Margaret Atwood
1) Alias Grace
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Language
English
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Description
Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Atwood's best-loved novel has taken the world by storm again. Riding high on bestseller lists for months and the basis for Hulu's Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning smash hit series, The Handmaid's Tale is everywhere--and it's primed for a stunning new graphic novel adaptation. The story is iconic: In the Republic of Gilead, a Handmaid named Offred lives in the home of the Commander, to the purpose that she become pregnant with his child....
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 get rid of the immense amount of plastic that's littering our seas and lands? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? Is science fiction now writing us? So what...
4) Bodily harm
Author
Language
English
Description
Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee, Paul, offers her a no-hooks, no-strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption.
Author
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
vii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Nineteen stories on the battle of the sexes. Included are Gertrude Talks Back, a monologue by Hamlet's mother, The Little Red Hen Tells All, which is on male chauvinism, and Happy Endings, a series of scenarios for finding love.
6) The tent
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
xi, 158 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of short observations, essays, poems and prose pieces.
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Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt, exploring debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
67 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In these stories, Ramsay runs away from relatives, Bob is raised by dogs and Dorinda does housework for distant relatives, and Wenda and her woodchuck companion need to find a way to outsmart Widow Wallop.
13) The door
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
120 pages ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
The first anthology of poetry in more than a decade from the renowned author of The Handmaid's Tale features fifty richly varied poems that range in tone and subject matter, from the personal to the political, and from the lyric and ironic to meditative and prophetic, as they explore the writing of poetry itself, the passage of time, mortality, and more.
14) Life before man
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Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
While married couple Elizabeth and Nate are both having affairs, their adolescent daughters become pawns in the ongoing drama.