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...

Zombie is a classic novel of dark obsession from the extraordinary Joyce Carol Oates. A brilliant, unflinching journey into the mind of a serial killer, Zombie views the world through the eyes of Quentin P., newly paroled sex offender, as he chillingly evolves from rapist to mass murderer. Joyce Carol Oates—the prolific author of so many extraordinary bestsellers, including The Gravediggers Daughter, Blonde, and The Falls—demonstrates why she ranks among...

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, ...

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...

This Bram Stoker Award–winning collection is "certain to stick in your mind long after you've turned the last page" ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch).Includes "Big Momma," a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Short StoryHere are six of Joyce Carol Oates's most "frightening—and deeply disturbing—short stories" ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In the titular story, a boy becomes obsessed with his cousin's dol...

"Joyce Carol Oates has written what may be the world’s finest postmodern Gothic novel: E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime set in Dracula’s castle. It’s dense, challenging, problematic, horrifying, funny, prolix and full of crazy people. You should read it.” —Stephen King, New York Times Book ReviewPrinceton, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel town for genteel souls. But something dark an...

**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...

An Oprah Book Club® selectionA New York Times Notable BookThe Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentine’s Day, 1976—an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home—that rends the fabric of their family life...with tragic consequences. Years later, the youngest son attempts to piece together the fragments of the Mulvaneys’ former glory, seeking to uncove...

#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...