Psychological Science

There is no doubt that every person on this planet has personal aspirations and dreams. It is a universal human quality. But, there are always barriers and challenges toward accomplishing what we want no matter what. Those people who deserved to succeed need to ask themselves and introspect why they could not achieve their objectives. Inability to succeed keeps many meritorious candidates out of the mainstream of society, its development, progress, and evolution.

Psychology teacher Michael Bendixen knows it’s not uncommon for people in grief to imagine seeing or hearing lost loved ones. So, when he hears his dead son’s voice calling for him in the high school hallway, he chalks it up to just that. A hallucination born from his grief. Then a student tells him she heard it too. The student is Lisa Swan, a seventeen-year-old girl who, in the thirteen months since she suffered her own tragic loss, has had her own demons to battle. The meeting between the two marks the beginning of a long and nerve-wracking journey that leads them to Urari.

Carnegie Medal winning author Tanya Landman delivers an eerily captivating and accessible retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Gothic novel of murder and monstrosity. Evil Mr Hyde stalks London's streets, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. Good Dr Hyde keeps protecting him...

SI LE PARADIS EST UNE ÎLE, L’ENFER AUSSI. Le sable très blanc, l’océan turquoise. Voici ce que découvre Yohan à son réveil. Un endroit paradisiaque où il va entamer une nouvelle vie. Avoir une deuxième chance d’être heureux. Pour arriver sur cette île inconnue, il a signé avec une mystérieuse société qui promettait de le faire disparaître et d’effacer toute trace de son passé.

Seven-year-old Henry Day is kidnapped and renamed "Aniday" by changelings, ageless beings who inhabit the woods near his home. The changelings also leave behind one of their own, who flawlessly impersonates Henry except for one noteworthy detail: the new Henry is a prodigiously talented pianist.

Year 2084. The Mediterranean island-nation of Thalassia has survived a devastating war. Not won — simply not vanished. 29% of the country lies in ruins. 87% of its citizens live on Basic Income — enough to afford rent and food. The rest? Work. Design. Manage. Or pretend to. Mister Drey is one of the last people still trusted to think. As a third-level analyst, he predicts the future and simulates societal behavior. Everything appears under control — until he meets Emma. She doesn’t exist in any protocol. She doesn’t appear in the system. But once she arrives, the model starts acting… alive.

It's 1997. Scarclaw Fell. The body of teenager Tom Jeffries is found at an outward bound centre. Verdict? Misadventure. But not everyone is convinced. And the truth of what happened in the beautiful but eerie fell is locked in the memories of the tight-knit group of friends who took that fateful trip and the flimsy testimony of those living nearby.

Inception meets Black Mirror for the YouTube generation. The idea behind MindCast is simple. We insert a small chip into your skull and then every thought, every feeling, every memory is streamed live, 24 hours a day. Trust me - within a few months you'll be the most talked about person on the planet. When David Callow is offered the lead role in a revolutionary new online show, he snatches the opportunity. Rapidly becoming a viral sensation, David is propelled to stratospheric levels of celebrity. However, he soon realises the downside of sharing every secret with the world....

Meet Westlake Soul, a 23-year-old former surfing champion. A loving son and brother. But if you think he’s just a regular dude, think again; Westlake is in a permanent vegetative state. He can’t move, has no response to stimuli, and can only communicate with Hub, the faithful family dog. And like all superheroes, Westlake has an archenemy: Dr. Quietusa, nightmarish embodiment of Death itself. Westlake dreams of a normal life of surfing and loving again. But time is running out; Dr. Quietus is getting closer, and stronger....

A sixteen year old boy awakens in a dark forest with no memory of how he got there. When he finally begins to come to terms that he is no longer at home, he begins to realize that he is not only in a different environment, but he's in a different time period! To make matters more trivial, all the townspeople, also known as "Locksmiths," have these "Keys" that allows them to emit different colored energies or, "HUEs," at will. It just so happens the dark HUE that emits from him is the most powerful in this futuristic world of "Aether." Is it a simulation? Is it a dream?

Everyone but Ann thought that Carl Urbanowich was a harmless man who had lost his mind. Ann believes his fantasies of power and tries to stop him from ending the earth. She risks her life to prevent the catastrophe. Can she prevent him from smashing our planet into four individual solar systems?

Commercial deep-sea diver Solvig has a secret. She wants to be one of the first human beings to colonize Mars, and she is one of a hundred people shortlisted by the Mars Project to do just that. But to fulfill her ambition, she will have to leave behind everything she has ever known - for the rest of her life. As the prospect of heading to space becomes more real, 37-year-old Solvig is forced to define who she really is. Will she come clean to James, her partner, about her plans? Or will she turn her back on the project and commit to her life on Earth?

Remy Kessler has always heard the stars. As a child in small-town Illinois, he listened for meaning in the wind, static in radio waves, and quiet messages from a universe most people ignore. But no signal ever hit him harder than Sydney—a clever, untouchable girl who came into his life like a supernova and left just as fast. Their connection is instant. Deep. Cosmic. But Sydney runs from anything that feels real, and Remy, for all his brilliance and faith, can never quite catch her before she disappears again.

Between saving humanity, a childhood friend or your true love, who would you choose? In a world where Science is the law and you must adhere strictly to scientific principles, I chose to go the opposite way and rely on the Universe for answers that Science cannot explain. Secretly, I cling onto the spiritual beliefs that my mother left for me.

Tony Danials has lived with regret for most of his life. He never told Mark how he really felt. He watched him marry someone else. He stayed quiet. Now, years later, with nothing left but memories, Tony wakes up in a world that shouldn’t exist. In this reality, he’s younger. Stronger. And somehow, he’s married to Mark. The house, the photos, the life they share, it all feels real. But Tony remembers another version of things. One where Mark died. One where the love between them never had a chance. Now he’s caught between two truths, and the line between memory and reality keeps shifting.

The ruins of the apocalypse hold countless stories waiting to be heard. Where sometimes the dead are the least of your worries and your fellow humans are far more horrid. Come, join me as I speak the tales of those in my travels. The ones that dared to fight back against the Company. The ones that ended the world we used to live and thrive in. Welcome to the Outbreak. It all started with a single survivor searching for her sister. She had faced many obstacles, only to be beaten down. We watch a woman fight for survival, as she fights against someone she had once believed to be trusted company.

Rick was a professional — no ties, no questions, no second chances. But when a quiet preacher’s death leaves him waking up in a blood-soaked car with no memory of the kill, and a presence in his mind that doesn’t feel like his own. Rick realizes something’s fractured. Time doesn’t move the same. Shadows linger too long. And reality keeps slipping sideways.

Samuel “Max” Maxwell had it all—until a bad business decision by his partner and closest friend, Jacob Amott, cost him everything. After serving five years in prison, Max walks free with nothing left but a shadowed past and a fractured legacy. His business is gone. His friendship died in betrayal—and in blood. Now, Max wants a fresh start. But when a chance to reclaim what he lost puts him on a collision course with the organization that killed Jacob, Max must decide: can he outrun his past, or will it bury him for good?

Rose's life spirals out of control as she becomes trapped in a series of time lapses. Each night, she awakens in an unfamiliar medical space she calls The Room, where a man named Charlie subjects her to strange medical treatments. In her waking life, Rose is a journalist in love, planning her future, and working to stay grounded, but the boundaries between reality and The Room begin to blur. Desperate to communicate and escape the invisible force pulling her back each night, Rose must confront the terrifying possibility that her mind is being manipulated.

Agana Taitano Hofstadter, an expert in cryptanalysis, is summoned to Ennea, a dark and inhospitable planet, shrouded in mystery, whose only inhabitants are the Enneans. Joining her on this journey to another star system is a diverse team of human and dolphin scientist-explorers, including an arrogant cybernetically enhanced human, an artificial intelligence with a proclivity for holographic antics, and Taitano’s dolphin mentor. As she struggles to manage a debilitating psychological condition, Taitano soon uncovers a world-changing conspiracy deep within the subterranean ocean of Ennea.