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48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Crime and Thrillers
A suspenseful story about the complex relationship between two sisters. When a beautiful woman mysteriously vanishes, her sister must tally up the clues to discover her fate. Marguerite has disappeared from her small town in Upstate New York. But was foul play involved? Did she merely get away for fun ...Show more
A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Fiction
Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences. Gus Voorhees is a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead. The killing leaves in its wake ...Show more
A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Biography
'My husband died, my life collapsed.' On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a day or two. But in less than a ...Show more
Beautiful Days - Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Fiction
A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien." The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike o ...Show more
Beautiful Days: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Fiction
A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien"The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ours ...Show more
Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton University)
Category: Fiction
Unafraid to venture into no-man's-lands both real and surreal, Oates takes readers deep into dangerous territory in eleven stories that showcase the keen rewards of her relentless brio and invention. Whether charting the inner lives of two beautiful and mysteriously doomed women in 1940s Los Angeles--El ...Show more
Breathe by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Modern Fiction
‘America's preeminent fiction writer' New Yorker Michaela and her husband have moved to the starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape of New Mexico, to take residency at a distinguished academic institute. But then Gerard is stricken with a mysterious illness, initially misdiagnosed, and soon their life ...Show more
Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates
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A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates. Cressida Mayfield has gone missing. The desperate search yields but one clue; she was last seen in the company of Corporal ...Show more
Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Fiction
A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates. Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the commun ...Show more
Daddy Love by Joyce Carol Oates
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Daddy Love, aka Reverend Chester Cash, has for years abducted, tortured, and raped young boys. His latest victim is Robbie, now renamed 'Gideon', and brainwashed into believing that he is Daddy Love's real son. Any time the boy resists or rebels he is met with punishment beyond his wildest nightmares. A ...Show more
Dis mem Ber by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Fiction
Seven chilling stories from the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates: Dis mem ber; The Crawl Space; Heartbreak; The Drowned Girl; The Situations; Great Blue Heron; Welcome to Friendly Skies!