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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
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...
22) Locked Down
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
A couple living in London on the brink of a COVID-accelerated breakup bypass therapy to attempt a high-risk, high-stakes jewelry heist at a department store.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The author sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, spinning, dyeing wool--and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft.
"In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, spinning, dyeing wool--and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to everyone. The COVID pandemic propelled many people...
26) Love was inside
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
AD 210L
Language
English
Description
A little girl grows stronger as she finds ways to stay connected to the people she loves during the pandemic.
Series
Comparative and International Education Diversity of Voices volume Volume 53
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society. Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Weaving together in-depth interviews with doctors, their diaries, and notes, this page-turning account follows the medical students who received their degrees early to help treat thousands of critically ill COVID-19 patients in New York City during the height of the pandemic.
31) The spare room
Author
Language
English
Description
"Crashing with a friend and her husband is more intimate-and dangerous-than anyone could imagine in this provocative new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here. When the pandemic first hits, thirty-one-year-old Kelly tries to make the best of quarantine-but it soon becomes clear there are some lemons you just can't make into lemonade. She loses her job and her boyfriend in one fell swoop,...
Author
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...
Author
Series
Charlie Parker thriller volume 20
Pub. Date
2022.
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"--
In The Sisters Strange, criminal Raum Buker arrives in Portland, only for a shocking act of theft to threaten not only his own existence but those of his former lovers--the enigmatic sisters Strange. And in the title novel, The Furies, Parker must protect two women under threat...
Author
Series
Department Q novel volume 9
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the penultimate thriller of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, the team must hunt for a nefarious serial killer who has slipped under the radar for decades. On her sixtieth birthday, a woman commits suicide. When the case lands on Detective Carl Mørck's desk, he can't imagine what this has to do with Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division. It's a tragedy to be sure, but the cause of death seems...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The former head of Obamacare presents an inside account of the US's failed response to the Coronavirus pandemic, chronicling what he saw and how much could have been prevented, and investigating the cultural, political and economic drivers that led to unnecessary loss of life.
In the definitive inside account of the United States' failed response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Slavitt chronicles what he saw and how much could have been prevented. The...
Author
Series
Faith Fairchild mystery volume 26
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
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...
38) Violeta
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espa㭯l
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso dᨡ de 1920, siendo la primera ni㭡 de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estar០marcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios, pues todavᨡ se sienten las ondas expansivas de la Gran Guerra cuando la gripe espa㭯la llega a las orillas de su paᨳ sudamericano natal, casi en el momento exacto de su nacimiento. Gracias a la clarividencia del padre, la familia saldr០indemne...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A remarkable depiction of a city in crisis - based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting - that captures the resilience, peril, and compassion of the early days of the Covid pandemic In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City. Before long, America's largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid wasn't somehow halted, the death count in New York alone would...
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer's CEO Dr. Albert Bourla"--
"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...
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