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48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Fiction
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
Gus Vorhees is an eminent doctor at the Muskegee Falls Women's Center, Ohio. One morning as he arrives at the clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead. This action leaves in its wake two fatherless families: the Vorhees, who are affluent, highly educated, secular and ...Show more
Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Crime | Thriller
From one of America’s most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a background of child abductions in the affluent suburbs of Detroit. In the waning days of the turbulent 1970s, in the wake of unsolved killings that have shocked Detroit, the lives of ...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
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Fiction
A mesmerising novel of the most enduring cultural icon of the 20th century - Marilyn Monroe Who was Norma Jeane Baker? In 'Blonde' we are given an intimate, unsparing vision of the woman who became Marilyn Monroe like no other: the child who visits the cinema with her mother; the orphan whose mother is ...Show more
Breathe by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: 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
Cardiff, By The Sea by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Fiction
A collection of four previously unpublished novellas. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present. From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of ...Show more
Dis mem Ber by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Crime | Thriller
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!
Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Fiction
An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates "Time travel" -- and its hazards--are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the pe ...Show more
My Life As a Rat by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Fiction
A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayal. Once I'd been Daddy's favourite. Before something terrible happened.Violet Rue is the baby of the seven Kerrigan children and adores her big brothers. What's more, she knows that a family protects its own. To go outside the fam ...Show more
Night Sleep Death the Stars by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Fiction
The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in st ...Show more
The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel that examines the mysteries of human memory and personality In 1965, a young research scientist named Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes, the subject of her study, a handsome amnesiac who cannot remember anything beyond the last seven ...Show more