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Author
Publisher
Icon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"'Funny and sad and relatable and wise - Rachael Smith's Quarantine Comix are like the hug from a friend you didn't know you needed.' - Chris Addison. Written and drawn every day during the 2020 lockdown and shared online with #QuarantineComix, 2020 Comedy Women in Print-shortlisted Rachael Smith's delightful comics helped people who were isolated all over the world to feel connected. At times laugh-out-loud funny, at others bitter-sweet, philosophical...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After being admitted to the hospital in 2020 for treatment of Covid, Michael Rosen had to learn to walk again. With the help of the hospital staff, he began the slow steps to recovery--rrolling through corridors in a wheelchair, taking tiny steps with a walker, and navigating the parallel bars at the gym. But it was the walking stick he named Sticky McStickstick that helped him take the most important steps of all: back to his home and the love of...
223) Dog biscuits
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Gussy struggles to keep his dog biscuit boutique afloat while a global pandemic rages unchecked. The loneliness of lockdown and social distancing drives his employee Rosie to betray her principles. Rosie's roommate Hissy is at a personal crossroads. A love triangle emerges as they find themselves tangled in a web of police brutality, protests, drugs, dating apps and Covid chaos. Taking place over the course of just a few days, this is a snapshot...
Publisher
Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Gathers brief writings from members of the RI Jewish community on their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. The specific question posed by the Rhode Island Jewish historical Association Membership Committee in the fall of 2021 to the respondees: "How did COVID-19 affect your Jewish life?" --
225) Diseases & epidemics
Author
Series
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Opinions Throughout History: Disease & Epidemics traces the history of some of the most impactful diseases in human history, such as smallpox, measles, the bubonic plague, and HIV, and looks at how these viruses and bacterial plagues affected American politics and culture. The book will also explore the rise and the spread of the anti-vaccination and science skepticism movements and their relationship to American and global public health. The history...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This trip to the 'Vacationland' of Maine-where the state motto is I Lead-offers an inspiring tale of civility and purpose, of doing the right thing and not just surviving, but prevailing. Led by a freelance reporter who's written for The New Yorker and many national programmes on public radio this is a journey readers will want to experience. When Janet Mills - the first female governor of Maine - delivered her first state of the state speech in January...
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this new autobiographical manga following My Wandering Warrior Existence, Nagata Kabi has quit drinking in an attempt to get healthier-or she's trying to, anyway. Her former struggles with alcohol led to pancreatitis and a serious hospitalization, and now she has no choice but to give up drinking. Follow the author as she details the quest to improve her health during a global pandemic.
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