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Princess Diaries (Adult) volume 2
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English
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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.
2) Wilder girls
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English
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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 wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made...
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"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...
4) Sylo
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SYLO chronicles volume 1
Language
English
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"They came from the sky parachuting out of military helicopters to invade Tucker Pierce's idyllic hometown on Pemberwick Island, Maine. They call themselves SYLO and they are a secret branch of the U.S. Navy. SYLO's commander, Captain Granger, informs Pemberwick residents that the island has been hit by a lethal virus and must be quarantined. Now Pemberwick is cut off from the outside world. Tucker believes there's more to SYLO's story. He was on...
Author
Series
No safety in numbers trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"With the power cut and the quarantined mall thrown into darkness, teens Shay, Marco, Lexi, Ryan, and Ginger must change in order to survive, and, when the doors finally open, they may not like what they've become"--
6) The fell
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Summerwater, a riveting novel of mutual responsibility, personal freedom, and the nearness of disaster"--
At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two week quarantine period, but she just can't take it anymore - the closeness of the air in her small house, the confinement. And anyway, the moor will be deserted at this time. Nobody need ever know....
7) Mercy 6
Author
Publisher
Unbridled Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In Mercy 6, David Bajo's courageous new medical thriller, four people collapse dead in the same instant within a newly renovated Los Angeles hospital. Dr. Mendenhall, the woman who is head of the emergency room, isn't convinced the cause of death is a contagion. But it's in the interests of the hospital administrators - and of the world at large - for people to think that it is. If the world knew the truth there could only be widespread panic. The...
8) Jakarta
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Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In a chaotic city, the latest in a line of viruses advances as a man recounts the fated steps that led him to be confined in a room with his lover while catastrophe looms. As he takes inventory of the city's ills, a strange stone distorts reality, offering brief glimpses of the deserted territories of his memory. A sports game that beguiles the city with near-religious significance, the hugely popular gambling systems rigged by the Department of Chaos...
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Series
Love in the age of Covid volume 1
Publisher
Peabridge Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sportswriter Katie McIntyre thinks star pitcher Jason Price will be the perfect fling to help her forget her cheating ex. Their hook-up is supposed to end with breakfast. But the coronavirus has other plans. Katie unexpectedly becomes her grandmother's full-time caretaker. When the disoriented elderly woman thinks Jason is Katie's devoted beau, Katie pitches a pretend relationship to the star athlete. Jason knocks the fake-boyfriend ball out of the...
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Dial Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Maxine and Jonah meet as California is going into lockdown due to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic declaration, and must learn how to build their relationship at a distance through personal tragedies and triumphs"--
Maxine and Jonah meet in the canned goods aisle of the grocery store just as the state of California is going into lockdown. Max's part-time job as a personal grocery shopper is about to transform into a hellish gauntlet. Jonah's preexisting...
11) The last hours
Author
Series
Last hours volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in Dorseteshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and religious fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment for wickedness. But Lady Anne of Develish has her own ideas. Educated by nuns, Anne is a rarity among women, being both literate and knowledgeable....
12) The key to fear
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Series
Key volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Touch is lethal. Love is dangerous. Nobody is safe. For fifty years, the Key Corporation has defended humanity against a deadly plague that spreads through touch. Lovers don't hold hands, or even kiss. Personal boundaries are valued above all. Break the laws, and you'll face execution. Elodie, a talented young nurse, believes in the mission of the Key and has never questioned the laws that control her life. But Elodie is forced to break the rules...
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Wahida Clark Presents Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"As fears of the coronavirus mount, Ansinette is in the midst of piecing her life back together. After a tumultuous relationship with the father of her children, love is the last thing on Ansinette's mind. She is so busy trying to keep her head above water and chase two growing boys that she overlooked the chocolate brother with the chiseled chest who lives across the hall. Well, she didn't overlook him, she definitely noticed. But with her ex trying...
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