Ship Fever
Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1996-11-17
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0393316009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1996-11-17
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0393316009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780393038538
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The love of science, the science of love--and the struggle to reconcile the two--are the subjects of this remarkable collection, stories and a novella. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, these stories move between past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams.
Author: Michael Smith
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2022-06-21
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0385547439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The true story of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway—COVID-19—days before the world shut down in March 2020. This riveting narrative thriller takes readers behind the scenes with passengers and crew who were caught unprepared for the deadly ordeal that lay ahead. In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading on different continents, and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hot spots, the cruise ship Zaandam, owned by Holland America, was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina, loaded with 1,200 passengers—Americans, Europeans and South Americans, plus 600 crew. Most passengers were over the age of sixty-five. There was concern about the virus on the news, and it had already killed and sickened passengers on other Holland America ships. But that was oceans away, and escaping to sea at the ends of the earth for a few weeks seemed like it might be a good option. The cruise line had said the voyage (three weeks around the South American coastline to see some of the world’s most stunning natural wonders and ancient ruins) would carry on as scheduled, with no refunds. And it would be safe. Among the travelers there is a retired American school superintendent on a dream vacation with his wife of fifty-six years, on a personal quest to see Machu Picchu. There is an Argentine psychologist taking this trip to celebrate her sixty-fourth birthday with her husband, though she finds herself fretting in her cabin on day one, trying to dismiss her fears of what she’s hearing on the news. There is an Indonesian laundry manager who's been toiling on Holland America cruise ships for thirty years, sending his monthly paycheck to his family back home. Within days, people aboard Zaandam begin to fall sick. The world’s ports shut down. Zaandam becomes a top story on the news and is denied safe harbor everywhere. With only two doctors aboard and few medical supplies to test for or treat COVID-19, and with dwindling food and water, the ship wanders the oceans on an unthinkable journey.
Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780393061086
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The National Book Award-winning author of "Ship Fever" delivers her eagerly anticipated new novel, set in 1916, in an isolated town in the Adirondacks, far from the war raging in Europe.
Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2003-02-17
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0393323579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spanning two centuries, an intricately woven collection of stories and novellas journeys across landscapes of yearning, awakening, loss, and unexpected discovery as the lives of extraordinary characters unfold in a borderland between science and passion.
Author: Billy G. Smith
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-11-19
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0300194528
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How a ship of British idealists sailed to Africa to end the slave trade but instead ignited a yellow fever pandemic
Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-08-19
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0393240002
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A twelve-year-old boy discovers the wonders of science and the natural world from motorized bicycles, to airplanes, to x-ray technology, and genetics in this collection of five stories.
Author: Frank G. Slaughter
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Published:
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1645400743
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the Author of Code Five, Doctor's Wives, and Doctor's Daughters High in the Andes Mountains of Peru, an archaeologist stumbles upon an ancient tomb, unwittingly releasing the germs from a civilization doomed by a plague over 5,000 years ago. What happens when this deadly organism, for which there is no antidote, reappears, forms the basis of this sensational novel by the author of Code Five. This is the story of one man in particular—Dr. Grant Reed and the dedicated crew of the international hospital ship Mercy, as they set about the task of quarantining the first victims of a hideous plague. Set adrift by frightened Peruvians, the aging and crippled ship faces a hurricane, mutinous patients, and even a pair of great white sharks, grisly mascots of a ship of death. . . . Frank Slaughter here takes on one of the most important and exciting subjects to be found among his novels—the complex, high-stakes world of interglobal medicine, taking us behind the public deeds to the private people whose courage can make the difference between today's flus . . . and tomorrow's headlines. This is one of Frank Slaughter's finest medical suspense stories, a superbly thrilling tale based on some all-too- real possibilities.