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81) Afterland
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three years after a plague has wiped out the male population, twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence, and pursued by Cole's own ruthless sister, Billie -- all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as a reproductive resource or a sex object or a stand-in son. Someplace like home.
Author
Series
Walking Dead graphic novels volume 19
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
While Rick takes the group to the Kingdom, Negan takes the opportunity to start a war.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Driven and recklessly daring, Martin Sabater follows his lifelong dream of owning a cacao plantation in Valle del Cauca. But on the night of a spectacular gala, he disappears -- and is never seen again. Now his hacienda is a budding Catholic hospital saving lives during an emerging epidemic. And novice nun "Sor Puri" is there to uncover the truth behind Martin's disappearance. But her real identity -- and her past with the heartbreakingly charismatic...
84) The girl in red
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that served as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She was just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that didn't look anything like the one...
86) Bajo cero
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
After years spent in an underground storage container, a dangerous organism is let loose, and it's up to three strangers to come together and defeat it.
Author
Series
Parasitology volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The SymboGen-designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde. Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads, but Sal and her companions must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped....
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Agent Raibert Kaminski and the crew of the Transtemporal Vehicle Kleio have made a shocking discovery out in the unknown reaches of the multiverse. They've stumbled across a temporal implosion that has claimed two whole universes, and neither Raibert nor his crew can figure out what caused this calamity other than it had something to do with reckless time travel. The Kleio speeds back to their home universe of SysGov with this dire report, but an...
89) Deception
Author
Series
Dark matter trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Believing that she is a carrier of the deadly disease they are calling the "Aberdeen flu," Shay has surrendered herself to the authorities and along with other survivors becomes an unwilling test subject in the effort to find a cure; but when the lab is attacked she and a few of the others with the strongest supernatural abilities escape, and her boyfriend Kai is determined to find her, while ghostly Callie, the true carrier, will atone for her deception"--Provided...
90) Resistance
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Zoe Beck is an investigative journalist - or sh was, before turning to pop culture reporting in order to spend more time with her family, which is how she finds herself doing celebrity Q&As at a music festival. When some of the revelers fall ill, many point to food poisoning. But after the festival, as attendees scatter across the country, more people begin to get sick. Whatever it is, it's spreading fast, resisting all efforts to contain or cure...
Author
Series
Walking Dead graphic novels volume 22
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The World we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to start living. Alexandria has been destroyed. Can Rick rally the other communities against Negan's army?
92) Violeta
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso día de 1920, siendo la primera niña de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estará marcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios, pues todavía se sienten las ondas expansivas de la Gran Guerra cuando la gripe española llega a las orillas de su país sudamericano natal, casi en el momento exacto de su nacimiento. Gracias a la clarividencia del padre, la familia saldrá indemne...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
New York City cop Barry Sutton 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. Neuroscientist Helena Smith dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious moments of our pasts. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A superstitious oil town in Texas is sent into a tailspin when the star player of their championship girls' basketball team mysteriously collapses on the season's opening night and is followed by other girls who seem to suffer from the same peculiar condition.
95) The line between
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Wynter Roth is turned out of New Earth, a self-contained doomsday cult on the American prairie, she emerges into a world poised on the brink of madness as a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia spreads across the nation. As Wynter struggles to start over in a world she's been taught to regard as evil, she finds herself face-to-face with the apocalypse she's feared all her life--until the night her sister shows up at her doorstep...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
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, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague-a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice. Beginning in 2030, a grieving archaeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased...
98) Parasocial
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A fading genre-TV actor collides with an obsessed fan at a convention in the middle of a pandemic. Over the course of the insane, horrific night that follows, the actor will have to put on the greatest performance of his life simply to survive until dawn. Unless, of course, he's the real monster..."--Back cover.
Publisher
Ablaze Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the near future, the "White Plague" has almost completely decimated humanity, and civilization is only a sweet memory. The world as a whole has become a danger zone, where survival is only possible within towns or fortified villages. Enter orphaned brothers Zach and Archer Goodwoody, troublemaking teens who have just arrived at Fort Apache, and about to learn the hard rules of integration into the colony. Outside the walls lies a hostile and deadly...
100) La última viuda
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"En una calurosa noche de verano, un científico de los Centros para el Control de Enfermedades es atrapado por asaltantes desconocidos en el estacionamiento de un centro comercial. Las autoridades están desesperadas por salvar al médico que desapareció en el aire. Un mes después, la serenidad de un el soleado domingo por la tarde se ve destrozado por el estallido de una explosión que sacudió el suelo, seguido de otros segundos más tarde. Uno...
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