Atwood, Margaret

A breattaking contemporary novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her own life.

Roz, Charis and Tony all share a wound, and her name is Zenia. Beautiful, smart and hungry, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless, Zenia is the turbulentcenter of her own neverending saga.

Retells the story of Penelope waiting for her husband, Odysseus, to return from abroad. Focuses on the events leading up to the hanging of Penelope's twelve maids as discussed in Homer's "The Odyssey.".

Adam One, the leader of a religious vegetarian group called God's Gardeners, predicted that a catastrophe would decimate Earth. When it finally happens, most human life is destroyed. Two women, Ren and Toby, are among a handful of humans that lived through the disaster. Now they must do whatever it takes to survive in a world inhabited by gene-spliced life forms, experimental humans, and corrupt ruling powers.

Poetry by a major Canadain author.