検索キーワード： 心理学

When you listen to this audiobook, you will make many assumptions. It's about a jealous wife obsessed with her replacement. It's about a younger woman set to marry the man she loves. The first wife seems like a disaster; her replacement is the perfect woman. You will assume you know the motives, the history, the anatomy of the relationships. You will be wrong.

Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. But Celeste's devotion lies elsewhere. She has a singular sexual obsession: 14-year-old boys. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress driven by pure motivation. She deceives everyone, and cares nothing for anyone or anything but her own pleasure. With crackling, rampantly unadulterated prose, Tampa is a grand, uncompromising, seriocomic examination of want and a scorching literary debut.

La esperada nueva novela de la autora de Diez mujeres es la historia de una traición. Producto de un accidente absurdo, Miguel Flores, un estudiante univesitario, es detenido en una protesta contra la dictadura de Pinochet. Tras unos días en el calabozo del cuartel policial es enviado a una zona agrícola cercana a la capital, pero aislada de toda actividad política. Sin recursos y obligado a firmar a diario en el retén de Carabineros, sus días transcurren en soledad y con lo mínimo para subsistir.

The book probes the possible roles of four brothers in the unresolved murder of their father, Fyodor Karamazov. At the same time, it carefully explores the personalities and inclinations of the brothers themselves. Their psyches together represent the full spectrum of human nature, the continuum of faith and doubt. Ultimately, this novel seeks to understand the real meaning of faith and existence and includes much beneficial philosophical and spiritual discussion that moves the reader towards faith.

Nabokov’s third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen — an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster — but at a cost: in Luzhin’s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants reality.

Martin, a market analyst, and Lily, a corporate attorney, have a life that many would envy - they share an expensive New York apartment with their twin toddlers, sample the delicacies of Manhattan's finest restaurants, and take Caribbean vacations. But when the couple's nanny announces her imminent departure, they panic: How will they ever find a replacement capable of managing their spirited boys? Enter Maeve, a young Irish emigre.

What really happened to the girl who walked into the woods and vanished forever? It’s a never-forgotten mystery that clings like a shadow in a short story about dark memories and inescapable fears.

Alex Walker has always looked up to her perfect older sister. Maddie has succeeded in all the ways Alex has not: She escaped their hometown and seems to have put the memories of their unstable childhood behind her. But despite the different paths their lives have taken, the two sisters made a pact to spend one week together every summer. It was a promise they’d never broken . . . until now.

When I step into the elevator that sweltering morning, I barely notice the woman standing next to me. She seems out of place, with her floaty linen clothes in a building full of suits. But that’s none of my business. A minute later, there’s a sudden jerk. The elevator stops. The lights go out.

Crimen y castigo es una de las novelas psicológicas de Dostoievski. Su argumento gira en torno a un joven estudiante que no encuentra otra solución para aliviar su pobreza que matar y robar a una vieja usurera. La novela está estructurada sobre un tema ético: el fin no justifica los medios. Se asiste así a un complicado proceso mental durante el cual el estudiante elabora meticulosamente su crimen, sin pensar en las consecuencias directas y materiales que le pueda reportar. Únicamente al final y a través del amor, le llegará el arrepentimiento redentor.

Выйдя замуж за Нико, Мэгги обрела не только любящего мужа для себя и доброго отчима для своего десятилетнего сына, но и целую толпу новых родственников из клана Фаринелли: высокомерную и властную свекровь Анну, шумного, пылкого деверя Массимо с бесцветной женой Ларой и пугливым сыном Сандро, а также падчерицу Франческу, дочь Нико от сгоревшей из-за рака первой жены. Сколько ни бьется Мэгги, девочка-подросток не желает принимать мачеху, да еще между ними стоит стена семейной тайны... Но Мэгги с ее светлой душой и спокойным оптимизмом не собирается сдаваться!

Diana ist zurück aus Paris. Statt aufregender erotischer Begegnungen in der Stadt der Liebe sitzt sie zusammen mit Ehemann Oliver in der Paartherapie. Beide sind fest entschlossen, den Funken zwischen sich wieder zu entfachen, und bereit, dafür allen Anweisungen ihrer Therapeutin zu folgen. Doch dann sagt diese ausgerechnet: »Absolut kein Sex«. Diana und Oliver sind gezwungen, sich auf die altmodische Art zu verabreden: Inlineskaten, Kinoabende und zunehmend sehnsüchtige Gutenachtküsse.

Ich bin verloren. Und ich möchte nie gefunden werden... Eine neue New-Adult-Dilogie von Spiegel-Bestseller-Autorin Nikola Hotel. Die ganze Welt beneidet sie darum, mit dem erfolgreichen Footballspieler Jason Miller verheiratet zu sein. Für die 21-jährige Darcy ist es jedoch ein Albtraum, in dem selbst ein Lachen fatale Konsequenzen haben kann. Als sie auf einer Party ein unbekümmertes Gespräch mit dem attraktiven Ellis führt – etwas, das sie kaum noch für möglich gehalten hätte –, wird sie von ihrem Ehemann beobachtet. Sie hat nicht mit Ellis geflirtet.

A man travels to Lisbon ahead of his wife to prepare their new home, while she stays in New York to oversee a research project on the neuroscience of memory and fear. Leaving behind a phase of their relationship indelibly marked by 9/11, the man revels in the Portuguese capital's temperate weather and the neighborhood's calmness, meticulously planning the details of their future.

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.

In the chilling silence of a remote Vermont house, Iris wakes to find herself chained in a sterile basement, a prisoner of the enigmatic Elias. As she navigates his unsettling kindness and cryptic promises of safety, Iris uncovers a notebook listing other women—Emily, Clara, Sophie—whose fates mirror her own. Haunted by her sister’s death and a secret she’s buried, Iris manipulates Elias’s grief to unravel his motives, only to discover their shared darkness binds them in a twisted dance of guilt and redemption.

In a world where hope feels like a distant memory and survival is a daily battle, eighteen-year-old Grace Whithorn is just trying to make it through another day. Haunted by the scars of her past—both visible and invisible—Grace has learned to navigate life with a sharp tongue, a cynical outlook, and a heart that’s been shattered too many times to count. But when a desperate late-night call to a suicide hotline connects her with Ethan Ford, a mysterious and brooding temporary headmaster with his own demons, Grace’s life takes an unexpected turn. Ethan isn’t like anyone Grace has ever met.

Franklin B Goodman wants to spread love wherever he goes. But love is an emotion he doesn’t understand. In Franklin’s dangerously warped mind, a damaged relationship is like a sick animal. He is willing to take extreme measures to nurse it back to health. And if that doesn’t work… …the only option is to put it out of its misery. On the other side of the River Mersey, murder detectives Nathan Cody and Megan Webley have their hands full with a manhunt to locate the killer of a beautiful and wealthy woman.

When single mum Lola Martinez's son, Luca, starts school, she feels that she'll never fit in with the yummy mummies in the playground. Confident, married to wealthy men, with ample free time, they are everything she isn't. However, Lola is invited into the inner circle, surrounded by seemingly friendly people, even if Lola's silence about her child's father puzzles them. Despite herself, Lola quickly becomes involved in playground politics, making as many enemies as friends. But then Lola is brutally murdered, her death rocking the close-knit community.

Mara è una giovane di Monteguidi, piccolo paese della Val d'Elsa, che all'indomani della Liberazione conosce il partigiano Bube, eroe della Resistenza, e se ne innamora. Con questo romanzo - pubblicato nel 1960 e seguito nel 1963 da una celebre versione cinematografica interpretata da Claudia Cardinale - Cassola si aggiudica il premio Strega e raggiunge il successo anche internazionale.