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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah's mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family's beach house on Cape Cod. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling...
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"When he receives a message from a lover from the 60s who disappeared, Reykjavik restaurant owner Kristófer is pulled toward finding an answer to the mystery of her sudden departure, compelling him to travel to London and Japan just as the virus threatens to shut everything down."--
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English
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"The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he looks back upon his life in his enforced quarantine solitude, wondering what it all means and who he really is. Sitting and brooding night after night, gazing out his huge picture window high above the Central Park Reservoir, Ridley spots a flashing light in an apartment...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America. An ill-timed visit forces twentysomething New Yorker Julian to shelter in place in Venice Beach with his glamorous and eccentric ninety-three-year-old grandmother, Mamie Künstler,...
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English
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"When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women--a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother's best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children--collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020"--
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A novel written by more than twenty-five major literary voices follows the tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan during the COVID-19 shutdown, as they gather on the roof, share stories, and become real neighbors."--
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Did you catch a cold? Is it the flu? Or is it the virus? Yes, that virus. COVID-19. Will it be mild, middle range, or deadly? Follow the characters in a mid-size hospital in New York City. Learn how they battle the virus. Discover the frightening things that can happen when things go wrong. This story is fiction, mostly. It was written at the beginning of the pandemic and has followed the pandemic to the end. Can it really happen as depicted in this...
8) 56 days
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English
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"No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead. 56 DAYS AGO. Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO. When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests they move in together. Ciara sees a unique opportunity for a relationship to flourish without the scrutiny of family and friends. Oliver sees a chance to hide who-and what-he really is....
9) The limits
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters--a fifteen year old girl toggling between her mother, a marine biologist studying coral reefs on an island off the coast of Tahiti, and her father, a surgeon in Manhattan--who undergo massive transformation over the course of a single year"--
10) Day: a novel
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English
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"April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house - and whose departure...
11) New from here
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English
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"Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus." --
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten beautifully moving short stories written mostly over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse...
13) Delphi: a novel
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Publisher
Avid Reader
Pub. Date
2022.
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...
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English
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Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."
15) Our hospital
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"After the tragic climax of Man's 4th Best Hospital, four doctors have left practicing medicine. But with COVID-19 sweeping the country, they come together to help the small town of Columbia, New York. The doctors and nurses are buckling as they battle both a raging pandemic and the financial woes facing small hospitals everywhere. But no matter what's happening in the world, babies are born, people fall in love, and doctors will do anything to save...
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Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When a wildfire bears down on a mountain community, residents are forced to gather for safety—resulting in a tangle of love and lust that pulls people from their isolation, friendships that form across political divides, and a new hope for rethinking the ways humans inhabit the burning planet. Playing with Wildfire is a literary landscape that is an experiment in form: an astrology report; a grant application-turned-love-story; a phone call from...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
While the world is ravaged by a global pandemic, hotshot NFL running back Evan Sparks is locked in his own personal hell. With a career-ending scandal on his back, Evan hides out in his best friend's empty San Francisco home, the full city shutdown locking him in a lonely twenty-story apartment in the sky. Romance writer Sadie Walsh is having the worst case of writer's block ever...until the incredible, muscular stranger staying next door gets her...
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Harper Audio
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A novel written by more than twenty-five major literary voices follows the tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan during the COVID-19 shutdown, as they gather on the roof, share stories, and become real neighbors."--
19) Reef Road
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two womena lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mothers best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their childrencollide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020. A young womans life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics....
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Publisher
Z2 Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This debut graphic novel is an original creation of actress Emily Hampshire, and will provide a basis for later development into an upcoming animated series geared at a YA audience starring Emily and friends with an LGBTQA+ and supernatural slant. The book was inspired by the popularity of a series of Instagram posts she began in COVID, chronicling her life at home"--
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