Joyce Carol Oates
41) Jane Eyre
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New York Public Library collector's edition
Harper's modern classics
Everyman's library volume no. 10
Keepsake volume no. 74
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Harper's modern classics
Everyman's library volume no. 10
Keepsake volume no. 74
More Series...
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English
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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel about the passionate love between Jane Eyre, a young girl alone in the world, and the rich, brilliant, domineering Rochester has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic, ever since...
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A stunning, major achievement from Joyce Carol Oates, "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation). A haunting story of the powerful spell Niagara Falls casts upon two generations of a family, leading to tragedy, love, loss, and, ultimately, redemption. A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. "The Widow...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
ix, 402 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas. Starting with the title novella-- in which a romantic-minded young art historian is led to (re)discover a terrifying trauma after inheriting property in faraway Cardiff, Maine-- through to "The Surviving Child"-- which finds the young new wife of a famous poet's widow haunted by the dead poet's...
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©2007
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582 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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The daughter of a German high school teacher who was forced to work as a gravedigger after immigrating to upstate New York, Rebecca begins a life-changing pilgrimage throughout America in the wake of a prejudice-motivated tragedy.
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English
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"As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through a field ridden with human skulls and bones. Now an adult, Abby thinks she's outgrown her demons until, the evening before her wedding, the terrible dream returns, forcing her to confront the dark secrets from her past that she has kept from her new husband, Willem. The following day-- less than 24 hours after exchanging vows-- Abby steps out into traffic....
47) Breathe: a novel
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[2021]
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English
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"Amid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, their lives are uprooted and husband and wife each embarks upon a nightmare journey. At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood - and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped her...
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English
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"From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand-new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's...
49) The sacrifice
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English
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When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. In this magisterial work of fiction, Joyce Carol Oates explores the uneasy fault lines in a racially troubled society. In such a tense, charged atmosphere, Oates reveals that there must always be a sacrifice--of innocence,...
51) Babysitter
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Pub. Date
2022.
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431 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"In the waning days of the 1970s, the lives of several residents of Detroit and its affluent white suburbs are drawn together following the disappearance of yet another child. Hannah, a wife and mother, begins an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger; Mikey, a young street hustler, finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice; and then there's the child serial killer known as Babysitter, an enigmatic and elusive figure at the periphery...
52) The new kitten
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[2019]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Cherie, a beloved cat, becomes very jealous when Cleopatra, a kitten, comes to live with her family.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien." In the diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explores the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. "Fleuve Bleu" exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates's...
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[2014]
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English
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From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of ten mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all. Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the stories in lovely, dark, deep display Joyce Carol Oateśђةs magnificent ability to make visceral the terror, hurt, and uncertainty that lurks at the edges...
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English
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"Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and carries it with her for the rest of her life. Medical students bring a severed foot to a college party. Five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates has made a career of exploring the forbidden corners of human experience, and the stories collected here, spanning her first three decades as a writer, are among her most unsettling...
57) Naughty Cherie
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Pub. Date
[2008]
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31 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Cherie loves being the naughtiest kitten until she meets a group of rowdy animals who show her that being naughty is not always that nice.
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Pub. Date
[2005]
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434 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Nikki Eaton, a single, liberated young woman, never particularly thought of herself as a daughter until the unexpected loss of her mother, when her identity if transformed during the course of a tumultuous year of mourning.
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1999.
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369 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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A teenager in 1960s Buffalo kills his mother's abusive lover and becomes the town's legend. The story is told from various points of view, each a projection of a person's fantasies. A look at how and why legends are created.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
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562 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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The unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an infamous American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the murder of Skyler's six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny expose of the pretensions...