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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over. But even as governments around the world try to get it under control, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent another pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can we even hope to accomplish this? Bill Gates believes the answer is yes, and he has written a largely upbeat book that lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should learn from...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Grace isn't exactly thrilled when her newly widowed mother, Jackie, asks to move in with her. They've never had a great relationship, and Grace likes her space--especially now that she's stuck at home during a pandemic. Then again, she needs help with the mortgage after losing her job. But living with Mother isn't for everyone. Good intentions turn bad soon after Jackie moves in. Old wounds fester; new ones open. Grace starts having nightmares about...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years--including the pandemic--to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade. In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises--global health emergencies, transformative climate change, and the AI revolution....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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Language
English
Description
"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. Then, when Grandmommy can no longer go out to work, Tola goes instead. She works for the wealthy Diamond family and makes new friends among the household staff. But even the wealthy have problems--and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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 the indomitable 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...
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When civilization is destroyed by a worldwide pandemic, hardened survivor Joel is hired to take fourteen-year-old Ellie out of an oppressive quaratine zone. What should have been a quick job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey across a post-apocalypic United States, where no one can protect Joel or Ellie except each other.
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. But which one? And how? Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged. Ninety percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. It could be Ebola, avian flu, a drug-resistant superbug, or something completely new. While we can't...
11) Gone wolf
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and what is beyond her small-small room. In the present, Imogen...
12) The furies
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Charlie Parker is unwittingly drawn into a world of vengeance. New York Times bestselling author John Connolly pits Parker against two separate, but vitally connected, investigations, which prove to be among the most complicated of his 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...
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