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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. What does it mean to submit to a new reality--or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what do other people mean to us? How do we think about them? What is the ratio of contempt to compassion in a crisis? When an unfamiliar world arrives, what...
2) The Q
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When the president's son, Lennon, is kidnapped and pushed out of an airplane over the Q, a vast quarantine zone, Maisie gives him a seventy-two hour vaccine and together the two teenagers attempt to fight their way through the Q in order to survive.
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2020.
Language
English
Description
Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19 is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this stressful time of isolation as well as a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come. All net profits will be donated to The Book Industry Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit organization that coordinates charitable programs to strengthen...
4) The fell
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Summerwater, a riveting novel of mutual responsibility, personal freedom, and the nearness of disaster"--
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English
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In this diary written during the COVID-19 pandemic, Princess Mia Thermopolis of Genovia records her most heartfelt emotions while dealing with personal and political battles, such as imposing health restrictions on her small European nation; living in lockdown; and dealing with her demanding grandmother.
7) Rez dogs
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Malian lives with her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation during the COVID-19 pandemic"--
9) SYLO
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English
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When everyone is quarantined on a once-peaceful island off the coast of Maine, Tucker questions a secret branch of the military claiming that residents have been infected by a deadly virus.
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English
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Best Children's Books 2023
National Dog Month
New Children's Books May 2023
Youth Media Award-Winning Books 2024
National Dog Month
New Children's Books May 2023
Youth Media Award-Winning Books 2024
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Quarantined with his family as a global plague ravages the world, Clay retreats to the woods where he meets a special little dog who leads him on surreal adventures where choosing the wrong path could cause them both to lose their way forever.
12) Chasing secrets
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Lizzie and her secret friend Noah, who is hiding in her house, plan to rescue Noah's father from the quarantined Chinatown, and save everyone they love from contracting the plague that is spreading in 1900 San Francisco.
13) Crisis zone
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English
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"Alternative comics stalwarts Megg, Mogg, Owl, and Werewolf Jones are thrust feet first into the quarantines, the politics, and the insanity of 2020, in a winding, unrelenting tale that bounces rapidly between comedy, horror, action, gender studies, and relational soap-operatics"--Page 4 of cover.
In March 2020, as the planet began to enter lockdown, acclaimed cartoonist Simon Hanselmann decided that what the world needed most was free, easily accessible...
14) No easy way out
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Teens Marco, Shay, Ryan, and Lexi form new allies in the quarantined mall--as the bodies pile up, the disease mutates, the Senator's authority is questioned, and it becomes clear there's no one to trust.
15) Love was inside
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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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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Language
English
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What do you do when the world shuts down? A heartwarming story of friendship and overcoming adversity in a time of COVID, When the World Turns Upside Down is about community, giving back, and understanding the world around us through the power of generosity from debut middle grade author K. Ibura. Nobody expected a tiny little virus to change the whole world in such a big way, especially not Shayla, Liam, Ai, and Ben. But when school closes to keep...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City and a historical leprosarium in Louisiana, following one young man's quest to not only survive, but live a full and vibrant life Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson's Red at The Bone, Netflix's Atypical, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Victor Chin's life is turned upside down at the tender age of 15. Diagnosed with...
20) Nights of plague
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic--a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria--the 29th state of the Ottoman Empire--located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension...
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