Frank Oates emerges as a gifted, restless naturalist whose life was shaped by birds, travel, and an unquenchable desire to know the world firsthand. From his Oxford years, where sport, outdoor adventure, and scholarly friendships mingled with bouts of illness and overwork, to his long recovery, American travels, and devotion to collecting specimens, the book traces the making of a man whose curiosity rarely stayed within bounds. The volume brings together his letters, journals, maps, field...

A peaceful home is not created by chasing perfection. It comes from building simple systems that make everyday life easier, calmer, and more comfortable. The Peaceful Home Method: Simple Organization for a Calm and Comfortable Life explores a practical approach to organizing that focuses on realistic routines, thoughtful spaces, and manageable habits rather than rigid rules or picture-perfect rooms.From reducing clutter and simplifying storage to creating calmer kitchens, ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “enthralling” (Los Angeles Times) and “remarkably engrossing” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school—by legendary author Joyce Carol OatesThis edition contains “The Frenzy,” the title story from Joyce Carol Oates’s new short story collection.“E...

Roland Marks is a Nobel Prize winning novelist with a penchant for younger women and four marriages behind him. Lou-Lou Marks, his grown daughter, is a successful academic in her own right. But her real career lies in attending to her father. An egomaniacal and emotionally manipulative man, he demands of her absolute filial loyalty and an uncompromising acquiescence to his every need—her only reward is his approval, which she feels she never fully receives, but desperately desires. When Ro...

“Timely, monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are to have her as a novelist in our chaotic, confusing times. Night is spot on for these times of racial divide, as well as in portraying the fractious family dynamic that many of us know all too well. . . . Night deserves the top spot on your quarantine nightstand. Here...

The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn MonroeNow a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne NicholsonIn one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child, the woman, the fated celebrity, and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice...

‘A page-turner … nothing less than magical’ Observer ‘An extraordinary slice of suburban noir’ Daily MailFrom one of America’s most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a background of child abductions in the affluent suburbs of Detroit.In the waning days of the turbulent 1970s, in the wake of unsolved killings that have shocked Detroit, the lives of several residents are drawn togethe...

**A gripping collection of propulsive, psychologically suspenseful stories by the legendary Joyce Carol Oates “who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers” (The New York Times Magazine)“A genius in the truest sense of the word.”—Rebecca Makkai“One of the greatest writers among us today.”—Gillian Flynn**“Haunting . . . masterfully orchestrated . . . Oates’s best work is simmering and remorseless.”—Vogue

The Year's Best Crime & Mystery Stories contains the best crime and mystery stories that were originally published in 2015 in either print or electronic format as selected by editors Kristine Kathryn Rusch and John Helfers.Reading through thousands of titles and carefully narrowing their favorite reads down to the ultimate list that is presented in this volume, the editors chose their top picks of notable works from hundreds of anthologie...

‘Chilling’ FINANCIAL TIMES‘Tom Ripley, eat your heart out’ NPR‘Eerie, shocking, provoking’ GILLIAN FLYNNA chilling, captivating novel about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charming, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school.Who is Francis Fox?A charismatic, young English teacher joins an elite New Jersey boa...

#1 Bestselling Author—A reclusive author in ill health is forced to hire a live-in assistant with a mysterious past in this thrilling novel."Dark, suspenseful, and trance-like. . . . [Oates's] novel dances the line between the rational and the mythical. . . . [It] has all the complex symmetry of a Gothic cathedral." — OregonianCelebrated author Joshua Seigl, an idiosyncratic bachelor and confirmed recluse—young but...

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 dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America — “Wainscotia, Wisconsin”—that existed eighty y...