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"When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah's mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family's beach house in Cape Cod. Sarah might be worried, but Veronica is thrilled to be bringing the family together one last time before putting...
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Series
Amgash novels volume 4
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English
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"As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea. Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Ruth is in London clearing out her mother's belongings when she makes a surprising discovery: a photograph of her Norfolk cottage taken before Ruth lived there. Her mother always hated the cottage, so why does she have a picture of the place? As she died three years ago, Ruth can't exactly ask her, and her father denies all knowledge of the picture. The only clue is written on the back of the photo: Dawn, 1969. Ruth returns to Norfolk determined to...
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English
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"In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted-author of the brilliant Seasonal Quartet series-a major new novel that promises to capture the present moment with Ali Smith's genius and bold spirit. "A story is never an answer. A story is always a question." Here we are in extraordinary times. Is this history? What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other? What have we lost? What stays with us? What does it take to unlock our future?...
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English
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""From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez's ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past. Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others,...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He's been binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work on a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian origin. He thinks he has Covid. His wife thinks he is...
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Publisher
Avid Reader
Pub. Date
2022.
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193 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Covid-19 has arrived in London, and the entire world quickly succumbs to the surreal, chaotic mundanity of screens, isolation, and the disasters small and large that have plagued recent history. As our unnamed narrator--a classics academic immersed in her studies of ancient prophecies--navigates the tightening grip of lockdown, a marriage in crisis, and a ten-year-old son who seems increasingly unreachable, she becomes obsessed with predicting the...
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Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 216 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustration (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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A riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history, Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 2020 when the scientists at Pfizer, under the visionary leadership of Dr. Albert Bourla, made "the impossible possible"--creating, testing, and manufacturing a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine that previously would have taken years to develop. Dr. Bourla chronicles how the brilliant, dedicated...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of SARS-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-changing nature, and its capacity to kill us. David Quammen expertly shows how strange new viruses emerge from animals into humans as we disrupt wild ecosystems, and how those viruses adapt to their human hosts, sometimes causing global catastrophe. He explains why this coronavirus will probably be a "forever virus,"...
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Publisher
Mariner Books / Harper Collins
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxv, 388 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"The stories I have chosen reflect where I feel the field of science and nature writing has landed, and where it could go," Ed Yong writes in his introduction. "They are often full of tragedy, sometimes laced with wonder, but always deeply aware that science does not exist in a social vacuum. They are beautiful, whether in their clarity of ideas, the elegance of their prose, or often both." The essays in this year's Best American Science and Nature...
13) Love was inside
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Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : 26 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little girl grows stronger as she finds ways to stay connected to the people she loves during the pandemic.
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Baylee goes from having never been kissed to navigating two potential relationships, one with her long-time crush Freddie and the other with funny barista Alex, as the world begins to shut down from COVID-19.
15) The lost year
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation.
But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother’s belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. Set in alternating timelines...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
37 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"The current COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of kids across the world and has caused fear and confusion as people in charge have given conflicting orders. Read to discover the answers to some of your biggest questions. This book also comes with a handwashing diagram, a glossary, and a timeline of past pandemics and their impact on the world."--
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Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The coming of Spring usually means renewal, but for Linnea Rutledge, Spring 2020 threatens stagnation. Linnea faces another layoff, this time from the aquarium she adores. For her - and her family - finances, emotions, and health teeter at the brink. To complicate matters, her new love interest, Gordon, struggles to return to the Isle of Palms from England. Meanwhile, her old flame, John, turns up from California and is quarantining next door. She...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fiercely argued, keenly insightful, hilarious investigation of the impact of COVID-19 on sexual and romantic relationships, in which the author situates her own and others' coupled lockdown experiences against larger backdrop: the politics of the virus, economic disparities, changing gender relations, the ongoing institutional crack-ups prompted by #MeToo and #BLM"--
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Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When the world is brought to a standstill in the early days of a global pandemic, Etta Wilmont finds herself suddenly stranded in Kansas City. Desperate to secure a roof over her head, Etta crosses paths with Henry Logan, a lonely older man in need of a caretaker. His invitation for Etta to stay with him seems to be the solution to both their problems-and maybe the spontaneous adventure Etta's life has been missing. As Etta and Henry settle into a...
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Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Chaos and murder arrive in Charlie Parker's hometown of Portland, Maine, with two connected crimes which prove to be among the most complicated of Parker's entire career"--
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