Titres dans Psychologique

Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn’t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women—a mother, a sister, a homicide detective—we learn the story of Ansel’s life.

Lucy Albright is far from her Long Island upbringing when she arrives on the campus of her small California college and happy to be hundreds of miles from her mother, whom she's never forgiven for an act of betrayal in her early teen years. Quickly grasping at her fresh start, Lucy embraces college life and all it has to offer - new friends, wild parties, stimulating classes. And then she meets Stephen DeMarco. Charming. Attractive. Complicated. Devastating.

Perhaps Frank and April Wheeler married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to unravel. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.

A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless thriller. A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life.

The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels.

Johnny Net vend quelque chose d'unique : des concepts-vidéos pour devenir une vedette sur YouTube. Une vedette grotesque, et éphémère, peut-être, mais une vedette quand même. Et Johnny trouve un concept pour tous ses clients. Un nouveau client particulier l'amènera à relever son plus grand défi, autant du point de vue professionnel que personnel.

Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back-though the price will be bloody and terrible . . . and there will certainly be hell to pay....

Ethan Carter has always lived an ordinary life—until a devastating accident changed everything. Waking up after weeks in a coma, Ethan struggles to reconcile the vivid, haunting dreams he experienced: golden threads unraveling reality, an enigmatic woman named Calla pleading for help, and a mysterious diary that seemed to write his fate.

After a seismic event leaves the world shattered, an unnamed narrator at the end of a mediocre acting career struggles to regain the ability to walk on ground that is in constant motion. When her alluring younger housemate, Tala, disappears, what had begun as an obsession grows into an impulse to kill, forcing the narrator to confront the meaning of the ruptures that have suddenly upended her life. The drive to find and eliminate Tala becomes an existential pursuit, leading back in time and out into a desolate, dust-covered city.

The Alpenrose is a mountain resort nestled in Austria's scenic landscape among historic churches and castles. It is a vacation idyll that attracts tourists from all over Europe. It is also a mass burial site. Amid the snow-topped peaks and panoramic vistas, ghosts haunt the forest: Edgar Gstranz, a young skier who died in a car crash; Gudrun Bichler, a philosophy student who committed suicide in her bathtub; and Karin Frenzel, a widow who (perhaps) died in a bus accident.

The surviving son of a germophobic mother, Cecil Reitmeister embraces all forms of bacteria and formulates an elaborate plan to lead humanity out of the Anthropocene and into a new era of interspecies harmony. His idiosyncratic plan requires years of experimentation and precise manipulation of his microbiome, the totality of microorganisms present in or on the human body.

At 42, Heather Finch has cared for and buried her husband after strokes and brain injury; now she embarks on a writing retreat in a cottage in the Scottish Highlands. When Heather believes her small writer’s cottage is haunted, she must face her past and present fears–real or imagined– that populate her mind. Chapters are set three years before juxtaposed with ones set in present day.

Bewegend und kraftvoll erzählt Garrett Carr die Geschichte eines Jungen, der versucht, seinen Platz in der Welt zu finden, und die einer Familie und Dorfgemeinschaft, die gemeinsam den Widrigkeiten des Lebens trotzen. Eine Lektüre, die Hoffnung macht. In einer kleinen Gemeinde an der Westküste Irlands wird 1973 ein Baby am Strand gefunden. Ambrose, der Fischer, und seine Frau Christine adoptieren den Jungen, der fortan den Namen Brendan Bonner trägt.

Beth is a new mother struggling to find her place in the world. She is exhausted, mentally and physically, but her anxieties are not simply the fears of a first-time mum. A terror burns in her, fuelled by a secret past she is lucky to have escaped. When a letter arrives, bearing only the infinity symbol, Beth knows immediately it is from them. And that her past is finally catching up with her… Ten years earlier, on the heels of a messy breakup, Beth meets the effervescent Marissa who introduces her to Elixir, a health and wellness organization that she promises will change Beth's life forever.

Overcome with grief at her husband’s death, Lady Franklin, an eligible young widow, unburdens herself to Leadbitter–a gallant, hard-bitten ex-soldier who has invested his savings in the car he drives for hire–as he takes her on a series of journeys. He in turn beguiles her with stories of his non-existent wife and children, drawing her out of her self-absorption and weaving a dream-life with Lady Franklin at its heart.

Richard Mardick is an elderly man with a secret that he has kept since his youth. He recounts his memories to his young protégé and secretary so that his story can be preserved. Faced with illness, the teenage Richard was sent to live with different relatives while being trained as a farmer. Lonely and stifled by family life, he then met a girl and his life changed… with shattering significance for his future.

Konstanze, Ehefrau, Mutter, Angestellte und Tochter - in der Mitte des Lebens angekommen, unzufrieden, überlastet, ausgebrannt...verlorene Träume, vernachlässigtes inneres Kind. Die Suche nach der eigenen Identität einer Frau mittleren Alters beginnt. Mit der Unzufriedenheit als Motor und dem Wunsch tief im Inneren eine längst verlorene Leichtigkeit wieder zu finden. Eingespannt in ihre Aufgaben, erdrückt von Bedürftigkeiten ihrer Familie und ihres Chefs, dazu überfordert von ihren eigenen Erwartungen an sich selbst, hastet sie perfektionsgesteuert durch den Alltag.

Alles scheint um Willa Knox zusammenzubrechen: Als freie Journalistin steht sie ohne Aufträge da. Ihr Mann Iano verliert seine Professur, Sohn Zeke ist gerade Vater geworden – aber alleinerziehend. Und ihr schwerkranker Schwiegervater schwärmt vom "Megafon", dem republikanischen Präsidentschaftskandidaten. Am selben Fleck, 150 Jahre zuvor, freundet sich ein Lehrer namens Thatcher mit seiner eigenbrötlerischen Nachbarin an. Die Naturforscherin Mary Treat steht in lebhaftem Austausch mit Charles Darwin, doch in der verschworenen Ortsgemeinschaft wird die Theorie von der Evolution als Sünde angeprangert.

En este breve relato, un hombre de negocios que viaja se instala en otra habitación de motel. Esta es igual a todas las demás. Las mismas cortinas opacas. El mismo papel pintado descolorido. El mismo olor rancio. Mientras el mundo avanza a toda velocidad fuera de la puerta del motel, él evalúa su carrera y su vida y se pregunta: "¿Dónde estoy?"

Aqui, temos dois contos de Insônia (1947), de Graciliano Ramos: o que dá origem ao nome do livro e versa sobre um homem que não consegue dormir à noite e divaga acerca de suas dúvidas sobre si e o mundo; e "Ciúmes", sobre Zulmira, uma dona de casa comum que descobre ser traída pelo marido, um tipo bonachão aparentemente inofensivo, mas o qual se entrega aos prazeres de uma prostituta de baixo meretrício. A vingança de Zulmira é descontar sua raiva no filho pequeno e "pecar" por pensamento.