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We Were the Mulvaneys

by Barbara Fisher, Joyce Carol Oates

The Mulvaneys, at first a close and very lucky family, drift apart over the years, until the youngest son, Judd, discovers the secret of their downfall and sets out to help reunite the family. 75,000 first printing.

them (Modern Library Paperbacks)

by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. As powerful and relevant today as it on its initial publication, them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge of ruin in the Detroit slums, from the 1930s to the 1967 race riots. Praised by The Nation for her “potent, life-gripping... (more)

Black Water (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)

Black Water (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)

by Joyce Carol Oates

A senator seduces young Kelly Kelleher at a Fourth of July picnic, and as they head for his hotel, his rented Toyota swerves off the unnamed road and into the black water. Reprint. NYT.

The Tattooed Girl: A Novel

by Joyce Carol Oates

A celebrated but reclusive author, generally regarded as a somewhat idiosyncratic bachelor, young but in failing health, Joshua Seigl reluctantly admits to himself that he can no longer live alone. Although it goes against his instincts to do so, he must hire an assistant to help him with his increasingly complicated professional and personal affairs. Considering at first only male applicants, he is dissatisfied... (more)

The American Short Story -- A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar

A collection of short stories by American authors from Wahington Irving to Saul Bellow.

Lives of the Twins

by Rosamond Smith

When sophisticated gadabout Molly Marks discovers that her near-perfect lover and former psychiatrist, Jonathan, has an identical twin, she feels compelled to seek out that brotheralso a psychiatrist. James turns out to be frighteningand altogether more excitingand Molly begins to wonder if a twin is only one half of a whole. She becomes entangled in lies, erotic tensions, and mystery, and her own glib, girlish... (more)

Childwold

by Joyce Carol Oates

Do With Me What You Will

by Joyce Carol Oates

Angel of Light

by Joyce Carol Oates

The White Darkness

by Geraldine McCaughrean

I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while now—which is ridiculous, since he's been dead for ninety years. But look at it this way. In ninety years I'll be dead, too, and the age difference won't matter. Sym is not your average teenage girl. She is obsessed with the Antarctic and the brave, romantic figure of Captain Oates from Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole. In fact, Oates is the... (more)

The Seduction and Other StoriesJoyce Carol Oates

The Seduction and Other Stories

by Joyce Carol Oates

WonderlandJoyce Carol Oates

Wonderland

by Joyce Carol Oates

BellefleurJoyce Carol Oates

Bellefleur

by Joyce Carol Oates

ThemJoyce Carol Oates

Them

by Joyce Carol Oates

Marya a LifeJoyce Carol (Signed) Oates

Marya a Life

by Joyce Carol (Signed) Oates

Night-SideJoyce Carol OATES

Night-Side

by Joyce Carol OATES

A Sentimental Education: StoriesJoyce Carol Oates

A Sentimental Education: Stories

by Joyce Carol Oates

The Assassins: A Book of Hours

by J Oates

Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon

by Rosamond Smith

As Rosamond Smith, Joyce Carol Oates has explored the secret kinship of twins, often depicted as diabolical doubles who are mirror images of our darker, more violent selves-haunting reflections of our fears and dreads. Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon is the chilling and mesmerizing tale of Sharon Donner (alias Starr Bright)-a one-time model and exotic dancer who, at age thirty-seven, is reaching the end of... (more)

Marya: A Life

by Joyce Carol Oates

Successful author and famous intellectual Marya Knauer did not always occupy such a secure and comfortable position in life. Her memories of her childhood in Innisfail, New York are by turns romantic and traumatic. The early violent death of her father and abandonment by her mother have left her with a permanent sense of dislocation and loss. After decades apart, Marya becomes determined to find the mother who... (more)

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