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Amgash novels volume 4
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With her trademark spare, crystalline prose-a voice infused with intimate, fragile, desperate humanness (The Washington Post)-Elizabeth Strout once again turns her exquisitely-tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, this time following theindomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Oh William! through the early days of the pandemic. As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled...
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An influenza plague decimates humanity, and former rock star Chris Price leaves the ruins of his life in New York, setting out on a journey home to England. His passage leaves him scarred, in body and mind, by exposure to humankind at its most desperate and dangerous. He meets a woman, Pauline, and together, they undertake the most difficult part of Chris's journey: confronting grief, violence, and the man Chris has become.
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It’s a strange, scary time for Too Small Tola when a new virus separates her family, but Atinuke’s small-but-mighty heroine proves once again how wise, kind, and resourceful she can be.
In ordinary times, Tola lives in an apartment in Lagos, Nigeria, with her clever sister, Moji; her sporty brother, Dapo; and bossy Grandmommy. Tola is so happy! But news of a new virus—and a lockdown, too—sends Moji away in one direction and Dapo in another....
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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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...
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International crime investigator, Mark Dobson, has been, tasked by a US biomedical research company to investigate missing virus samples. With outbreaks of a fatal virus infection already cropping up in Asia and Africa the investigation quickly turns to find a virologist with extreme views on human population control, who has created a new virus, 'Malthus A', and a company planning to spread the virus in return for profits from ineffective treatments...
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From the Windowpane is a book about a little girl named Alyssa. She is experiencing many feelings during the lockdown due to the Covid 19 pandemic. She looks out the window and reflects on everything that is happening and the new rules in place - washing your hands, social distancing, and wearing masks. She's also missing her school classes and her friends. As she looks outside through the windowpane, she sees a tree and thinks about the freedom the...
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FUNNY SIDE OF CHAOS is meant to make pandemics look better than they are, so this book tells the funny side of situations that you wouldn't laugh about from countries such as Mexico, UK, Spain, and South Africa. There are funny stories from 2 travelers that tell their antics also Chaotic pandemics like Covidl9, Wars, illnesses they feature in this book. So this is the tale of two women travelers that get caught in awkward situations. but they see...
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The world is undoubtedly experiencing a medical and psychological turmoil on a scale never before seen in human history.
The whole Covid-19 episode has turned our way of life as we know it upside down.
Driven by questionable government and media intervention worldwide, this so-called virus has literally barged its way into all aspects of our lives, especially disrupting the basic freedoms we all have assumed to be not only entrenched but...
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Pandemic-stressed families breathe slowly. We are lockdown survivors.
How does one family react to lockdown? From New York to London, Oxford, the Cotswolds, Belfast, Bellagio, Byron Bay and Wuhan, four siblings and their families share common experiences of fear, anxiety and isolation. Yet, resilience and a strength of spirit prevail as new forms of meaning are found.
The story tells of intriguing, touching responses to the impact of isolation on...
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