Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
Summary: "What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MALStern, Scott W.
Summary: In 1918, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, Nina McCall was told to report to the local health officer to be examined for sexually transmitted infections. Confused and humiliated, Nina did as she was told, and the health officer performed a hasty (and invasive) examination and quickly diagnosed her with gonorrhea. Insisting she could not possibly have an STI, Nina was coerced into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.74 STEBai, Xue
Summary: "Written from the perspective of children who observe the world through their windows, this book for young readers looks at the lives of housebound children during the coronavirus pandemic. Inspired by true events and people from around the world, "From My Window" shows children that we all have the same fears, and that we can overcome them by being creative and empathetic, and by staying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: United Nations Publications 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAIWendell, Mindy Nichols
Summary: "Halle and her mother find unexpected solace on a tuberculosis ward in 1930s upstate New York"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WENEdwards, Sue Bradford
Summary: "This title covers the events surrounding an unprecedented global health crisis, including the origin of the pandemic, how it spread across the world, and how government leaders and health experts worked to respond." -- Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.4 EDWMcKinney-Whetstone, Diane.
Summary: Diane McKinney-Whetstone's nationally bestselling novel, Tumbling, immersed us into Philadelphia's black community during the Civil Rights era, and she returns to the city in this new historical novel about a cast of nineteenth-century characters whose colorful lives intersect at the legendary Lazaretto--America's first quarantine hospital. Isolated on an island where two rivers meet, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKSummary: When a corporate law office is quarantined after exposure to a dangerous virus that makes the infected lose their inhibitions, a recently fired employee and a wronged client must battle their way to the executive level before time runs out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Entertainment 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After the re-opening of the Hive and the T-Virus, the Umbrella Corporation quarantines the whole city, disabling anyone at all from leaving. Among those trapped within, are members of the suspended STARS group. To survive the mess around them, Alice, now a genetically modified project, has to accept a deal with Dr. Ashford, a scientist whose daughter has gone missing, and escort her out of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RESSmith, Zadie
Summary: "Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lock down, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time. "There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. This is not any of those -- the year isn't half-way done. What I've tried to do is organize some of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 SMIMcChesney, Elizabeth M.
Summary: "In this children's story, one little girl and her family deal with having to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic and discover new ways of doing things together."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archway Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCCPower, Rory
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POWSilver, Erin
Summary: "The Covid-19 virus changed the world and made daily life much more challenging. This book tells the true stories of what kids around the world did to help others. From making 3-D printed medical equipment to food bank fundraising, to a neighbourhood joke stand, to creating a semi-automatic hand-washing machine, these kids made a difference in their communities. The book features 12 kids from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.1962 SILTintera, Amy
Summary: When the president's son, Lennon, is kidnapped and pushed out of an airplane over the Q, a vast quarantine zone, Maisie gives him a seventy-two hour vaccine and together the two teenagers attempt to fight their way through the Q in order to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Choldenko, Gennifer
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Lizzie and her secret friend Noah, who is hiding in her house, plan to rescue Noah's father from the quarantined Chinatown, and save everyone they love from contracting the plague that is spreading in 1900 San Francisco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHOJoyner, Andrew
Summary: A little girl grows stronger as she finds ways to stay connected to the people she loves during the pandemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2021
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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 PHASaedi, Sara
Summary: Best friends Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales grapple with the complexities of their relationship even while they spend their senior year apart due to a pandemic that disproportionately affects young people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAEDorsey, Tim
Summary: "After a long and arduous COVID-19 quarantine, Serge A. Storms is fully vaccinated and ready to hit the road. Along with his condo neighbors, he cooks up a wild plan to celebrate in true Serge fashion: each week, they rent a shuttle van and head out for funky Florida road trips and some serious revelry. Meanwhile, a CIA revenge operation down in Honduras goes very, very wrong. The local liaison...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DORKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KOOMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MONFlynn, Katie M.
Summary: "In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can't go out, but the dead can come in--and they come in all forms, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the 'companionship' program choose to upload their consciousness before dying, so they can stay in the custody of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLYMacHale, D. J.
Summary: When everyone is quarantined on a once-peaceful island off the coast of Maine, Tucker questions a secret branch of the military claiming that residents have been infected by a deadly virus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MACManaugh, Geoff
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021