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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 2000
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Summary: Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a father's frantic search for the girl, they discover the unlikeliest of suspects: a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family. As grisly evidence mounts against the troubled war hero, the family must wrestle with the possibility...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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Summary: "A collection of psychologically daring, suspenseful stories"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 1996
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Summary: A collection of eight original stories tests the bonds between damaged people, showing how full--and how devoid--of humanity individuals can be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: A collection of nineteen short works includes "Fire," in which a troubled wife has an affair; "Curly Red," in which a girl reveals a family secret; and "Three Girls," in which two students protect Marilyn Monroe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2002
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Summary: "When a venerated mystery writer is accused of plagiarism by a strange woman from his small New Jersey town, his life--and sanity--begins to unravel in the literary thriller"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: When a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: The victim of a Fourth of July gang rape, single mother Teena Maguire and her daughter become the target of harassment and violence on the part of the assailants after Teena identifies the perpetrators for the Niagara Falls Police Department.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2003
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Summary: Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, Bobbie Gotteson grew up angry, hurting, damaged. His hunger to succeed as a musician brought him across the country to Hollywood, but along with it came his seething rage, his paranoid delusions, and his capacity for acts of shocking violence. The novella "Love, careless love"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2019
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Summary: A Philistine discovers a social conscience. He is Jerome Corcoran, a real estate millionaire and city councilman who lives for money, food and sex. On his way to work he comes across a suicide, a black woman who was a critic of city hall. Corcoran smells foul play and for once decides to do something about it. By the author of Foxfire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1994
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Summary: Joyce Carol Oates shares her struggle to comprehend a life absent of the partnership that had sustained and defined her for nearly half a century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2011
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Summary: Re-imagines the final days of five major American writers, in a collection of short works written in the subtly nuanced language style of each.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1990
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Summary: In "Evil Eye," we meet Mariana, the young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual. When her husband's brazen first wife visits one night, Mariana learns a terrible secret that could be a harbinger of doom for her marriage and very soul. In "So Near, Anytime, Always," shy teenager Lizbeth meets Desmond, a charming boy who offers this introverted girl the first sparks of young romance. Yet just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press/Grove Atlantic, Inc. 2013
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2022
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2004
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Summary: When a young wife and mother named Zoe Kruller is found brutally murdered, the Sparta police target two primary suspects, her estranged husband, Delray Kruller, and her longtime lover, Eddy Diehl. In turn, the Krullers' son, Aaron, and Eddy Diehl's daughter, Krista, become obsessed with each other, each believing the other's father is guilty until they meet again as adults, ready to exorcise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2009
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Summary: In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes: the "man without a shadow," who will be known, in time, as the most-studied and most famous amnesiac in history. A vicious infection has clouded anything beyond the last seventy seconds just beyond the fog of memory. Over the course of thirty years, the two embark on mirrored journeys of self-discovery: Margot, enthralled by her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016