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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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.
2) Breathless
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When Colorado carpenter Gary Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But like Gary, Cammy has never seen an animal resembling this beautiful species. But when the Department of Homeland Security puts a call out for Gary and Cammy because of these animals, the two risk everything to protect the innocent creatures.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The coming of Spring usually means renewal, but for Linnea Rutledge, Spring 2020 threatens stagnation. Linnea faces another layoff, this time from the aquarium she adores. For her--and her family--finances, emotions, and health teeter at the brink. To complicate matters, her new love interest, Gordon, struggles to return to the Isle of Palms from England. Meanwhile, her old flame, John, turns up from California and is quarantining next door. She...
4) Wilder girls
Author
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 470L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A beautiful book that describes the impact of COVID-19 on communities and why some essential workers could not quarantine.
7) Songbird
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Immune to the COVID-23 virus, a courier races against time to save the woman he loves from a quarantine camp.
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Journalists Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley explore the history and future of quarantine, from the Black Death to Big Data. Quarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. Manaugh and Twilly track the history and future of quarantine...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time 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...
Author
Publisher
HarpverVia an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvi, 380 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From one of China's most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak. On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang's nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of millions of her fellow citizens, reflecting...
12) Rez dogs
Author
Language
English
Description
"Malian loves spending time with her grandparents at their home on a Wabanaki reservation. She's there for a visit when, suddenly, all travel shuts down. There's a new virus making people sick, and Malian will have to stay with her grandparents for the duration. Everyone is worried about the pandemic, but Malian knows how to keep her family and community safe: She protects her grandparents, and they protect her. She doesn't go outside to play with...
Author
Publisher
Central Avenue Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 23 cm
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...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maxine and Jonah meet as California is going into lockdown due to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic declaration, and must learn how to build their relationship at a distance through personal tragedies and triumphs"--
Maxine and Jonah meet in the canned goods aisle of the grocery store just as the state of California is going into lockdown. Max's part-time job as a personal grocery shopper is about to transform into a hellish gauntlet. Jonah's preexisting...
15) The last hours
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
536 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in Dorseteshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and religious fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment for wickedness. But Lady Anne of Develish has her own ideas. Educated by nuns, Anne is a rarity among women, being both literate and knowledgeable....
Publisher
Jax Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a shocking medical crisis rages, Rick Baldwin finds himself in quarantine, catapulting him and his young daughter, Gracie, into chaos, isolation, and homeschool mayhem. As the world reels amid the spread of a highly contagious virus, Rick faces his internal battles: he desperately tries to reconnect with Gracie, help her journey through newfound challenges, process the loss of his wife, and hold on to his job.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Teens Shay, Marco, Lexi, and Ryan, quarantined in a shopping mall when a biological bomb igoes off in an air duct, learn that in an emergency people change, and not always for the better, as many become sick and supplies run low.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American...
19) Chasing secrets
Author
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
San Francisco, 1900. The Gilded Age. A fantastic time to be alive for lots of people... but not thirteen-year-old Lizzie Kennedy, stuck at Miss Barstow's snobby school for girls. Lizzie's secret passion is science, an unsuitable subject for finishing-school girls. Lizzie lives to go on house calls with her physician father. On those visits to his patients, she discovers a hidden dark side of the city -- a side that's full of secrets, rats, and rumors...
20) Exile
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Caught in the quarantined town of Exile, whose residents are wracked with rage and aggression due to a contamination spill, Heidi Palermo is desperate to get out, but she can't seem to pass the fed's sanity test. When her abusive brother is murdered by outsider Tank Benavides, Heidi thinks Tank may be the one to help her, but her actions put her at odds with her family, gunning for revenge against Tank.