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(0)Margaret Atwood
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Now a Hulu Original Series, premiering in April The Handmaids Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans....
Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against man and giant Pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasihuman species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. While their reluctant prophet, Jimmy--Crake's one-time friend--recovers from a debilitating...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A new collection of essays from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments. Short Description / Web 'About this Book' From literary icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of nonfiction-funny, erudite, intimate, impassioned, and always startlingly prescient-which grapples with such wide-ranging topics as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How do we...
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of autobiographical essays, cultural commentaries, book reviews,and personal prose by twentieth-century author Margaret Atwood including her "Letter to America" written after September 11, 2001.
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Set 15 years after events in the Handmaid's tale, the theocratic regime in Gilead is beginning to show signs of rotting from within. At this crucial moment in time, the lives of three women converge. One is from Gilead, the privileged daughter of an important Commander; one is from Canada, where she marches in protests; and one is an enforcer for the regime, a woman whose power comes from secrets. When secrets bring the women together, there are explosive...
Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around--and fast. The Positron...
Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against man and giant Pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasihuman species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. While their reluctant prophet, Jimmy--Crake's one-time friend--recovers from a debilitating...
Author
Series
Angel Catbird volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"On a dark night, young genetic engineer Strig Feleedus is accidentally mutated by his own experiment when his DNA is merged with that of a cat and an owl"--
Author
Publisher
Ekaré
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
Two children rejoice in their home up in a tree, free from parental guidance and earthbound concerns. But when beavers gnaw their ladder into matchsticks, the children aren't sure they want to be quite so alone.
Dos niños viven en lo alto del árbol más alto. Allí comen, duermen, juegan y dan saltos, hasta que un día dos castores roban su escalera y ya no pueden bajar. ¿Y cómo bajamos del árbol? Se preguntan.
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Salamandra
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, ecause in an age of declining births, Offred and...
19) Los testamentos
Author
Series
Publisher
Narrativa Salamandra
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
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Description
En esta brillante secuela de The Maid's Tale, la aclamada autora Margaret Atwood responde las preguntas que han cautivado a los lectores durante décadas. Subo y penetro en la oscuridad del interior; o luz Cuando las puertas de la furgoneta se cerraron de golpe después de Offred al final de The Maid's Tale, los lectores no tenían forma de saber cuál sería su futuro: libertad, prisión o muerte. Con la publicación de Los Testamentos, la espera...
20) Surfacing
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
A meditation on life, nature, marriage, and women in the modern world, a psychological thriller follows a female artist and her lover to a remote island in Quebec, where violence, death, and infidelity lurk below the surface.