Resultados para "E A Johnson" en Psicológica

New to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead he's landed in a creaking, stuffy apartment with two roommates: a loping giant who hardly leaves his room, and a weight-obsessed neurotic who keeps no fewer than forty-seven lamps throughout the house, blazing at all hours. Unwilling to accept this fate, Slide—a barber with an opaque past—embarks on a quest for the perfect apartment, pinballing through the sprawling, madcap city of Polis and its endless procession of neighborhoods.

In the great wave of husband-leaving ushered in by the Sexual Revolution, Molly Held frees herself from her cold, flagrantly unfaithful husband after their final quarrel turns violent. With her five-year-old son, she lights out for an Upper West Side apartment and the new life she hopes to find with Conrad Schwartzberg - the charismatic radical lawyer who has recently become her lover. Having escaped from a desert, she lands in a swamp.

From the award-winning author of Minor Characters comes a haunting novel about the persistence of love and the sustaining and destabilizing power of memories. In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art world of the 1960s, where men and women collide in "lucky and unlucky convergences," a series of love affairs has left Joanna Gold, a young photographer, feeling numbed. Then, at yet another party, a painter named Tom Murphy walks up to her.

Tom has decided he doesn't want to live. Adam wishes he had that choice. Tom's lost his job and now he's been labelled 'spermless'. He doesn't exactly feel like a modern man, although his double life helps. Yet when his secret identity threatens to unravel, he starts to lose the plot and comes perilously close to the edge. All the while Adam has his own duplicity, albeit for very different reasons, reasons which will blow the family's future out of the water.

Gabriel is running out of time. Desperately clinging to his humanity, the 21-year-old half-demon is determined to deny the dark destiny his father insists he fulfill. And if he can’t exorcise the manipulative, vile thing driving him to atrocities by his next birthday, the mortal world is doomed. Earth is the last place Aura wants to be. She escaped this nightmare once, and she definitely doesn’t want to go back just to help some monster control his urges.

I've wormed my way into Jeremy's heart, just as I promised myself I would. But whereas before I wanted to be there to strike at him...now I'm not so sure. My life is still defined by secrets. Secrets I can never tell another living soul.

A hard-driving designer seeks acclaim by developing a Middle Eastern museum only to discover the project’s real value is not what she imagined.

Being a mind runner isn't easy, but catching criminals is all that matters to Jane Spears. Though her job may be gruesome, she's not willing to stop just yet. And even as she admires the ring from her fiancé, she has no intention of letting a wedding sidetrack her work - not when she's about to delve into the darkest mind she's ever encountered.

A small town in southern Ohio falls victim to a government experiment whilst its populace is driven to the edge of insanity and even death. A tainted water supply renders Frostbridge and its people defenseless and vulnerable to their greatest fears - and alone. Most will die. What do you see? I see fear....

Not even the warning label on the experimental project could have prepared Jane Spears for the nightmare she would walk into when the Ashley Potter case landed in her lap. Deep inside the victim's mind, Jane finds clues hinting at the worst crimes she has ever come upon. But the bread crumbs don't lead anywhere, and in the waking light Jane discovers nothing is as she believed. The conspiracy goes deeper than she can reveal, and the crimes are too hideous to leave unsolved.

Jane has come a long way from the dark days of the horrific car accident that robbed her of many memories. Living the life of a shopgirl with a charming boyfriend - a handsome, green-eyed doctor named Derek - is so satisfying that she doesn't want to revisit her past.

In The Johnson Place, visit the story of a tract of land, the site of a tragic hunting accident, the sexual enslavement of a 17-year-old girl, the murder of a farmer's wife, the trial and hanging of the guilty party, an opportunistic purchase of the land, a family conflict over inheritance, the loss of the final vestiges of a great land holding, and the shattered dreams of many men trying to create a ski resort on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge.

WKBA news in Chicago is reeling. Their ratings are the lowest in town, and company morale has plummeted. At the end of their ropes, five women band together to correct injustices and hopefully shoot WKBA up the ratings chart. Their ideas are inventive, and their convictions are infectious, but they’ll need to crack the good-old-boys network before they ever get a chance to prove themselves.

Mike Reed, Assistenzprofessor an einer Universität im Mittleren Westen, lernt auf einer Party eine beschwipste Schönheit kennen: eine rothaarige Kunststudentin in einem blauen Samtkleid. Doch er nimmt sie kaum wahr, denn noch immer ist er gefangen im Tunnel seiner Trauer. Vier Jahre zuvor hat er bei einem tragischen Verkehrsunfall Frau und Tochter verloren. Einige Zeit später kreuzt die geheimnisvolle Rothaarige erneut seinen Weg – als Nackttänzerin, Performancekünstlerin und Sängerin einer Sekte.

Arden Rivers has rebuilt her life brick by fragile brick, determined not to be defined by the shadows of her past. But when roses begin to appear at her door—perfect, blood-red, deliberate—so do the notes. Intimate. Intrusive. Written by someone who knows her too well. Each gift is beautiful. Each gift is a threat.

The Inherited Night follows Keiran Warrick, a college student haunted by unrelenting exhaustion. No matter how long he sleeps, he wakes up drained—as if some part of him never rests. Desperate for answers, he joins a university sleep study run by the enigmatic Dr. Calder, where he meets Sasha, a sharp and compassionate observer with insights of her own. As Keiran’s dreams grow more vivid—and disturbing—he begins to suspect his nighttime suffering may be tied to a hidden family legacy.

As a limousine does a drive-by shooting, was this literal “shotgun wedding” real… for everyone? Or was a celebrity stalker outsmarted by her bodyguard? It’s another ‘street fight on a chessboard’ as Major Shields hires courtroom war king Miles Turner. It’s a staring contest into a ‘mirror with hallucinations.’ Was the victim, Mr. Wright, really right about a secret love affair? Was the bodyguard really shooting his ‘competition?’ Do reflections change in the only homeless eye-witness? And will this mirror reveal even more as The Jury Whisperer employs her most dangerous legal strategy?

'Vivian is one of the most fascinating characters I've read in contemporary fiction: self-aware and lost, cutting and wounded, resilient and vulnerable - all those misfit bits that add up to the whole of a real human being. Reading Post-Traumatic feels like an illicit thrill.' Dawnie Walton...

In this story on survival, a young lawyer’s family reunion brings long-buried pain and anger to the surface, threatening her career, her values, and all of her relationships—a story of trauma, healing, and the power of ride-or-die female friendship. To the outside observer, Vivian is a...

In rain-soaked London, a quiet act of kindness sets destiny in motion. Kristine Whitaker, a literature student with a heart full of questions, lends her umbrella to two strangers one stormy evening—then disappears into the drizzle. What she doesn’t expect is how that fleeting moment will echo back through her days, intertwining her life with theirs in ways both tender and transformative. Haunted by the weight of unspoken feelings and past goodbyes, Kristine must learn that sometimes love doesn’t arrive with lightning—it slips in quietly, beneath the patter of rain.