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81) Contagion
Author
Series
Contagion duology volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project--including its members' dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried--and some monsters are only too ready...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Norton paperback edition.
Physical Desc
587 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the emergence and causes of new diseases all over the world, describing a process called "spillover" where illness originates in wild animals before being passed to humans and discusses the potential for the next huge pandemic. The author illuminates the dynamics of Ebola, SARS, bird flu, Lyme disease, and other emerging threats and tells the story of AIDS and its origins as it has never before been told.
83) DCeased
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 unnumbered volume : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Six hundred million people. That's how many fall victim when a mysterious techno-organic virus is unleased on Earth. Six hundred million infected. Six hundred million turned into mindless, rampaging killers bent on death and destruction. And that's just the beginning. Cities. Nations. Undersea kingdoms and paradise islands. One by one, they fall to the monstrous hordes. Now only Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the rest of the Justice League stand...
84) Head on
Author
Series
Lock in novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps," robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it. Until a star...
85) The girl in red
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm
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...
Author
Publisher
All Seasons Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
iv, 336 pages : charts ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Our pre-March 2020 world is gone forever. Irretrievable. For in league with mass surrender to all-powerful technology, the "restrictions" against human assembly, speech and gathering, culture and worship brought on by pandemic panic have brought new cultural norms frighteningly at odds with traditional Western notions of freedom and independent thought. Indeed, in our fear of public ostracism and shaming and our ready abandonment of free, open, spontaneous,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Gone novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A deadly, flu-like epidemic and a plague of flesh-eating creatures threaten the lives of the children at Perdido Beach while Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Diana each struggle with doubts and uncertainties.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Joan is a thirtysomething ICU physician at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who moved to America to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily solitary, successful. She does look up sometimes and wonder where her true roots lie: at the hospital, where her white coat makes her feel needed, or with her family, who try to shape her life according to their own cultural and...
Author
Publisher
Welbeck
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
COVID-19 took everyone in the world by surprise. I mean, what exactly is it? How does it spread? What is a virus and are there others out there that we don't know about? Paul Ian Cross answers these questions, and more in this illustrated book filled with facts about what we know and don't know.
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiii, 192 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"With global cooperation and cohesion in decline, Hotez, a former member of the US Science Envoy Program, zeroes in on the factors that drive our most controversial and pressing global health concerns, including war and conflict, climate change, antivaxxers, and poverty. He proposes historically proven methods to soothe fraught international relations while preparing us for a safer, healthier future. The 2020 coronavirus crisis makes the book more...
Author
Publisher
RBA
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Cómo se forman las epidemias? ¿Por qué se propagan? ¿Qué medidas se deben tomar para frenarlas? ¿Cómo puede evolucionar el coronavirus y cómo podría afectarnos en el futuro? Debora Mackenzie, periodista científica con tres décadas de experiencia en el seguimiento de las pandemias más preocupantes, nos pone al día de los conocimientos científicos que se tienen sobre este virus. Un libro riguroso e impactante que advierte de las lecciones...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 375 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The 2013-2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever--but the outbreaks continue. Now comes a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses--from the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, soon to be a National Geographic original miniseries. This time, Ebola started with a two-year-old child who likely had contact with a wild creature and whose entire family quickly...
Publisher
Ubisoft, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Xbox One.
Physical Desc
1 computer optical disc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Set in Washington D.C., the game takes place 7 months after a deadly virus was released in New York City and the nation has become a shell of its former self. While the virus has been contained, its effects are most evident in the devastated streets of the nation's capital where survivors cling to hope and struggle to rebuild. Enter The Division, a unit of civilian sleeper agents who now must work to stop enemy factions from completely taking over...
98) The invasion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A doctor unearths the origin of an alien bacterial epidemic and discovers that her son may hold the key to stopping it.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First English-language edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For fans of J. G. Ballard and early Ian McEwan, a tense psychological thriller and Kafkaesque parable by the author of The Hole--called 'an airtight masterpiece' by the Korean Economic Daily. Distinguished for his talents as a rat killer, the nameless protagonist of Hye-young Pyun's City of Ash and Red is sent by the extermination company he works for on an extended assignment in C, a country descending into chaos and paranoia, swept by a contagious...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Shojo beat edition.
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Shirayuki is an herbalist famous for her naturally bright-red hair, and the prince of Tanbarun wants her all to himself! The prince from the neighboring kingdom, Zen, rescues her from her plight, and thus begins their love story... After putting an end to the disease that was ravaging Lilias, Shirayuki returns home with Zen and the others. But on their next day off, they embark on a new adventure--a date! Meanwhile, Mitsuhide is furious to learn...
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