Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Author
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Set in a future society that has reverted to, and gone beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans, this story is told through the eyes of Offred, a so-called handmaid. While her job as a surrogate mother to a sterile marriage conveys an elevated status, she longs to escape.
2) Surfacing
Author
Description
A story of a woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in morthern Quebec.
4) Cat's eye
Author
Pub. Date
1998, c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Painter Elaine Risley's return to Toronto, the city of her youth, evokes a flood of memories and allows her at long last to reconcile with her past.
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Snowman tries to piece together what has taken place; mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. In a world in which science-based corporations have recently taken mankind on an uncontrolled genetic-engineering ride, he now searches for supplies in a wasteland.
Author
Pub. Date
c1979
Description
"Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in mid-crisis, forced to make choices--after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man. She has just lost her latest lover to suicide. Nate, her gentle, indecisive husband, is planning to leave her for Lesje, a perennial innocent who prefers dinosaurs to men. Hanging over them all is...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Technological advancement, economic development, population increase - are they signs of a thriving society, or too much of a good thing? Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, 'Surviving Progress' is a provocative documentary that explores the concept of progress in the modern world, guiding through the major 'progress traps' facing civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption, and the environment.
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