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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Like many, Ali Wentworth spent the pandemic seesawing between highs, lows, and baking an unnecessary amount of chocolate cake. Between binging every tv show in existence to conquering TikTok to becoming a (semi) empty-nester, Ali experienced her share of turmoil (including an early case of Covid), but she also grew a little, learned a lot, and found comfort in some unexpected people and places.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"With whimsical illustrations and relatable prose, When We Stayed Home is a reminder of how young children navigated big feelings and cheered themselves on during the upheaval of the Covid-19 pandemic. Honoring their role as "super helpers" they made sure to wash their hands, wear masks, social distance, and stay home. With the family dog as a trusty sidekick, the super-helper in When We Stayed Home builds virus-free forts, decorates toilet paper-shaped...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 317 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The United States federal government has spent over $10 billion on medical protective wear and emergency supplies, yet as COVID-19 swept the nation, life-saving equipment such as masks, gloves, and ventilators was nearly impossible to find. In this brilliant nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter J. David McSwane takes us behind the scenes to reveal how traders, contractors, and healthcare companies used one of the darkest moments...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois during May 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Scott Hatcher and his neighborhood must come to terms with the disappearance then discovery and follow-on official death investigation of Scott's wife Marie and their neighbor John Bergman.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 243 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Amidst the towering redwood trees and the serenity of his childhood utopia of the Russian River, Dave Pelzer reflects on having the courage to move forward in your life, the peace to accept yourself, the vulnerability to strip yourself of facades, and to find the tenacity to carry on when life doesn't turn out the way you planned.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pandemia explains how an illness that many people will never even know they had became the occasion for economically ruinous lockdowns and the suppression of personal freedom on a previously unimaginable scale." -- Provided by the publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xvi, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Someone broke America. In this nightmare, neighbors have turned into agoraphobes, teachers fear their students, children are muzzled, citizens are censored, dystopian fictions have become reality, and unelected 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)...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiii, 274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An unflinching daily account of how a viral pandemic unmasked two centuries of American disease, poverty, violence, and disinformation"--
Peacock and Peterson probe into what they consider the Four Pandemics that converged in 2020 2020: disease, disinformation, poverty, violence. Their analysis revealed a sick country that believed it was well, a violent nation that believed it was peaceful; one that mistook poverty for prosperity and accountability...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
224 pages : charts ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"About every ten years, we are surprised by a financial crisis. In 2020, we were Surprised Again! by the financial panic of the spring triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. Not one of the 30 official systemic risk studies developed in 2019 had even hinted at this financial crisis as a possibility, or at the frightening economic contraction which resulted from the political responses to control the virus. In response came the unprecedented government...
71) Scot mist
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"March 2020 and Operation Cocker is a go! The owners of the Last Ditch Motel, with a little help from their friend Lexy Campbell, are preparing to support one another through the oncoming lockdown, offering the motel's spare rooms to a select few from the local area in need of sanctuary. While the newbies are settling in, an ambiguous banner appears demanding one of them return home. But who is it for? Lexy and her friends put a plan into action to...
74) Delphi: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
193 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
75) Love was inside
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow, a powerful portrait of a country grappling with the pandemic, told through voices of people from all across America The Covid-19 pandemic was a world-shattering event, affecting everyone in the nation. From its first ominous stirrings, renowned journalist Eli Saslow began interviewing a cross-section of Americans, capturing their experiences in real time: An exhausted and anguished...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
37 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
This introduction to pandemics and their history shows readers how to stay safe, and also includes a glossary, an infographic on how the coronavirus spreads, a handwashing diagram and a timeline showing the pandemics of the past.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xviii, 234 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collection of David vs. Goliath stories"--
After losing her beloved in-laws in the spring of 2020, Janice faced a storm of grief and confusion. And once she learned that thousands of Covid-infected patients were deliberately sent to nursing homes, she took on the man she believed was responsible: Governor Andrew Cuomo. What at first seemed like a futile fight ended with Cuomo's historic resignation. But it caused Janice to wonder: What fuels someone's...
79) The do-over
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twins Raquel and Lucinda Mendoza used to be inseparable, but since their parents divorced Raquel has become bossy and obsessive, while Lucinda has immersed herself in her ice skating lessons, and the pandemic and its enforced isolation has only made things worse; but then they are sent to their father's ranch in central California and while Raquel thinks that this is a chance to get their parents back together by driving his girlfriend away, Lucinda...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiii, 215 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone has opinions about vaccines, but what are the facts? This resource provides clear, unbiased, and up-to-date information on vaccination, which protects the world's populations not only from pandemics like Covid-19 but other dangerous diseases as well"--
"This latest addition to the series is the first reference work on vaccines written through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic. It asks - and answers - questions raised by the pandemic, such...
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