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48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister by Joyce Carol Oates
$36.99 NZD
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
$25.00 NZD
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 Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror from Women Writers by Joyce Carol Oates
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors - including Margaret Atwood, Raven Leilani, and Cassandra Khaw - to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror 'Will burrow under your skin and live forever in your darkest dreams' Bust Joyce Carol Oates assembles a ...Show more
A Fair Maiden: A Dark Novel of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Fifteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the streets of Bayhead Harbor, New Jersey, when she is approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder. At first his interest in her seems harmless. The world he inhabits acts as a tonic to her drab existence. And as a children's book writer, he seem ...Show more
A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"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
Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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
Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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
Jack of Spades by Joyce Carol Oates
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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
Night Sleep Death the Stars by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
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
Sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in an incendiary novel that explores the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, and how the complexities of truth are lost in our hunger for sensationalism. Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates return ...Show more
The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age by Joyce Carol Oates
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
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