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41) Delphi: a novel
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Covid-19 has arrived in London. As the narrator 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 future.
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"Someone broke America. In this nightmare, neighbors have turned into agora phobes, teachers fear their students, children are muzzled, citizens are censored, dystopian fictions have become reality, and un-elected officials are creating a biometric police state. Oh wait. It's not a nightmare. It's our daily lives! In truth, much of this insanity didn't start with the coronavirus pandemic (it was already latent in big government and big corporations)...
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"APOLLO'S ARROW offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and insight into how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) historical epidemics, contemporary analyses, and cutting-edge research from a range of scientific disciplines, the physician, sociologist, public health expert, and bestselling author Nicholas A. Christakis explores...
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"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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What was the pandemic of the century like at the start? This swift, gripping novel captures not only the uncertainty and panic when COVID first emerged in Wuhan, but also how a community banded together. Weaving in the tastes and sounds of the historic city, Wuhan's comforting and distinctive cuisine comes to life as the reader follows 13-year-old Mei who, through her love for cooking, makes a difference in her community. Written by an award-winning...
47) Violeta
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"Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the...
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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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"After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the attempted coup following the 2020 election. Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration, the editors asked twenty-first-century historians to focus on the parallels,...
50) Help
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When Sarah starts a job in a nursing home, to her surprise she is really good at it. She's a natural with the residents, and begins to form a special bond with Tony, a younger resident who has early onset dementia. The home is chronically underfunded and when the Covid pandemic hits, it suffers from understaffing, sickness and heart-breaking losses.
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"When he invented the original mRNA vaccine technology as a medical and graduate student in the late 1980s, Robert Malone could not have imagined that he would become a leader in a movement to expose the dangers of mRNA vaccines that billions of people have received--too often without being informed of the risks. For voicing opposition to the "mainstream" narrative, Dr. Robert Malone was censored by Big Tech and vilified by the media. But he continues...
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Aleford, Massachusetts. The Fairchild family is in lockdown mode as the pandemic spreads. Tom continues his sermons from Zoom; their children, Ben, who's in college, and Amy, a high school senior, are doing remote learning at home. Town halls remain lively and well-attended, despite residents joining from their living rooms. In the midst of one Zoom meeting, damaging images suddenly flash upon everyone's screens. Claudia, the local art teacher, is...
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"A harrowing narrative of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway-Covid-19-days before the world shut down in March, 2020. In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading ondifferent continents, and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hotspots, the cruise ship Zaandam, owned by Holland America, was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina,...
55) Zeros and ones
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An American soldier stationed in Rome during the COVID-19 pandemic has to solve a terrorist plot threatening to provoke a global war.
56) Sick
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As the pandemic steadily brings the world to a halt, SICK centers around two college best friends, Parker and Miri who decide to quarantine at the family lake house alone or so they think. With a horrific night in store, the two must fight to flee and outsmart an assailant, who turns out to be someone they never expected.
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From the author of The Gran Tour, a portrait of an intergenerational friendship. Recently widowed, Winne, 84, was in need of some companionship. Someone to help with the weekly food shop and offer tips on the crossword. Ben, 34, was looking for a new housemate. As the UK was locked down in 2020, Ben and Winnie's lives interwove, forming an unlikely friendship, where lessons were learnt (heat the red wine in the oven with the plates; preserve or pickle...
58) Past lying
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"It's April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot-the streets all but empty, an hour's outdoor exercise the maximum allowed-but a mere pandemic doesn't mean crime takes a holiday. When a source at the National Library contacts DCI Karen Pirie's team about documents in the archive of a recently deceased crime novelist, it seems it's game on again. At the center of it, a novel: two crime novelists...
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"The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a new memoir -- both hilarious and heartfelt -- chronicling her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic. Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the classic NBC television show Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood. From Dancing with the Stars...
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