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4) Viral
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this electrifying new medical thriller from New York Times bestseller Robin Cook, a family's exposure to a rare yet deadly virus puts them at the center of a terrifying danger to mankind--and pulls back the curtain on a healthcare system powered by greed and corruption"--
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Hannah, Compton, and Kira have been close friends since medical school, reuniting once a year for a much-needed vacation. Just as they gather to travel in Spain, an outbreak of a fast-spreading virus throws the world into chaos. When Compton Winfield returns to her job as an ER doctor in New York City, she finds a city changed beyond recognition-and a personal loss so gutting it reshapes every aspect of her life. Hannah Geier's career as an ob-gyn...
Author
Series
NERDS volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
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.
Author
Series
Mallory brothers cycle volume 1
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When a pandemic virus sweeping through Third World villages expands with frightening potency, former CIA operative Charles Mallory discovers clues about a secret war and genocidal plans to create a new, technologically advanced society.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the epic finale to the saga, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.
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...
11) 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...
13) Lost horizon
Author
Series
Forgotten city volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Kobi's blood may be the key to curing the Waste, and that means he and his Waste-infected friends must travel to an abandoned lab in Old Seattle if they want to end the Waste and bring justice to those responsible.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Mark Spitz and his squad of three "sweepers" move through Zone One of lower Manhattan, a walled-off enclave scheduled for resettlement in the aftermath of a zombie plague. The great masses of the undead have been violently dispatched by a Marine detachment. It falls to Spitz and his fellows to take care of the handful that remain, as well as a second-tier of the infected known as "stragglers": zombies who have bypassed the cannibalistic urges of their...
16) Exposed
Author
Series
Maggie O'Dell novels volume 6
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
When FBI criminal profiler Maggie O'Dell walks into a killer's trap and is exposed to a deadly virus, she, along with Assistant Director Cunningham, must pursue a self-declared aficionado of criminal minds who uses the methods of other serial killers.
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Rory Rooney likes to be prepared for anything, but when he inexplicably turns green and finds himself in an experimental hospital ward with his nemesis, school bully Tommy-Lee "Grim" Komissky, everyone is baffled but Rory believes he and Grim have become superheroes.
18) Want
Author
Series
Want volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Jason Zhou is trying to survive in Taipei, a city plagued by pollution and viruses, but when he discovers the elite are using their wealth to evade the deadly effects, he knows he must do whatever is necessary to fight the corruption and save his city.
19) Erectus
Author
Publisher
Fantascy
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"The phenomenon began in the Kruger Nature Park in South Africa and soon spread throughout the world. Animals and plants are going backwards in evolution. Dogs become wolves, whales become land mammals, and humans... Herds of Homo erectus begin to appearin New York, in Paris, in Geneva... Dozens of individuals with prominent jaws and covered in hair who have lost the ability to speak. Disoriented and unpredictable, they sow panic in the population"--...
20) Lock in
Author
Series
Lock in novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fifteen years from now, a new virus sweeps the globe. 95% of those afflicted experience nothing worse than fever and headaches. Four percent suffer acute meningitis, creating the largest medical crisis in history. And one percent find themselves "locked in"--fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. One per cent doesn't seem like a lot. But in the United States, that's 1.7 million people "locked in"...including the President's...
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