from university, but he also, much to his surprise, received his parents' blessing when told of his intentions of moving to the United States to...

Mishkin's Paradise, Fred Feldman's play in two acts, is a striking drama of miscarried hope and the extremes of the American dream. It is a universal tale of family conflict and recovery. There is a little of the fallen hero, Leon Mishkin, in each and...

'I'm not guilty. I'm not!" This phrase has become Matty Buhrmann's mantra since her terrifying car accident on the Washington D.C. beltway resulted in a woman's death. Despite her acquittal, fearfulness and guilt continue to undermine her happiness, her...

'If only I knew then what I know now".The 'could have", 'should have" and 'would have", question that everyone at one time or another fantasizes about but none have experienced.On a pleasant warm Spring day, Carol Bonelli, a 49 year old mother of three...

Then she leaned over and whispered, 'Pearlie, I had to kill him, that's the reason I'm here. I'm running from the law and need to stay here for awhile until things cool down."I looked up at her and stepped back because I couldn't believe this woman don...

Maybe he would not have gone through it if he had it to do all over again. It sounded funny saying to do it all over again when it was only about a year. Yet, this year was truly the loneliest time in his life. In the past, there was someone special who...

Concludence Advocate is a dark, thought-provoking fantasy about a young criminal who has a near-death experience. This leads him to create a religion based on pain instead of love. The world he inhabits contains creatures living and dead, monsters who...

Paul Johnson was living the American dream with his loving wife and children, his seven-figure income, his luxury sports-sedan, and his majestic home, but all this was about to change with one simple visit to Atlanta, Georgia.

The price of freedom is getting high. A bored and restless 15-year-old named Floyd Wolf foolishly ingests a powerful psychoactive drug called Blue Horse, but he isn t prepared for the ensuing mental chaos that permanently alters his perceptions. When the...

Zoe Wentworth, LICSW, begins therapy for Diana Lucas whose panic attacks and nightmares are out of control. Zoe wonders if Diana is delusional when she tells the therapist that she is psychic and her nightmares are coming to life. As Zoe treats her other...