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The plague
At first it's the dead rats - they start dying in cataclysmic numbers. Then people begin experiencing flu-like symptoms. The masses react in disbelief when the official diagnosis comes in and later, when a quarantine is imposed on the increasingly terrified city. Told with dark humour and an eye trained on the frailties of human behaviour, Chong's novel explores themes in keeping with Albert Camus' original vision - heroism in the face of futility, the psychological strain of quarantine - but fraught with the political and cultural anxieties of our times.
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Buried Together
Buried Together is a historical novel based on the true story of Silas Beasley Jr., a conscientious objector, who protected his family following the Civil War. The family was forced to quarantine and Silas had to face the consequences of his decisions.
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Preschoolers' Quarantining of Fantasy Stories
Preschool-aged children are exposed to fantasy stories with the expectation that they will learn messages in those stories that are applied to real-world situations. We examined children's transfer from fantastical and real stories. Over the course of 2 studies, 31/2-to 51/2-year-old children were less likely to transfer problem solutions from stories about fantasy characters than stories about real people. A combined analysis of the participants in the 2 studies revealed that the factors predicting transfer differed for the fantasy and real stories. These findings are discussed within the context of their implications for preschoolers' developing boundaries between fantasy and real worlds.
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Wilder girls
\"Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island\"-- Publisher's description.
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Can China’s ‘standard of care’ for COVID-19 be replicated in Europe?
The Director-General of the WHO has suggested that China’s approach to the COVID-19 crisis could be the standard of care for global epidemics. However, as remarkable as the Chinese strategy might be, it cannot be replicated in other countries and certainly not in Europe. In Europe, there is a distribution of power between the European Union and its member states. In contrast, China’s political power is concentrated in the central government. This enables it to take immediate measures that affect the entire country, such as massive quarantines or closing borders. Moreover, the Chinese legal framework includes restrictions on privacy and other human rights that are unknown in Europe. In addition, China has the technological power to easily impose such restrictions. In most European countries, that would be science fiction. These conditions have enabled China to combat epidemics like no other country can. However, the WHO might have been overoptimistic. The Chinese standard of care for treating COVID-19 also raises problematic issues for human rights, and the real consequences of these actions remain to be seen.
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No easy way out
Teens Marco, Shay, Ryan, and Lexi form new allies in the quarantined mall--as the bodies pile up, the disease mutates, the Senator's authority is questioned, and it becomes clear there's no one to trust.
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Being Human, Being Animal: Species Membership in Extraordinary Times
This interview between Sunaura Taylor and Sara E. S. Orning took place digitally, over the course of several months in the spring of 2020, during the time that the COVID-19 pandemic exploded around the world. The exchanges have been edited into the four conversations presented here, dealing with human and nonhuman life, death and vulnerability, racial and environmental justice, and extinction. Sunaura Taylor is the author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, which won the 2018 American Book Award. She is Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work, which argues for the need to bring animal and disability activism together, has been influential and pioneering in both the academy and broader public contexts. Sara E. S. Orning is Postdoctoral Fellow for “BIODIAL: The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality,” a three-year research project funded by the Research Council of Norway.
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No dawn without darkness
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.
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Couples who Collaborate: Chana and Larry Stiefel
Chana and Larry Stiefel are new to publishing as a couple but bring with them a wealth of diverse experiences. Chana has written and published more than thirty books for children. She writes both fiction and nonfiction, ranging in topics from avocadoes to zombies. Recently, Let Liberty Rise (2021) was named a Bank Street Best Book for Children (ages 5–9) and received a starred review in School Library Journal. Her forthcoming book, The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt her Town in Stories and Photographs (2022) is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, and received a starred review from School Library Journal.
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