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KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus

By David Waltner-Toews

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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. David is a Guelph area resident!

Great Influenza: Epic Story Of The Greatest Plague In History

By John M. Barry

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Spillover: Animal Infections And The Next Human Pandemic

By David Quammen

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Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

By Frank M Snowden

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A brilliant and sobering look at the history and human costs of pandemic outbreaks. The World Economic Forum #1 book to read for context on the coronavirus outbreak

Soap and Water & Common Sense: The Definitive Guide to Viruses, Bacteria, Parasites, and Disease

By Bonnie Henry

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BARB - The book that you never thought you'd need is out!....The definitive guide to fighting coronaviruses, colds, flus, pandemics, and deadly diseases, from Canada's newest heroine, Bonnie Henry.

A Journal of the Plague Year

By Daniel Defoe, Jason Goodwin

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The Modern Classics Plague

By Robin Buss, Albert Camus, Tony Judt

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Games People Play - And Puzzles Too!

Settlers of Catan

By Klaus Teuber

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Not only do players try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan but Settlers of Catan is definitely the dominant board game today.

Codenames

By Czech Games Edition

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Preparing for a career in the secret service? A lively and fun game for novice spies and spymasters! For 2-8 players, aged 10+. Other titles include Codenames: Simpsons and Codenames: Duet!

What Do You Meme?

By What Do You Meme

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Sibley Backyard Birding Puzzle: 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle with Portraits of Favorite North American Birds

By David Allen Sibley

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The Office Jigsaw Puzzle: 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

By Chantel de Sousa

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The 500 pieces will reveal the faces of Michael Scott, Dwight Schrute, Jim and Pam, and all the iconic characters from the greatest sitcom ever....and a bit of relief from these crazy times!

Women in Science Puzzle: Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World Jigsaw Puzzle & Poster

By Rachel Ignotofsky

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Wendy Gold Butterfly Migration 1000 Piece Puzzle

By Galison, Wendy Gold

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The World of Shakespeare: 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

By Adam Simpson

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Piece together the world of Shakespeare in this art jigsaw puzzle depicting the London of his day

Exit: the Forbidden Castle

By Kosmos

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Page Turners & Pot Boilers

REVIEW: THE NEED

Review By Andrew Hood

Date: 3 Nov 2019

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The Need
Helen Philips's page-turner The Need begins with the oscillation between the two lives of Molly, a mother of two: Molly at home and Molly at work.

At work, Molly is crouched in The Pit, her "freak focus," as her husband calls it. A fossil quarry thirty yards from a defunct gas station, The Pit has been yielding "almost a decade of mind-bending plant-fossil finds, a bunch of them unplaceable based on our current understanding of the fossil record," but no one besides a handful of "paleobotany dorks" took much notice until the The Pit began to yield other artifacts that were slightly incongruous with our reality.

At home, Molly is crouched in her bedroom, clinging to her children. "The baby in her right arm, the child in her left." Home alone, her husband on a last-minute business trip, she heard footsteps in the living room. Or thought she did. "Or was it a soft hiccup from Ben? Or was it her own knee joint cracking beneath thirty-six pounds of Viv?"

Soon after Viv's birth, Molly found herself plagued by "minor disorientations," "small errors of eyes and ears." "A brief flash of dizziness that, for a millisecond, caused reality to shimmer or waver or disintegrate." Her husband chalked up to sleep deprivation or dehydration. She found stability at work, but then these postpartum anomalies began to take form in objects she was excavating from The Pit. And now there's someone in her house.

The Need takes place in the hallucinogenic mush-brain of overloaded motherhood. The constant collision of the modern demands of dual lives with primal maternal instincts, the making literal of the split lives of working mothers, makes Phillip's novel both horribly real and horribly surreal.
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