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1) Viral
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Trying to find some normalcy during the Covid-19 pandemic, Brian Murphy and his family are on a summer excursion in Cape Cod when his wife, Emma, comes down with concerning flu-like symptoms. But their leisurely return home to New York City quickly becomes a race to the local hospital as she suddenly begins seizing in the car. At the ICU, she is diagnosed with eastern equine encephalitis, a rare and highly lethal mosquito-borne viral disease seemingly...
2) Contagion
Author
Series
Viral apocalypse volume 1
Publisher
Preternatural Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a scream. In the remote mountains of northern Alaska, Dr. Riley Middleton and her team of archeologists discover a burial site containing mummified remains dating to the last ice age. None of them notice the warning carved into the entrance or realize that the tomb had been deliberately sealed from the outside until they've already released a virus that turns ordinary people into murderous monsters....
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a new virus surfaces, Lucy and her husband Reed, along with their five closest friends and family, sequester themselves on Reed's family's private island off the coast of Maine where she feels her own grip on reality slipping as tempers flare, strange signs appear and accidents turn deadly.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 380 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this propulsive medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Trisk and her hated rival, Kal, become fugitives after a world-saving experiment gone wrong gives way to the rise of a paranormal species that wages war against a weaker human race.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
454 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After an undersea lab conducting research on a rare jellyfish known as the blue medusa mysteriously disappears and a bathysphere harboring Joe Zavala is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless on the sea floor, Kurt Austin puts the NUMA team on the case.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
421 pages : color illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a deadly Fly Flu spreads throughout the world, survivors Nico, her dog, young artist Kit, and the mysterious Deliverer roam the earth, seeking to evade the Flies and find a place where life and love can thrive again.
Author
Series
Nerds volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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.
11) Virals
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Tory Brennan is the leader of a band of teenage 'sci-philes' who live on an island off the coast of South Carolina and when the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever.
12) Daybreakers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc, R, (98 min.) : sd., color, closed captioned ; 4 3/4 in. + no index guide.
Language
English
Description
After a plague turns the majority of humans into vampires, a shortage of blood causes the vampires to hunt down the last of the surviving humans until the humans start fighting back.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A group of teenage hackers has been conned into creating the most devastating virus the world has ever seen, and now it's up to them to take down the shadowy corporation behind it before it's too late"--
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (752 min.) : sound, color and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season six starts with Alexandria's safety shattered by multiple threats. To make it, the people of Alexandria will need to catch up with our survivors' hardness while many of Rick's people will need to take a step back from the violence and pragmatism they've needed to embrace. These reversals won't happen easily or without conflict. But now Rick's group is fighting for something more than survival... They're fighting for their home, and they will...
Author
Series
Passage trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 568 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Survivors of a government-induced apocalypse endure their violent and disease-stricken world while protecting their loved ones; while a century into the future, members of a transformed society determinedly search for the original twelve virals.
16) Resistant
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Attending a national conference in Atlanta with Welcome, Duncan injures his leg while running. Surgeons manage to save the leg, but the open wound is the perfect breeding ground for a deadly microbial invader committed to eating him alive from the inside out. The germ is resistant to any known antibiotic-- and the government scientist tasked with finding a cure has been kidnapped. A shadowy group known as One Hundred Neighbors has infiltrated our...
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 797 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Picking up immediately after the thrilling cliff-hanger, Negan forces Rick and the group to fall under his will, brutally convincing them to live by his rules. To prevent further bloodshed, Rick genuinely believes they can make life under Negan, however terrible, work. But he soon learns that Negan can't be reasoned with, and they must prepare to go to war now. Victory will require more than Alexandria, and Rick will need to convince their new...
18) The hot zone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this virus. The book tells this dramatic story, giving an account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 13 hours, 25 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being brutally forced to fall under Negan's will, Rick now understands Negan can't be reasoned with, and any day could be the survivors' last. The communities join forces in the last stand against the Saviors as all-out war unfolds.
20) Inhuman
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Beyond the wall lies the Feral Zone, breached only by the "fetches", who are paid to bring back items that were left behind when the wall went up--but Delaney's father is there and she is being forced to find him and bring him back.