Titoli in Psicologico

In dem Briefladen, in dem die Zeit stillstand, umgeben von schönsten Dingen, lernt Hyoyeong nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag, das Leben wieder zu spüren. Sie hört die Geschichten von Menschen, die ihre Hoffnungen, Ängste und Träume zu Papier bringen, und lernt dabei nicht nur neue Freund*innen kennen, sondern auch, wie man zu sich selbst zurückfindet.

Sarah-Jane Crosse, SJ to her friends, is desperate to avoid going to her parents’ ruby wedding anniversary party. She’s terrified of introducing her husband, Tom, to her estranged sister, Alison, because the sisters have history. Alison covets everything that belongs to SJ. With her anxiety spiralling, SJ knows she often has one or two glasses of wine too many and after a disastrously drunken night she reaches out for help. However, help does not begin at home. Tom is not supportive.

When Katharine is found dead at the foot of her stairs, it is the mystery of her life which consumes daughter, Laura. The medical examiner's report, in which precious parts of Katharine's body are weighed and categorized, motivates Laura to write her own version of events. To bear witness to the...

Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.

When Grace’s husband, Adam, inherits an isolated North Yorkshire cottage, they leave the bustle of London behind to try a new life. A week later, Adam vanishes without a trace, leaving their baby daughter, Millie, in her stroller on the doorstep. The following year, Grace returns to the tiny village on the untamed heath. Everyone - the police, her parents, even her best friend and younger sister - is convinced that Adam left her. But Grace, unable to let go of her memories of their love and life together, cannot accept this explanation.

Nina McCarrick has it all: a loving husband, two beautiful boys, a well-appointed home and more time than she knows what to do with. Life is perfect. Until her husband, Finn, is killed in a car accident and everything Nina thought she could rely on unravels.

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the listener as well that she is the only person left on earth. Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing is her character, and so witty and seductive her narrative voice, that we will follow her hypnotically as she unloads the intellectual baggage of a lifetime in a series of irreverent meditations on everything and everybody from Brahms to sex to Heidegger to Helen of Troy.

Eine frisch verheiratete Frau sehnt sich obsessiv nach einem gelben Regenschirm. Ein Ehemann verjagt die geliebte Katze seiner Frau. Eine betrogene Mutter entlässt impulsiv ihre Haushälterin. Unter der Oberfläche dieser unbeirrbar scharf beobachteten Geschichten über Liebe und Beziehungen im Kopenhagen des 20. Jahrhunderts pulsieren Verlangen und Verzweiflung. Während vor allem die Frauen darum kämpfen, den ihnen zugewiesenen Rollen zu entkommen, träumen sie davon, frei und glücklich zu werden – ohne je ganz zu verstehen, was das wahrhaft bedeuten könnte.

Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mother’s love; the smell of fresh herbs, the games they played, and the songs and stories of her childhood. As time passes, Marianne struggles to adjust, fixated on her mother’s disappearance and the secrets she’s sure her father is keeping from her.

Alice was a hopeful young graduate student when, on a beautiful August night, her body was found in the woods. She'll always remember the night she was murdered. And she still suffers the grief and rage that destroyed her family. But what Alice regrets most is the last fight she had with her boyfriend, Enrico - and the fact that she never had the chance to tell him something that would have changed everything. A decade later, Enrico has returned to the provincial town where Alice lived and died, to sell his family home.

Emma está feliz con su vida, que cree perfecta porque es la que siempre soñó. Pero un buen día Diego, a quien ella consideraba el amor de su vida y con el que estaba a punto de casarse, la deja y se va con otra. Emma no consigue encontrar una salida a su profunda tristeza y decide acudir a la consulta de Silvia, psicóloga de prestigio reconocido en Barcelona, que es famosa por recurrir a técnicas poco ortodoxas, pero que consiguen resultados. Silvia le propone un juego que llama de las nueve palabras.

Vasco "One Way" è un pugile all'apice della fama. Non è facile restare in cima. Soprattutto quando, per la correzione di un difetto alla vista, ha cominciato a temere gli avversari. Entra intanto nella sua vita una ragazza bellissima, modella senza futuro ma abbastanza spregiudicata per muoversi negli ambienti mondani che Vasco frequenta con la sua corte al seguito, guidata dalla sorella. Manager senza scrupoli, è capace di cavar fuori dalla carriera del pugile ogni sorta di attività commerciali.

Stevie, a recovering alcoholic and kitchen manager of Chappy’s, a small-chain restaurant, is frantically trying to prevent the people around her from going supernova: her PTSD-suffering veteran son, her uproariously demented parents, the polyglot eccentrics who work in her kitchen, the blind geriatric dog she inherits, and a damaged 5-year-old who landed on her doorstep and might just be her granddaughter. In the tight grip of new corporate owners, Stevie battles corporate’s “restructuring” to save her kitchen.

Mark is the accused rapist. Miss P. is the victim, his former teacher. Moira M. is an apathetic juror. As the trial unfolds in this intense short story, three personal histories emerge, along with three alarmingly different points of view: Obsessed and angry. Menaced and disillusioned. Disaffected and searching through an unexamined life for moral conviction.

“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.” Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then...

Before marrying, Emma Bovary believed she would enter a life of luxury and passion like the sentimental stories she'd read in her novels and magazines. Now married to an ordinary country doctor her life is not the romantic ideal she imagined and seeks an escape through having extra-marital affairs. This devastating spiral into deceit and despair leads to catastrophic consequences. Emma Bovary continues to be enjoyed to this day because of its profound humanity, still as fresh today as when it was first written.

Desde el éxito y la vanagloria, la protagonista de esta novela recuerda los pasos que, de la nada y a través del crimen, la llevaron a triunfar en una sociedad, en la que ser "de baja ralea y escasos posibles" no es un impedimento para hacer fortuna. A partir del reconocimiento de esta "verdad" indiscutible, nace, tras años y años de existencias gris y turinaria, una heroína poco convencional. Una heroína que, a diferencia de otras insignes oportunistas, no tiene el menor glamour... ni siquiera el glamour del mal.

El doctor Templeton había viajado mucho en sus tiempos juveniles, y en París se convirtió, en gran medida, a las doctrinas de Mesmer. Por medio de curas magnéticas había logrado aliviar los agudos dolores de su paciente, que, movido por este éxito, sentía cierto grado natural de confianza en las opiniones en las cuales se fundaba el tratamiento.

10 novembre 1975, dans le village de Sainte-Hélène-de-Mancebourg en Abitibi, une journée pas tout à fait comme les autres allait s’inscrire dans les événements marquants de ma vie. Ce matin-là, c’était la troisième fois en moins de cinq ans que je devais déménager mon petit monde. Selon mon habitude, j’avais encore occupé ma nuit du mieux que j’avais pu pour me rendre jusqu’au matin. La nuit, j’étais en proie à la peur.

Sonia conoce a Knut en un foro literario de internet y, a pesar de los setecientos kilómetros que los separan, establece con él una particular relación marcada por la obsesión y la extrañeza. Entre la atracción y la repulsión, no puede evitar sentirse fascinada por este personaje insólito y perfeccionista, que vive fuera de toda norma social y que la corteja a través de suntuosos regalos robados.