psychological fiction

Native New Yorkers Elise and Donald are engaged and now live in Washington. As they adjust to their new environment, shopping for groceries with senators and pundits, Donald's old flame appears. Now Elise must conduct womanly warfare to keep her prize.

Tells the story of two star-crossed lovers, graduate students Julian Rose and Claire Marvel, spanning fourteen years of attempts at happiness while spouses, children, and misunderstandings block the way.

When Duane's life seems to fall apart, he shocks his hometown by living a Thoreau-like existence in the countryside, until he meets and falls in love with a lesbian psychoanalyst who wants to help him.

Charlene Cummins longs for a better life, and decides to steal the identity of Manhattan resident Vera de Sica, who struggles to stop Charlene's scam and rebuild her own identity.

Interior designer Zoe Luce, a woman who has the psychic ability to feel past emotions embedded in the walls of a room, hires private detective Ethan Truax to help when she senses one of her clients has murdered his wife, but she had not counted on Truax discovering her own deeply held secrets, and she had not planned to lose her heart.

Sir William Golding reads his novel about a group of British school boys, stranded on a tropical island after a plane crash, who attempt to form a civilized society that descends into brutal anarchy.

Child psychiatrist Julia Cates, her career and confidence destroyed in the wake of a media-heavy scandal, retreats to her Washington hometown where she becomes involved in the fight to prevent the institutionalization of a traumatized, unidentified girl who has emerged from the forest.

"Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning ... past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them ... Their life-as she sees it-is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?"--Provided by publisher.

Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution, and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year.

In this story told through poetry, all people are about to be legally required to dress and act gender neutral. During all this, Spark meets the mysterious Whistler whose gender is unknown.