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The Plague Tales
The Plague Tales | Ann Benson
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It is history's most feared disease. It turned neighbor against neighbor, the civilized into the savage, and the living into the dead. Now, in a spellbinding novel of adventure and science, romance and terror, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacteriumthe invisible seeds of a new bubonic plague. In the year 1348, a disgraced Spanish physician crosses a landscape of horrors to Avignon, France. There, he will be sent on an impossible mission to England, to save the royal family from the Black Death.... Nearly seven hundred years later, a woman scientist digs up a clod of earth in London. In a world where medicine is tightly controlled, she will unearth a terror lying dormant for centuries. From the primitive cures of the Middle Ages to the biological police state of our near future, The Plague Tales is a thrilling race against time and mass destruction. For in 2005, humankind's last hope for survival can come only from one place: out of a dark and tortured past. From the Paperback edition.
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JenniferEgnor
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It was there, deep in her heart, buried in the pit of her stomach, lurking in her psyche, ready to scratch and claw its way out with the slightest provocation. She would hold it back...until in a private place where she would cry and wail until her heart burst.

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JenniferEgnor
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Last Friday night, I lost the book I was reading. I looked everywhere, it was like it just vanished! My husband ordered another copy for me—today, my copy turned up. So Oma & Opa can keep the new one. I was so mad, because I was so close to finishing it! Oh my love, we are reunited once again📖🤣

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JenniferEgnor
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Lady, if you are of a mind to be rid of this burden, it can be arranged. Many a midwife has plucked an unwanted seed from its mother‘s womb, even among the highborn.

Yes, and I have done a fair amount of research on it! #prochoice #medievalprochoice

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JenniferEgnor
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It‘s a hard thing, death, when it‘s not expected...

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JenniferEgnor
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They stood in the small main room of the cottage and looked around silently. Bruce was awestruck by what he saw before him. He pursed lips and made a little whistle of amazement. “Hello, Middle Ages,” he said.

Oh my heart flutters at the thought.

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JenniferEgnor
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Things wither and die before us so we may better savor that we live.

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JenniferEgnor
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We were innocent there, and everything was beautiful; now we know far more than is bearable. And we return to a place where more sorrow awaits us.

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JenniferEgnor
The Plague Tales | Ann Benson

Me: something bad happened!

Husband: in real life or in the book?

Me: in real life! Why are you acting like this isn‘t real? You‘re acting like these people‘s lives don‘t matter! #alllivesmatter

Husband: oh boy here we go.

#bookconversations

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JenniferEgnor
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Time stood still now, as it had then, and in the presence of this woman, his demons seemed at rest.

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“You must consult with astrologers,” he said on the first day of instruction, “ in order to know the most auspicious days for bathing, or going outside, or any of the other normal occurrences of daily life.”

What if it‘s mercury retrograde? You‘re fucked🤣

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JenniferEgnor
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Happy Holidays, fellow book worms!

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Chelsibeau
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Day 15 #stripes

Melissa_J I loved that book. 8y
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