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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

Written by Charles Dickens
Introduction by Margaret Atwood


Format: Hardcover, 440 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27175-4 (0-307-27175-7)

The final volume in the Everyman’s Library Charles Dickens collection: the timeless story of everyone’s favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens’s Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham’s classic illustrations.

No holiday season is complete without the story of tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, of his long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk, Bob... Read more >

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The Year of the Flood
A Novel
Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-52877-1 (0-385-52877-9)

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... Read more >

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The Year of the Flood

Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-7393-2850-7 (0-7393-2850-6)

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Moral Disorder and Other Stories

Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72164-6 (0-385-72164-1)

Margaret Atwood’s latest brilliant collection of short stories follows the life of a single character, seen as a girl growing up the 1930s, a young woman in the 50s and 60s, and, in the present day, half of a couple, no longer young, reflecting on the new state of the world... Read more >

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Anne of Green Gables

Written by L.M. Montgomery
Afterword by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 376 pages
Publisher: New Canadian Library
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-7710-9368-5 (0-7710-9368-3)

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The Tent

Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9701-2 (1-4000-9701-0)

A delightfully pointed m?lange of fictional pieces from one of the world’s most acclaimed and incisive authors, The Tent is a sparkling addition to Margaret Atwood’s always masterful work.

Here Atwood pushes form once again, with meditations on warlords, pet heaven, and aging homemakers. She gives a sly pep talk to the... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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The Handmaid's Tale

Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Hardcover, 392 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26460-2 (0-307-26460-2)

A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.

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Moral Disorder
and Other Stories
Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-50384-6 (0-385-50384-9)

Margaret Atwood is acknowledged as one of the foremost writers of our time. In Moral Disorde, she has created a series of interconnected stories that trace the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it—those of parents, of siblings, of children, of friends, of enemies, of teachers, and... Read more >

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The Tent

Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: January 10, 2006
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-51668-6 (0-385-51668-1)

In this collection of fictional essays, Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid'sTale and Oryx And Crake gives a sly pep talk to the ambitious young, writes about the disconcerting experience of looking at old photos of ourselves, gives us Horatio's real views on Hamlet, and examines the boons and banes of... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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Oryx and Crake

Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 30, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72167-7 (0-385-72167-6)

With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity—and its present.

Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman’s recollections Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when a... Read more >
Also available as an unabridged audiobook download, eBook and a hardcover.

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Survival
A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
On Sale: March 23, 2004
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-7710-0872-6 (0-7710-0872-4)

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Negotiating with the Dead
A Writer on Writing
Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3260-0 (1-4000-3260-1)

What do we mean when we say that someone is a writer? Is he or she an entertainer? A high priest of the god Art? An improver of readers’ minds and morals? And who, for that matter, are these mysterious readers? In this wise and irresistibly quotable book, one of the... Read more >

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Oryx and Crake
A Novel
Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: May 6, 2003
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-50385-3 (0-385-50385-7)

Available in paperback May 2004

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2003

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize


A provocative and timely new novel by the author of the Booker-Prize winning The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake tackles the issues of life, death, and what it means to be human, in an age where the... Read more >
Also available as an unabridged audiobook download, eBook and a trade paperback.

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She
A History of Adventure
Written by H. Rider Haggard
Illustrated by Charles H.M. Kerr and Maurice Greiffenhagen
Introduction by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75905-5 (0-375-75905-0)

A runaway bestseller on its publication in 1887, H. Rider Haggard’s She is a Victorian thrill ride of a novel, featuring a lost African kingdom ruled by a mysterious, implacable queen; ferocious wildlife and yawning abysses; and an eerie love story that spans two thousand years. She has bewitched readers from... Read more >

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The Blind Assassin
A Novel
Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 28, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72095-3 (0-385-72095-5)

The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: “Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister’s death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as... Read more >

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The Blind Assassin

Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-47572-3 (0-385-47572-1)

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Dancing Girls

Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 18, 1998
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49109-9 (0-385-49109-3)

This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood's startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. Her men and women still miscommunicate, still remain separate in different rooms, different houses, or even different worlds. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humor, and unexpected violence, the stories reveal... Read more >

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Bodily Harm

Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 13, 1998
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49107-5 (0-385-49107-7)

A powerful and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie Wilford flies to the Carribean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules... Read more >

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Lady Oracle

Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 13, 1998
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49108-2 (0-385-49108-5)

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... Read more >

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Life Before Man

Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 13, 1998
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49110-5 (0-385-49110-7)

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The Edible Woman

Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 16, 1998
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49106-8 (0-385-49106-9)

A brilliant and powerful work rich in irony and metaphor, The Edible Woman is an unforgettable masterpiece by a master of contemporary literary fiction. Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Maria McAlphin: she can’t eat. First meat. Then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seeds—everything! Worse yet, she... Read more >

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The Handmaid's Tale
A Novel
Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 16, 1998
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49081-8 (0-385-49081-X)

Set in a frightening America of the near future where women--categorized in terms of whether or not they are able to bear children--function only in the strictly defined roles assigned to them by men.  It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover.

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Surfacing

Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 16, 1998
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49105-1 (0-385-49105-0)

When a talented artist sets out for a weekend trip, she has no idea she's beginning a journey that will change her life. With her lover and another couple, she returns to the isolated log cabin of her childhood and embarks on a profound journey of pain, revelations, and reawakening. Read more >

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Wilderness Tips

Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 16, 1998
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49111-2 (0-385-49111-5)

In each of these tales Margaret Atwood deftly illuminates the single instant that shapes a whole life: in a few brief pages we watch as characters progress from the vulnerabilities of adolescence through the passions of youth into the precarious complexities of middle age. By superimposing the past on the present... Read more >

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Bluebeard's Egg
Stories
Written by Margaret Atwood


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 20, 1998
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49104-4 (0-385-49104-2)

In Atwood's second short story collection she covers a dramatic range, from the desolate to the hilarious. The stories concern themselves with relationships of various sorts. Among them are the bonds between a
political activist and his kidnapped cat, a woman and her dead psychiatrist, a potter and a group of... Read more >
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