Quarantine!
How I Survived the Diamond Princess Coronavirus Crisis
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Andrea Gallo
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Gay Courter
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A passengers story of fighting for her and everyone else's rescue from the cruise ship with the first major outbreak of COVID-19 outside China.
What happens when you find yourself at the epicenter of a global crisis over a contagious new virus? Best-selling writer Gay Courter and her filmmaker husband learned the answer to that question in early February 2020, just as they were about to disembark from the Diamond Princess in Tokyo after a dazzling two-week southeast Asian cruise.
Weeks before lockdowns and social distancing became the new normal, the Courters and their shipmates suddenly found themselves trapped in a posh penitentiary courtesy of the Japanese Ministry of Health.
Confined to their cabin and its balcony, they watched in terror as more and more sick and contagious passengers were loaded into ambulances and the worlds press swarmed the port.
Rather than passively endure their nightmare-come-true, they launched a campaign to get themselves and everyone else off the ship. With the help of the global media and some well-placed connections, they managed to influence high-ranking U.S. government officials right up to and including the White House to bring everyone home to safety.
Quarantine! is the insiders book on the Diamond Princess episode, a suspenseful real-life drama recounting Gay and Phil's 12-day ordeal aboard ship, their tenacious efforts to get the U.S. government to repatriate them and other Americans, and their additional fifteen-day quarantine under federal order behind chain-link fencing at the pointedly less-than-posh Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
The COVID-19 crisis has affected the entire world. In her inimitable, long-admired voice, Gay Courter tells how it feels to wonder if you will be the next victim. For updates on Phil Courters documentary, Quarantine! How We Survived the Diamond Princess Coronavirus Crisis, visit quarantinediamondprincess.com
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Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock - a fully illustrated companion volume to the hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, featuring the book and lyrics for the first time in print, backstage stories and the real history behind the show's events, character design sketches, and songs that ended up on the cutting room floor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great musical
- By robert reed on 07-24-21
By: Irene Sankoff, and others
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Airborne
- By: DiAnn Mills
- Narrated by: Charity Spencer
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Heather Lawrence’s long-awaited vacation to Salzburg wasn’t supposed to go like this. Mere hours into the transatlantic flight, the Houston FBI agent is awakened when passengers begin exhibiting horrific symptoms of an unknown infection. As the virus quickly spreads and dozens of passengers fall ill, Heather fears she’s witnessing an epidemic similar to ones her estranged husband studies for a living - but this airborne contagion may have been deliberately released.
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5 out of 5 stars
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YES, YES, YES. I'll be reading more by this author
- By Hall Ways on 10-31-20
By: DiAnn Mills
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Channel of Peace
- By: Kevin Tuerff
- Narrated by: Kevin Tuerff
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 45
When Kevin Tuerff and his partner boarded their flight from France to New York City on September 11, 2001, they had no idea that a few hours later the world - and their lives - would change forever. After US airspace closed following the terrorist attacks, Kevin, who had been experiencing doubts about organized religion, found himself in the small town of Gander, Newfoundland, with thousands of other refugees or “come from aways”. Channel of Peace is a beautiful account of how the people of Gander rallied with boundless acts of generosity and compassion for the “plane people".
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5 out of 5 stars
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a story of hope
- By Wendy Weiss on 07-20-18
By: Kevin Tuerff
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Sweet Masterpiece
- Samantha Sweet Series, Book 1
- By: Connie Shelton
- Narrated by: Andrea Bates
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 320
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Story4 out of 5 stars 267
Samantha Sweet breaks into houses for a living - all perfectly legal as a caretaker for the USDA. But her real dream is to open her own pastry shop, 'Sweet's Sweets.' Life is a little crazy for Sam right now. At one of her break-in properties, a dying woman insists that she take a small wooden box. Sam doesn't realize that the old woman was known locally as a 'bruja,' a witch, until she begins to feel some strange effects from the box.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Picky, I know I'm Picky.
- By Judy King on 03-02-16
By: Connie Shelton
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Friday
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,619
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,320
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,322
Friday, a secret courier, is thrown into an assignment under the command of her employer, a man she knows only as "Boss." She operates from and over a near-future Earth in North America, a vulgar and chaotic land comprised of dozens of independent states. In America's disunion, Friday keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions as she conquers one calamity and scrape after another.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Almost A Perfect, This Time.
- By Dave Worley on 12-02-08
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The Rationing
- A Novel
- By: Charles Wheelan
- Narrated by: Josh Hurley
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
America is in trouble - at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen. That ordinarily wouldn’t lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there’s just one problem: the government supply of Dormigen, the silver bullet of pharmaceuticals, has been depleted just as demand begins to spike. Set in the near future, The Rationing centers around a White House struggling to quell the crisis - and control the narrative.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For A While I Thought It Wasn’t Fiction
- By Brian on 10-12-19
By: Charles Wheelan
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Weekend Warriors
- Sisterhood, Book 1
- By: Fern Michaels
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,038
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 865
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 863
On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be - but each has had her share of bad luck, from cheating husbands to sexist colleagues to a legal system that often doesn't do its job. Now, drawn together by tragedy, they're forging a bond that will help them right the wrongs committed against them and discover an inner strength they didn't know they had. The Sisterhood is learning that when bad things happen, you can roll over and play dead...or you can get up fighting...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Weekend Warriors
- By Ms Mare on 04-04-09
By: Fern Michaels
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Lockdown
- Saint Squad, Book 2
- By: Traci Hunter Abramson
- Narrated by: Kim Christenson
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Only twice had she set foot inside the building since the massacre. The first time had been just a month after the tragedy .. . . The second time she had returned to the scene of the crime had been two days ago when she forced herself to enter the building to check on the temporary office for the SEAL team. The counselor she had seen in the months after the shooting had encouraged her to face her fears, but now . . . Riley wasn’t sure she was ready to face them after all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truth!?!
- By Brooke Maples on 10-07-24
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Supernatural Inc.: Book 1
- By: Simon Archer
- Narrated by: Gabriel McKnight
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 171
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 148
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Story4 out of 5 stars 148
Life on Shelnora Island seemed to be perfect for me. A tropical paradise, great food, and beautiful women at the local sorority . . . until I crossed paths with a mysterious murder and sightings of an honest-to-God werewolf! Now I'm surrounded by three beautiful women, all drawn into the mystery, and it turns out that my new dog is a smoking hot shapeshifter. Life's gotten crazy, but maybe, if we all work together, we'll find out who the real killer is. Could it be the curmudgeonly divemaster with a grudge? The sleazy resort owner drumming up sensationalism for tourist bucks?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Its like Scooby-Doo but with a harem and explicit content
- By Amazon Customer on 07-01-24
By: Simon Archer
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Safe Houses
- A Novel
- By: Dan Fesperman
- Narrated by: Dan Fesperman
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 728
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 634
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 632
West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War. Helen's world is upended when, during her routine inspection of an agency property, she overhears a meeting between two unfamiliar people speaking a coded language that hints at shadowy realities far beyond her comprehension. Before the day is out, she witnesses a second unauthorized encounter, one that will place her in the sight lines of the most ruthless and powerful man at the agency.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fiction from Truth
- By Sue MB on 11-10-18
By: Dan Fesperman
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Jingle All the Way
- A Novel
- By: Debbie Macomber
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 310
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 309
Everly Lancaster always had big dreams. Now a top real-estate executive, Everly finds her work is her life, leaving no space for anything (or anyone) else. Sensing her stress, Everly’s boss insists she take December off. But after her vengeful assistant books a guided cruise in the Amazon instead of the luxury beach vacation she expected, Everly is horrified to realize that she’s about to spend the next two weeks trapped - with no Wi-Fi! - in the rain forest. Not even Asher Adams, the ship’s charming naturalist, can convince Everly that the trip will be unforgettable.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected
- By A Book Fan on 10-31-20
By: Debbie Macomber
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The Day the World Came to Town
- 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
- By: Jim DeFede
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,041
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,668
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,652
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of US airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and goodwill.
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5 out of 5 stars
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👍👍 From one of the Plane People
- By Timothy on 12-30-19
By: Jim DeFede
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Murder at the PTA
- Maya & Sandra Mystery Series, Book 1
- By: Lee Hollis
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 128
Someone is trying to turn Portland High into a school for scandal with a gossipy website called Dirty Laundry. The latest target of ruinous rumors is newly elected PTA President Sandra Wallage. After a heated meeting with outraged parents, Sandra runs into fellow school mom and Private Investigator Maya Kendrick, who's discovered the person behind the website. But when the women storm into the venomous gossip columnist's office they find a lifeless body - along with a confession.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More please.
- By Placeholder on 11-03-20
By: Lee Hollis
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The Missing Piece
- By: Sharon Sala
- Narrated by: Adam Gold
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
PI Charlie Dodge knows what it’s like to have something important disappear. His wife, Annie, suffers from early-onset Alzheimer’s, causing her to remember little of the life she shared with her husband. Charlie has devoted his career to saving what he can - missing people, threatened lives. But when prominent Denver multimillionaire Carter Dunleavy vanishes without a trace, Charlie and his assistant, Wyrick, discover missing doesn’t always mean gone. It turns out Carter didn’t vanish after all - he’s gone into hiding.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent private investigation suspense...
- By shelley on 10-07-19
By: Sharon Sala
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The Desert and the Sea
- 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
- By: Michael Scott Moore
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 785
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 692
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 689
In January 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International, Michael Scott Moore traveled to the Horn of Africa to write about piracy and ways to end it. In a terrible twist of fate, Moore himself was kidnapped and subsequently held captive by Somali pirates for 977 days. Yet Moore’s own struggle is only part of the story: The Desert and the Sea falls at the intersection of reportage, memoir, and history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- By Jonathan on 08-04-18
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Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse
- By: Shane Burcaw
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 344
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 297
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Story5 out of 5 stars 298
With his signature acerbic wit and hilarious voice, 20-something author, blogger, and entrepreneur Shane Burcaw is back with an essay collection about living a full life in a body that many people perceive as a tragedy. From anecdotes about first introductions where people patted him on the head instead of shaking his hand, to stories of passersby mistaking his able-bodied girlfriend for a nurse, Shane tackles awkward situations and assumptions with humor and grace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uplifting
- By PhinzPride on 04-12-20
By: Shane Burcaw
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- San Francisco Gal
- 06-04-24
Interesting story of how things developed at beginning of Covid Pandemic
I didn’t care for the voice of the reader. Also, some parts were a little too long drawn out and were based on her character. It would have been interesting to hear more of how other passengers were reacting and responding.
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