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Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Faith Fairchild joins the rest of the world in lockdown mode when reality flips in March 2020. As the pandemic spreads, Faith and her family readjust to life together in Aleford, Massachusetts. Her husband, Tom, continues his sermons from Zoom; their children, Ben, who's in college, and Amy, a high school senior, are doing remote learning at home. Faith is happy to have her family under the same roof and grateful for her resilient community, friends,...
22) Zero o:clock
Author
Publisher
Black Sheep, an imprint of Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In early March 2020 in New Rochelle, New York, teenager Geth Montego is fumbling with the present and uncertain about her future. She only has three friends: her best friend Tovah, who's been acting weird ever since they started applying to college; Diego, who she wants to ask to prom; and the K-pop band BTS, because the group always seems to be there for her when she needs them (at least in her head). She could use some help now. Geth's small city...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He's been binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work on a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian origin. He thinks he has Covid. His wife thinks he is...
24) An eternal lei
Author
Series
Publisher
Prospect Park Books
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"It's the middle of the pandemic and Hawai'i has been virtually closed to tourists. So when Leilani Santiago and her young sisters save a mysterious woman wearing a lei from drowning in Waimea Bay in Kaua'i questions abound: who is she and where did she come from? The lei, which is made of mokihana berries, the official flower of Kaua'i, is traced back to Leilani's best friend, the very pregnant Courtney Kahuakai, and her family's flower business....
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Kikuzato finally meets Doujima, the first para-athlete--and adult--he's ever looked up to. But it turns out Doujima shares a complicated history with Kikuzato's prosthetist, Chidori. Meanwhile, Kikuzato's middle school friend Takegawa reminisces over the past after he's told to quit the soccer club, and the track-and-field club's competitions are brought to a halt by the COVID-19 pandemic!"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When the worsening pandemic forces schools to close temporarily, Kikuzato and the other members of the track and field club must find creative ways to keep up their training. The anticipation of his new custom running prosthesis is more than enough to motivate Kikuzato, but his excitement is undercut by the presence of his father, now working from home. Will being in close quarters bring father and son together or drive them even further apart?!"--...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Libre Expression
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"C'est fou, vous me faites penser à mon grand-père... -- C'est parce que je suis ton grand-père, p'tit con ! -- Pachou ? Qu'est-ce que tu fais là ? » Après l'avoir aperçu dans un campement au journal télévisé, Henri est venu chercher son Gillou, amoché par la pandémie. En désespoir de cause, Gilles, qui a perdu travail, logement et repères, suit le vieil homme dans sa petite ferme des Cantons-de-l'Est. Le citadin et voyageur dans l'âme...
30) Violeta
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso día de 1920, siendo la primera niña de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estará marcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios, pues todavía se sienten las ondas expansivas de la Gran Guerra cuando la gripe española llega a las orillas de su país sudamericano natal, casi en el momento exacto de su nacimiento. Gracias a la clarividencia del padre, la familia saldrá indemne...
31) Lucy y el mar
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Vuelve la icónica Lucy Barton en esta deslumbrante novela sobre el amor, la pérdida y la esperanza. A medida que el miedo se apodera de su ciudad, Lucy Barton abandona Manhattan y se confina en un pueblo de Maine con su exmarido, William. Durante los siguientes meses quedarán ellos dos, compañeros después de tantos años, a solas con su complejo pasado en una pequeña casa junto a un mar impetuoso, una experiencia de la que saldrán transformados....
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice -- from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower...
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