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In this collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if wed made different choices. 'The (Other) You' is an incisive vision into these alternative realitie...
Dolls, puppets, and other human simulacra are objects of fear and wonder in this eclectic anthology of 17 original stories that Ellen Datlow selected for their ability to "mine the uncanniness of dolls for all its worth....
Mudgirl is a child abandoned in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate--or destiny. After her rescue, the well-meaning couple who adopt Mudgirl quarantine her poisonous history ...
After a lynching in a nearby town is covered up, a horrifying chain of events begins to happen in early twentieth-century Princeton, New Jersey.
A gripping and moving new collection of stories that reimagines the meaning of loss-- through often unexpected and violent means.
Thirty-one-year-old reporter Nikki, the black sheep of the Eaton family who rejects their middle class lifestyle, is uncharacteristically affected when her widowed mother is murdered. During the following year Nikki reas...
The Mulvaneys live an idyllic life on their family farm. Then their world is shattered on Valentine's Day in 1976, when daughter Marianne is raped while drinking with a high school classmate. After that, everything comes...
A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)--an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the p...
Foxfire chronicles the life of five unforgettably real teenage girls in upstate New York in the 1950s. This controversial, topical tale captures the exhilaration of conspiracy, the blaze of youth, and the inevitable end ...
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 h...
This is the story of missing my mother. One day, in a way unique to you, it will be your story, too. So begins "Missing mom", Joyce Carol Oates personal and candid new novel. Nikki Eaton, a single, 31-year-old, sexually ...
Joshua Seigi is a celebrated but reclusive author. Young but in failing health, he reluctantly admits that he can no longer live alone and launches a search for an assistant. He is dissatisfied with everyone he meets unt...
Fifteen years after the mysterious death of Minette Swift, an assertive 19-year-old black girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive, mostly white liberal arts college near Philadelphia, her former roommate, ...
In "The man who fought Roland LaStarza" a woman's world is upended when she learns the brutal truth about a family friend's death--and what her father is capable of. Meanwhile, a businessman desperate to find his missing...
"It is 1950, and after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the oblivion of Niagra Falls. "The Widow Bride of the Falls," as Ariah comes to be known, begins a relentless, seven-...
I'll take you there is a deeply personal portrait of a young woman becoming a writer, with Spinoza as her Muse. With its deftly crafted philosophical meditations on love, death, identity, and the physical body, I'll take...