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48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister by Joyce Carol Oates
37.00 NZD
Category: General 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
35.00 NZD
Category: General 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
A Fair Maiden: A Dark Novel of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
36.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when she's approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder. At first his interest in her seems harmless, even pleasant; like his name, a sort of gentle joke. His beautiful ...Show more
A Fair Maiden: A Dark Novel of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
30.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Black Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. These stores, at once lyrical and unsettling, shine with the author's trademark fascination wit ...Show more
Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton University)
25.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: General Adult
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
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
28.00 NZD
Category: General 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
33.00 NZD
Category: General 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
23.00 NZD
Category: General 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. 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
35.00 NZD
Category: General 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
20.00 NZD
Category: Crime/Thriller
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
Daddy Love by Joyce Carol Oates
30.00 NZD
Category: Crime/Thriller
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