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Handmaid's tale volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the...
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English
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"During their senior year of college, Shay Evans and her best friend Laurel escaped from a violent, magnetic man and his equally violent views about women and society. Eight years later, Shay has built a new life for herself. But the horrifying news of Laurel's death shatters her world and makes her suspect that the people from her past are back and more dangerous than ever. Recruiting the help of a true-crime podcast host, Shay is determined to find...
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English
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"Women's rights activist Laura Bates is no stranger to misogynistic attacks online, but over time, the vitriol hinted at something widespread and toxic. Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women as Bates traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spiderweb of groups. Drawing parallels to other extremist movements around the world, Bates shows what attracts men to the movement, how it grooms and radicalizes...
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Handmaid's tale volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • A modern masterpiece that "reminds us of the power of truth in the face of evil” (People)—and can be read on its own or as a sequel to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale.
“Atwood’s powers are on full display” (Los Angeles Times) in this deeply compelling...
“Atwood’s powers are on full display” (Los Angeles Times) in this deeply compelling...
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English
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"An urgent exploration of men's entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl, which Rebecca Traister called "jaw-droppingly brilliant." In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. Ranging widely across the culture, from the Kavanaugh hearings and "Cat Person" to Harvey Weinstein and Elizabeth Warren, Manne shows how...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (520 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Season Four, June strikes back against Gilead as a fierce rebel leader, but the risks she takes bring dangerous new challenges, and her quest for justice and revenge threatens to consume her.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In a dystopic future where a religion-based autocracy rules the country, women are second class citizens and after attempting to escape, June is sentenced to be a handmaid whose role is to bear children for childless government officials.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
xiv, 464 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Argues that the advent of literacy fundamentally rewired the human brain, leading to a dominant left hemisphere--linear, abstract, predominately masculine-- which upset the balance between men and women and led to a long reign of patriarchy and misogyny.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (506 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a dystopic future where a religion-based autocracy rules the country, women are second class citizens and after attempting to escape, June is sentenced to be a handmaid whose role is to bear children for childless government officials.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (659 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a dystopic future where a religion-based autocracy rules the country, women are second class citizens and after attempting to escape, June is sentenced to be a handmaid whose role is to bear children for childless government officials.
13) Los testamentos
Author
Publisher
Narrativa Salamandra
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
In this brilliant sequel to The Maid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have captivated readers for decades. I climb and penetrate the darkness of the interior; or light. When the doors of the van slammed shut after Offred at the end of The Maid's Tale, readers had no way of knowing what their future was going to be: freedom, prison or death. With the publication of The Testaments , the wait is over. Margaret Atwood...
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Español
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"Defred recuerda los años previos a la instauración de Gilead, cuando ella era una mujer independiente con empleo, una familia y un nombre propio. Ahora, sus recuerdos y su voluntad de supervivencia se consideran actos de rebelión" -- Page 4 of cover.
"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. Stripped of her most basic freedoms (work, property,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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Elizabeth Zott es madre soltera y renuente estrella del programa de cocina de television mas seguido de Estados Unidos. El enfoque inusual de Elizabeth para cocinar, combinar una cucharada deacido acetico con una pizca de cloruro de sodio, resulta revolucionario. Sin embargo, a medida que suexito aumenta lo hacen tambien sus enemigos, porque Elizabeth no solo este ensenando a las mujeres a cocinar sino tambien desafiandolas a alterar el orden establecido....
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
163 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After quitting her job to care for her infant daughter, strange symptoms begin to appear: Jiyoung begins to impersonate the voices of other women, dead and alive. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her concerned husband sends her to a psychiatrist. But can her doctor cure her, or even discover what truly ails her?"--Back of book.
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