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- The plague year : America in the time of Covid / by Wright, Lawrence,1947-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, whose best-selling thriller The End of the October all but predicted our current pandemic, comes another momentous account, this time of COVID-19: its origins, its myriad repercussions, and the ongoing fight to contain it. Beginning with the absolutely critical first moments of the outbreak in China, and ending with an epilogue on the vaccine rollout and the unprecedented events between the election of Joseph Biden and his inauguration, Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year surges forward with essential information--and fascinating historical parallels--examining the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Wright takes us inside the CDC, where the first round of faulty test kits cost America precious time; inside the halls of the White House, where Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger's early alarm about the virus was met with great skepticism; into a COVID ward in a Charlottesville hospital, with an idealistic young woman doctor from Little Africa, South Carolina; into the precincts of prediction specialists at Goldman Sachs; and even inside the human body, diving deep into the science of just how the virus and vaccines function, with an eye-opening detour into the history of vaccination and of the modern anti-vaxxer movement. In turns steely eyed, sympathetic, infuriated, comical, and always precise, Wright is a formidable guide, slicing through the dense fog of misinformation to give us a 360-degree portrait of the catastrophe we thought we knew. His full accounting does honor to the medical professionals around the country who've risked their lives to fight the virus, revealing America in all its vulnerability, courage, and potential"--- Subjects: COVID-19 (Disease); COVID-19 (Disease); COVID-19 (Disease); COVID-19 (Disease);
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- This next New Year / by Wong, Janet S.; Choi, Yangsook;
A family prepares to celebrate the Lunar New Year and looks forward to the good luck they hope it will bring.- Subjects: Chinese New Year;
- © 2000., Frances Foster Books : Farrar, Straux and Giroux,
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- Light years from home / by Chen, Mike,author.;
A father and his son Jakob vanish on a camping trip. The father reappears, claiming to have been abducted by aliens, but there is no sign of Jakob. Fifteen years later, he returns, changed. He and his sisters will have to work out their differences because not only is the FBI looking for Jakob, there may be an alien army in pursuit as well. Book Club.- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Dysfunctional families; Human-alien encounters;
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- The last five years [videorecording] / by Brown, Jason Robert.Last 5 years.Videorecording.; Jordan, Jeremy,1984-actor.; Kendrick, Anna,actor.; Knepp, Natalie,actor.; LaGravenese, Richard,screenwriter,director,producer.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada);
Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan, Natalie Knepp, Betsy Wolfe, Sherie Rene Scott.The last five years is a musical chronicling a love affair and marriage taking place over a five year period. Jamie Wallerstein (Jordan) is a young, talented up and coming novelist who falls in love with Cathy Hiatt (Kendrick), a struggling actress. Their story is told almost entirely through song. All of Cathy's songs begin at the end of their marriage and move backwards in time to the beginning of their love affair, while Jamie's songs start at the beginning of their affair and move forward to the end of their marriage. They meet in the center when Jamie proposes.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen 2.40:1 ; Dolby digital 5.1.- Subjects: Brown, Jason Robert.; Actresses; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Marriage; Musical films.; Novelists; Romance films.; Romantic comedy films.;
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- The knitter's year : 52 simple seasonal knits / by Bliss, Debbie.; Wincer, Penny.;
Includes Internet addresses (p. 159).LSC- Subjects: Knitting.; Knitting;
- © 2010., Quadrille Pub.,
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- New Year's Day / by Imler, Kathryn A.,1950-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A basic introduction to how and why New Year's Day is celebrated as a holiday.LSC- Subjects: New Year;
- © c2008., Heinemann Library,
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- Your year in art : a project for every week of the year to overcome blank-page anxiety and inspire creative exploration / by Ward, Chelsea,author.;
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- Subjects: Art; Painting; Drawing;
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- A thousand years of pirates / by Gilkerson, William.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Piracy; Pirates;
- © 2009., Tundra Books,
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100 Years of Le Mans
Mode of access: Internet.- Subjects: Automotive;
- © , Autovia
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- Three thousand years of longing [videorecording] / by Elba, Idris,actor.; Gore, Augusta,screenwriter.; Miller, George,1945 March 3-screenwriter,film producer,film director.; Mitchell, Doug,film producer.; Ozturk, Berk,actor.; Swinton, Tilda,actor.; Thunderbolt, Pia,actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Byatt, A. S.(Antonia Susan),1936-Djinn in the nightingale's eye.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.;
Director of photography, John Seale; music by Tom Holkenborg.Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba, Pia Thunderbolt, Berk Ozturk, Anthony Moisset, Alyla Browne, Peter Bertoni, Lianne MacKessy.While attending a conference in Istanbul, Dr. Alithea Binnie happens to encounter a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems: first, she doubts that he's real, and second, because she's a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually, she's beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for some sexual content, graphic nudity and brief violence.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Fantasy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Jinn; Wishes; Women scholars;
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