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Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and human beings have evolved side by side through history; how deadly viruses like HIV, swine flu, and bird flu almost wiped us out in the past; and why modern life has made our species vulnerable to the threat of a global pandemic.
The author, a Stanford biologist reveals the surprising origins of the world's most deadly viruses, and how we can overcome catastrophic pandemics....
22) Head on
Author
Series
Lock in novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Canell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplentymost of them in someone else's body." USA Today John Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Lock In. Chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural, Head On brings Scalzi's...
23) Daylight's end
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A drifter stumbles across a band of survivors after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and decides to help them escape to the sanctuary.
Author
Series
Origin volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Evelyn Dasher crossed paths with Luc, she was thrown headfirst into the world of the Lux only to discover she was already far more involved in their world than she ever suspected. The Luxen aren't the only ones with a hidden past. There's a gap in Evie's memory, lost months of her life and a lingering sense that something happened, something she can't remember and nobody is willing to tell her. She needs to find out the truth about who she is...
25) Wonderblood
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Wonderblood is Julia Whicker's literary debut, set in a barren United States, an apocalyptic wasteland where warring factions compete for control of the land in strange and dangerous carnivals. A mad cow-like disease called "Bent Head" has killed off millions. Those who remain worship the ruins of NASA's space shuttles, and Cape Canaveral is their Mecca. Medicine and science have been rejected in favor of magic, prophecy, and blood sacrifice. When...
26) Undaunted
Author
Series
Fetch volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After a virus destroys the United States, Lane McEvoy journeys to the Feral Zone, an area east of the Mississippi River inhabited by survivors and human mutants who display animal traits, as she searches for Rafe, the man she loves, who may have become feral.
27) Trace evidence
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A collection of four short stories based on the Virals series that gives further glimpses of the Virals' world as they work with Tory's famous great aunt, Temperance Brennan, to solve more mysteries, take look at where it all started before they became Virals, and get to the bottom of an attempted sabotage at Kit and Whitney's wedding"--
28) Terminal
Author
Series
Virals novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Tory and her comrades must track a new pack of rogue Virals who have brought on the attention of a shadowy government organization intent on learning the secret to their powers"--
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An engrossing family history of coronaviruses and the modern-day scientific quest to conquer viral epidemics forever. The urgency of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic has fixed humanity's gaze on the present crisis. But the story of this pandemic extends far further back than many realize. In this engrossing narrative, epidemiologist Dan Werb traces the rising threat of the coronavirus family and the attempts by a small group of scientists who worked...
30) Immunity index
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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...
31) The XY
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixty years after a virus wiped out nearly all men on earth, fourteen-year-old River finds a sick boy, Mason, and helps restore his health while learning dark truths behind the lies she has been told.
32) Orleans
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Set in a futuristic, hostile Orleans landscape, Fen de la Guerre must deliver her tribe leader's baby over the Wall into the Outer States before her blood becomes tainted with Delta Fever"--Provided by publisher.
33) Pandora's clock
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
An airliner whose passengers have been infected with a deadly virus is ordered to land in the Sahara to be quarantined. As everyone on board will die anyway, the CIA decides to exploit the situation by shooting it down and blaming Arabs. In the air battle that follows Capt. James Holland, the pilot of the Boeing 747, shows what he is made of.
Author
Series
Crimson moon novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Cardinal has escaped the virus that ravaged his town, leaving its victims alive but without their memories. Choosing to remain in the quarantined zone, he cares for a group of orphaned kids in a mountain camp with the help of the former brutal school bully, now transformed by the virus into his best friend. But then a strong-willed and mysterious young woman appears, and the closed-off world Cardinal has created begins to crumble....
36) The way we fall
Author
Series
Fallen world trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old old Kaelyn challenges her fears, finds a second chance at love, and fights to keep her family and friends safe as a deadly new virus devastates her island community.
Author
Series
NERDS volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When a virus infects Arlington, Virginia, home of NERDS headquarters, transforming victims into criminal masterminds, it is up to Flinch to stop its spread by miniaturizing himself and entering the head of the Villain Virus's creator, Heathcliff Hodges.
39) Lost horizon
Author
Series
Forgotten city volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Everything Kobi once believed was a lie. Not only are there other survivors of the Waste that devastated the world thirteen years ago, but beyond the wasteland of Old Seattle lies a gleaming new city where thousands are desperate for a cure. To put an end to the Wasteand bring justice to those responsibleKobi and his new friends will have to return to the heart of Old Seattle, where the outbreak began. Its a dangerous journey. But Kobi knows what...
40) XOM-B
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A rising talent, Robinson is well-known in the community of action/adventure fans and has received amazing quotes in the past from big name authors like James Rollins, Steve Berry, and Scott Sigler. XOM-B has a great hook that is also an amazing plot twist, and is poised to bring him to the next level. Freeman is a genius with an uncommon mixture of memory, intelligence and creativity. He lives in a worldwide utopia, but it was not always so. There...
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