Psychological Science

Over the last four years, Jacob Sloan has lived naked and alone within an abandoned island hotel, smoking cannabis, eating squirrels, and swimming in a lake that contains a dark secret. As memory slowly begins to flower in his brain, Jacob recalls the traumatic events that lead him to the island, describing a childhood of evangelical Christian horror, constantly fearing bar codes, the Antichrist, and being abandoned in the ever-nearing rapture.

Jack Murphy thought he’d found the perfect escape for his family from a world gone horribly mad. He thought wrong. Matthew Costello’s Home begins mere minutes after the terrible sacrifice Jack made to save his family at Paterville Camp in Vacation. Barely escaping, Jack’s wife, Christie, and two children, Kate and Simon, must accept that their lives and their future have changed forever. In this intimate and human survivalist horror story, the three of them will face even greater dangers....

A shocking psychological thriller: Benjamin Walker's lifelong career of testing experimental drugs and medicines, as well as participating in fascinating sleep-related studies, has come to an end. A new and lucrative job opportunity is offered to Ben, working on a project named "Lucy," a machine capable of reading and recording a person's dreams in intimate detail. All is finally going well for Ben ... until strange dreams of a town named Drapery Falls begin to plague him, and memories once hidden begin to reveal themselves. The doctors and staff onboard team Lucy are not who Ben thinks they are, and the organization will stop at nothing to keep Ben's emerging memories buried for good. Ben is put on a collision course that will bring him to the brink of total insanity, and perhaps even death. At the heart of it all, Ben's worst enemy is his own mind, and he must confront his past in order to save his future. The twist and turns in The Experiment of Dreams will keep you guessing, down to the very last line.

Auf dem Planeten Solaris scheinen die Gesetze der Physik keine Geltung zu besitzen. Eine geheimnisvolle Kraft beeinflusst die Bewegungen des geheimnisvollen Ozeans, der die gesamte Oberfläche bedeckt. Als der Wissenschaftler Kelvin auf der Raumstation von Solaris eintrifft, stößt er auf seltsame Anzeichen von Chaos und Auflösung. Die zwei Besatzungsmitglieder verhalten sich merkwürdig, als würden sie von einer unaussprechlichen Furcht beherrscht.

The man couldn't help himself. His captor was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her powerful eyes held his attention and made him forget that she had him confined in a basement, his hands and feet bound with duct tape. She fed him when he was hungry and kept him alive for the telling of her horrific tale. After getting past the terror and discomfort, he reasoned that there was nothing to worry about for the moment.

Je mag honderd woorden per dag spreken. Eén woord meer en je krijgt een stroomstoot van duizend volt. Welkom in het nieuwe Amerika. Dr. Jean McClellan brengt haar tijd in stilte door. Ze heeft een teller om haar pols die elk woord bijhoudt dat ze spreekt. Ieder woord boven de honderd zorgt voor een krachtige stroomstoot. En dat is niet de enige maatregel die de nieuwe regering heeft opgelegd. Sinds er een extreem conservatieve partij aan de macht is gekomen, zijn miljoenen vrouwen hun baan kwijtgeraakt. Hun bankrekeningen zijn bevroren, hun paspoorten ingetrokken.

Being born into the prestigious Holward family isn't easy for Quinn. As his father's heir, much is expected of him. It seems as though Quinn's future is set in stone but when tragedy strikes he finds himself driven to darker and deeper depths than he ever knew existed.

Technology is the new drug.... When Maggie Stone straps on the Vertix H2, an innovative device that creates a social media and online experience unlike anything she’s ever known, she quickly becomes a fan. Able to control virtual reality with her mind, the rush is intoxicating. But soon the device begins to take over her life. Immersed in a colorful and explosive world of technology, she finds it impossible to disconnect. As her addiction grows, Maggie’s world spirals out of control, endangering and pushing away reality.

Eight years after a virus has left half of the population of the world mentally unstable, a man named Ethan Chase enters into a program to become a "Sitter", or caretaker, to two "Unstables". One of which, is a girl, a "Mirror", who believes that she leaves for Paris every Sunday and returns on Tuesday and often mimics and repeats the actions of those around her. The other, a highly functioning "Amnesiac" named Noah who is at one moment lucid and the next completely incoherent.

Jake Matheson's quiet life as a software developer ends the night he wakes up covered in blood with no memory of how it got there. His destroyed cabin, inhuman claw marks, and the taste of copper in his mouth all point to an impossible truth, he's become something that shouldn't exist. When a werewolf pack finds him struggling with his violent transformation, Jake faces a choice: embrace what he's becoming or lose himself to the beast growing stronger inside him. But learning to control his new nature is only the beginning.

Commander Anna Dimitrovic leads a crew of four on remote Deep Space Research Station Thirteen. Six months of electromagnetic research, then home. Simple. Routine. But the cameras are showing intruders. The frequencies are spelling out warnings. And one by one, her people are changing. Anna knows the signs. She won't let Kandahar happen again. She'll protect her crew, even from themselves. Even if they beg her to stop. In the silence of deep space, the most dangerous enemy might be the one that's always been inside.

AltaMira Pharmaceuticals releases Vigorex, a drug that allows people to sleep and experience R.E.M. while they're awake. A colorful cast of characters begin to take the drug, which if not taken properly will have hazardous consequences. But each of these people has undergone a deeply traumatic episode in their formative years, which will affect them in differing ways; murder, arson, kidnapping, vigilantism, among other crimes, will characterize their nightly personalities and send them crashing into one another.

The Dictation is a puzzling, controversial story. The separate, yet connected lives of a young girl, Adrianne, and an elderly, unnamed man converge, revealing complex questions and dark secrets. Presenting philosophical conundrums and unique solutions, The Dictation can easily coax one into deep thought. Upon finishing the book, one may discover they misunderstood everything all along. After reading again, more is yet to be discovered... Prepare to be swept into a futuristic world, watch it burn, and sift through its ashes.

Who is writing this playbook for us? Who are we? Do we really know? Where do we draw the line between sanity and obsession? Between love and madness? Who here can we trust? Ourselves? With our bodies, with our minds? Do romance and sex have the same meaning anymore? Be careful who you fall in love with. Are there clones among us? Are we dealing with life forms we have no way to know are here?

Gabriel is running out of time. Desperately clinging to his humanity, the 21-year-old half-demon is determined to deny the dark destiny his father insists he fulfill. And if he can’t exorcise the manipulative, vile thing driving him to atrocities by his next birthday, the mortal world is doomed. Earth is the last place Aura wants to be. She escaped this nightmare once, and she definitely doesn’t want to go back just to help some monster control his urges.

A wealthy and ruthless South American drug lord is eliminating the competition with designer drugs, murder, and shamanistic powers. He is a Brujo Negro, a practitioner of ancient black arts. His chemists are creating the ultimate addicting drug; a single dose and you are addicted forever. One man, Dr. Lucas Forge, a former forensic psychologist, scout/sniper, and now an 'off-the-books' Spec Ops operative, and his team of multi-talented Spec Ops agents are the only ones who stand in his way.

Rachel fends for herself in a country brought to its knees by climate change. Since Jason left two years ago, she only ventures beyond the safety of her storm wall when food supplies dwindle. Her one contact with the outside world is through Noah, who runs the market. Hoping he might be the answer to her isolation, she proposes a date. When another man turns up in Noah's place, she is intrigued and repelled in equal measure.

Bolstered by a newfound fortune, Sara Winthrop is finally able to escape the horrific nature of her past. She's moved her family 3000 miles, from the bustling city of Portland to the rolling Appalachians of southwest Virginia. Life is calm, the children are thriving, and she's protected inside her rural fortress. Or so she thinks. She soon discovers that the answers are never so easy. The illusion of security doesn't stand a chance against two dangerous enemies with money, motivation, and an unquenchable desire for revenge.

Welcome to Hyperbole House, a reality television show that follows the lives of six mentally ill individuals and their doctor all living under the same roof. Where everything is a mystery, and nothing is as it seems. Equal parts psychology and science fiction, this mind-bender is guaranteed to elicit the desire for multiple listenings. It is a gripping study of madness and redemption, and ultimately a blueprint for remembering the future. The portal is open, step inside.

The Elders say Abigail committed suicide, but Tamar secretly harbors doubt. They were best friends, two high school seniors looking forward to the future.... Now, she's gone. Could Abigail's death be linked to that forbidden book from the Old Days? Why did she have to read that stupid thing, anyway? Haunted by these questions, Tamar eventually learns the shocking truth from an Apostate who passes along the notorious book. As suspicion mounts against her, Tamar must do the unthinkable to avoid Abigail's grim fate.