Oates: 225 books

At the age of 3, Wilma was stricken with scarlet fever and it left her with impaired hearing. In spite of her handicap this spunky farm girl met the challenges of life head-on. She completed grade 10 and then worked as a nurse’s aid before her marriage.  This book tells of the joys and triumphs...

The real-life murder mysteries that rocked London between two world wars—from the author of Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London. Unsolved crimes have a special fascination, none more so than unsolved murders. The shock of the crime itself and the mystery surrounding it, the...

55 Stories to benefit Protect, the political lobby of the National Association to Protect Children, whose victories include the Circle of Trust act and the HERO Corps, which hires wounded veterans to assist law enforcement in hunting online predators.  Contributors include Andrew Vachss, Joyce...

James Mitchum Oates was born in Chicago, IL. with a clean slate. But what was the beginning seemed like the end as James was diagnosed with severe asthma as a baby. He survives. Shortly after leaving the hospital to be with his family, he is bombarded with many hardships. He and his family move to...

In this disturbing short story collection, Joyce Carol Oates explores the inner lives of vulnerable girls and women. Joyce Carol Oates is renowned for her rare ability to “illuminate the mind’s most disturbing corners” (The Seattle Times). That genius is on full display in this collection...

An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates “Time travel” — and its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl...

An exquisite, psychologically complex thriller about opposing forces within the mind of one ambitious writer and the delicate line between genius and madness. Andrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of critical and commercial success most authors only dream about: He has a top agent and publisher...

An Otto Penzler Book The need for love—obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable—takes us to forbidden places, as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, a new collection of stories by the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates. In the suspenseful “Strip Poker,” a reckless adolescent...

“A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters.” —Denver Post 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,...

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 suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America’s affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s,...

An engrossing early novel from Joyce Carol Oates’s earlier novels explores a fraught and perilous relationship between two women Originally published in 1985, Solstice is the gripping story of Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask, two young women who are complete opposites yet find themselves...

El señor de las muñecas y otros cuentos de terror es una excepcional colección de relatos que nos atrapa desde la primera página. Historias que nos hacen vivir en medio de emociones intensas y a veces contradictorias, pero siempre con la sospecha de que lo que sucede entre los personajes, no es...

En su última colección de relatos, Joyce Carol Oates ahonda en las vidas de niñas y mujeres vulnerables: unas se convierten en víctimas, mientras otras se ven incitadas, por un profundo malestar emocional, a cometer actos violentos contra los demás. En Desmembrado, el relato que da título al...

Una novela emblemática de Joyce Carol Oates, la eterna candidata al Premio Nobel. América, años cincuenta. Las familias se resquebrajan y empiezan a surgir las pandillas de adolescentes y la delincuencia. Un grupo de chicas quiere acabar con el machismo que las somete. Las integrantes de...