Margaret Atwood
81) In Other Worlds
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's TaleAt a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction," a relationship that has...
82) Bodily harm
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" ... Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm is ultimately an exploration of the lust for power, both sexual and political, and the need...
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A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.
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The Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning drama series returns with a second season shaped by Offred's pregnancy and her ongoing fight to free her future child from the dystopian horrors of Gilead. In season two, Offred and all our characters will fight against or succumb to this dark truth.
87) Los testamentos
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En esta brillante secuela de The Maid's Tale, la aclamada autora Margaret Atwood responde las preguntas que han cautivado a los lectores durante decadas. Subo y penetro en la oscuridad del interior; o luz Cuando las puertas de la furgoneta se cerraron de golpe despues de Offred al final de The Maid's Tale, los lectores no tenian forma de saber cual seria su futuro: libertad, prision o muerte. Con la publicacion de Los Testamentos, la espera ha terminado....
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Handmaid June finds herself once again in resistance to the dystopian regime of Gilead after opting not to flee to Canada with her baby at the end of the second season. Now, she will struggle to strike back against the regime despite overwhelming odds. This season there are startling reunions, betrayals and a journey to the terrifying heart of Gilead that will force all of the characters to take a stand, guided by one defiant prayer: Blessed be the...
89) La Odisea
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"Cuidada edición ilustrada, tomando la adaptación favorita de Jorge Luis Borges y que incluye, además, una versión de la historia de Margaret Atwood Todos conocemos la historia de la «Odisea», aunque no la hayamos leído. Está en canciones, en novelas, en poemas, en cuadros, en chistes. Blackie Books arranca su colección «Clásicos Liberados» con la historia de todas las historias occidentales, dando voz tanto a Nick Cave como a Mary Beard...
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"Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris, author of the best-selling Why the West Rules--for Now, explains why. The result is a compelling new argument about the evolution of human values,...
94) The edible woman
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A humorous, ironic, disturbing, and parabolic novel features a woman who, after her engagement to be wed, first loses her appetite and then becomes obsessed with the idea that she herself is being eaten.
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"Świat, który stał się piekłem dla kobiet. Freda jest Podrczn w Republice Gilead. Może opuszczać dom swojego Komendanta i jego Żony tylko raz dziennie, aby pójść na targ, gdzie wszystkie napisy zostały zastpione przez obrazki, bo Podrcznym już nie wolno czytać. Co miesic musi pokornie leżeć i modlić si, aby jej zarzdca j zapłodnił, bo w czasach malejcego przyrostu naturalnego tylko ciżarne Podrczne maj jakś wartość. Ale Freda...
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Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...
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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.
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.