Títulos em Psicológico

Agora você pode viver o sonho americano! Bem-vindo à mansão de Gatsby! Depois de receber um convite para uma festa luxuosa e extravagante em Long Island, Nick Carraway, um jovem solteiro que acaba de se mudar para Nova York, fica curioso a respeito do anfitrião, o misterioso Jay Gatsby. Excêntrico, porém reservado, Gatsby é um self-made man cujo passado é desconhecido e com negócios obscuros. À medida que Nick e Gatsby começam uma amizade improvável, Nick descobre que nem tudo que reluz é ouro, e que tudo o que seu vizinho mais quer na vida é recuperar o amor de Daisy, prima de Nick.

1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.

Germain, Petit Pierre et Marie sont forcés de passer la nuit au lieu-dit La mare au Diable. Le laboureur et la jeune fille ont le coeur triste : Germain va chercher une mère pour ses enfants, mais l'amour n'y est pas, et Marie a quitté sa mère pour se louer comme bergère à la ferme des Ormeaux. Seul Petit Pierre est heureux et confiant : de lui dépendra le sort de ceux qu'il aime tant.

Theo Fester é um inteligente e poderoso magnata do Vale do Silício, empresário mundialmente conhecido e pai de três filhos orgulhosos, frios e bem-sucedidos – mas sua história inicial foi dramática. Filho de um sobrevivente do Holocausto, ele começou a empreender para sobreviver à dor de seu pai, à pobreza e ao bullying na infância, tornando-se especialista em se reinventar. Conseguiu um dos homens mais ricos do mundo. Tanta riqueza e poder, porém, não conseguem esconder a verdade: a família Fester está falida, saturada de lutas internas e disputas irracionais.

Rita, professora universitária, começa a ter visões de uma realidade paralela, como se estivesse o tempo todo mergulhada num aquário.

Em uma agradável vizinhança de Acapulco, um massacre. Uma chacina vitima dezesseis membros de uma mesma família, durante uma festa de quinze anos. Os únicos sobreviventes são Lydia e seu filho Luca, de oito anos. O marido de Lydia, Sebastián, foi o jornalista responsável pelo perfil jornalístico do homem que controla o cartel de drogas mais poderoso da cidade. E agora, como a maioria dos seus parentes, ele também está morto.

Margot Davies is an aspiring investigative journalist stuck in a rudderless job at a small-time newspaper, until one night she stumbles upon a new development in an unsolved, decades-old case that took place in her very own hometown: the infamous murder of six-year-old January Jacobs. With this new information come to light, Margot quickly becomes obsessed with solving the case. She packs up and heads back to the hometown she left at eight years old, hoping to bring justice to January, who was discovered dead in a ditch only hours after her family awoke to find her gone.

Aglaia, uma menina sensível e solitária, de rara inteligência, apaixonada pelas tragédias de Shakespeare, pelos poemas de Cecília Meireles e canções de Renato Russo, aos treze anos teve a sua vida virada de ponta-cabeça com a chegada inesperada de uma meia-irmã, filha do seu pai, cuja existência lhe era desconhecida. O surgimento da encantadora Thalie, além de desestabilizar a família, rompe o frágil equilíbrio psíquico de Aglaia.

Virginia Woolf’s most famous "stream of consciousness" novel, Mrs. Dalloway, records the events of one June day in 1923 - the day on which Clarissa Dalloway is hosting a party in her London home. Mrs. Dalloway continues to fascinate and challenge, hinting at homosexuality, mental illness, racial prejudice, infidelity, and unrequited love. It presents a perfect picture of London between the wars, in an England where the class system is still firmly entrenched while carrying throughout an undercurrent of rage at the resulting inequalities.

Depois de perder a mãe aos 8 anos de idade, Elizabeth Harmon é mandada para o orfanato. Calada e retraída, ela lida com a triste realidade tomando os tranquilizantes que a instituição fornece às crianças para mantê-las dóceis. Até que o carrancudo zelador do lugar começa a lhe dar aulas de xadrez, oferecendo a chance de que ela precisava para sair de seu estado de letargia. Pensando e imaginando as jogadas, Beth sente que finalmente está no controle, e logo fica evidente que tem um talento natural para o jogo.

In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we’d made different choices. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the homecoming stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she’d never left. A man in prison contemplates the gravity of his irreversible act. A student’s affair with a professor results in a pregnancy that alters the course of her life forever. Even the experience of reading is investigated.

Il était une fois un jeune psychiatre nommé Hector qui n'était pas très content de lui : il voyait bien qu'il n'arrivait pas à rendre les gens heureux. Hector décide donc de partir en voyage autour du monde pour comprendre ce qui fait vraiment le bonheur. Pourquoi rêvons-nous souvent d'une vie plus heureuse sans apprécier la nôtre ?

Mikage is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend, Yoichi, and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway - a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors.

"[ Memnoch] is one of Rice's most intriguing and sympathetic characters to date. . . . Rice ups the ante, taking Lestat where few writers have ventured: into heaven and hell itself. She carries it off in top form."( The Seattle Times)

Toby Temple is a superstar, the world's funniest man. He gets any woman that he wants, but under the superstar image is a lonely man. Jill Castle is a sensuous starlet. She has a dark and mysterious past and has an ambition even greater than Toby's. Together they rule Hollywood.

It is a June day in London in 1923, and the lovely Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Whom will she see? Her friend Peter, back from India, who has never really stopped loving her? What about Sally, with whom Clarissa had her life’s happiest moment? Meanwhile, the shell-shocked Septimus Smith is struggling with his life on the same London day.

Alice Love is 29, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital, where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over - she’s getting divorced, she has three kids, and she’s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time.

The Professor, the first novel that Charlotte Brontë completed, is based on her experiences as a language student in Brussels in 1842. Told from the point of view of William Crimsworth, the only male narrator she created, the work questions many of the presuppositions of Victorian society.

Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives. Indeed their lives, in their own eyes, become almost meaningless, their sense of themselves subsumed under a myriad of problems, whether real or imagined. Seismic events in a life might crush them; the loss of a loved one for instance. Coping is difficult, support hard to find and isolation abounds.