Resultados para "Max" en Psicológica

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.

Vienna, 1904. The body of a man—still sitting in a chair—is discovered in an abandoned piano factory on the outskirts of the city. He has been shot dead but his face has been horribly disfigured with acid, making identification impossible. In front of the body are three chairs positioned...

From critically acclaimed, award-winning author Andrew Sean Greer comes a story like no other. Max Tivoli is uniquely cursed. His mind ages normally, but he is born with the withered body of a 70-year-old man-and his body ages in reverse. Despite this torment, Max manages three times to cross...

In a small Midwest town, twenty-eight-year-old Krista Larson has made her mark as the youngest female police chief in the country. She’s learned from the best: her father, Keith, a decorated former detective. But as accustomed as they are to the relative quiet of their idyllic tourist town, things quickly turn with Krista’s ten-year high school reunion. With the out-of-towners holed up in a lakefront lodge, it doesn’t take long to stir up old grudges and resentments. Now a successful TV host, Astrid Lund, voted the “Girl Most Likely to Succeed” is back in town

No sooner do Hot Rod and the Pistons reunite for their induction into the Iowa Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame than two band members take a final bow. Both alleged suicides. A tragic way to go out. A bum way for one-hit wonders to be remembered. But it’s Labor Day weekend. The show must go on. With replacements at the ready, the Pistons are back on home turf to headline the first ever Rock and Country Music Fest. Police Chief Krista Larson and her father, Keith, are there listening. Because they suspect there may be more to the band members’ untimely deaths than anyone else can see.

It is the summer of 1989 when Lucas witnesses an event that will tear his family apart. Over a decade later, his estranged father succumbs to a suspected heart attack. Lucas shuns grief and escapes to New York with his colleague Mariana. However, a dark secret from his past threatens to reemerge and destroy the burgeoning relationship before it has even begun. When his father's girlfriend fails to reappear after reporting his death, the true cause of his demise falls under scrutiny. And as the startling truth comes to light, Lucas must confront the fact that father and son may not have been so different after all.

La metamorfosis (en alemán: Die Verwandlung, también traducido como La transformación) es una novela corta escrita por Franz Kafka en 1915. La historia trata sobre Gregorio Samsa, cuya repentina transformación en un enorme insecto dificulta cada vez más la comunicación de su entorno social con él, hasta que es considerado intolerable por su familia y finalmente perece.

Es un cuento extenso o novela corta de 1899 del escritor polaco-británico Joseph Conrad, que aborda temas como el colonialismo, el choque de culturas, el racismo y la violencia humana. La traducción del título a la mayoría de las lenguas opta por la palabra «tinieblas» en vez de «oscuridad», que es la que se corresponde literalmente con darkness. Es quizá el trabajo más conocido de su autor.

In the game of chess, the Sicilian Defense is bold, unpredictable, and built for counterattack. So is he. Haunted by a past he won’t name and a system he helped build, a brilliant strategist finds himself caught between the rules he teaches and the truths he hides. When a quiet betrayal fractures the last structure he trusts, he must navigate a world of academic politics, military precision, and personal reckoning — where every move is watched, and every silence is a trap. The Sicilian Defense is a psychological drama disguised as a strategic thriller.

Ein Bahnsteig. Fünf Fremde. Fünf Minuten, bis der Tod kommt… FIVE – Das Ticken der Zeit ist ein außergewöhnlicher psychologischer Pageturner voller persönlicher Dramen und Hochspannung, die sich bis zur letzten Seite steigert. Fünf zu Herzen gehende Schicksale. Die Uhr tickt. Wen wirst du sterben sehen? Noch fünf Minuten, bis jemand stirbt: Emma, die überforderte Mutter? Ihr sechsjähriger, lautstark schreiender Sohn Gideon? Der Geschäftsmann Liam, der in einen Streit mit Emma gerät? Die alte Mrs. Worth, die endlich ihre Enkel wiedersehen wird – weil ihre Schwiegertochter gestorben ist?

It’s 2022 and Helen is starting again. Newly single, dogged by grief, adrift in a hostile rental market, she finds a four-bedroom house flanked by apartment blocks that stare into the yard. Despite the lack of privacy, she fills its rooms with an unlikely group of residents looking for communal belonging: zine maker, activist, disaffected artist, part-time rugby league player – each looking to build a future, each haunted by their recent past. But if a rented house in Sydney could ever promise salvation, it would come with a coating of black mould.

Was hast du mit ihr gemacht? Du bist für ihren Tod verantwortlich. ERINNERE DICH! 20 Jahre ist es her, dass die Abiturientin Maja bei einer Wanderung spurlos verschwand. 20 Jahre, in denen ihr Freund Arno Seitz jede Erinnerung an das traumatische Ereignis verdrängt hat. Jetzt kommt beim Abiturtreffen vieles wieder hoch – Bilder, Gefühle, längst Vergessenes. Die Freunde von damals beschließen, den Wanderweg noch einmal gemeinsam zu gehen. Und jemand, der sich nicht zu erkennen gibt, zwingt Arno, sich endlich seinen Erinnerungen zu stellen.

Set in the sunburned corners of the beach volleyball world, Cut Shot is a sharp, gritty, darkly funny ride through heartbreak, loyalty, and the games men play to avoid feeling anything. A quietly devastating story about what it means to lose hard and still show up. It’s not a love story. It’s what happens after.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR In Stephen King’s iconic second novel, “an undisputed master of suspense and terror” (The Washington Post) transformed the horror genre with a vision of evil that descends upon a small New England town. Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem’s Lot in...

There’s a moment you don’t notice when it happens, a quiet shift where everything begins to slip just enough that you can still convince yourself you’re in control. It doesn’t feel like falling at first. It feels manageable. Temporary. Like something you can fix before it turns into something worse. Leto believed that. He believed he had time to figure it out, time to make it right, time to prove that he wasn’t becoming the person everyone had already decided he would be. But time has a way of running out when every choice you make pulls you further from the life you were trying to hold onto.

Ein Zwischenfall, der alles ins Wanken bringt – und der Beginn einer Reise, die keine Landung kennt. Eine Diagnose, die nicht zum Störfall im System werden soll, sondern zur Resonanz, die tief reicht. Kein Mutmachbuch, sondern ein sprachliches Experiment: brüchig, fragmentarisch, zutiefst menschlich. Zweiseitiges Erzählen: Zwei Texte – Cleared for Silence und Noch immer auf Empfang – spiegeln die Phasen vor und nach der Diagnose.

DI Saul has just 24 hours to find out who the killer of the body is. 24 hours to work out how the woman in the cell is linked with the murder. 24 hours in which at every turn, his own life seems to be inextricably linked with the events that unfold. 24 hours before the container in the room explodes....

In the waning days of the turbulent 1970s, in the wake of unsolved killings that have shocked Detroit, the lives of several residents are drawn together, with tragic consequences. There is Hannah, wife of a prominent local businessman, who has begun an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger whose identity remains elusive; Mikey, a canny street hustler who finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice and the serial killer known as Babysitter, an enigmatic and terrifying figure at the periphery of elite Detroit. 

A KATIE COURIC BOOK CLUB PICK USA TODAY BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight delivers a tour de force of character-driven suspense: the story of two women whose secrets and desires entrap them in a deadly love triangle. “McCreight’s new stunner Someone...

A gripping collection of propulsive, psychologically suspenseful stories by the legendary Joyce Carol Oates “who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers” (The New York Times Magazine) “A genius in the truest sense of the word.”—Rebecca Makkai “One of the...