Ergebnis für "Adam" in Psychologie

Former detective Harper Adams is only days into sobriety when she realizes her mother’s car accident wasn’t an accident at all. The faded skid marks on the bridge. The drugs in her tox screen. The packed suitcase in the trunk, for a trip her homebody mother never mentioned. Something sinister happened—and Harper is determined to uncover the truth.

Patrick Hamilton is renowned for his gritty, slice-of-life tales chronicling the hopes, dreams and obsessions of London's working class in the inter-war years. This collection brings together his key pieces, together with some lesser-known classics and a bonus 2004 documentary exploring his achievements and legacy.

Esirlikten kurtulan ama hürriyetin tadına varamayan Cengiz Dağcı'yı anlatır. "Yurdunu kaybeden adam için hürriyetin bile bir manası kalmadığını şimdi anlıyorum. İçinde doğduğum, gülüp oynadığım yerlerde benim dilim konuşulmuyor artık. Bir zamanlar, o topraklarda dilimi konuşan insanların ne olduklarını da bilmiyorum. Son fırtına, ağacı devirdi. Bizler, uçurduğu birkaç yaprak, boşlukta yolunu şaşırmış, ümitsiz ve şaşkın, meçhul bir geleceğe doğru, yalpa vurup duruyoruz.

Jack Brogan earned his nickname 'Blood' on the icy shores of the Falkland Islands, a name forged in a conflict he'd rather forget. Now, in the quiet cathedral city of Norwich, 1987, he's just a Detective Constable hoping for a peaceful life. But peace is a luxury a serial killer won't allow. A shadow is stalking the streets, leaving a trail of bodies and a chilling calling card: a perfectly sharpened piece of flint. Each victim is a mystery. Each shard of stone, a silent accusation.

After his widely celebrated debut, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross now presents a darkly compelling collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives. A hotshot lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes to the...

From her lookout in the crumbling mansion that was her childhood home, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to arrive. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left nearly fifty years ago; the reclusive Ginny has rarely ventured out, retreating into the precise routines that...

Hoping for a romantic escape, newlyweds Eleanor and Thomas leave London for a secluded cottage on the misty fringes of Edinburgh. But their honeymoon is quickly pierced by the chilling sound of distant bagpipes—a tune only they can hear. The locals speak in fearful whispers of a phantom musician known as The Silent Piper, and the terrifying fate of all who listen to his song. As the mysterious melody draws closer, Eleanor and Thomas realise they have stumbled into a dark Scottish legend. Some secrets demand to be heard, and some tunes only play for the dead.

Based on true events, this author/narrator takes you on a disturbing ride as she shares her story of generational trauma and dysfunction. Presented in a matter of fact approach, this weave of tales is understandable and unbelievable. The behaviors of her siblings, parents and grandparents sets the stage as we are introduced to her family’s manipulation and continuous plotting and truth twisting. Each character gives the listener an inside view of how they embraced and expressed their emotional and social deficiencies and used them as a method of control, abuse, and extreme cruelty.

From the critically acclaimed author of No Exit and The Last Word comes a story of two friends who embark on an ill-fated caving expedition—and the dark truth of what happens deep underground. After years of excuses, Tess has finally agreed to go caving with her best friend Allie. Their lives...

Lucy Manor is an attractive young woman, 22 years old, an only child with loving parents and a mother who loves to cook. She also is a schizophrenic, and has auditory and visual hallucinations that can torment her for hours.

Elodie and Markus Black seem like an ordinary couple, but when Markus dies in a tragic accident, their lives take an extraordinary turn. Driven by love and desperation, Elodie hopes that Markus's groundbreaking research can bring him back to life. Instead, Elodie herself becomes the first to benefit from his work, launching her on a journey that transcends time, love, and even death.

För tre månader sedan körde Lena Nguyens tvillingsyster Cambry till en undangömd bro tio mil från Missoula i Montana – och hoppade. Hon dog sextio meter nedanför bron, på stenarna i den uttorkade flodfåran. Det hävdar polisen i sin utredning. Men Lena tror inte på det. Nu har hon själv kört till bron i sin döda systers bil, beväpnad med en bandspelare och fast besluten att ta reda på vad som verkligen hände genom att intervjua polismannen som hittade Cambrys kropp. Korpral Raymond Raycevic är sympatisk, rättfram och professionell. Men hans berättelse känns fel.

S. J. Parris returns with the next Giordano Bruno mystery, set inside Queen Elizabeth’s palace and steeped in period atmospherics and the strange workings of the occult. It is the year of the Great Conjunction, when the two most powerful planets, Jupiter and Saturn, align—an astrologi­cal...

The Dunella Hotel, a legacy, a sanctuary. Bruce arrived seeking peace and a new life, but this old Georgian building nestled in a Scottish seaside town, harbours more than just guests. Hidden rooms, forgotten rituals, and a history steeped in dread begin to surface, twisting his newfound happiness into a horrifying ordeal. He must confront the hotel's dark secrets, or become another lost soul trapped within its haunted walls.

The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip—lured into the Santa Monica Mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle and no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his...

For Melissa May, happily married to Gavin for the best part of 30 years, life couldn’t get much better. Her world is ripped apart when she discovers Gavin is HIV positive. The shock of his duplicity and irresponsible behavior reawakens a psychiatric condition Melissa has battled since childhood. Fueled by rage and a heightened sense of right and wrong, Melissa takes matters into her own hands.

The story of Adam and Eve updated as an elderly couple coping with Alzheimer's disease, alcoholism and poverty. Ever since they were expelled from the garden, they've been condemned to living their mistakes and variations of their lives over and over without end.

Alex Delaware is back! And in Jonathan Kellerman's riveting and ingenious new novel, Monster, he faces one of the most grisly and baffling mysteries of his career: How can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up in a supposedly secure institution for homicidal madmen predict brutal murders in the...

A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE “Golden Child is a stunning novel written with force and beauty. Though true to herself, Adam's...

The Book of Adam is more than a story—it is a mirror. Through the scattered voices, across generations and places, a haunting pattern emerges: each grappling with love and loss, guilt and grace, survival and meaning. Their words feel different, yet eerily familiar. Because their struggles are ours. Is truth a matter of fact, or of perspective? Is it found in the courtroom, in the silence of a diary, in the grip of loss—or in the spaces between? These Adams are not just characters; they are reflections of what it means to be human. To be man. To be men.