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Doomsday Book
Science fiction
Doomsday Book
Oxford historian Kivrin travels to the Middle Ages expecting a carefully monitored research assignment but arrives during a devastating epidemic. In her own century, an outbreak disrupts the systems meant to retrieve her and leaves colleagues racing against quarantine and incomplete information. The two timelines reveal courage, institutional failure, and care under conditions neither group can control. Immersive and harrowing, this time-travel novel suits a long winter weekend for readers interested in historical detail, epidemics, academic science fiction, and ordinary people showing grace amid catastrophe.
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Pandemic/plague illness and mass death; child death; graphic illness and dying; grief and trauma; war/medieval violence; religious distress; isolation and life-threatening peril.
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Italian Garden Spritz
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- Garnish: Use a matching citrus wheel, berry, or herb from the recipe when available.
- Glassware: Highball glass.
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Celebration Prosecco
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A gently sweet pour suits an unhurried afternoon between the pages.
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