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Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an African-American girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case.

Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an African-American girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case.

A collection of thirty-five short works by Margaret Atwood.

An account of the Soviet spy ring, and master American spy John Walker, who routinely sold American nuclear secrets and codes to the Russians.

Presents a collection of autobiographical essays, cultural commentaries, book reviews, and personal prose by twentieth-century author Margaret Atwood including her "Letter to America" written after September 11, 2001.

Chronicles the life and career of American artist Judy Chicago, drawing from her personal letters and diaries, published and unpublished writings, and over 250 interviews with figures surrounding her; examines the feminist thread throughout her works; and discusses her impact on the perception and inclusion of women in art.

A series of essays explores essential truths about the modern world and the author's personal relationship with the science fiction genre, in a volume complemented by key reviews and her three unpublished Ellmann Lectures.

Psychiatry professor Kay Redfield Jamison shares the story of her relationship with her husband, scientist Richard Wyatt, and discusses what it was like to lose him to cancer and her struggles with grief following his death.

Reflecting on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain their activities.