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SF WATER
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Emma wakes in a hospital, with no memory of what came before. Her husband, Declan, a powerful, seductive man, provides her with new memories, but her dreams contradict his stories, showing her a past life she can't believe possible: memories of war, of a camp where girls are trained to be wives, of love for another man. Something inside her tells her not to speak of this, but she does not know why. She only knows she is at war with herself. Suppressing...
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Road to Nowhere volume 1
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Central - Adult Science Fiction 1 available
SF ELISO
Westover - Adult Science Fiction 1 available
SF ELISO
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SF ELISO
Westover - Adult Science Fiction 1 available
SF ELISO
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When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population-killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant-the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power-and the strong who possess it. A few women like her...
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"The year is 2021, and the human race is - quite literally - coming to an end. Since 1995 no babies have been born, because in that year all males unexpectedly became infertile. Great Britain is ruled by a dictator, and the population is inexorably growing older. Theodore Faron, Oxford historian and, incidentally, cousin of the all-powerful Warden of England, watches in growing despair as society gradually crumbles around him, giving way to strange...
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F ERDRI
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available
F ERDRI
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F ERDRI
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First edition.
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Central - Adult Fiction 3 available
F ERDRI
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available
F ERDRI
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F ERDRI
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Unabridged.
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A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows pregnant thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species.
Evolution has reversed itself: woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. For Cedar Hawk Songmaker, this change is profound and deeply personal:...
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Handmaid's tale volume 1
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First Anchor Books edition.
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Central - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
CD F ATWOO
Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
CD F ATWOO
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Unabridged.
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Central - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
CD F ATWOO
Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
CD F ATWOO
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5 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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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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F JILES
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F JILES
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First edition.
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F JILES
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F JILES
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In the coming centuries the world's population has exploded. The earth is crowded with cities, animals are nearly all extinct, and drought is so widespread that water is rationed. There are no maps, no borders, no numbered years, and no freedom, except for an elite few. It is a harsh world for an orphan like Nadia Stepan. Growing up, she dreams of a green vacation spot called Lighthouse Island, in a place called the Pacific Northwest.
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Parable books volume 1
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A New York Times Notable Book: In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.
"A stunner." —Flea, musician and actor, TheWall Street Journal
Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren's father, a preacher, and...
"A stunner." —Flea, musician and actor, TheWall Street Journal
Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren's father, a preacher, and...
8) The Power
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¿Y si el poder estuviera literalmente en manos de las mujeres?
Una novela de ciencia ficción feminista seleccionada como libro del año por The Guardian.
Una niña en la América profunda escapa de un padre maltratador.
Un chico en Nigeria filma a una mujer que está siendo atacada en un supermercado.
La hija de un criminal del este de Londres ve cómo su madre es asesinada.
Una
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F ZUMAS
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F ZUMAS
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F ZUMAS
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First edition.
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Central - Adult Fiction 2 available
F ZUMAS
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available
F ZUMAS
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F ZUMAS
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In 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.
Five women. One question. What is a woman for?
In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom. Ro, a single high-school...
Five women. One question. What is a woman for?
In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom. Ro, a single high-school...
10) The testaments
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Handmaid's tale volume 2
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F ATWOO
Aurora Hills - Recently Returned 1 available
F ATWOO
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F ATWOO
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First edition.
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available
F ATWOO
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F ATWOO
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F ATWOO
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4 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown,...
11) Vox
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F DALCH
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F DALCH
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F DALCH
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F DALCH
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F DALCH
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F DALCH
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Large print edition.
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LT F DALCH
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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, but now women have only one hundred to make themselves...
12) When she woke
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F JORDA
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F JORDA
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First edition.
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available
F JORDA
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F JORDA
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Unabridged.
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"When She Woke" is a fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of the not-too-distant future. Hannah unknowingly embarks on a path of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith.
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F TOEWS
Central - Adult Fiction 2 available
F TOEWS
Central - Recently Returned 1 available
F TOEWS
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F TOEWS
Central - Adult Fiction 2 available
F TOEWS
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F TOEWS
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The internationally bestselling novel based on real events. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, and Ben Whishaw, directed by Sarah Polley.
"This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale." —Margaret Atwood, on Twitter
"Scorching . . . Women Talking is a...
"This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale." —Margaret Atwood, on Twitter
"Scorching . . . Women Talking is a...