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Oates, Joyce Carol

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAT

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: Presents a collection of stories that explores the musings of a writer, a prisoner, a student, and others who consider how their lives might have unfolded differently had they made different choices.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAT

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: Presents nine 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 1940smagazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2021

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAT

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: "A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife; a young mother finds herself captivated by her own motherhood. In the collection's longest story, a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAT

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAT

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: "A collection of psychologically daring, suspenseful stories"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OAT

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: "These new, recent, and reformulated stories by Joyce Carol Oates, collected here for the first time, showcase a wide range of crime fiction and psychological suspense. A young, insecure woman finds her relationship changing as she grows more and more dependent on a man who likes to take her on long walks beside a dangerously roaring creek. Another woman, nervous around men, not quite knowing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC OAT

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: A collection of eight original stories tests the bonds between damaged people, showing how full--and how devoid--of humanity individuals can be.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction SC Oates 2014

Oates, Joyce Carol

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC OAT

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAT

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: A volume of six stories and novellas by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indiscretions, a too-obvious schoolteacher and an older student with a fascination for a Native American legend.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction SC Oates 2011

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: Six terrifying tales to chill the blood from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But as he grows older, his passion takes on a darker edge ... A white man shoots dead a black boy creating a media frenzy. But could it be that it was self-defense as he claims? A nervous woman tries to escape her husband. He says he loves her, but...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction SC Oates 2016

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: An anthology of short fiction selected by the author herself features selections from "The Wheel of Love," "Marriages and Infidelities," and "Heat," as well as nine previously unpublished works.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAT

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: In this work the author offers a collection of 11 previously uncollected stories, including a title piece that tracks the friendship between Elizabeth Short, famously known as the Black Dahlia, the victim of a markedly brutal murder in 1940s Los Angeles that remains unsolved, and her roommate, Norma Jeane Baker who became Marilyn Monroe.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Oates 2012

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: "Joyce Carol Oates is renowned for her rare ability to "illuminate the mind's most disturbing corners" (Seattle Times). That genius is on full display in her new collection of seven feverishly unsettling works, DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense. In the title story, a precocious eleven-year-old named Jill is in thrall to an older male relative, the mysterious, attractive...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Oates 2017

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: "The book opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper's Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters theminds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Oates 2018

Summary: A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BES

Summary: A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson. Chilling, human, poignant and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and readers. This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, will bring together today's leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHE

Summary: Joyce Carol Oates, a queenpin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the curation of an outstanding anthology of brand-new top-shelf short stories (and poems by Margaret Atwood!). While bad men are not always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy listeners who are sick and tired of the gendered status quo, or who just want to have a little...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CUT

Summary: A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BES

Summary: "Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller Lee Child has selected the twenty most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume."--Amazon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press, an imprint of Penzler Publishers 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BES

Summary: "These are stories that resonate with authenticity and verve and pain and truth."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRI

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