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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
An ancient relic, bioengineered autistic children, and a plot to wipe out a quarter of the world's population have two men racing against time to solve a mystery that dates back to the first famous oracle of history--the Greek Oracle of Delphi.
4) God of War
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-center volume 0
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Jeff Rovin's Tom Clancy's Op-Center: God of War, after the devastating outbreak of a killer super virus, the Black Wasp Team must prevent America's enemies from gaining access to the most dangerous weapon the world has ever seen. The passengers and crew on an Airbus en route to Australia suddenly begin coughing up blood and hemorrhaging violently as the plane plunges to the ground. There are no survivors. A luxury yacht in the South Indian Sea...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Until the events of September 11 and the anthrax attacks of 2001, biological weapons had never been a major public concern in the United States. Today, the possibility of their use by terrorists against Western states looms large as an international security concern. In Biological Weapons, Jeanne Guillemin provides a highly accessible and compelling account of the circumstances under which scientists, soldiers, and statesmen were able to mobilize...
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Series
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English
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"Penning a profile of Rio's hottest star-studded plastic surgery spa, writer Sydney McBride is going under the knife herself--all to revive a sagging career. But there's a bigger, more scintillating story afoot for the daring journalist. When a mysterious, incredibly hot fugitive seeks refuge in her bungalow, Sydney agrees to let him pose as her boyfriend--hoping to gain his confidence. Too bad Lucas Fox trusts no one. After uncovering an astounding...
Author
Series
Joe Ledger novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A London hospital explodes, killing thousands. This act of terrorism is only the beginning as the group behind the explosion turns to bioweapons in an effort to unleash a modern version of the biblical Ten Plagues of Egypt. Dept. of Military Science agent Joe Ledger, beaten and distraught over a heartbreaking loss, has quit the antiterrorism business but reluctantly must jump back into the game, charged with nothing less than saving the world. As...
8) Sundown
Author
Series
Sky King Ranch volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"Everyone else might believe the mysterious woman at Sky King Ranch has lost her memory, but Colt Kingston knows when someone is lying. Now he just has to find out if the lies are meant to save her . . . or protect them"--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant and dangerous group of scientists are determined to save the world from the perils of overpopulation by releasing into the world a brutal virus. Having just arrived at the research station at the earth's southernmost tip, returning hero Hallie Leland has seven days to stop them from putting their plan into action"--
Author
Series
Final hour volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Maddox Kinkade is an expert at managing the impossible. Tasked with neutralizing a lethal bioweapon, she has everything under control...until she collides with the former love of her life, back from the dead. Recruiting Cole to save millions may be harder than resisting the attraction still burning between them, but Maddox will do whatever it takes--and the clock is ticking. When Maddox crashes back into Cole Matthews' life nine years after she left...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Deadliest Enemy explores the resources and programs we need to develop if we are to keep ourselves safe from infectious disease. The authors show how we could wake up to a reality in which many antibiotics no longer cure, bioterror is a certainty, and the threat of a disastrous influenza pandemic looms ever larger. Only by understanding the challenges we face can we prevent the unthinkable from becoming the inevitable.
14) 24: Season three
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After three years since thwarting a terrorist attack on the United States, Jack Bauer is back in L.A. working undercover to bring down drug lord Ramon Salazar. The FBI receives a phone call threating to release a deadly virus in Los Angeles, if Salazar is not releleased from prison qithin six hours.
Author
Series
Passion for danger volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Mysterious deaths stalk the bayou'and state trooper Tara Reeves enlists the aid of Marc Lafayette, Cajun heartbreaker, to guide her on her search for evidence. But the source is deadlier than she could ever imagine: terrorists.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Shocking new insider information that shows what really happened in Wuhan, China, at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak and in the ensuing cover-up. The day that Dr. Andrew G. Huff left his senior scientist and vice president role at EcoHealth Alliance was one of the happiest days of his life due to the corruption he had witnessed at the organization. However, he never thought working there would be of any great consequence to the future. He was...
17) What lies behind
Author
Series
Samantha Owens novels volume 4
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Waking to sirens in the night is hardly unusual for Samantha Owens. No longer a medical examiner, she doesn't lose sleep over them, but a routine police investigation in her neighborhood has her curious. When her homicide detective friend, Darren Fletcher, invites her to look over the evidence, she jumps at the chance and immediately realizes the crime scene has been staged. What seems to be a clear case of murder/suicide--a crime of passion--is...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The anthrax mailings of 2001 triggered the FBI's biggest and most complicated investigation since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Now, for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Willman tells the gripping story of the hunt for the anthrax killer--a case that consumed the FBI and became a rallying point for launching the Iraq War.
19) Child zero
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It began four years ago with a worldwide uptick of bacterial infections...[and] public health officials initially dismissed them as unrelated...Antibiotic resistance soon roiled across the globe...Then New York City was ravaged by the most heinous act of bioterror the world had ever seen...Detective Jacob Gibson...is home caring for his sick daughter when his partner summons him to a sprawling shantytown in Central Park, the apparent site of a mass...
Author
Series
Hallowed ones volume 1
Publisher
Graphia
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Amish teen Katie smuggles a gravely injured young man, an outsider, into her family's barn despite the elders' ruling that no one can come in or out of the community while some mysterious and massive unrest is wreaking havoc in the "English" world.
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