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21) The refuge
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Darcie and Walter Goodwin join a Shaker village to escape a cholera epidemic, but when Walter dies, Darcie is left alone--and lonely. Can love live again for this widow in a community that doesn't believe in marriage?"--
1849. Darcie and Walter Goodwin join a Shaker village to escape a cholera epidemic sweeping the area. It's meant to be a temporary stay, but Walter is killed in a riverboat accident. With no family and no money, Darcie has little...
22) Outside, inside
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful book that describes the impact of COVID-19 on communities and why some essential workers could not quarantine.
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 9
Language
English
Description
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC!
Karin Slaughter, the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her, brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won't see coming
A mysterious kidnapping
On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants
...Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes the 1918 influenza pandemic, from how World War I soldiers spread the disease to recent scientific efforts to understand the virus that took between twenty and forty million lives worldwide.
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With global cooperation and cohesion in decline, Hotez, a former member of the US Science Envoy Program, zeroes in on the factors that drive our most controversial and pressing global health concerns, including war and conflict, climate change, antivaxxers, and poverty. He proposes historically proven methods to soothe fraught international relations while preparing us for a safer, healthier future. The 2020 coronavirus crisis makes the book more...
Author
Series
Millenial glory volume 1
Publisher
Seventh Seal Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
2nd printing
Language
English
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When a killer plague wipes out 99% of the world's population, the embattled survivors struggle to make their way in a post-apocalyptic reality. This 2020 adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand frames the eternal battle between good and evil, as embodied by the peaceful prophet Mother Abagail and the menacing presence Randall Flagg, and closes with a new coda written by Stephen King himself.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history--from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism--have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the epic finale to the saga, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.
Author
Series
Last star burning volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To escape execution for a crime she didn't commit, seventeen-year-old Sev is forced to run away from her city into the wilderness. With nowhere to turn, Sev has to figure out who she can trust in a world where trusting the wrong person could mean not only her life but the lives of everyone she loves"--
Her mother's body is displayed above Traitor's Arch, kept in a paralyzed half sleep by the same plague that destroyed the rest of the world. Sev...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurlinga story of humanity across centuries and planets"--
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she's had her fill of uncertainty. She's content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads....
34) Recursion
Author
Language
English
Description
"That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome--a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first...
36) Outbreak
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"When sea currents shift, the red algae along the West African coast vanishes and the mysterious deaths stop. Professor Theo Bishop and biological researcher Avery Madison know the danger hasn't passed but changed locations and headed toward America. But everywhere they turn, powerful interests are determined to silence all credible evidence of the impending biological disaster"--
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping sequel to The line between, cult escapee Wynter Roth and ex-soldier Chase Miller emerge from their bunker to find a country ravaged by disease, and Wynter is the only one who can save it"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This title explains the many new terms kids are hearing, like virus, coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and COVID-19. It also explains the difference between a virus and the illness it causes, as well as how viruses spread, and how to stay healthy! Complete with inviting photos and images (labeled when needed), bolded glossary terms, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The current COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of kids across the world and has caused fear and confusion as people in charge have given conflicting orders. Read to discover the answers to some of your biggest questions. This book also comes with a handwashing diagram, a glossary, and a timeline of past pandemics and their impact on the world."--
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