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48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister by Joyce Carol Oates
36.99 NZD
Category: Thriller
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 Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away by Joyce Carol Oates
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
< p> Jenna Abbott separates her life into two categories: < i> before the wreck< /i> and < i> after the wreck< /i> . Before the wreck, she was leading a normal life with her mom in suburban New York. After the wreck, she is alone, desperate to forget what happened that day ...Show more
Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates
35.00 NZD
35.99 (2% off)
Category: Fiction
A bright, talented junior at Catamount College in the druggy 1970s, Gillian Brauer strives to realise more than a poet's craft in her workshop with the charismatic, anti-establishment professor Andre Harrow. For Gillian has fallen in love - with Harrow, with his aesthetic sensibility and bohemian lifest ...Show more
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates (Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Princeton University, USA)
14.99 NZD
15.99 (6% off)
Category: Children Fiction
Matt Donaghy is the class joker and Ursula Riggs is the misfit loner. Neither knows the other. But when Matt is arrested on a charge of threatening to blow up the school and massacre the students, Ursula is the only one who sees through the hysteria and hypocrisy, and corroborates Matt's story.
Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
36.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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 Girl / White Girl : A novel by Joyce Carol Oates
36.99 NZD
Category: General 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
26.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
27.99 NZD
Category: 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
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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
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
Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates
22.99 NZD
Category: Thriller
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