Download or read book Love in the Time of Coronavirus written by Stuart Maesel and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever loved someone so much, you were willing to give up your life? Jackson Marley Richardson is a man who is about to make a decision. A decision you make only once. A determination of whether he should live or die. He is faced with a life that has not turned out how he thought it would. He's faced with a decision that he doesn't want to make, yet thinks he must, because of his love for his wife and children. Jack represents everyman and everywoman. Like all of us who are forced to make a decision in a world, not the one we thought it would be or should be, but a world that has turned upside down. A world where religion has turned from love to acrimony. A world where politics has pitted players on the same team against each other. Love in the time of Coronavirus is a book about reflection, questioning, and realizations about our world, and how it is forcing many to just bury their heads in the sand and give up, or for some to recommit to helping foster change through love, friendship, and a renewed faith in the individual's ability to be the agent of that change. It is the deep look into the mirror; we all must take at some point in life. Now is that time. The book is an astonishing and enlightening journey and a life adventure, reflecting on extraordinary times with Jack's wife, family, and friends, not thinking of what he missed but appreciating all that is. It is a profound book about life, love, and friendships today that will resonate with all. Love in the time Coronavirus offers a compelling, insightful look into love, politics, bigotry, faith, and friendship. The loving romanticism and exciting plot will keep you enraptured throughout. With a myriad of twists and turns, the ending will astound you.

Download or read book Love in the Time of Contagion written by Laura Kipnis and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely, insightful, and darkly funny investigation, the acclaimed author of Against Love asks: what does living in dystopic times do to our ability to love each other and the world? COVID-19 has produced new taxonomies of love, intimacy, and vulnerability. Will its cultural afterlife be as lasting as that of HIV, which reshaped consciousness about sex and love even after AIDS itself had been beaten back by medical science? Will COVID end up making us more relationally conservative, as some think HIV did within gay culture? Will it send us fleeing into emotional silos or coupled cocoons, despite the fact that, pre-COVID, domestic coupledom had been steadily losing fans? Just as COVID revealed our nation to itself, so did it hold a mirror up to our relationships. In Love in the Time of Contagion, Laura Kipnis weaves (often hilariously) her own (ambivalent) coupled lockdown experiences together with those of others and sets them against a larger backdrop: the politics of the virus, economic disparities, changing gender relations, and the ongoing institutional crack-ups prompted by #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, mapping their effects on the everyday routines and occasional solaces of love and sex.

Download or read book Alone Together written by Garth Stein and published by Central Avenue Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Could there be a timelier gift to quarantined readers...? I doubt it."—The Washington Post "A heartening gathering of writers joining forces for community support."—Kirkus Reviews "Connects writers, readers, and booksellers in a wonderfully imaginative way. It's a really good book for a really good cause"—Bestselling author James Patterson ALONE TOGETHER: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this stressful time of isolation as well as a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come. All contributing authors and business partners are donating their share to The Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc), a nonprofit organization that coordinates charitable programs to strengthen the bookselling community. The roster of diverse voices includes Faith Adiele, Kwame Alexander, Jenna Blum, Andre Dubus III, Jamie Ford, Nikki Giovanni, Pam Houston, Jean Kwok, Major Jackson, Devi S. Laskar, Caroline Leavitt, Ada Limón, Dani Shapiro, David Sheff, Garth Stein, Luis Alberto Urrea, Steve Yarbrough, and Lidia Yuknavitch. The overarching theme is how this age of isolation and uncertainty is changing us as individuals and a society. "Alone Together showcases the human desire to grieve, explore, comfort, connect, and simply sit with the world as it weathers the pandemic. Jennifer Haupt's timely and moving anthology also benefits the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, making it a project that is noble in both word and deed."—Ann Patchett, Bestselling author, bookseller, and Co-Ambassador for The Book Industry Charitable Foundation

Download or read book Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus written by Danielle Allen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy in crisis -- Pandemic resilience -- Federalism is an asset -- A transformed peace: an agenda for healing our social contract.

Download or read book Love in Times of Coronavirus written by Julia Summerland and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What shall I wear tomorrow? I'm meeting with this guy, you remember, the really good looking one." "Which one? There were so many. Anyhow, well, your blue dress would be perfect, and what about your hair?" "My hair, ah, yes, I'll have it natural, just freshly washed, what do you think?" "Yes, and don't forget your mask! By the way, where are you meeting him?" "Because of coronavirus, he said he wanted to go for a walk." "For a walk? Seriously? Let's see if he buys you a drink, at least." "With a mask on he could hide behind it. I won't see his mouth or nose, won't be able to see many emotions. If he is wearing glasses - sunglasses, I mean - what will I see of the guy, honestly?" "Come on, better than nothing, at least you are meeting up with someone. Your mask will help you hide too; promise you will not take it off." "The lipstick will glue to it, I tell you ..." Sporty and active, Julia is looking for a partner and, more importantly, ... Set before, during and after the coronavirus lockdown, she quickly discovers that some things habe changed in the search for love.

Download or read book Touch in the Time of Corona written by Henriette Steiner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle, a memoir, a reflection on the pandemic, and a cultural analysis of the new spatial, social, and epistemological forms that have arisen with it, this volume weaves together cultural history, aesthetics, and urban and digital studies. It looks at the particular ways in which the possibilities for touch, touching and being touched, both physically and affectively, are reconfigured by the pandemic. How are love, care, and humanity’s complex relationships with technology and nature played out in the interval between abandoned city centres and digitally mediated gatherings? How can we comprehend the reconfiguration of relationships through the human response to the pandemic as an experience that concerns us all but affects each of us in different ways? How do we think through the technological and material dependencies that the pandemic situation establishes? And how does this allow us to imagine the world beyond the pandemic—both utopian and dystopian? The essays in this book explore the new forms of intimacy and distance that are developing in the wake of COVID-19, offering a distinctive, topical analysis in the fields of urban and digital studies.

Download or read book Torture and Dignity written by J. M. Bernstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torture and rape are only rarely considered by moral philosophers—because they are so indisputably morally atrocious acts and because their specific mode of suffering cannot be accounted for by reigning moral theories. By making them pivotal to the understanding of morality in general, however, Jay Bernstein’s intention is to throw into question the dominant schools of modern moral philosophy and to attempt to restructure moral experience and understanding on the basis of the formations of suffering they make salient. Morals, Bernstein argues, emerge from the experience of moral injury, from the sufferings of the victims of moral harm. For us moderns, morality at its most urgent and insistent is, finally, a victim morality. This can sound hyperbolic; but since all of us are potential victims, it turns out that this perspective is readily available and intrinsic to ordinary ethical experience. One of Bernstein’s pivotal arguments is that trust is a form of mutual recognition; that trust is the ethical substance of everyday life; and that understood aright trust is structured from the perspective of a potential victim of harm rather than from the perspective of a deliberating agent. This book promises to be a major contribution to moral philosophy.

Download or read book Love in Times of Coronavirus II written by Julia Summerland and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My search continues in this second part of my love in coronavirus tale. Now, things are even more confusing with stops, starts and restarts of lockdowns and restrictions, glimpses of freedom and a married boyfriend who refuses to even think about - yes, you guessed it - leaving his wife.

Download or read book The End of October written by Lawrence Wright and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—a riveting thriller and “all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation” (The Wall Street Journal). At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions. Halfway across the globe, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pandemic leapfrogging around the world, which she believes may be the result of an act of biowarfare. And a rogue experimenter in man-made diseases is preparing his own terrifying solution. As already-fraying global relations begin to snap, the virus slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions and decimating the population. With his own wife and children facing diminishing odds of survival, Henry travels from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to his home base at the CDC in Atlanta, searching for a cure and for the origins of this seemingly unknowable disease. The End of October is a one-of-a-kind thriller steeped in real-life political and scientific implications, filled with the insight that has been the hallmark of Wright’s acclaimed nonfiction and the full-tilt narrative suspense that only the best fiction can offer.

Download or read book Love In The Time Of Corona written by Amy Laurens and published by Inkprint Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coronavirus lockdown means that Saria’s anxiety flares even when hanging the washing. Pegs all the same colour would help… If she can brave the trip to the shops. Out of toilet paper, Dan heads to the store, prepared to fight for one last roll. But his competition? Significantly cuter than he envisaged. A sweet, meet-cute romance about finding love in unexpected places.

Download or read book Love in Times of Coronavirus III written by Julia Summerland and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love in Times of Coronavirus tells my story about finding love in a pandemic. In this third volume of my quest to find Mister Right, many things have changed, others haven't. Will emotions and feelings win over social distancing, an online life and lockdowns? With tales of my own experiences and those of many others, the stories collected here are funny, sad and occasionally so hilarious, you will have trouble believing them. So please read my story! Will I find my missing half? Will there be a happy end? (Julia)

Download or read book Love in the Time of Coronavirus written by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems map a private pilgrimage to nowhere—from the chair to the couch, the couch to the chair. These poems also map a public pilgrimage through the landscape of pandemic, from dire disaster to the hope for healing. They chronicle a year spent in lockdown in a small village just outside New York City. Living amid the Coronavirus catastrophe has occasioned extraordinary outpourings of love over the past year. These poems recognize the public love of healthcare workers, front-line essential workers, people helping their sick and elderly neighbors and family members, school teachers ministering to students and their parents—all signs of our belief in the common good, as well as the many forms of private and personal love we practice—among them the uncountable emails, texts, social media posts, phone calls, and Zoom calls we share with our beloveds whom we are separated from, making ourselves present to them virtually when we cannot be present physically. These are but a few of the many forms love has taken—and continues to take—during these late days of pandemic. The title of the book, Love in the Time of Coronavirus, is borrowed from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s luminous novel, Love in the Time of Cholera, about the enduring power of love in the face of time and deadly circumstance. This book of poems goes beyond Marquez's primary focus on romantic attachment to consider love in its many forms. As with Marquez's novel, the poems remind us that love flourishes even, and perhaps especially, during times of extremity, when the reality of mortality becomes palpable to us and we begin to see life in the context of eternity. It is then that love becomes the most powerful antidote we have to human suffering.

Download or read book Love in the Time of Cholera Illustrated Edition written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

Download or read book Love in Times of Covid written by Victoria Kludt and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As if it were a fictional film, one of those of low quality and so much imagination that borders on the absurd, some at the end of 2019 and most of the rest of the mortals at the beginning of 2020, we had to enter a nightmare in which we are not still able to awake, an unprecedented global situation: the coronavirus pandemic. Although in the Middle Ages, in Europe, the so-called "Black Death" created a general psychosis in the old continent without knowledge of the cause, since the medicine of that time was very precarious thanks to the great influencer of the time, the Catholic Church, which did not allow by then the investigation with corpses, so necessary for medical advances, people survived as they could, with the limited resources and knowledge available to them, even believing that it was a great divine punishment. Almost seven hundred years later, we experienced another pandemic and we also don't know who or what was the culprit. But what we do know is that the authorities, in most of the affected countries, decreed the obligatory quarantine and to stay at home and leave only to supply ourselves with essential products to live ... and here many, many problems, subjectivities on what is really essential to live. We live another reality, totally different from the one we were used to. Family and friends that are seen through computer and cell phone screens with delays and images that are frozen by the high demand of internet users and the wifi that is not enough. But what I am going to talk about in this book is about romantic relationships, men, women, teenagers and lovers of old age who, thanks to or due to this undesirable virus, moved away thousands of chained hearts, or lovers. Stories that could be real, stories heard by ear with borders inspired by my imagination, licenses that I allowed myself to integrate to decorate each of these six stories, and of course there is also my own story, although I warn you that it is the most boring of all. I hope you enjoy this book, inspired by the title of another book that I was on my way to write when the pandemic slapped us and put us all inside our homes: "Love in times of networks: adapting to a new way of relating, different from the one our parents told us".Fortunately, I ́ve already published that book in Spanish and now in English.

Download or read book And the People Stayed Home Family Book Coronavirus Kids Book Nature Book written by Kitty O'Meara and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kitty O’Meara…offers us wisdom that can help during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. She is challenging us to grow."—Deepak Chopra, MD, author, Metahuman “Kitty O'Meara is the poet laureate of the pandemic"—O, The Oprah Magazine "An eloquent, heartwarming reflection that will resonate with generations to come… encouragement for a brighter tomorrow."—Kate Winslet "And the People Stayed Home is an uplifting perspective on the resilience of the human spirit and the healing potential we have to change our world for the better." ––Shelf Awareness “Images of nature healing show the author’s vision of hope for the future…The accessible prose and beautiful images make this a natural selection for young readers, but older ones may appreciate the work’s deeper meaning.”— Kirkus Reviews “This is a perfectly illustrated version of a poem that continues to be relevant.”—School Library Journal “A stunning and peaceful offering of introspection and hope.”—The Children’s Book Review Ten Best Children’s Books of 2020: "A calming, optimistic read, and a salve for children trying their best to navigate this time." —Smithsonian Magazine “It captured the kind of optimism people need right now.”—Esquire (UK) “Thank you, Kitty O'Meara…for pointing out that at this very moment, this very day, we can seize the opportunity to restore wholeness to our world."—Sy Montgomery, bestselling author of The Good Good Pig and The Soul of an Octopus “A poem by American writer Kitty O’Meara has deservedly gone viral.”—Edinburgh Evening News And the People Stayed Home is a beautifully produced picture book featuring Kitty O’Meara’s popular, globally viral prose poem about the coronavirus pandemic, which has a hopeful and timeless message. Kitty O’Meara, author of And the People Stayed Home, has been called the “poet laureate of the pandemic.” This illustrated children’s book (ages 4-8) will also appeal to readers of all ages. O’Meara’s thoughtful poem about the pandemic, quarantine, and the future suggests there is meaning to be found in our shared experience of the coronavirus and conveys an optimistic message about the possibility of profound healing for people and the planet. Her words encourage us to look within, listen deeply, and connect with ourselves and the earth in order to heal. O’Meara, a former teacher and chaplain and a spiritual director, clearly captures important aspects of the pandemic experience. Her words, written in March 2020 and shared on Facebook, immediately resonated nationally and internationally and were widely circulated on social media, covered in mainstream news media, and inspired an outpouring of creativity from musicians, dancers, artists, filmmakers, and more. The many highlights include an original composition by John Corigliano that was premiered by Renée Fleming.

Download or read book Love in the Time of Corona written by C. J. Loomis and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Love in the Time of Corona CJ Loomis tells an epic love story during the Coronavirus pandemic. He chronicles the story of Sloane Knox and Hayden Foster and their cosmic connection. Through pure coincidence they spend a single night together in Minneapolis, MN before their worlds are upended. He perfectly sets the stage for the most incredible and timely love story ever told. Through a twist of monumental proportions, this boundary defying romantic adventure challenges at every turn. What will happen to the world? Will these two star-crossed lovers survive seemingly insurmountable odds? Critics are raving about this first novel author and his ability to pull you in from the very first chapter! Get ready to laugh and cry, this saga is truly one of a kind. If you're a hopeless romantic that believes in the phenomena of love at first sight, Love in the Time of Corona is for you!

Download or read book LOVE IN THE TIME OF CORONA written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: