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Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2020
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Containing important information about the coronavirus, this comprehensive, easy-to-follow primer on pandemics, epidemics, and the panics they ignite around the world also shares solutions for a safer, healthier future. ?A quiet little gem of understanding in a cacophony of panic and fear.? -Quill & Quire, STARRED review Authored by a leading epidemiologist, this engrossing book answers our questions about animal diseases that jump to humans-called...
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Pub. Date
2019
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'Profound and unforgettable' Sally Rooney 'A classic . . . I have long thought of Boyer as a genius' Patricia Lockwood 'An outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique' Ben Lerner 'Some of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read' Hari Kunzru A week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip...
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Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2021
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In March 2020, Kate Garraway's husband, Derek Draper, contracted Covid-19 and was placed in a medically-induced coma. Initially, Kate was told that he would not survive. A year later he was still in hospital. Now at home but requiring round-the-clock care, he is thought to be the UK's longest-fighting Covid-19 patient. In this intimate book, Kate shares her deeply personal story. As well as recounting how the illness took hold of their lives, she...
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
2023
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Presenter, commentator, (sometimes masked) singer, footballer, manager and campaigner, Kammy's action-packed career has made him a bona fide British hero. But it hasn't always been plain sailing. Kammy had a tough upbringing, faced racism on the terraces during his playing career and has, in recent years, dealt with a rare brain condition - apraxia - that has affected his speech and seen him say goodbye to Sky Sports. Despite this, Kammy?s star has...
11) Whiteout
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It's Christmas and the founder of Oxenford, a boutique pharmaceuticals company, is persuaded to have a multi-generational family Christmas at his country home. Meanwhile, there has been a break-in at the laboratories, and it is discovered that a lethal virus has been stolen.
12) The rains
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Penguin
Pub. Date
2018
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A group of teens find themselves trapped in their school when adults over the age of 18 become infected by a parasite which turns them into violent zombies.
13) Five feet apart
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Simon & S
Pub. Date
2019
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Two teenagers fall in love even though they know they cannot touch and risk infection because of their cystic fibrosis.
14) Contagion
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Orchard Bks
Pub. Date
2017
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When 16 year old Shay contracts and survives a mysterious killer disease that is sweeping the country, she sets out to find the cause, along with the ghost of its first victim, Callie, and her brother, Kai.
15) The bubble boy
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Simon & S
Pub. Date
2016
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An eleven-year-old boy is permanently confined to an isolation unit due to an immune system disorder, but conspires with his new nurse to have an adventure outside.
16) Deception
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Orchard Bks
Pub. Date
2018
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Shay searches for the truth behind the origins of the killer epidemic while Kai tries to find her after she abandoned him and turned herself into the authorities.
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Thorsons
Pub. Date
2020
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Strengthen your immunity for goodIn this ground-breaking book, expert immunologist Dr Jenna Macciochi unravels the new science around immunity and decodes exactly what it takes to be well in the modern day. Offering simple, clear and educated advice, debunking popular myths along the way, Immunity explores the secrets of people who never seem to get ill, why auto-immune disease is more prevalent than ever and how germs are actually good for us.
18) Fuzzy mud
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Bloomsbury Childrens
Pub. Date
2015
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If you go down to the woods today... Well, every child knows NOT to, don't they? Tamaya is on a scholarship to the prestigious Woodridge Academy and every day she and seventh-grader Marshall walk to school together. They never go through the woods. And when they arrive at school they stop talking to each other, because Marshall can't be seen to be friends with a little kid like Tamaya. Especially not with Chad around. Chad-the-bully, who makes...