Resultados para "LIKE" en Psicológica

In Like Life's eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore's characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can't quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships.

A young married couple hires a middle-aged widow during the wife, Nora's, difficult pregnancy; they don't realize the dominating force she will become in their small family. Signora A - maid, nanny, and confidante - becomes the glue in their household and, over time, the steady and loving presence whose benign influence allows them to negotiate the complexities of married life. The delicate fabric of the young family comes undone when Signora A is diagnosed with lung cancer.

Lexie Brooker—a down-to-earth grandmother, retired landscape architect and dog lover—begins to question her reality. Is she imagining the strange new room in her apartment, the unfamiliar books on her nightstand, and the dead people casually chatting on her couch? Or has she somehow stumbled into a parallel version of her life? As Lexie navigates this bizarre new world, she must decide: does she want to return to her old life, and if so, how in any world can she find her way back?

Alice Brewster is at a low point. After being let go from her job at the ritzy Grant Hotel, she's taken to hiding out at a dingy Manhattan pub just so that she won't have to tell anyone the shameful truth. So when blonde, beautiful Taylor waltzes in one sunny afternoon, Alice is ready for the distraction of an unpredictable new friend. As Alice and Taylor get closer, Alice confesses the real reason she lost her job—a hotel guest, the wealthy real estate mogul Weston Chambers, assaulted her. But while Alice wants sympathy, Taylor's rage is white hot. We could kill him, she says. 

Your worst enemy is closer than you think. When Amy moves to Manhattan and starts her dream job at a top advertising agency, she thinks she’s found a perfect new life. But someone is watching her. This mysterious “best friend” sends her creepy text messages…and murders coworkers who...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by unexpected loss, addiction, and the enduring emotional pull toward home. After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life...

Shortly after 9.30 in the morning, a young man walks into Surf City, Bondi’s newest shopping complex. He’s wearing a dark grey hoodie - and a bomb around his neck. Just a few minutes later, he is locked in a shop on the upper floor. And trapped with him are four innocent bystanders. For police chaplain Paul Doherty, called to the scene by Senior Sergeant Boehm, it’s a story that will end as tragically as it began. For this is clearly no ordinary siege. The boy, known as Ali Khan, seems as frightened as his hostages and has yet to utter a single word.

I don’t know who I am. I don’t know who to trust. But someone out there knows what really happened to me. The faces staring back at me feel wrong, their voices uncomfortably distant. Ever since I woke from the coma, it’s like I’ve been locked in a stranger’s life. My memories are fractured – frozen at thirty, yet they insist I’m forty. A wife. A mother. But these strangers? They say they’re my family. Daniel, my husband, swears he loves me, yet I can’t recall saying ‘I do.’ My children’s faces stir nothing but guilt. Even the wedding album feels staged.

This is the predicament Polly Cooke faces when she returns to her new home. The first weeks in the house had been idyllic, but soon Jacob, a local man, is watching her. What does he want and why is he so obsessed with Polly? In a situation where nothing is what it seems, you might end up regretting letting some people in. 

Dark secrets and family crimes drive a ruthless female serial killer in Ellen J. Green’s breathtaking sequel to Amazon Charts bestseller Twist of Faith.

जब इंसान अंदर से टूटता है तो वो अपनी बात समझाने के तरीके ढूँढने लगता है । और जब अंदर भावनाओं का ज्वार उठ रहा हो और सुनने वाला कोई न हो, तो वो खुद के लिए फैसलें लेता है । 

"Your eyes are amazing. I’ve never seen a blue like that.” Emma Landry is tough, independent, beautiful, and smart. Being an outcast unable to identify with her classmates, she was willing to do whatever it takes to climb her way out of poverty.

The heart-hammering thriller from the queen of the London crime scene. 'Spine-tingling suspense!' LISA GARDNER A serial killer is being closely watched by one young boy. Barney knows the killer will strike again soon. The victim will be another boy, just like him. He will drain the body of blood...

A feverish search for a long-lost friend threatens to upend a young woman’s life in this darkly funny, gripping thrill ride of a novel that defies all expectations, from New York Times bestselling author Amy Chozick. Emily is unmoored as a new mother in Manhattan—exhausted, broke, and...

There was a new shop in town. Run by a stranger. Needful Things, the sign said. The oddest name. A name that caused some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they waited for opening day. Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk was the first customer and he got just what he...

Do You Like Happy Endings? follows the emotional journey of Lily, a woman searching for love, meaning, and happiness throughout different stages of her life. Through intense relationships, heartbreaks, reunions, and personal discoveries, Lily learns that love is not always what we imagine it to be.

In the intoxicating circle of influence and celebrity surrounding her ultra-rich in-laws, Astrid is an outsider. When she and her husband, Simon, return to the Morning family’s lavish estate for his sister’s wedding, she seizes the opportunity to finally prove she belongs. As the family members set to work preparing for the ceremony, Astrid’s efforts lead to her uncovering an old radio hidden in the back of a closet. Curious, she turns it on. Then, the nightmare begins. Across the static-filled line, a young girl calls for help. But is the threat real?

Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse – but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive...

A gripping new novel of suspense about a woman drawn into a world of wealth and privilege like she’s never dreamed, but comes to realize that the family behind it all is hiding terrifying secrets... Some families bury more than the past. Emily grew up in a broken home and did everything she...

A woman searches for her missing father in order to reconcile the many strange and fantastical secrets of her past before she loses herself completely in this deeply profound and magical novel by Audrey Burges. Keryth Miller is disappearing. Between the growing distance from her husband, the...