Mental Fiction

Moses and Troy Horne here. Your mental-toughness guides! We know exactly how you feel. If you are reading this, you probably have a young athlete who struggles with in-game stress and maybe even sports performance anxiety. That is why this version was mostly written by Moses. As of the time of the writing of this book, Moses Horne is a 15-year-old elite athlete who can talk directly about the triumphs and struggles of working toward being mentally tough. This is the only book that I know of with input from an actual young athlete.

During the pressure- and angst-filled teenage years, emotional resilience is the compass that leads to inner harmony. Harness this power for personal evolution and insightful self-discovery through a meticulously crafted 5-step journey. Navigating your teenage years can often feel challenging, like you're traveling through unknown territory without a guide. But if you’re equipped with the right tools, you can chart a clearer course, fostering personal growth, emotional mastery, and deeper understanding.

A stylish, seductive new novel from Rebecca Sarah Ley, winner of a Betty Trask Prize and the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize 'A stylish and gripping take on the campus novel – witty, incredibly sharp, and compulsively readable' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure 'I loved it: a bleakly...

Ansel Largent is a respected Chicago attorney; ferocious in the courtroom but a winner with the jury. Happy at home with wife Libby, a stroke victim. Happy at the office with Melinda, a married woman with a special interest in him. When everything unravels in one night, Ansel’s life is put under the microscope, and his plastic character brings his sanity into question. Thaddeus Murfee is hired to defend his most complicated trial yet, but when all the chips are down, even he is struck speechless at the outcome.

Three days. That was all the reprieve we got before one of the five showed up, injured and on the run. The snowstorm that had encased the property, as well as stifled the town, hadn’t even melted away. That wounded prey led our newest adversary directly to me. To Christopher. Inconvenient timing, but not unexpected. It was the betrayal forcing me to stay my hand against that adversary that shocked me. Betrayal from the least likely of sources. Or so I would have thought.

Michael Jordan, one of the best basketball players to ever have lived, once said: "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." But if your mind is not as strong as your body, how can you possibly figure out how to get over or through that wall? How can you be your best self if your brain muscles aren’t as strong as your other muscles?

Ein Bahnsteig. Fünf Fremde. Fünf Minuten, bis der Tod kommt… FIVE – Das Ticken der Zeit ist ein außergewöhnlicher psychologischer Pageturner voller persönlicher Dramen und Hochspannung, die sich bis zur letzten Seite steigert. Fünf zu Herzen gehende Schicksale. Die Uhr tickt. Wen wirst du sterben sehen? Noch fünf Minuten, bis jemand stirbt: Emma, die überforderte Mutter? Ihr sechsjähriger, lautstark schreiender Sohn Gideon? Der Geschäftsmann Liam, der in einen Streit mit Emma gerät? Die alte Mrs. Worth, die endlich ihre Enkel wiedersehen wird – weil ihre Schwiegertochter gestorben ist?

Mental illness though can still carry a stigma. A case of ‘you’re not trying hard enough’, ‘or knuckling down and getting on with it’. But in more recent decades mental issues have come to be recognised as an illness, a disease rather than an affliction. We all remember horror stories of lobotomy’s and electric shock being used to ‘cure’ what society viewed as anti-social behaviour but illness, mental or physical is very real. Depression, schizophrenia, breakdown, psychosis are alarming events to have or to witness.

Why We Read Fiction offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as “Theory of Mind” and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson's Clarissa, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, and Austen's Pride and Prejudice to Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Nabokov's Lolita, and Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

Be There: My Lived Experience with My Sister's Bipolar Disorder is a deeply moving memoir about love, resilience, and the emotional realities of supporting a family member living with mental illness. Through honest storytelling, personal letters, and thoughtful insight, Linsey Willis shares the challenges and heartbreak of walking beside her sister through bipolar disorder while learning the importance of compassion, boundaries, and hope.

A Mysterious Incident at the Mental Institution is a spooky, chilling tale from Nikolai Leskov based on a true incident.

My father pays heaps of money for doctors at the Norfolk Psychiatric Center to fix me. I've spent six months of my prime teenage years at this residential facility - a place for teenagers who've gone mental. Just when I begin to feel myself fade away, a boy with a wolfish smile and mischievous eyes reels me in. Julian is broken, too, but he believes in me enough for the both of us. Through him I begin to experience this thing called hope. Doctors can't fix me, my parents can't either, but maybe it's not me who needs fixing.

From the author of Finding Jupiter comes a powerful new novel about love, self-esteem, and mental health. Reeling from unresolved family trauma and a viral heartbreak, a Black teen is thrust onto an unexpected journey of self-discovery, healing, and first love. Sixteen-year-old Skye is an expert...

The Unbecoming will help you to : See how identity, ego, and expectations can blur our experience of the present moment. Understand what real detachment looks like - free from fear and greed. Realize that creativity is born from stillness, not struggle. Embrace honest, authentic self-expression...

Among the pioneers of the New Thought movement, William Walker Atkinson was one of the most active and most prolific. His many publications include texts on religion, the occult, concentration, memory, and healing. In the words of the author: "All students of Mental Influence have noticed the close resemblance that is manifested between the phenomena of electrical and magnetic energy on the one hand and the phenomena of mental energy on the other."

Lonely and introverted Alya Sarkar prefers to escape in her daydreams, however consuming they can be. In an effort to make connections and control her increasingly intrusive fantasy life, Alya reluctantly joins a hiking group—only to watch her hiking buddy, Isha, fall to her death. For Alya, now the line between reality and daydream becomes more blurred.

This audiobook’s content and entertaining style will appeal equally to science-fiction enthusiasts and scholars, including cognitive and neuroscientists, as well as philosophers of mind. It is a refreshing romp through the science and science fiction of consciousness.

Das Warten hat ein Ende – das neue Hörbuch von Clara Lösel ist da! Mit „Wehe du gibst auf" hat sie die Herzen erobert und die Bestsellerliste gestürmt. Nun legt sie nach: mit 101 neuen Texten, die nicht nur dein Denken, sondern auch dein Leben verändern. Darunter zahlreiche bisher unveröffentlichte Texte, die auf ihrer ausverkauften Tour für Gänsehaut sorgten. In einer Welt, in der Menschsein manchmal gar nicht so einfach ist, treffen diese Texte direkt ins Herz.

Nicht die Zeit heilt alte Wunden – sondern die Entscheidung, weiterzuleben. Maurice ist tot und mit ihm gingen alle gemeinsamen Hoffnungen, die Lisa mit ihm verband. Sie verdrängt den Gedanken daran. Als auch noch ihre Tante stirbt, drohen Schuldgefühle und Zweifel, Lisa zu ersticken. Doch vollkommen unerwartet enthüllt ein alter Freund ein Familiengeheimnis. Können alte Wunden endlich heilen, oder reißt die Wahrheit neue auf?

How would you feel if you found out someone had programmed your brain so it could not work properly? How would you feel if you found out it was you? It turns out that there is a vast potential residing within everyone they do not know is there. This book explains how we turn away from that path, how our minds are hijacked, and why the world is so screwed up.