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Article content From cholera to SARS and from the Black Death to today’s COVID-19 pandemic, both fiction and non-fiction books have provided unique insights into events that have significantly altered human history. Fictional books that have pandemics as backdrops provide a bit of an escape from the current situation while still providing perspective of how people are affected by outbreaks and plagues. Below are some titles the Brantford Public Library has that stand out as excellent pandemic-based reading options. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser...

Over a hundred thousand people have now died of Covid-19 in the UK alone; people around the world have been separated from their family and friends, and entire economies have come to a standstill. All of which raises an important question: how can the world prevent another pandemic? The obvious place to start is at the beginning – before a pathogen has been seeded around the world and serious damage has been caused. If we can predict where the next pandemic will come from, perhaps we can stop it at its source. It's a simple idea, but is remarkably difficult to put into practice: infectio...

by Charles Kenny (Scribner £20, 320 pp)  In 1962, the Nobel Prize-winning virologist Sir Frank Burnet wrote: 'The most likely forecast about the future of infectious disease is that it will be very dull.' After outbreaks in the past few decades of bird flu, Ebola, SARS and Covid-19, we know how very wrong he was. Infectious disease has always been with us and arguably always will be. Charles Kenny's book is a lively survey of our millennia-long struggle to defeat it. One of the first reliably recorded pandemics was in Athens in the 5th century BC. A thousand years later, Yersinia Pestis, th...

Cranbrook Public Library The Cranbrook Public Library is now open with extended hours (with some restrictions and reduced services.) We encourage patrons to limit their visits to 60 minutes. We also have a maximum number of patrons allowed in the building at one time, so you may be asked to wait. Please wear a mask during your visit. Masks are mandatory now (and must be worn in accordance with provincial guidelines for your entire visit). Library hours for February are: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, Thursday, and Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday a...

Is 2021 the next 1848 or 1968, a year of insurrection? It’s still January and we’ve had two seismic stormings of seemingly impregnable ramparts organized by very different sets of disaffected outsiders on social media. After the Capitol and Wall Street, which citadel will be targeted next? Anyone still in possession of their reason was obviously appalled to their very core by the Jan. 6 attack on our democracy. An assault on Wall Street hedge funds that seek to profit from the woes of troubled companies, on the other hand, will naturally elicit a wider range of emotions. Schadenfreude, fo...