Ergebnis für "Melissa" in Psychologie

À la pointe sud de la Nouvelle-Zélande, dans la région isolée des Catlins, au cœur d'une nature sauvage, vivent Autumn et sa fille Milly. Sur ce dernier bastion de terre avant l'océan Austral et le pôle Sud, elles gèrent le camping Mutunga o te ao, « le bout du monde » en maori. Autumn et Milly forment un duo inséparable, jusqu'au jour où débarque Flore, une jeune parisienne en quête de rédemption.

Lucy, staying in a beautiful home overlooking Venice Beach, can find no peace from her misery - not in therapy, not in Tinder hookups, not in her sister's dog's unquestioning devotion, not in ruminating on the ancient Greeks. Yet everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer one night while sitting alone on the beach rocks....

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S. M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved.

“That rare thing: a true underappreciated classic” (The New Yorker), about a smart and sensitive yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own terms “Provocative . . . Almost half a century after it was first published, The Princess of 72nd Street sounds like a contemporary...

Certaines portes sont impossibles à refermer Eva a dix-huit ans. Atteinte d'un déficit immunitaire sévère, elle a toujours vécu avec son père dans une maison isolée au cœur des forêts denses de San Petrone, en Corse. Depuis sa naissance, il la protège du monde extérieur, où le...

Nach einem Streit mit ihrer Freundin beschließt Lilith, mit dem Hund eine Runde um den Block zu gehen, um den Kopf wieder klar zu bekommen. Doch als sie nach nur 30 Minuten nach Hause zurückkehrt, ist nichts mehr wie es war. Weder der Name ihrer Freundin findet sich noch an der Wohnungsklingel, noch passt Liliths Schlüssel in das Schloss. Als ihr dann auch noch eine fremde Frau die Tür öffnet und ihr erzählt, dass hier nie eine Frau namens Xena gewohnt hat, ist Lilith kurz davor, durchzudrehen und zu glauben, dass sie diejenige ist, die sich alles nur eingebildet hat.

Traces of Kara is an action-packed, pulse-pounding psychological thriller/suspense novel that features a determined killer who slowly loses his grip on reality as his carefully detailed plan starts to fall apart and a heroine determined to move forward with her life who now must reconcile everything she believed to be true about her family with the reality of their tragic past.

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION “Bold, virtuosic, addictive, erotic – there is nothing like The Pisces. I have no idea how Broder does it, but I loved every dark and sublime page of it.” —Stephanie Danler, author of...

A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | AN EARPHONES AWARD WINNER Read by Rebecca Lowman with a multicast featuring Saskia Maarleveld and Kristen Sieh, with original music and creative production, this audio edition will immerse the listener in the novel’s atmospheric world. “An...

Five friends made a promise. All of them told a lie. For fans of The Five-Star Weekend and The White Lotus, comes an emotional, sun-soaked story of friendship, second chances and the secrets that refuse to stay buried from No. 1 Irish Times bestselling author Melissa Hill...

***WINNER: Best Psychological Thriller in the 2023 Best Thrillers Book Awards!*** DISCOVER ONE OF THE MOST GRIPPING THRILLERS YOU’LL READ THIS YEAR. A father will do anything to keep his daughters safe. But the phone lines are down. The roads are blocked. And the woman in the cabin is hiding a...

Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows gravely ill, their mother leaves with the child to get help from a nearby town. And they never return. As months pass, hope vanishes. Supplies are low. Livestock are dying. 

A young woman’s madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her into the sexual underground in Brittany Newell’s savage, tender Soft Core. Ruth is lost. She’s living in a drafty Victorian with her ex-boyfriend Dino, a ketamine dealer with a lingerie habit, overdosing on television and...

È su un amore acerbo, fatto ancora soprattutto di passione, che in un giorno parigino di fine ottobre cade la graffiata, insopportabile, del destino. Succede quando François Louvier, quarantadue anni, talentuoso attore di teatro a un passo dal divorzio, è vittima di un incidente con lo scooter che lo lascia paraplegico. Di lì a qualche giorno sarebbe andato a vivere con la giovane Léo, l'amante.

Secluded. Luxurious. Deadly. A gripping new page-turner from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalet and The Cruise Still waters hide dark secrets … A remote Scottish lake The guests arriving at Creaglie Castle are expecting discreet luxury, panoramic views, and perhaps a glimpse of...

In this queer Gothic novel, a woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished. Sam, finally sober and stable with a cat and a long-term boyfriend in Brooklyn, returns alone to Hemlock, her family’s deteriorating cabin deep in the Wisconsin Northwoods. But a...

In the quiet spaces between broken homes and shattered dreams, Marcy fights to survive a world that seems determined to destroy her. Raised in chaos and shaped by abuse, addiction, and betrayal, she navigates a life of trauma with only fragments of hope to cling to. But Marcy is not just a victim—she’s a fighter. Through motherhood, heartbreak, and countless trials, she battles the darkness that threatens to consume her. As secrets unravel and old wounds resurface, Marcy must decide: will she let the shadows break her, or will she rise and break the cycle?

Martha has built her life around silence. Every secret she’s kept, every memory she’s buried, has been for one reason: to protect her daughter. But when the fragile safety she’s fought for is threatened, the shadows of her past rise up, demanding to be faced. Raw, haunting, and deeply human, Where Shadows Begin takes readers inside the mind of a mother who will risk everything to keep what’s hers. In this unforgettable prequel to Where Shadows Break, Melissa Price delivers an unflinching portrait of survival, love, and the truths we carry in the dark.

Arthur ha cinque anni quando sua madre Clarisse gli rivela un gran segreto: tra non molto dovrà partire per un lungo viaggio con destinazione Urano. E lì, racconta Clarisse, sul pianeta ghiacciato dalle ventisette lune, popolato da lumache con il guscio azzurro che mangiano niveo prezzemolo polare, da alberi-cervo con sonore campanelle appese ai rami e da tante altre creature straordinarie, proprio lei avrà il compito di disegnare le stelle che notte dopo notte illuminano l'universo.

Ambre ha vent'anni e la vita davanti a sé, ma non la vede. Da un anno è l'amante ragazzina di un quarantenne, Philippe, professionista affermato, padre di famiglia. Vive nell'appartamento che lui le ha messo a disposizione, ma è un amore asfissiato che si nutre di scampoli di tempo. Quando Ambre, sopraffatta dal vuoto, tenta di farla finita, Philippe è già distante da quell'amore nuovo e salva il proprio imbarazzo offrendole una via di fuga: le trova una sistemazione ad Arvieux, un paesino delle Alte Alpi francesi, come cameriera stagionale in un albergo.