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"The panic unleashed by a mysterious contagion threatens the bonds of family and community in a seemingly idyllic suburban community. The Nash family is close-knit. Tom is a popular teacher, father of two teens: Eli, a hocky star and girl magnet, and his sister Deenie, a diligent student. Their seeming stability, however, is thrown into chaos when Deenie's best friend is struck by a terrifying, unexplained seizure in class. Rumors of a hazardous outbreak...
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Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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A pandemic virus stemming from a bizarre blood-solidifying mystery sweeps through the world, transforming victims into beautiful vampire-like beings who rise to prominence in all aspects of society, before one runs for political office.
23) Outbreak
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Putnam
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English
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As a deadly plague strikes America, epidemiologist Marissa Blumenthal uncovers the plot behind its spread. Murder and intrigue reach epidemic proportions when a devastating plague sweeps the country. Dr. Marissa Blumenthal of the Atlanta Centers for Disease Control investigates--and soon uncovers the medical world's deadliest secret.
25) The refuge
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Shaker novels volume 8
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Darcie and Walter Goodwin join a Shaker village to escape a cholera epidemic, but when Walter dies, Darcie is left alone--and lonely. Can love live again for this widow in a community that doesn't believe in marriage?
26) Extinction age
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Extinction Cycle volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
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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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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Marcus creates a chilling world where the speech of children is killing their parents. After being forced to leave their daughter Esther to fend for herself, Sam and Claire end up at a government lab intent on creating non-lethal speech. But when Sam discovers the truth about what's going on there, he realizes reuniting with his daughter is the only way to keep his sanity.
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The Broadmoor legacy volume 3
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Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Twenty-one-year-old Amanda Broadmoor wrestles with her desire to work in the medical field, despite her family's wishes for her to marry and have children, when cholera breaks out in Rochester, New York in 1899.
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Sigma Force novels volume 12
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English
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When a British archaeologist who had been missing for two years reappears, frantic and delirious, but dies before he can tell his story, Sigma Force must stop an ancient plague with ties to some of history's most innovative minds.
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Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2012.
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English
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Discovering that she is pregnant by her married professor, grad student Hazel struggles through a pregnancy against a backdrop of an apocalyptic illness that is transforming blondes from all walks of life into rabid killers.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"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).
33) The end of men
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland--a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic--and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien--a women's world. What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal...
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Barque cats volume 1
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Del Rey Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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A Tale of Barque Cats. This is the first book of two set in an exciting new world from the award-winning author of Changelings and Maelstrom. It is thrilling science fiction that features telepathic cats which are invaluable to the spacefarers who own them - sniffing out oxygen leaks and spotting other problems. But a corrupt government is about to impound or possibly destruct all animals across the galaxy.
Highly prized space-traveling Barque Cat...
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From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman. The fireman is coming. Stay cool. No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading...
36) Grievers
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Black dawn volume 1
Publisher
AK Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Dune's mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks -- in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life -- casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers. Dune must navigate poverty and the loss of her mother as Detroit's hospitals, morgues, and graveyards begin to overflow. As the quarantined city slowly empties of life, she investigates what caused the plague, and what might end it, following in the...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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What LAPD cop Parker Hass wants is a world both safe and just for his wife and infant daughter. But then a plague of insomnia strikes. Working undercover as a drug dealer in a Los Angeles ruled in equal parts by martial law and insurgency, Park is tasked with cutting off illegal trade in Dreamer, the only drug that can give the infected their precious sleep. After a year of lost leads, Park stumbles into the perilous shadows cast by the pharmaceutical...
38) La última viuda
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HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Español
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La autora bestseller del New York Times, Karin Slaughter, regresa con otro thriller electrizante en la querida serie de misterio de Will Trent, esta vez enfrentando a Will y Sara contra un misterioso grupo que planea desatar una epidemia mortal. Gillian Flynn dice que Karin Slaughter es "simplemente una de las mejores escritoras de suspenso que trabajan hoy" y Michael Connelly declara que "sus personajes, su trama y su ritmo no tienen rival entre...
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"Against the backdrop of Colombia's lush, yet wounded beauty in the wake of the 1925 Cali earthquake, this riveting novel by the award-winning Ecuadorian American author of The Spanish Daughter plunges three strangers - a photographer, a young Spanish chocolatier in disguise, and a Palestinian-Colombian nun - into a perilous search for the missing owner of a coveted hacienda amidst an emerging cholera epidemic. "An engrossing, suspenseful family...
40) Immunity index
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Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"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...
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