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41) Immunity index
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sue Burke, author of Semiosis and Interference, gives readers a new near-future, hard sf novel. Immunity Index blends Orphan Black with Contagion in a terrifying outbreak scenario. In a US facing growing food shortages, stark inequality, and a growing fascist government, three perfectly normal young women are about to find out that they share a great deal in common. Their creator, the gifted geneticist Peng, made them that way-before such things...
Author
Series
Lock in novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Fifteen years from now, a new virus sweeps the globe. 95% of those afflicted experience nothing worse than fever and headaches. Four percent suffer acute meningitis, creating the largest medical crisis in history. And one percent find themselves "locked in"--fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. One per cent doesn't seem like a lot. But in the United States, that's 1.7 million people "locked in"...including the President's...
Author
Series
Return to Red River volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Skybound Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of a deadly outbreak bearing similarities to the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic, a city at the tip of Africa is losing its mind-complete with hallucinations, paranoia, and good old-fashioned ghost sightings. Is it the result of secret government experiments, an episode of mass hysteria, the effects of trauma, a sign of the end times? In a quarantined city in which the inexplicable has already occurred, rumors, superstitions, and conspiracy...
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 9
Language
English
Description
On a serene summer Sunday, a routine admission for a run-of-the-mill surgery at Atlanta's Emory Hospital goes tragically wrong, setting off a catastrophic wave of destruction that sends the facility and the surrounding area into lockdown. One of the city's largest and most prestigious institutions, Emory is situated near the Centers for Disease Control, the FBI counter-terrorism headquarters, and a large children's hospital. Anything that happens...
48) A single light
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty others, Wynter and Chase emerge to find the area abandoned. There is no sign of Noah and the rest of the group that was supposed to greet them when they emerged--the same people Wynter was counting on to help her locate the IV antibiotics her gravely ill friend, Julie, needs in order to live. As the clock ticks down on Julie's life, Wynter and Chase embark on a desperate search for medicine...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A deadly virus is spreading around the world. At first it's a distant alarm bell in the background of Hannah's comfortable suburban life. Then suddenly the epidemic has arrived on her doorstep..." (From book jacket).
Author
Publisher
Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"What if the pandemic you thought would kill you made you more intelligent instead? In the Amazon jungle, a disease is spreading. To those who survive, it grants enhanced communication, memory, and pattern recognition. But the miracle may be the sinister survival mechanism of a fungal organism, manipulating the infected into serving it. Paul Johns, a mycologist, is convinced the fungal host is the next stage of human evolution, while his brother Neil,...
51) Broken lands
Author
Series
Broken lands volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Gabriella "Gutsy" Gomez teams up with Benny Imura and his gang as they seek to finish what Captain Joe Ledger started--to find a cure for the zombie infection.
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It begins with a fever. By the time the spots appear, it's too late: Morris's disease is loose on the world, and the bodies of the dead begin to pile high in the streets. When its terrible side consequences for the survivors become clear, something must be done, or the dying will never stop. For Dr. Isabella Gauley, whose niece was the first confirmed victim, the route forward is neither clear nor strictly ethical, but it may be the only way to save...
53) Head on
Author
Series
Lock in novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps," robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it. Until a star...
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A collection of teenage love stories set during life in lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic. There's flirting and romance through window signs and over Skype and Zoom. There's a determined girl with a mask-making business, and two boys who meet through socially distant dog-walks. It's about finding love in unexpected place during an unprecedented time. In other words, it's like real life. -- adapted from back cover and Goodreads info
55) Coldbrook
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Coldbrook is a secret laboratory located deep in Appalachian Mountains. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were about to unleash. With their breakthrough comes disease and now it is out and ravaging the human population. The only hope is a cure and the only cure is genetic resistance: an uninfected person amongst the...
56) Quarantine
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The year is 1796, and a trading ship arrives in the vibrant trading town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. But it's a ghost ship--her entire crew has been decimated by a virulent fever which sweeps through the harbor town, and Newburyport's residents start to fall ill and die with alarming haste. When physician Giles Wiggins places the port under quarantine, he earns the ire of his shipbuilder half-brother, the wealthy and powerful Enoch Sumner, and...
57) Embers of love
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The logging industry in eastern Texas is booming, and Deborah Vandermark plans to assist her family's business now that she's completed college. Unexpectedly, her best friend Lizzie Decker accompanies her back home - fleeing a wedding and a groom she has no interest in. Deborah, the determined matchmaker, sets her sights on uniting her brother and her friend in a true love match. Then Deborah meets Dr. Christopher Clayton and discovers an interest...
Author
Series
Mass Effect. Andromeda volume 3
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Quarian ark Keelah Si'yah sails toward the Andromeda galaxy, carrying 20,000 colonists from sundry races including the drell, the elcor, and the batarians. Thirty years from their destination, a routine check reveals drell lying dead in their pods, and a deadly pathogen on board. Soon, the disease is jumping species, and it quickly becomes clear that this is no accident. It's murder, and the perpetrator is still on board. The ship's systems rapidly...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Haunted by the death of her sister, Finola Shanahan has resolved that she's not worthy of a family of her own and commits to spending her days caring for immigrants in the slums. Unwilling to consider marriage, Finola has perfected the ability to sabotage the relationships her parents arrange for her. At wit's end, her father calls upon the local Irish matchmaker, who pairs her with successful wagonmaker Riley Rafferty. After her usual tricks fail,...
60) The Epidemic
Author
Series
The Program. Prequels volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"After discovering that everything she's ever known including her own identity has been a lie, Quinlan McKee is determined to find out the truth about her past. But in her search for answers, she discovers a cover-up more chilling than she can imagine. An epidemic is coming, and there's no way to stop it"--
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