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A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Contemporary
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
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Category: Contemporary
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
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Contemporary
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
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Category: Contemporary
‘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
Cutting Edge - New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers by Joyce Carol Oates (Editor)
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Category: Crime & Mystery
"'Is there a distinctive female noir?' asks Oates in her introduction. This collection may not settle that question, but it goes a long way toward supplying candidates for an emerging canon. There are 15 stories here, all but one of them new, and half a dozen new poems...the average [story] is high enou ...Show more
High Crime Area by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Contemporary
A collection of darkly compelling tales from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young professor is convinced she's being followed, but when she confronts her shadow events take an unexpected turn...A promising student attempts to save her brother from his descent into madness, but she soon f ...Show more
Jack of Spades by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Contemporary
From one of the most highly regarded writers of her generation, JACK OF SPADES is a psychologically complex thriller that examines the fine line between genius and madness. Andrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of commercial success most authors only dream about: a top agent, publisher in New York, and t ...Show more
My Life As a Rat by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Contemporary
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-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Classics
A woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, is seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot afford, as her married lover rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door. An ageing, jealous wife crafts an unusual game of Russian roulette involving a pair of Wedgwood teacups, a strong Bengal ...Show more
The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Biography & Memoir
A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we've never seen her before. In The Lost Landscape, Joyce Carol Oates vividly recreates the early years of her life in western New York state, powerfully evoking the romance of childhood and the way it co ...Show more
The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel examining 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 seventy s ...Show more
The Sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Literary
Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in her latest incendiary novel. When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanises her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has ...Show more
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