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English
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Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father’s prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the...
Author
Series
Will Trent volume 9
Language
English
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On a serene summer Sunday, a routine admission for a run-of-the-mill surgery at Atlanta's Emory Hospital goes tragically wrong, setting off a catastrophic wave of destruction that sends the facility and the surrounding area into lockdown. One of the city's largest and most prestigious institutions, Emory is situated near the Centers for Disease Control, the FBI counter-terrorism headquarters, and a large children's hospital. Anything that happens...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On every level, Cold Storage is pure, unadulterated entertainment." -Douglas Preston, The New York Times Book Review
For fans of The Martian, Dark Matter, and Before the Fall comes an astonishing debut thriller by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying bioterrorism adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism that could destroy all of humanity.
They thought it was contained....
5) Quarantine
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.
Physical Desc
369 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Return to Red River volume 3
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Book 3 of RETURN TO RED RIVER by bestselling author Lauraine Snelling. Thorliff's goal of becoming a writer is within reach. Working for a newspaper in Northfield, Minnesota, he is busy writing articles and stories for the Minneapolis Tribune and Harper's Magazine. But his idyllic world comes to a sudden halt when an epidemic hits the town of Blessing, North Dakota, following the Red River flood of 1897. Thorliff returns home to help family and friends...
7) Fever, 1793
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
488 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A year after the Civil War's end, battle-scarred surgeon Dru Talbot--presumed long dead by all who loved him--returns home. Through everything he'd clung to the dream of starting life over with the bride he'd married on the very eve he left for war. Yet the truth that awaits him in Magnolia Creek is nothing like his fairy tale. Young widow Sara Collier had risen above her grief for Dru, refusing to mourn her life away. But she'd put her faith and...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"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...
10) Fever 1793
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
239 p.
Language
English
Description
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
11) Never fade
Author
Series
The darkest minds volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
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
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
103 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the quest to find a cure to an epidemic targeting the citizens of New Mouse City is sabotaged, Geronimo Stilton must figure out who's behind it all before he ends up covered in blue spots too.
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Best friends Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales grapple with the complexities of their relationship even while they spend their senior year apart due to a pandemic that disproportionately affects young people.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A group of teens at the Hope Juvenile Treatment Center are shocked to discover their guards have abandoned them, but their joy turns to fear when they learn a catastrophic pandemic has occurred outside their walls, turning their new-found freedom into a fight for survival.
15) Contagion
Author
Series
Dark Matter volume 1
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
409 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A deadly, mysterious epidemic is sweeping the country, and young kidnap victim Callie is one of the few who survived infection, only to be sacrificed by her captors at a secret lab working with antimatter; her older brother Kai is desperate to find out what happened to her--his best hope lies with Shay, the girl who last saw Callie alive, and together they will seek answers, even if it means evading soldiers and crossing the quarantine zone.
16) Severance
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Candace Chen is devoted to routine. She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a time of pandemic, two children try to navigate social distancing, distance learning, and the other challenges of 2020, with the help of family, friends, and the rainbow that unites them.
18) The scourge
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When the lethal plague known as the Scourge returns to Keldan the victims are sent to Attic Island, and Ani Mells of the River People is among them--but Ani does not feel sick, and with the help of her best friend, Weevil, she sets out to uncover the truth of what is happening, and expose the lies the people of Keldan have been told.
19) Immunity index
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 p.
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...
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Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
94 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cécile is enjoying her older brother Armand's return from France and her growing friendship with Marie-Grace, with whom she volunteers at an orphanage, until the yellow fever epidemic theatening New Orleans strikes her own household.