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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.
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Amgash novels volume 4
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"With her trademark spare, crystalline prose -- a voice infused with 'intimate, fragile, desperate humanness' (The Washington Post) -- Elizabeth Strout turns her exquisitely tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton through the early days of the pandemic. As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in...
3) Blind spots
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"Blind Spots is a riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about what we really see with our own eyes. Seven years ago, a mysterious virus blinded everyone in the world in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people's brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to manipulate it and change what people see? Homicide detective Mark...
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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...
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...
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A mysterious pandemic causes a quarter of the world to permanently lose the ability to sleep--without any apparent health implications. The outbreak creates a new class of people who are both feared and ostracized, most of whom optimize their extra hours to earn more money"-- Provided by publisher.Journalist Jamie Vega is Sleepless: he can't sleep, nor does he need to. When his boss dies on the eve of a controversial corporate takeover, Jamie doesn't...
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When fourteen-year-old Gabe checks for survivors after a global pandemic he finds Relle, a strange hopeful girl for whom Gabe eventually develops a crush, but after they return to the mainland tragedy strikes, forcing Gabe to set out on a dangerous journey to find other survivors where the world might be normal--like Before.
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It's set during a crisis in democracy, a society in lockdown linked digitally but convulsed by a social media frenzy, and is told by a little-known, little-read Dutch novelist named Dora Frenhofer who has decided that her life as an old woman in this post-truth pandemic world has become too much. But like a twenty-first century Scheherazade Dora spins stories to fend off the evil day, conjuring connections from her past to give meaning to the present....
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"For a certain class of American's, Donald McNeil was a comforting voice when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out. He was the regular reporter on the New York Times's popular Daily podcast, and he was telling folks to prepare for the worst. A generation of NYT readers went out and stocked up on food and PPE stuff because of his clear advice. He'd covered public health for the Times for 25 years and understood what he was seeing out of China. THE WISDOM...
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"In the 26th book in the award-winning Faith Fairchild Mysteries series, Katherine Hall Page's beloved amateur detective is hunkered down with her family during the pandemic when a Zoom-bombing scandal sends the community into a tailspin ... and a dead body is discovered"--
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Pandemics inflict significant harm on societies, often exacerbated by human activities that alter the natural environment. As cities expand, encroaching on areas once inhabited by wildlife, the risk of disease transmission increases. Bacteria have existed for 3.5 billion years and viruses for 1.5 billion years, while humans have only been around for 130,000 years. Coronaviruses have a long evolutionary history of over fifty million years, with some...
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Today's date is November 16th, 2021. I am writing to you at exactly 21:51 pm. It's
pitch black outside. The only thing I have heard is two large foxes that play and _ight
outside almost every night. It feels the same, but the reality is right now life isn't the
same.
The thoughts in this book are expanded thoughts I had written over the period of
the pandemic. There are also some _ictional stories based on real events. There are also
a rambling or...
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Now, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is spreading from China to Italy, Spain and almost the whole Europe; in the meantime, to the United States, to the whole world. All governments in the world are fighting against this virus, everyone in the world is fighting against this virus. In these days of this pandemic, what to do, how to do, your government probably already told you, but the more you know, the better you can do in this fighting.This book will...
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This poignant book delves into the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on New York City, aptly known as the 'Capital of the World.' Divided into three compelling parts, it unravels the harrowing narrative through text and captivating imagery.In the first part, readers are immersed in a comprehensive chronicle of the pandemic, capturing its relentless grip on the city and its inhabitants. It delves into the multifaceted consequences that unfolded,...
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Ebola is a virus that has taken the world by fear over the past 8 weeks. As cases of the virus spread to other parts of the world after an outbreak in Africa, many people are growing concerned about their own safety. With confirmed cases in Dallas, TX and Spain occurring based on travel and with health care workers testing positive after treating patients and not realizing they have been infected, it is understandable that concerns are mounting. Now...
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"El Ser Confinado", Diarios de una Pandemia, es una obra para atesorar, ilustra la pandemia mundial iniciada en el año 2019, en la República Popular China, la cual se expandió por la totalidad del planeta tierra, desde una mirada contemporánea y real, a través de los relatos de cien personas, de diferentes edades, desde diferentes lugares y países del mundo.
¿Cómo vivieron el virus Covid-19 desde uno o varios aspectos de su vida?, el libro...
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Ebola Virus is a disease that affects humans and other mammals, and it is caused by four out of five virus classified in the genus of Ebola virus. It's described by the as a severe, sometimes fatal disease that has a strong impact on human health and harsh effects the community. With the recent outbreak in Dallas now effecting two nurses, the world is asking questions and demanding answers. Can we rely on the government to watch out for us? Americans...
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