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48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister by Joyce Carol Oates
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Fair Maiden: A Dark Novel of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Joyce Carol Oates adds to her extraordinary body of work with this stunning novel of violence and love. At the heart of the story are two people, Iris Courtney, who is white, and handsome Jinx Fairchild, the black basketball player who, in protecting Iris, kills a white man.Iris is the only witness to t ...Show more
Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton University)
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | 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
Black Girl / White Girl : A novel by Joyce Carol Oates
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This book presents a controversial, painfully intimate depiction of race in America by the esteemed author of We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde and The Falls. Fifteen years after the mysterious death of Minette Swift - a 19-year-old black girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive liberal arts c ...Show more
Black Girl White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
A controversial, painfully intimate depiction of race in America by the esteemed author of 'We were the Mulvaneys', 'Blonde' and 'The Falls'. Fifteen years after the mysterious death of Minette Swift -- a 19-year-old black girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive liberal arts college -- he ...Show more
Cardiff, By The Sea by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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
Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical 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
Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates
$23.00 NZD
Category: Historical 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