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If You Like...The Handmaid's Tale
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Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
Five women—including a high school teacher, a biographer, a frustrated mom, a pregnant adopted teen and a forest-dwelling homeopath—struggle with changes in a near-future America where abortion and assisted fertility have been outlawed and where the homeopath is targeted by a modern-day witch hunt.
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Future home of the living god : a novel
by Louise Erdrich
A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows the efforts of a pregnant woman who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species.
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An excess male
by Maggie Shen King
Finally saving up enough money for a matchmaking dowry, a young, single man in China, one of 40 million who can’t find wives because there aren’t enough women, finds himself deeply connecting with a woman who already has two husbands.
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Dread Nation
by Justina Ireland
When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
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The Belles
by Dhonielle Clayton
Born one of the revered Belles in the opulent world of Orleans, where people are naturally born gray and seek the talented Belles to transform themselves with beauty, Camellia dreams of being declared the queen's favorite before her arrival at court exposes dark and dangerous realities within the palace walls.
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Archetype
by M. D. Waters
Waking in the hospital with no memory, Emma learns her seemingly happy life story from her powerful, seductive husband only to experience tormenting dreams that suggest a completely different past shaped by war, a camp where girls are trained to be wives and her love for another man.
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Lighthouse Island
by Paulette Jiles
In a world where animals are nearly all gone and drought has taken over, an orphan embarks on a dangerous journey to Lighthouse Island, a vacation spot in the Pacific Northwest, during which she meets a mapmaker and demolition expert who changes the course of her life.
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The witchfinder's sister : a novel
by Beth Underdown
Widowed and pregnant, Alice Hopkins returns to the small English town where she grew up to seek refuge with her brother, Matthew, and discovers that he is now a witch hunter targeting the marginalized women of their community.
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The end we start from
by Megan Hunter
In an alternate-world modern London submerged below flood waters, a woman who has just given birth to her first child is forced to flee her home with her baby to seek refuge in a variety of locations while the baby thrives against all odds.
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The power : a novel
by Naomi Alderman
When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death.
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