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Handmaid's Tale
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In this futuristic fantasy, the Republic of Gilead--formerly the United States--is a fundamentalist regime that has reduced women to a state of servitude and suppressed all civil rights. The protagonist, a woman called Offred, becomes the Handmaid of the Commander, expected to bear him a child in exchange for her freedom. Old enough to remember ...
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Alias Grace
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Margaret Atwood writes about a notorious Canadian murder case of the 1840s in this historical novel. She takes the facts of the Grace Marks case and uses them to delve into the psyche of the convicted murderer and the social milieu that she lived in. The stations of women, immigrants, and the poor are examined in detail through the psychological ...
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Oryx and Crake
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In Margaret Atwood's 11th novel, she returns to the sci-fi concerns and social criticism that propelled THE HANDMAID'S TALE. ORYX AND CRAKE follows the fortunes of a man once named Jimmy, now called Snowman: his present-day life as a scavenger in a blasted world alternates with his memories of his past. The eponymous Oryx is an Asian girl he ...
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Blind assassin
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In her 10th novel, Margaret Atwood creates an elderly woman named Iris Griffen, who looks back on her life life of privilege and wealth in Ontario, Canada. Alongside Iris's story, we read a bizarrely futuristic novel about obsession, written by her sister Laura, who seems to have committed suicide in 1945. The two stories are enhanced by newspaper ...
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Cat's Eye
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Margaret Atwood
The contemporary story of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life. Returning to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art, controversial painter Elaine Risley is engulfed by vivid images of the past. Strongest of all is the figure of Cordelia, leader of the trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics ...
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Life Before Man
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Margaret Atwood
In this satirical novel of romance and discontent, Elizabeth is an unhappily married woman whose lover has recently killed himself. Unbeknownst to her, her apparently ineffectual husband, Nate, has found the resolve to leave her and run off with Lesje, his paleontologist mistress. Running wordlessly through everyone's consciousness is the ghost of ...
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Robber Bride
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Margaret Atwood
Atwood's novel is about Zenia, a ruthless master manipulator, and the wounds she has inflicted--by stealing their men--on three other women: Tony, a scholar; Charis, an aging flower child; and Roz, a business executive.
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Surfacing
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Margaret Atwood
In this psychological thriller, a young woman goes in search of her missing father on a distant island in northern Quebec. Traveling with her boyfriend and a married couple, she finds the isolation of the region unsettling in the extreme and soon begins to question the point not merely of their trip, but of her very life.
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Edible Woman
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Margaret Atwood
Ever since her engagement, Marian McAlpin can't eat: first meat, then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seeds--anything! Worse yet, she has the crazy feeling that she's being eaten herself. Instead of feeling consumed with passion, Marian simply feels consumed. This comic novel is a pointed satire of modern relationships.
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The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
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Margaret Atwood
Telling the story of Homer's "Odyssey" from the point of view of Penelope and her 12 hanged maids, the bestselling author of "Oryx and Crake" draws on Greek mythology for Volume 2 in the Myths series.
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Diviners
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In Margaret Laurence's novel THE DIVINERS, Morag Gunn, unlike Laurence's other protagonists, has come to Manawaka from elsewhere. The story is a chronicle of Morag's coming of age and increase in maturity. And, although Morag leaves Manawaka, it is quite clear that she cannot shake off its influence on her.
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Lady Oracle
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Margaret Atwood
Joan Foster, a secret writer of Gothic romances, is suddenly thrust into the limelight when her outrageously feminist book, LADY ORACLE, becomes a bestseller. In a daring move to escape her past, Joan fakes her own death and begins a new life.
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Wilderness Tips
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Margaret Atwood
A series of stories whose shared themes of loss, discovery, and connections with others bind them together as a unified whole. The settings, mostly urban, include a newspaper office, a 1950s coffeehouse, and menacing, wild landscapes. The discoveries at an archeological dig have echoes in a contemporary love affair; sexual frustrations and class ...
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Moral Disorder and Other Stories
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Margaret Atwood
In these ten interrelated stories, Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it. By turns funny, tragic, earthy, and deeply personal, "Moral Disorder" displays Atwoods celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage.
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Bodily Harm
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's deeply unsettling psychological novel portrays the disorientation of Rennie Wilford, a young Canadian journalist who suffers a nervous breakdown and travels to the tiny Caribbean island of St. Antoine to recuperate. There, in a world that is as foreign to her as outer space, she begins to wonder if the cure is not worse than the ...
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She: A History of Adventure
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Sir H Rider Haggard
The first novel in a series about Ayesha, or She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, an immortal queen who lives in, and rules, the lost city of Kor. When two explorers, Professor Holly and his companion, Leo Vincey, stumble onto the city, Ayesha suspects that Vincey is the reincarnation of her long long love and tries to grant him immortality.
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Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories
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Margaret Atwood
A collection of Margaret Atwood's short stories, in most of which the plot revolves around contrasts the characters' inner and outer worlds.
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Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
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Owen Beattie, John Geiger
This new edition of "Frozen in Time" expands on the history of early British Arctic exploration and places the tragically fated Franklin expedition in the context of other expeditions of the era, including those commanded by George Back and James Clark Ross, which also suffered unaccountable and devastating losses. The authors' research reveals an ...
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Morning in the Burned House
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Margaret Atwood
Atwood's 12th collection of poetry includes a series about the death of her father as well as several satirical poems about the relationships between the sexes--the kind of poetry for which Atwood has been acclaimed.
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Good Bones and Simple Murders
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Margaret Atwood
This selection of Margaret Atwood's short works--including prose poems, fractured fairy tales, and outrageous little stories--has been illustrated by the versatile author.
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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
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Margaret Atwood
The six pieces in this book are derived from the Empson Lectures delivered by Margaret Atwood at Cambridge University in 2000, in which the author considers such writerly problems as money, bad reviews, and media hype.
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Dancing Girls & Other Stories
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Margaret Atwood
Fourteen stories, many of them full of Atwood's characteristic satirical humor, and many of them about the difficulties men and women encounter when they try to communicate.
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The Tent
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Margaret Atwood
Atwood is one of the world's most esteemed authors, a writer of wide range--novels, stories, essays, criticism. She now brings readers a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays punctuated with her own wonderful illustrations.
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The Book Group Book: A Thoughtful Guide to Forming and Enjoying a Stimulating Book Discussion Group
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Ellen Slezak (Editor), Margaret Atwood (Foreword by)
Seventeen new essays and 37 new book lists have been added to this classic primer on book groups. Here is everything any book lover needs to know about forming and enjoying a successful book discussion group. Forty-six essays describe how individual groups are organized and portray their strengths, weaknesses, and unique characters. Special ...
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Bluebeard's Egg
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Margaret Atwood
A collection of Margaret Atwood's early short stories, many of which focus on power struggles between men and women.
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