Margaret Atwood
41) Oryx and Crake
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Crake und Jimmy waren Freunde, und sie liebten dieselbe Frau: die rätselhafte Oryx. Sie lebten in einer ständig von Klimakatastrophen bedrohten Welt. Crake, ein Genie genetischer Manipulation, war Wissenschaftler und arbeitete für das Projekt "Paradice" in einem Elite-Labor eines biogenetisch-pharmazeutischen Konzerns. Jimmy sorgte als Werbefachmann für die Bekanntmachung der Produkte, die Crake entwickelte. Nun sitzt Jimmy, mittlerweile "Schneemensch"...
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Die wasserlose Flut, eine Pandemie ungeheuren Ausmaßes, ist über die Erde hinweggegangen und hat die Menschheit ausgelöscht. Bis auf einige wenige Überlebende, die sich im Lehmhaus eines verwahrlosten Parks zusammenfinden und den Gefahren einer entvölkerten, anarchischen Welt trotzen. Unter ihnen Toby, die ehemalige Gottesgärtnerin, und Zeb, ein großherziger Draufgänger, der zum Anführer der kleinen Truppe wird. Während der Flut hat Toby,...
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The Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale pens a conclusion to the dramatic, hilarious, and heartwarming Angel Catbird trilogy. It's all-out war in the madcap culmination of Angel Catbird's superhero saga. The evil Rat army is aiming for world domination, and only a ragtag gang of half-cats stands in their way. Margaret Atwood is one of the most important living writers of our day. She has been recognized internationally for her work...
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The cat-centric adventure continues, in the all-ages follow-up to best-selling novelist Margaret Atwood's debut graphic novel. Genetic engineer Strig Feleedus, also known as Angel Catbird, and his band of half-cats head to Castle Catula to seek allies as the war between cats and rats escalates.
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War Bears volume 1
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Oursonette, a fictional Nazi-fighting superheroine, is created at the peak of World War II by comic book creator Al Zurakowski who dreams of making it big in the early world of comics publishing.
A story that follows the early days of comics in Toronto, a brutal war that greatly strains Al personally and professionally, and how the rise of post-war American comics puts an end to his dreams.
Internationally and New York Times best-selling novelist...
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In einer am Abgrund stehenden Welt versuchen die "Gärtner Gottes" eine Parallelgesellschaft aufzubauen und ein Leben im Einklang mit der Natur zu führen. Sie leben auf den Dachgärten der Stadt und folgen Adam One, der das Ende der Menschheit voraussagt. Die junge Toby findet Zuflucht bei den "Gärtnern Gottes" und steigt mit der Zeit zur Anführerin auf. Ren gehört seit ihrer Kindheit zu der Sekte. Als ein unkontrollierbares Virus in wenigen Tagen...
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The most anticipated graphic novel of 2016! Internationally best-selling and respected novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate for one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of 2016! A young genetic engineer is accidentally mutated by his own experiment when his DNA is merged with that of a cat and an owl. What follows is a humorous, action-driven, pulp-inspired superhero adventure-with a...
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Angel Catbird volume 1
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale, comes the complete collection of the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel from Margaret Atwood!
Internationally best-selling and respected novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate for one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events!
A genetic engineer caught in the middle of a chemical accident all of a sudden finds himself with...
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Best-known for groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy works such as A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin defiantly held her ground on the margin of "respectable" literature until the sheer excellence of her work, at long last, forced the mainstream to embrace fantastic literature. Her fascinating story has never before been captured on film. Produced with Le Guin's participation over the course...
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Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world's best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney prove this wrong, thanks to their discovery of a wealth of surprising collaborations: the friendship between Jane Austen and one of the family servants, playwright...
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Cartoonists and professional geeks tell their intimate, heartbreaking, and inspiring stories about love, sex and, dating in this comics and prose anthology, a follow-up to 2016 best-seller The Secret Loves of Geek Girls. Featuring work by Margaret Atwood (Hag-Seed), Gerard Way (Umbrella Academy), Dana Simpson (Phoebe and Her Unicorn), Cecil Castellucci (Soupy Leaves Home), Gabby Rivera (America), Valentine De Landro (Bitch Planet), Amy Chu (Poison...
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2017.
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The cat-centric adventure continues, in the all-ages follow-up to best-selling novelist Margaret Atwood's debut graphic novel. Genetic engineer Strig Feleedus, also known as Angel Catbird, and his band of half-cats head to Castle Catula to seek allies as the war between cats and rats escalates.
55) The robber bride
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Roz, Charis, and Tony are all hurt and damaged by Zenia during their thirty-year relationship and after Zenia's death she still haunts them.
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[2016]
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Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After 12 years...
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