Résultats pour "LIKE" dans Psychologie

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 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...

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?

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.

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?

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...

"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.

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. 

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.

The heart-hammering thriller from the queen of the London crime scene. 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, and leave it on a Thames beach. There will be no clues for detectives Dana Tulloch and Mark Joesbury to find. There will be no warning about who will be next.

Eliza Moss's intoxicating debut novel is a dark, intense, and compelling account of what happens when a young woman falls in love with the wrong kind of man. Enola is approaching 30 and everything feels like a lot. The boxes aren’t ticked and she feels adrift in a way she thought she would...

Liz Kendall wouldn't hurt a fly. Even when times get tough, she's devoted to bringing up her kids in a loving home. But there's another side to Liz, one that's dark and malicious. A version of her that will do anything to get her way - no matter how extreme. And when this other side of her takes control, the consequences are devastating. From the author of the million-copy best seller The Girl with All the Gifts comes an utterly unique thriller with a twist....

Zurück an Islands Strände, zurück zur dramatischsten Liebesgeschichte des Jahres. Hals über Kopf hat Lilly Island verlassen, als sie von Arons Lüge erfahren hat. Jetzt sitzt sie verloren bei ihrer Großmutter auf Sylt und weiß nicht, wie es weitergehen soll. Bis sie eine Nachricht von SaveThe Iceland bekommt, die sie daran erinnert, dass ihr Herz längst für das karge Land im Nordatlantik schlägt. Genau wie für Aron, dem derweil die Zeit davonläuft und der seinen Augen nicht trauen kann, als Lilly eines Abends wieder vor ihm steht.

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...

A woman known only as A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on a reality dating show called That's My Partner! A eats mostly popsicles and oranges, watches endless amounts of television, often just for the commercials - particularly the recurring cartoon escapades of Kandy Kat, the mascot for an entirely chemical dessert - and models herself on a standard of beauty that exists only in such advertising.

In a riveting and unputdownable thriller from the Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever—her childhood home. At the age of ten, Liza Barton shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged stepfather...

Eine dramatische Liebe vor der rauen Kulisse Islands. Als Lillys herzkranker Zwillingsbruder stirbt, bricht für die Studentin eine Welt zusammen. Ihre Trauer findet in Berlin keinen Platz, also flieht sie kurzentschlossen nach Island, um den einzigen Menschen zu besuchen, der ihr in den letzten Monaten Halt geben konnte: Aron. Die beiden haben sich online in einem Forum für Angehörige von herzkranken Menschen kennengelernt. Doch als sie endlich vor ihm steht, ist er abweisend. Erst als Lilly ihm vom Tod ihres Bruders erzählt, tröstet er sie.

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.

If you ask Mikey Goretti, he'll tell you that life sucks. Wife left him, crappy jobs, nothing ever goes the way it should. How did a nice boy from a God-fearing family go so terribly wrong? And if Mikey loves girls so much - why do the girls he meets never seem to make it home? This tale of a serial killer, his best friend, and a heavenly angel will horrify and amuse - that is if you can see past all the red.

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.