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"Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She's not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about...
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2020.
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"In this propulsive medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf...
3) Amnesia
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Writing the biography of a cyber criminal who released a virus into Australia's prison system and allowed hundreds of asylum seekers and prisoners to escape, left-wing journalist Felix Moore struggles to convey the hacker's intentions as a political protest against Australia's relationship with the United States. Includes reading-group guide.
"From the two-time Booker Prize winner: a masterful, exceedingly timely new novel--at once dark, suspenseful,...
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"Just what is a jackalope? Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their creation quickly spread around the U.S., where it now regularly appears as innumerable forms of kitsch--wall mounts, postcards, keychains, coffee mugs, shot glasses, and so on. A vast body of folk narratives has carried the jackalope's fame around...
5) I'm a virus!
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Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"In friendly, simple text, the most "common" virus, rhinovirus (the common cold) explains how viruses work and spread to young children"--
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Turner Network Television
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Following the epic second-season cliffhanger, the highly anticipated third season finds the crew of the USS Nathan James shifting their attention to Asia after President Michener hears rumblings that the Chinese leader, President Peng, has been hoarding the "Scott cure" instead of distributing it to the people in the region.
7) Hobbs & Shaw
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[2019]
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English
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When a cyber-enhanced super soldier sets out to steal a genetically altered virus that could destroy humanity, law man Luke Hobbs and outcast assassin Deckard Shaw learn they must work together to save Shaw's sister and stop the virus from spreading.
Ever since hulking lawman Hobbs, a loyal agent of America's Diplomatic Security Service, and lawless outcast Shaw, a former British military elite operative, first faced off, the duo have swapped smack...
10) Skylines
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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When a new virus has the potential to turn alien hybrids against humans, a team of mercenaries travels to the alien world to try to save what remains of humanity.
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NUMA files volume 8
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2009]
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Kurt Austin puts the NUMAA team on a case involving a hideous series of medical experiments, an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization, and a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic.
12) Extinction end
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Extinction Cycle volume 5
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Orbit
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The fifth book in USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith's propulsive post-apocalyptic series about one man's mission to save the world. Almost seven weeks have passed since the Hemorrhage Virus ravaged the world. The remnants of the United States military have regrouped and relocated Central Command to the George Washington Carrier Strike Group. It's here, in the North Atlantic, that President Jan Ringgold and Vice President George...
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Extinction Cycle volume 4
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Orbit
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2017.
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English
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Central Command is gone, the military is fractured, and the surviving members of Team Ghost, led by Master Sergeant Reed Beckham, have been pushed to the breaking point. Betrayed by the country they swore to defend and surrounded by enemies on all sides, Team Ghost has one mission left: protect Dr. Kate Lovato and Dr. Pat Ellis while they develop a weapon to defeat the Variants once and for all. But after a grisly discovery in Atlanta, Kate and Ellis...
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Joe Ledger novels volume 7
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St. Martin's Griffin
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2015.
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English
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"On opening day of the new baseball season, a small model-kit airplane flies down from the stands and buzzes the mound, where a decorated veteran pilot is about to throw out the first ball. The toy plane is an exact replica of the one flown by the war hero. Everyone laughs, thinking it a good prank or a publicity stunt. Until it explodes, killing dozens. Seconds later a swarm of killer drones descend upon the panicked crowd, each one carrying a powerful...
16) Smasher
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The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Charlie, a math genius with otherworldly skills, is plucked out of his own time by Geneva, a bionic girl from the future, and recruited to help defeat Gramercy Foxx, a tycoon who plans to unleash a deadly biological computer virus that will enslave the world--and the two children have only twenty days to accomplish their task.
17) The fall
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Strain trilogy volume 2
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English
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"A vampiric virus is spreading across the country. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather-head of the Center for Disease Control's team and the leader of a small group who has banded together to fight these bloodthirsty monsters-has finally identified the parasite causing the infection. But it may be too late. Ignited by the Master's horrific plan, a war erupts between Old and New World vampires, each vying for total control. Caught between these warring...
18) Resistant
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Lou Welcome novels volume 3
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"When Dr. Lou Welcome fills in last minute for his boss at a national conference in Atlanta, he brings along his best friend, Cap Duncan. But an accident turns tragic when Cap injures his leg while running. Surgeons manage to save the leg, but the open wound is the perfect breeding ground for a deadly microbial invader committed to eating Cap alive from the inside out. ... Turning to the Centers for Disease Control for help, Lou uncovers a link to...
19) Extinction age
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Extinction Cycle volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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On the eve of extinction all seems to be lost, but there is still one final hope.
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