Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Handmaid's 2018Dalcher, Christina
Summary: On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her. This is just the beginning. Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words each day,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sundance's triple award-winning film is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije, who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. To provide for her struggling family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business selling a local food...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HIVSummary: Examines "hyper-masculinity" as a destructive force in the personal development and socialization of boys and young men. Discusses the roles of popular culture and peer pressure in influencing boys to adopt a masculine pose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MASAtwood, Margaret
Summary: "More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ATWHendrix, M
Summary: "Girls in New America must have a chaperone with them at all times . Because of this, Stella is never alone. She can't go out by herself or learn about the world. She can't even spend time with boys except at formal Visitations. Still, Stella feels lucky that her chaperone, Sister Helen, is like a friend to her. And then the unthinkable happens. Sister Helen dies suddenly, and Stella feels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2023
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Summary: "Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, 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 absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ATWAtwood, Margaret
Summary: This sequel to The Handmaid's Tale picks up the story fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ATWSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ha 3Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ha 1Atwood, Margaret
Summary: Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order whose function is to breed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ATWDalcher, Christina
Summary: On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her. This is just the beginning. Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words each day,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dalcher 2018Winstead, Ashley
Summary: Eight years ago, Shay Evans and her friend escaped a cult. Now, as she searches for answers to her friend's death, Shay is consumed by her obsession to uncover the truth, and by darker desires newly reawakened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction WinsteadEltahawy, Mona
Summary: "Drawing on her years as a campaigner and commentator on women's issues in the Middle East, [Eltahawy] explains that since the Arab Spring began, women in the Arab world have had two revolutions to undertake: one fought with men against oppressive regimes, and another fought against an entire political and economic system that treats women in countries from Yemen and Saudi Arabia to Egypt,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 ELTLesser, Elizabeth
Summary: "In her new book, bestselling author Elizabeth Lesser looks to the stories told about women over the ages and how they contribute to persistent misogyny and gender inequality, and offers a path towards framing new stories that honor all people"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 LESHechinger, John (John Edward)
Summary: "College fraternity culture has never been more embattled. Once a mainstay of campus life, fraternities are now subject to withering criticism for reinforcing white male privilege and undermining the lasting social and economic value of a college education. No fraternity embodies this problem more than Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a national organization with more than 15,000 undergraduate brothers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.8 HECManne, Kate
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 MANToews, Miriam
Summary: One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Toews 2019Zimmerman, Jess
Summary: "This essay collection uses female monsters from Greek mythology to explore traits that women are taught to suppress, and encourage readers to embrace them instead"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.3 ZIMSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2023
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Summary: Offred, a handmaid, describes life in what was once the United States, now the Republic of Gilead, a shockingly repressive and intolerant monotheocracy, in a satirical tour de force set in the near future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1986
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Atwood 1986Atwood, Margaret
Summary: Margaret Atwood presents a chilling dystopic novel set in the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, after a radical theocratic revolution. In a time of declining birthrates, fertile women are dispersed to high-ranking white men as baby-making handmaids. If a handmaid cannot reproduce, she is exiled to the Colonies, an uber-polluted wasteland. One of these handmaids, Offred, not only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penzler Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGLeser, David
Summary: In Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing, author David Leser presents an essential and incisive investigation, unearthing the roots of misogyny, its inextricable links to the patriarchy, and how history brought us to the #MeToo movement and the wave of incandescent female rage that is sweeping the world. his book calls on men (yes, all men) to be accountable for their contribution to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021