And The World Was Quiet
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Last published Tue, Dec 22, 2020
"It's when finding a solution feels impossible that it becomes the most important thing we could ever do."
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Written from the perspective of four different people; a trauma nurse, a reporter, a youth group leader and a wayward teenager, the intricate story of a global pandemic is woven. At first thought to be a flu, the source of this epidemic begins to turn the world- and everything we know about it- upside down.
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