Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

A story within a story in which the memoir of World War II era button heiress Iris Chase alternates with a science fiction romance about a blind killer who falls in love with a mute virgin.

Fact-based story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old girl who received a life sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and his lover, but whose case continued to stir debate throughout her prison stay, resulting in her release in 1872.

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.

A story told mainly with words that begin with the letters "b" and "d" in which bashful Bob, abandoned and raised by dogs, meets doleful Dorinda, who deals with dirty dishes, and the two become friends and eventually heroes.

Jimmy, perhaps the last living human unaltered by science, struggles for survival in a post-apocalyptic world as he tries to make sense of how everything went wrong, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx, a girl he met through a kiddie porn Web site.

Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order.

Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order whose function is to breed.