Catching Cold

In partnership with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Tundra is proud to launch an important series of books for children who have to cope with adult-sized problems. Young Alex’s father had been a policeman until he began to suffer from depression, perhaps the most common mental health issue we face. Alex’s questions are those that are often asked by the children of parents who have depression: is the parent simply lazy? Does he no longer care? And is it something I can catch, like a cold? In simple, straightforward language, the book explains what depression is and how it is treated. It also prepares a child for working with a helping professional. And perhaps most important, it reassures a child that he or she is not alone. Written by Canada’s foremost experts in the field, this is an important book to spur discussion and allay fears of those affected by depression.

The story of Dr. Jon DeLeon and his reconstituted CiliCold team continues. Deflecting SSS Pharmaceuticals from Dr. DeLeon’s immunology work, CiliCold escapes to a hidden research environment. There, the intrepid group takes a heart stopping chance and make an explosive discovery, shocking the world while infuriating SSS with their defiance. As SSS writhes in the agony of its CEO who despises what the company has become, Cassie Rhodes, loyal Triple-S lead attorney, defects to CiliCold. There, healing after Cristen’s rending suicide, she finds her home as an industry terrorist closes in...

Dr. Jon DeLeon, CEO of CiliCold, Meredith Doucette ex-CEO of Triple S Pharmaceuticals and Olivia Steadman, ex-regulator for Tanner Pharmaceuticals independently pursue ambitious plans to rein in a pharmaceutical industry that is out of control. The war is waged on the scientific, litigious, and legislative fields. CiliCold discovers the chemical language cells used to communicate with each other, and implementing nanotechnology and molecular machines, engages the cell’s own protein production process. While Olivia develops sweeping legislation in Congress, Meredith takes the unprecented step as a CEO of testifying against her own company. Damaged in their pursuits of remedies for the industry, they plow ahead, until a public health debacle of unprecedented proportion forces their work to the forefront. The world holds its breath...

Catching Cold - Breakthrough Lem Moyé, M.D., Ph.D. Four years ago, in the pre-COVID era... Doctor Jon DeLeon, an inspired scientist plagued by emotional addictions, believes that he can cure the common cold. His motley group of eccentric and intense scientists under the name CiliCold stumble, fight, and work together to test Jon’s hypothesis. These efforts lead to repeated failure, and their support team becomes disillusioned by the repeated difficulties. Attorneys Jasper Giles and Cassie Rhodes, ruthless defenders of the SSS Pharmaceutical Company, learn of Dr. DeLeon’s ideas through the brutal deposition of CiliCold’s ex-accountant. Intrigued by the promise of Jon’s work, they infiltrate the company to learn that Jon’s imminent emotional collapse and financial ruin blind him to the crippling assault the lawyers are prepared to unleash. Only the final staggering observation of Jon and his team, together with the dogged resistance of another takeover target of SSS, can possible preserve the finding of overwhelming scientific significance for which no one is prepared.

Kids from preschool through second grade will LOVE this silly story about a young boy whose vivid imagination goes into overdrive as he wonders why his classmates aren't showing up to school each day. He eventually discovers they are not being taken or in harm's way but rather they just caught a COLD. Uncertain what a COLD actually is, our hero sets out on an adventure to literally catch a COLD. Will he succeed? Will he actually catch a COLD? Anyone who has ever been in a classroom where students start getting sick should know the answer to that question

'Superb . . . Rich in interest and truly alarming . . . This is a book that deserves to be read' OBSERVER The world is no stranger to the fight needed to tackle a pandemic. In 1918, the Spanish Flu killed over forty million people - more Americans than all the wars the US fought in the entire twentieth century. Ever since, scientists have agreed that the next pandemic is not a question of if, but when. And they were right. As our planet faces another devastating pandemic, Catching Cold tells the extraordinary story of the urgent and unrelenting global effort to try to protect us. From the inhospitable wastes of the Norwegian Arctic circle to the frenzied food markets of Hong Kong, Davies tracks a small community of experts, working against the clock to uncover what turns a virus into a worldwide disaster, and how best to prevent it - because knowing something's coming is not at all the same thing as being ready for it.

Some colds are like mice, timid and annoying; others like dragons, accompanied by body aches and deep misery. In AH-CHOO!, Jennifer Ackerman explains what, exactly, a cold is, how it works, and whether it's really possible to "fight one off." Scientists call this the Golden Age of the Common Cold because Americans suffer up to a billion colds each year, resulting in 40 million days of missed work and school and 100 million doctor visits. They've also learned over the past decade much more about what cold viruses are, what they do to the human body, and how symptoms can be addressed. In this ode to the odious cold, Ackerman sifts through the chatter about treatments-what works, what doesn't, and what can't hurt. She dispels myths, such as susceptibility to colds reflects a weakened immune system. And she tracks current research, including work at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, a world-renowned center of cold research studies, where the search for a cure continues.

When Mr. Putter catches a cold, his friend Mrs. Teaberry sends her dog Zeke over with some special treats to help Mr. Putter get better.