Margaret Atwood
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack--who has already killed...
82) Testamenty
Author
Publisher
Wielka Litera
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Polish
Description
"Najgłośniejsza powieść 2019 roku już w Polsce! Margaret Atwood po ponad trzydziestu latach wraca do świata ze swojej najsłynniejszej powieści Opowieść Podręcznej. I to w jakim stylu! Za Testamenty pisarka zdobyła Nagrodę Bookera. Zawsze mówiłam "nie", gdy proszono mnie o napisanie drugiej części. Ale jako że zaczęliśmy zbliżać się do Gileadu, zamiast się od niego oddalać, ponownie to przemyślałam - powiedziała autorka...
83) We: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
In a glass-enclosed city of perfectly straight lines, ruled over by an all-powerful "Benefactor," the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState are regulated by spies and secret police; wear identical clothing; and are distinguished only by a number assigned to them at birth. That is, until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. He can feel things. He can fall in love. And, in doing so, he...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend, but the world's most celebrated female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney prove this wrong, thanks to their investigations into a wealth of surprising collaborations, such as the friendships between George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe or Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. Drawing on letters and diaries,...
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The film explores Atwood's 'backstory,' her early days in the Canadian wilderness and as a poet. Atwood's novels are explored, including her latest, The Testaments, the highly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. Personal stories are shared by friends, family, and, of course, directly by Atwood herself.
88) War Bears
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale, comes this historical fiction graphic novel tracing the Golden Age of Canadian comic books. Collects War Bears issues #1-3.
Oursonette, a fictional Nazi-fighting superheroine, is created at the peak of World War II by comic book creator Al Zurakowski who dreams of making it big in the early world of comics publishing.
A story that follows the early days of comics in Toronto, a brutal...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In Season Five of the Handmaid's Tale, June faces consequences for killing Commander Waterford while struggling to redefine her identity and purpose. The widowed Serena attempts to raise her profile in Toronto as Gilead's influence creeps into Canada. Commander Lawrence works with Nick and Aunt Lydia as he tries to reform Gilead and rise to power. June, Lucke, and Moira fight Gilead from a distance as they continue their mission to save and reunite...
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants, some of whom have barely spoken to each other, become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editor Margaret Atwood, Authors Guild president Douglas...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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...
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale, comes the complete collection of the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel from Margaret Atwood!
Internationally best-selling and respected novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate for one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events!
A genetic engineer caught in the middle of a chemical accident all of a sudden finds himself with...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Morris once again advances an ambitious account of how certain 'brute material forces' limit and help determine the 'culture, values, and beliefs,' including the moral codes, that humans have adopted over the last 20,000 years."--Introduction.
96) Payback
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Fascinating look at debt as a mental construct and traces how it influences relationships, societies and governing structures.
Series
Shout select volume 15
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control: fertility. Forced into a brain-washing boot camp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-elite men and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she's made out well when she's assigned to an eminent party leader. But when she learns that he's sterile, she's faced with an impossible choice:...