Feel like the world is off kilter? These women can relate! Speculative fiction written by or about women. Perfect for the adventurous reader with a dark side.
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The Farm: A Novel
Joanne Ramos - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Life is a lucrative business, as long as you play by the rules. "[Joanne] Ramos's debut novel couldn't be more relevant or timely." - O: The Oprah Magazine (25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019) Nestled... |
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Gather the Daughters: A Novel
JENNIE MELAMED - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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NEVER LET ME GO meets THE GIVER in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.A New York Magazine best book of the monthA Real Simple best book of the monthPeople Magazine's Book of the WeekYears ago, just before the country was incinerated... |
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Red Clocks: A Novel
LENI ZUMAS - Lee Boudreaux Books
Format: Hardcover
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Five women. One question. What is a woman forIn this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five... |
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood - Houghton Mifflin Company
Format: Print book
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"Splendid."NEWSWEEKIt is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued... |
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When She Woke
Hillary Jordan - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Bellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan's provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned... |
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The Testaments: A Novel
Margaret Atwood - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEMargaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic - and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale,... |
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Who Fears Death
Nnedi Okorafor - DAW
Format: Hardcover
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Read Nnedi Okorafor's posts on the Penguin Blog. An award-winning literary author presents her first foray into supernatural fantasy with a novel of post- apocalyptic Africa. In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided... |
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Inc.
Format: eBook
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Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. . . . In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts... |
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Station Eleven
Emily St John Mandel - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Pub Date: 2014-09-09 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group An audacious. darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilizations collapse. Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star. his would-be savior . and a nomadic group of actors... |
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Find Me: A Novel
Laura van den Berg - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us Find Me, her highly anticipated debut novel--a gripping, imaginative, darkly funny tale of a young woman struggling to find her place in the world. Joy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery... |
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The Book of Joan: A Novel
Lidia Yuknavitch - HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Format: Book
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In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet's now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution... |
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Future Home of the Living God: A Novel
LOUISE ERDRICH - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.The world... |
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