Títulos en Psicológica

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.

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende der achtziger Jahre in Ost-Berlin, zufällig, und kommen für die nächsten Jahre nicht voneinander los. Vor dem Hintergrund der untergehenden DDR und des Umbruchs nach 1989 erzählt Jenny Erpenbeck in ihrer unverwechselbaren Sprache von den Abgründen des Glücks - vom Weg zweier Liebender im Grenzgebiet zwischen Wahrheit und Lüge, von Obsession und Gewalt, Hass und Hoffnung. Alles in ihrem Leben verwandelt sich noch in derselben Sekunde, in der es geschieht, in etwas Verlorenes.

A man gets lost in the mountains and ends up in a strange town that doesn't really exist. What happens after that is even weirder....

Samantha Valentine didn’t drift into my life, she collided with it. Soon it was like we had been friends forever. She told me everything about her perfect life, but I always felt there was something she was leaving out. Then one night, I get a frantic call from Samantha, hysterical and begging me to protect her from her boyfriend. Rushing to her house, instinct takes over and soon my heart is hammering out of my chest as I stand over the body of a man I had never met before this evening.

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.

When does silent compliance with an oppressive regime become unbearable? For Charlie Simpkins, the manager of a small vegetable shop in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, part of the West Coast People's Democratic Republic, the breaking point comes when he is asked to display a meaningless propaganda poster in his shop window. It is a seemingly insignificant act in a lifetime of obedience. But Charlie just can't bring himself to do it. This minor act of defiance, however, shows too much independent thinking on Charlie's part, setting off a chain of escalating consequences.

Rebeca es una mujer soltera de casi cuarenta años, con un trabajo de éxito y una situación económica desahogada. En un recital de danza, en París, conoce a un hombre con el que inicia una relación amorosa rápida e intensa. Cuando, un tiempo después, se casa con él y se queda embarazada, comienza un calvario en el que el marido intachable se transforma en un abusador que pasa a vejarla y minarle la seguridad en sí misma. Rebeca deberá enfrentarse no solo a su marido, sino también a un sistema institucional imperfecto y a su propia autoestima destrozada.

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...

El Alienista de Machado de Assis es una novela corta satírica que explora el tema de la cordura y la locura. Ambientada en Río de Janeiro a finales del siglo XIX, la historia sigue al Dr. Bacamarte, un científico que establece un asilo para estudiar enfermedades mentales. Mientras clasifica y aísla a la gente del pueblo basándose en la cordura percibida, la narrativa critica con humor las normas sociales y la naturaleza subjetiva de la cordura. La novela profundiza en las consecuencias de la autoridad desenfrenada, desafiando las nociones de razón y destacando el ingenio.

¿Puedes estar viviendo tu vida sin darte cuenta de que no es la vida que quieres? Cuántas veces nos hemos engañado para estar a gusto con nosotros mismos. Julia lo tenía todo y de la noche a la mañana se esfumó. Con esta historia, Ginny Bennet quiere darnos a entender que la felicidad no hay que quererla únicamente, sino que hay que sentirla también.

In the midst of a sea of holidaymakers, I find myself the lone outsider – no companion, no luggage. An enigma among the carefree crowd. I wonder what they’d do if they knew who I am. Who I really am… What is Liz running away from? Who is this woman my father married? Did he have any idea of what she was capable of? My gaze fixates on the once-familiar house that now feels like a distant memory. I can hardly believe how much my life has changed and that Liz, the woman who puts the word wicked into stepmother has completely vanished.