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Product: The Testaments: A Novel
Description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • A modern masterpiece that "reminds us of the power of truth in the face of evil” (People)—and can be read on its own or as a sequel to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale.

“Atwood’s powers are on full display” (Los Angeles Times) in this deeply compelling Booker Prize-winning novel, now updated with additional content that explores the historical sources, ideas, and material that inspired Atwood.

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. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways.

With The Testaments, Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost workings of Gilead, as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.
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Product: La Bombe: The Others, Third Scroll. Is 7 a Villanelle Venus or mentally ill? Killing Eve meets Twilight & Sally Rooney. Noir woman thriller fiction with supernatural suspense, lesbian romance, satire
Description: Dark humour pacy and racy women-at-MI6 thriller series ◆ #1 Best Seller ◆ Killing Eve meets The Night Circus with a dash of Stephen King ◆ New Irish author ◆ Offbeat and zany thought-provoking writing ◆ Third Scroll of Raechel Sands' dangerous love web between women spies, and the women and men who pursue them. “At twenty-six, Kitty thought she had her whole life ahead of her. ‘Not so tough now, are you?’ C said to her corpse. ‘Dead women don’t talk, Kitty White. It’s really nothing like James Bond’.” ‘Wild and haunting,’ ‘captivating and compelling.’

“Cleverly blends noir, satire, lesfic, epic, and Dan Brown-style religious mystery."
"Edge-of-your-seat sequels each more stunning than the last."
“Great female action adventure!"
“Kurt Vonnegut meets Raymond Chandler meets Killing Eve." (Cambridge News)
"Listening to this book was one of the strangest and most fun experiences I’ve had."
“Serial killer 7 aka La Bombe, a reincarnated Josef Mengele, is a riveting villain."
“Whirlwind rollercoaster of twists and double crosses.”
"Wacky and compelling. I read the three books one after another."

" The older Venus AI cupped snow into her gloved hand—as she’d done the day they met—and fed it into Helen’s mouth. “Eat me,” she said. "

" Blanka was haunted by the death of her mother. Waking and sleeping, the vision of a woman plummeting from a castle window into a river consumed her. It was her mother falling from Castle Sant-Angelo—the Vatican Holy Inquisition Headquarters in Rome—into the River Tiber. Then, always, the dream voices chimed in.
"The daughter of Admiral William Virgil Maguire thrown in that filthy river like so much stinking garbage," a man's voice said. "Who killed Kitty, John? MI6?" The voice was Bill Clinton, the President at the time. In the dream, Blanka was clinging to her mother bobbing up and down in the river, but her mind was far away, trapped by the voices in her head.
"It wasn't us," said another man, "but it's complicated."
Blanka recognized him as John Deutch, Director of CIA Langley. He kept talking, muttering. "It could've been the Fatima Secret, we're not sure. We don't really know how big it was.
"She is my mother and she's fucking dead!" she screamed at the voices.
"She took it to her grave," Clinton said.
Then the voices fell silent, and Blanka was in the muddy water with Kitty, desperately struggling to save her.
"I won't let you die, I won't let you die," she kept repeating. She was holding her, felt the cold of her wet blue dress over her swollen pregnant belly, saw the garrote wound round her neck.
"Venus is our program. Drox and Hart are good guys," Deutch's voice continued.
"Frankenstein was one of the good guys, replied Clinton. It's the monsters I'm worried about." "

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Product: Recruitment: A Dystopian Novel (The Resistance Trilogy Book 1)
Description: In the Valta, no matter what month you were born, everyone is assigned the same birthday. November 1st. It's the anniversary of the day when the government declared war on the Eastern Order.
The day you turn seventeen, the Recruiters come to take you away. And no one ever hears from you again.
It's October 31st. Today, Kress is sixteen years old.
Tomorrow, she'll be taken.
The good news? So will her best friend Cardyn, and Brohn, the handsome, enigmatic boy she's avoided all her life.
The bad news?
Recruitment isn't what any of them expected.
Weeks of training await. Military and psychological tests, escape rooms, hand-to-hand combat. The Recruits are told they're the key to winning the war. But with each day that passes, things begin to make less sense.
If only Kress had been able to bring her trained raven, Render, with her.
If only none of them had ever had to come to this place.
For fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent.
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Product: The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel): A Novel
Description: The stunning graphic novel adaptation • A must-read and collector’s item for fans of “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times).

Look for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, available now.

In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive.
Provocative, startling, prophetic, The Handmaid’s Tale has long been a global phenomenon. With this beautiful graphic novel adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s modern classic, beautifully realized by artist Renée Nault, the terrifying reality of Gilead has been brought to vivid life like never before.
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Product: Girl Who Fell 1: Behind Blue. "Next Killing Eve." Futuristic MI6 lesbian love triangle—compelling and chic—set amid perfect murders and a Russian virus ... Atwood (HAIL THE QUEEN® series)
Description: Bestseller: HAIL THE QUEEN® series. “Maybe she ran because he beat her.” Helen of Troy returns.

“The science-fiction Killing Eve," Cambridge News.
"Wacky and compelling. I read the three books one after another."
"A perfect fit for aspiring psychopaths, historians or spies."
“Raechel Sands cleverly blends noir, SF, lesbian fiction, satire, epic, and Dan Brown-style religious mystery."
“A whirlwind rollercoaster of twists and double crosses.”
“Unguessable endings! and not once in 3 novels did I guess the next twist...”
“Intrigue, historical namesakes and bloody murder.”
“Book 1 is the opening battle in this thought provoking and surprising saga.”

—— BOOK 1 —— MI6, London.

"Sure everyone must pretend to read Ulysses, she mused.

The power was still out but, being in the window, she could see the page. The character in the novel, Mr Deasy, had been pinching the wings of his nose, and variously slagging off Jews, women—and Helen of Troy:

A woman brought sin into the world.
For a woman who was no better than she should be,
Helen, the runaway wife of Menelaus,
ten years the Greeks made war on Troy.

And here he is: this Ulysses, this tricksy man—Mr Metapox. Creator of a deceitful monster. A virus that hides in a perfume bottle. It is the ultimate Trojan Horse!

And what if the truth about Helen is domestic? Domestic abuse?

Maybe the Greek kings weren’t so noble; but brutes. Agamemnon murdered his daughter for a fair wind to Troy after all. Maybe it was his brother, Menelaus, who was no better than he should be.

Maybe she ran because he beat her.
She gave up being queen to go to Troy.
With Paris. What if he saved her?

Nearby finished her Virgin Mary, set the glass down, and closed the book. She looked at Grinin; she looked at Blanka; but she thought of Helen.

I wonder what sort of queen she was…? Her mind ran on. If she came back, what would she be like? Where would she go? What would she do?"

A rogue chief & a psychopath weaponise a fragrance. Two weeks before Helen comes to the aid of special agent Blanka, loyal intelligence officers at MI6 fight to protect the wife and daughters of Russian defector, Grigori Grinin, who is being forced—by a corrupt chief, and his protégée—to synthesise a perfume fragrance containing the world’s most terrifying weapon of mass destruction: Novichok Metapox. At her cosy cottage, Blanka's dialysis dreams are haunted by a little girl from Auschwitz.

—Prisoners, perfumes, women-AI hybrids, the most famous woman in history—and her Bronze Age heirloom: The Goldheart, the greatest relic of all time. —The spying game told through the eyes of four bi female agents at MI6; an American, a Brit, a Russian, and a Bosnian.

—#1 Best Seller Amazon UK Paid in Kindle Store, Literature & Fiction > Religious & Inspirational Fiction > Mystery, and Literature & Fiction > Religious & Inspi
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Product: The Handmaid's Tale (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
Description: The Handmaid's Tale (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Margaret Atwood
Making the reading experience fun!
Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.

Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:

chapter-by-chapter analysis
explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
a review quiz and essay topics
Lively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers.
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Product: Beowulf: The New Translation
Description: Silver Medal Winner-Book of the Year Award.
Special limited-time promotional price. J. R. R. Tolkien, author of LORD OF THE RINGS and THE HOBBIT, in his famous 1936 lecture, BEOWULF, THE MONSTERS AND THE CRITICS, said, "BEOWULF is among my most valued sources. It is a work of genius, rare and surprising in the period, and it is worth studying. In BEOWULF we have an historical story about the pagan past. BEOWULF is not an actual picture of historic Denmark or Geatland or Sweden about 500 A.D. But it is, on a general view, a self-consistent picture, a construction bearing clearly the marks of design and thought. BEOWULF is, indeed, the most successful Old English heroic elegy." The origins, history and authorship of BEOWULF are shrouded in uncertainty. This heroic epic probably began, as most do, with a wandering troubadour strumming a stringed instrument, sitting before a hearth-fire, and singing the verses to a spellbound audience arrayed before him. At some point, the words of the troubadour were inscribed in manuscript form, in order to preserve the story for posterity. The events depicted in this story take place during the late fifth to early sixth century. However, there is great dispute among scholars as to when the manuscript itself was actually transcribed. Tolkien believed it was written about the eighth century, while other serious experts assert it was written as late as the early eleventh century. BEOWULF is a rousing adventure story, filled with intrepid heroes, monsters and fire-breathing dragons, which can be read for the sheer enjoyment of the tale.
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Product: The Heart Goes Last: A Novel
Description: Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin.
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around—and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in . . . for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their "civilian" homes.
At first, this doesn't seem like too much of a sacrifice to make in order to have a roof over one's head and food to eat. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events unfolds, putting Stan's life in danger. With each passing day, Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.
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Product: Alias Grace: A Novel
Description: In Alias Grace, the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale takes readers into the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century—recently adapted into a 6-part Netflix original mini-series by director Mary Harron and writer/actress Sarah Polley.
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers.
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Product: 1984
Description: A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this edition.
“Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker

In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.
Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece, “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.
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Product: The Handmaid's Tale
Description: Now a Hulu Original Series
The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is 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 in its population.
The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment’s calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and a tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.
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Product: The Year of the Flood
Description: The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power.

The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners - a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life - has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible.

Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers....

Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away....

By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.
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Product: Resist Them: A Dystopian Thriller
Description: What if you couldn't stop the government from broadcasting into your mind?

The Affirmation occurs twice a day, at 8:01 exactly. No matter what you are doing or where you are, it plays directly in your head. Day in and day out.

It repeats…

Resist them. Trust The Word. The Word will not lie. It is loyal to you. It wants you great. It wants you safe from The Opposition. The Opposition wants to take. They want your freedom. They want your thoughts. They want you. The Opposition will come. When it does, resist them.

After decades of repeating The Affirmation, a botched surgery causes Randdol’s beliefs to quiver, and he unravels the truth behind The Word. Now, while being hunted by an elite soldier, he has a choice to make. Will he join The Opposition or will he resist them?

Filled with twists, and high-octane action, Scott King’s Resist Them is a dark dystopian thriller set in a future all too close to our own. Fans of 1984 and A Brave New World will revel in this fast-paced thrill ride. Grab it now and decide which side to join!
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