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Deadly Sins Deadly Sins A. S. Byatt,William Trevor,Mary Gordon,Gore Vidal,John Updike,Howard, Richard,Joyce Carol Oates,Thomas Pynchon This is a collection of short literary essays, one to each of the seven sins, plus an extra item in "despair", by as many prominent literary figures, of whom Byatt is one. Others include Gore Vidal a… OL14911100W
Men and Women Men and Women Bret Harte,Katherine Anne Porter,Stephen Crane,John Updike,Joyce Carol Oates,Kate Chopin,Alice Munro Contains: Bret Harte The Idyl of Red Gulch, Stephen Crane The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky , Kate Chopin [The Story of an Hour][1], Katherine Anne Porter Rope , Joyce Carol Oates Customs, Alice … OL14943669W
Freaky green eyes Freaky green eyes Joyce Carol Oates Fifteen-year-old Frankie relates the events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept the truth about her parents' relationship. OL14958234W
Where is Little Reynard? Where is Little Reynard? Joyce Carol Oates When Little Reynard, the only orange kitten in his litter, meets some foxes, he feels more at home with them than with his own family. OL14958308W
Cybele Cybele Joyce Carol Oates "In this mordant allegory about deluded obsession, Joyce Carol Oates has transformed the earth goddess Cybele into a goddess of degenerative possession. Edwin Locke, a charming forty-year-old who has… OL14958330W
Little Bird of Heaven Little Bird of Heaven Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, romantic, and captivating tale, set in the Great Lakes region of upstate New York-the territory of her remarkably successful New York Times bestseller The Grave… OL14958352W
The Faith of a Writer The Faith of a Writer Joyce Carol Oates 'One of America's greatest and most prolific contemporary literary figures draws on her years of experience with the craft to answer profound questions ranging in topic from inspiration, memory, and … OL14958386W
The Gravedigger's Daughter The Gravedigger's Daughter Joyce Carol Oates In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he … OL14958388W
Haunted Haunted Joyce Carol Oates Novelist, poet, dramatist and author of many of the best American short stories of our time, Joyce Carol Oates shows yet another aspect of her unbounded creativity in these tales of the grotesque. Ha… OL14958390W
My Sister, My Love My Sister, My Love Joyce Carol Oates New York Times bestselling author of The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, wry, satirical tale—inspired by an unsolved American true-crime mystery."Dysf… OL14958417W
American appetites American appetites Joyce Carol Oates American Appetites is classic Joyce Carol Oates—a suspenseful thriller in which the happy facade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal. For twenty-six yea… OL14958421W
High lonesome High lonesome Joyce Carol Oates No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and inclu… OL14958430W
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! Joyce Carol Oates Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway---Joyce Carol Oates takes on each of these literary giants in her newest story collection, powerfully and playfully reinven… OL14958439W
Beasts Beasts Joyce Carol Oates "A bright, talented junior at Catamount College in the druggy 1970s, Gillian Brauer strives to realize more than a poet's craft in her workshop with the charismatic, anti-establishment professor Andr… OL14958442W
The Tattooed Girl The Tattooed Girl Joyce Carol Oates Celebrated but reclusive author Joshua Seigl must hire an assistant due to failing health. But he doesn't expect Alma Busch -- an attractive woman with bizarre tattoos covering much of her body. Naiv… OL14958447W
Black Girl/White Girl Black Girl/White Girl Joyce Carol Oates Remembering Minette Swift, the talented, assertive, 19-year-old African-American girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive, mostly white liberal arts college near Philadelphia who died u… OL14958451W
Middle Age Middle Age Joyce Carol Oates E-book extra: "Enchanted Places," an essay by Joyce Carol Oates.In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- midd… OL14958455W
We were the Mulvaneys We were the Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates We Were the Mulvaneys is the intricate story of close knit family in a close knit community and the unraveling of the Mulvaney family and their community after an act of sexual violence. OL14958461W
Expensive people Expensive people 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. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and… OL14958462W
Foxfire Foxfire Joyce Carol Oates The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls are joined in a gang dedicated to pride, power and vengeance on a world they never made--a wor… OL14958463W
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