Títulos en Psicológica

“Relentlessly thrilling . . . an orgy of the unpredictable.” —New York Times Book Review “Like Thomas Pynchon taking on late capitalism. . . . surrealistic, granular in its details, and concerned with social entropy and desperate attempts at communion.” —Wall Street Journal From a...

Considerado como um dos maiores romances de Machado de Assis e pertencente ao gênero de realismo psicológico, mesmo contendo resquícios de sua fase romântica, por tratar de temas como ciúmes, adultério e amor na perspectiva do protagonista, com suas reflexões e devaneios. Dom Casmurro narra a história de Bentinho, sua infância na Rua de Matacavalos e seu grande amor por Capitu, uma das figuras femininas mais enigmáticas da literatura brasileira. A relação dos dois é abalada quando Bento começa a acreditar que sua mulher o está traindo com o melhor amigo.

Colombia’s Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age 'when women dry up', as her uncle puts it, she is eager to adopt an orphaned puppy. But this act may bring more than just affection into her home.

Eine magische Reise zu sich selbst Maëlle, die Finanzchefin eines Start-ups, hat keine Zeit für Träume. Doch ihr durchgetaktetes Leben wird jäh unterbrochen, als ihre beste Freundin sie um einen riesigen Gefallen bittet, eine Angelegenheit von Leben und Tod. Widerwillig nimmt Maëlle den Auftrag an. Die Reise führt sie nach Nepal, wo die Besteigung der Annapurna zu einer wahren Initiation wird. Angeleitet durch einen spirituellen Mentor, gelingt es Maëlle, sich auf die Situation einzulassen und ihre Perspektive zu verändern.

Gillian Flynn says, "Karin Slaughter is simply one of the best thriller writers working today." An apparent student suicide has brought medical examiner Sara Linton to the local college campus, along with her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver. But a horribly mutilated corpse yields up...

Theo Fester é um inteligente e poderoso magnata do Vale do Silício, empresário mundialmente conhecido e pai de três filhos orgulhosos, frios e bem-sucedidos – mas sua história inicial foi dramática. Filho de um sobrevivente do Holocausto, ele começou a empreender para sobreviver à dor de seu pai, à pobreza e ao bullying na infância, tornando-se especialista em se reinventar.

The plot centers on Anthony Beavis, a dilettante social theorist, a man inclined to recoil from life. The pleasures of the physical world disgust him and the universe of ideas is but a poor refuge. Having long lost the art of intimacy, he betrays friendships and toys with the affections of women. But as Beavis approaches middle age, his world of perfect detachment begins to lose its appeal. Finally realizing that his withdrawal from life has been motivated not by intellectual honesty but by moral cowardice, Beavis, devastated and at crisis point, meets the remarkable and redoubtable Dr Miller.

Pangloss would have been right at home in a post-truth, social media world. You can imagine the tweets, “I was hanged and survived #soggyrope,” or, “#nosyphilisnochocolate.” Candide, written in 1759, was never more relevant than today. Blind obeisance and denial, barbarous villainy, greed, and rapacity, are all in a day’s toil for the young Candide. And this is in the best of all possible worlds!

La vida de Sofía, una reconocida psicóloga que desea escribir una novela erótica, está a punto de trastocarse después de conocer a Nadia, una institutriz de 75 años dispuesta a contarle todo lo que ha vivido. Orgías, mentiras, un pasado disfrazado de lujos y una madre que quiebra lo que toca es lo que Sofía irá descubriendo en cada reunión que tiene con Nadia, y que será la única forma en la que las dos vayan reconstruyendo esos fragmentos de una infancia rota.

Elle devra tout quitter pour vivre à nouveau. Seule survivante de l'accident qui a coûté la vie à son fiancé et ses meilleurs amis, Fanny doit à présent réapprendre à vivre. Comment expliquer à ses proches la culpabilité d'être toujours là ? L'impossibilité de renouer avec la joie ? Pour honorer la mémoire de celui qu'elle aimait et échapper à sa douleur, elle décide de réaliser son rêve à lui et de partir au Canada...

My name is Lucy Townsend. I was born on Friday the 13th, and I was the 13th girl living in the big house. Unlucky for some. But I was the fortunate one. I escaped. The only one who made it out alive. And now, 20 years after that fateful night, the secrets of the past and what happened in that house are pulling me back. I might not be so lucky this time.

Just your average father-son story. But with abduction, torture, and murder. Out of nowhere, a retired 60-year old handyman goes on a murder-spree, abducting healthy young people and torturing them with hand-tools. After he's caught, a media fascination in The Handyman swells. People want to know why he snapped. They want to hear all the grisly details. But he'll only tell his gruesome story to one person - his estranged son.

Victorian, rural Sussex. When headstrong daughter of a rector, Constance Timothy, receives a flurry of gifts in pretty little boxes from the charming, smouldering student doctor Smith Williams, her whole family anticipates a future betrothal. Yet beneath the exquisite pastel lids and satin bows lie macabre secrets that entice Constance into a private world of obsession and darkness, where morality becomes blurred, loyalties are tested and unthinkable acts are possible.

The loss of a child is the most devastating experience that can happen to someone. In this book I talk about my experience of losing a child and how life is for me today. There are no words to describe how this changes your life in every imaginable way. My daughter was born to me when I was stationed in the U.S. Army while stationed in Darmstadt Germany. The loss of a loved one especially the loss of a child can will change the rest of your life. My journey has been difficult and long. My life will forever, never be the same.

When an Egg rolls out of the henhouse and refuses to stay put, a strange journey begins. Guided—and often interrupted—by a self-aware, unreliable narrator, the Egg climbs through distorted farms, factories, shops, and forgotten spaces where the rules of reality bend and break. Platforms float, time fractures, death is reversible, and the world feels like it’s watching. What starts as a whimsical tale slowly unravels into something deeper and more unsettling.

In TAKE THE LIVELY AIR, a minor traffic collision escalates into a confrontation between two families haunted by their pasts and apprehensive of their futures. Rage and regret butt heads against the background of America’s toxic cultural climate. But saner voices discover that human frailties are best viewed through the microscope of compassion, and our common humanity must be acknowledged to make way for our futures.

Die Eisenringe um sein Herz schnürten sich enger und enger. Nurio spürte, wie sie ihm die Luft zum Atmen nahmen – doch tiefer noch als der Schmerz brannte seine Sehnsucht nach jener geheimnisvollen Welt, die er in seinen Träumen gesehen hatte.

4J is a raw, unflinching novel about seven strangers who meet in the psychiatric ward of Sovah Health Hospital in Danville, Virginia, and form an unlikely family. Maya, Vanessa, Marcus, Cody, Tiffany, James, and Dr. Patricia Okonkwo each arrive at 4J carrying the weight of their own mental health struggles bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD, borderline personality disorder, addiction, and depression.

La giovane Juni, in fuga da un marito violento, si rifugia nella casa dei nonni su un'isola norvegese, un luogo ormai quasi disabitato che in lei evoca ricordi felici: è qui che è cresciuta insieme agli amati nonni, che ora non ci sono più. Rovistando tra i loro cimeli, Juni trova una fotografia che ritrae la nonna Tekla da giovane insieme a un uomo che non è il nonno; l'immagine è datata giugno 1945, l'uomo è un soldato e i due hanno tutta l'aria di essere innamorati.

New York City, Silvester 1999. Lily Chen ist 22, Tochter chinesischer Einwanderer und unbezahlte Praktikantin in einem hippen Medienunternehmen. Als sie Matthew trifft – charmant, privilegiert, Erbe eines Pharmaimperiums –, verliebt sie sich. Zwei Welten prallen aufeinander. Und doch scheint alles möglich. 21 Jahre später lebt Lilys Sohn Nick mit ihr auf einer abgelegenen Insel. Er spürt: Etwas fehlt. Als er nach seinem Vater sucht, stößt er auf Geheimnisse, die alles verändern – nicht nur für ihn.