Summary: A collection of teenage love stories set during life in lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic. There's flirting and romance through window signs and over Skype and Zoom. There's a determined girl with a mask-making business, and two boys who meet through socially distant dog-walks. It's about finding love in unexpected place during an unprecedented time. In other words, it's like real life
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TOGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TOGPham, LeUyen
Summary: A beautiful book that describes the impact of COVID-19 on communities and why some essential workers could not quarantine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHACopies Available at East Bay
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHAIbura, K.
Summary: "Nobody expected a tiny little virus to change the whole world in such a big way, especially not Shayla, Liam, Ai, and Ben. But when school closes to keep everyone safe, their lives turn upside down. It is one thing to learn that the outside world isn't safe, but why does it seem that the virus is causing trouble inside their homes too?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC IBUAllende, Isabel
Summary: "Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Because of her father's prescience, the family will come...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ALLShteyngart, Gary
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SHTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHTNielsen, Jennifer A.
Summary: When the lethal plague known as the Scourge returns to Keldan the victims are sent to Attic Island, and Ani Mells of the River People is among them--but Ani does not feel sick, and with the help of her best friend, Weevil, she sets out to uncover the truth of what is happening, and expose the lies the people of Keldan have been told.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION NIEShepard, Jim
Summary: "A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic--completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged--that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEScalzi, John
Summary: Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps," robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCAScalzi, John
Summary: "Fifteen years from now, a new virus sweeps the globe. 95% of those afflicted experience nothing worse than fever and headaches. Four percent suffer acute meningitis, creating the largest medical crisis in history. And one percent find themselves "locked in"--fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. One per cent doesn't seem like a lot. But in the United States, that's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Scalzi 2014Nagamatsu, Sequoia
Summary: "For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague-a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice. Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF NAGSpanogle, Joshua.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPALee, Tosca Moon
Summary: "In this frighteningly believable thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee, an extinct disease re-emerges from the melting Alaskan permafrost to cause madness in its victims. For recent apocalyptic cult escapee Wynter Roth, it's the end she'd always been told was coming"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEEBurke, Sue
Summary: "Sue Burke, author of Semiosis and Interference, gives readers a new near-future, hard sf novel. Immunity Index blends Orphan Black with Contagion in a terrifying outbreak scenario. In a US facing growing food shortages, stark inequality, and a growing fascist government, three perfectly normal young women are about to find out that they share a great deal in common. Their creator, the gifted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021