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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this gorgeous, suspenseful novel, a Russian aristocrat races to stop a plague spreading from an isolated Manchurian city to the rest of the world. Based on a true story, this novel was inspired by the author's discovery of a long-lost book by a Russian doctor who chronicled a plague epidemic in Manchuria in 1910. A multi-series international television production of Shields' first novel "The Fig Eater" is currently in the works. Print run 75,000....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic -- a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria -- the 29th state of the Ottoman Empire -- located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks,...
Author
Series
Walking Dead series volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Uber-villain Philip Blake journeyed from his humble beginnings directly into the dark heart of the zombie apocalypse and became the self-proclaimed leader of a small town called Woodbury. The violent dictatorship within Woodbury all comes to a head.
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, death. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted twenty-seven-year-old marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial in London -- perhaps humanity's last hope for a cure. Though isolated from the chaos outside, she and the other volunteers -- Rachel, Leon, Yahiko, and Piper -- cannot hide...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A viral disease called 'the wickedness' plagues the world, and sixteen-year-olds Astrid and Natalie are two of the only people immune. The girls live in separate, isolated communities, but recent encounters with wicked people link their stories in unexpected ways"--
A plague is pulsing through the world. Already infected by the droves of Singers, the ultraviolet mosquito-like insects who carry the plague, the Wicked roam the world freely. They don't...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep, and doesn't wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold...
69) Ghost virus
Author
Series
Jerry Pardoe and Jamila Patel novels volume 1
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A young woman pours acid over her own body. A loving husband kills his wife. A headteacher throws her pupils out of a window. DC Jerry Pardoe and DS Jamila Patel of Tooting Police are at a loss. Why are such violent crimes being committed by the most unlikely of people? Ordinary Londoners are being infected with an insatiable lust to murder . All of the killers were wearing second-hand clothes. Could these garments be possessed by a supernatural force?...
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can't go out, but the dead can come in--and they come in all forms, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the 'companionship' program choose to upload their consciousness before dying, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers...
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"During their temporary research post on Apech -- a planet ravaged by a time distorting illness -- Wilhelmina Ming and four other elite students of the Crysthian empire have witnessed such illogical brutality that they've resorted to psychedelic antidepressants and group sex to take the edge off. After a night of indulgence following a gruesome execution, they wake to find an oblique warning in the form of an impaled corpse dangling from the exterior...
73) Evolution
Author
Series
Dark matter trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Shay, her manipulative father, Xander, and the other survivors are hiding out at the secret Multiverse compound in Scotland, where Shay still hopes to find some trace of the real Callie, her boyfriend's missing sister, and heal the breach between herself and Kai--who remains her best chance to escape her father's clutches and stop the deadly contagion.
74) Flameout
Author
Series
Souls of fire volume 3
Publisher
Signet Select, published by New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When three local witches are kidnapped, Emberly and her partner, Jackson, must race against time to find them before their spells fall into the wrong hands, all while trying to find a cure for a plague-like virus derived from vampire blood that turns humans into crazed killers.
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide in an outback wildlife park. And although Jean talks to all her charges, she has a particular soft spot for a young dingo called Sue. As disturbing...
76) Contagion
Author
Series
Contagion duology volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project--including its members' dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried--and some monsters are only too ready...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From a former US government advisor on agro-terrorism comes a ripped-from-the-headlines debut thriller about a global plot to release a deadly virus and the elite response team who must try to stop it"--
"From a former US government advisor on agro-terrorism comes a ripped-from-the-headlines debut thriller about a global plot to release a deadly virus and the elite response team who must try to stop it. When the outbreak of a terrifyingly gruesome...
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Five Feet Apart meets Kate in Waiting in this timely story of two best friends navigating the complexities of friendship while their world is turned upside down by a global pandemic, from the author of Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card. The lives of high school seniors Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales couldn't be more different. Parisa, an earnest and privileged Iranian American, struggles to live up to her own impossible standards. Gabriela,...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
As the yellow fever epidemic continues to ravage New Orleans and the orphanages become more crowded, Marie-Grace and Cécile help with the orphans, until Marie-Grace learns that her Uncle Luc's fiancée, Mademoiselle Océane, has fallen ill.
80) Contagion
Author
Series
Dark matter trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A scientific experiment goes wrong, and a deadly epidemic sweeps through Scotland. Callie might have survived the disease, but she didn't survive the treatment. She was kidnapped and experimented upon at a secret lab, one that works with antimatter. When she broke free of her prison, she unleashed a wave of destruction. Callie's brother Kai is looking for her, along with his friend Shay, who has been infected and is beginning to change. Now they're...
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