Atwood, Margaret
Summary: Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto, Italy. In this remarkable, poetic, and magical novel, Margaret Atwood proves yet again why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1998
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATWSummary: Stories about women for women. The collection is divided into such categories as Initiation and Righteous Rage. The stories range from rape and murder, to women using brains and guile to have their way with men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022