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2) Severance
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After an epidemic causes most New Yorkers to flee, Candace Chen stays behind and continues her routine: going to work, getting paid, and blogging about the deserted city. Eventually, though, Candace will have to leave--putting her at the mercy of a power-hungry IT specialist named Bob.
3) Plague
Author
Publisher
Copper Beech Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Presents a fictional story set in the future about a mysterious plague that terrorizes a city and discusses the history, causes, and prevention of plagues.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American...
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From the Black Death of the fourteenth century to contemporary Ebola outbreaks and the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis, pandemics and disease outbreaks have devastated societies, wiped out significant portions of populations, and necessitated political, social, and scientific changes to address these public health catastrophes. What have scientists and policymakers learned from historical pandemics, and what can be done to prevent future outbreaks? Journalists,...
6) Pandemics
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Although modern medicine can successfully treat and prevent many diseases, infectious diseases have the potential to spread across the globe. When an outbreak begins, it is difficult to predict just how easily the disease will spread or how deadly it will be. But scientists and government officials must prepare for the worst. They must respond quickly to outbreaks if they are to prevent the spread of dangerous communicable disease and protect public...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Maze runner (113 min.) : In this heart-pounding thriller based on the best-selling novel, a teenager named Thomas is trapped in a labrynth with a group of boys who have no memory of their past. -- Scorch trials (129 min.) After escaping from the Maze, Thomas and his fellow Gladers now face a greater challenge : crossing a desolate wasteland. filled with hidden dangers, to search for clues about the secret organization WCKD. -- Death cure (144 min.)...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it s Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes...
10) Pandemics
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Describes pandemics, including flu, polio, and AIDS, that have occurred in the past, explains how infectious diseases spread, and explores the ways these diseases can be prevented or controlled.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, the leader of a British archeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, comes stumbling out of the sands, frantic and delirious, but he dies before he can tell his story. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor's body--while he was still alive. His strange remains are returned to London for further study, when alarming news...
Author
Series
Wanderers volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. In the tradition of The Stand and Station Eleven comes a gripping saga that weaves an epic tapestry of humanity into an astonishing tale of survival. Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is...
16) Never fade
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"In the second installment of The Darkest Minds trilogy, Ruby joins forces with the revolutionary Children's League to find critical information about the epidemic that has torn both her life and America apart"--
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history-from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism-have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brainsand brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and...
19) Infected
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A global epidemic. A hospital lockdown. Is there anything more terrifying than the threat you can't see? A pandemic has reached across the globe to Kennedy's backyard, throwing everyone into a panic. Trapped in a hospital lockdown, Kennedy and those isolated with her can only guess who will survive ... and who will succumb. As the quarantine persists, Kennedy starts to wonder if there's more to fear than just the disease ... Fast-paced, suspenseful,...
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