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"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 now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She's not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about...
2) Toxic prey
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Gaia is dying. That, at least, is what Dr. Lionel Scott believes. A renowned expert in tropical and infectious diseases, Scott has witnessed the devastating impact of illness and turmoil at critical scale. Society as it exists is untenable, and the direct link to Earth's death spiral; population levels are out of control and people have allowed disarray and disorder to run rampant. While most are concerned about deadly disease, Scott knows that it...
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Series
Maze runner volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
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A chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman. The Fireman is coming. Stay cool. 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...
5) Viral
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"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...
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"Lucy Harper still has traumatic memories and lingering health problems from the 2020 pandemic. So, when a new virus surfaces years later, she and her husband, Reed, seek refuge on his family's private island off the coast of Maine. Ostensibly safely sequestered with their five closest friends and family, Lucy should feel at ease. So why does she feel the weight of the island's dark history pushing down on the group? As Lucy uncovers Reed's family...
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530L
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Bell has spent his whole life -- all eleven years of it -- on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid-he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't they have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell -- a regular...
8) Resistant
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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...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe--the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it were allowed to escape from Lusitania. One planet. Three sapient species living peacefully together. And one deadly virus that could wipe out...
11) Virals
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480L
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The niece of famed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, fourteen-year-old Tory and her three friends are exposed to a rare strain of canine parvovirus that gives them special powers which they use to try to solve a murder.
Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage "sci-philes" who live on a secluded island off the coast of South...
12) Toxic game
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"On a rescue mission in the heart of the Indonesian jungle, Dr. Draden Freeman and his GhostWalker team need to extract the wounded as quickly as possible--or risk spreading a deadly virus unleashed by a terrorist cell. When Draden gets infected he forces his team to leave him behind. He won't risk exposing anyone else. He intends to find the ones responsible and go out in a blaze of glory... Shylah Cosmos's mission is to track the virus and remain...
13) Mutation
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Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
471 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm.
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English
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"In a research hangar in Virginia, a Unit 51 team studies an ancient but long-dormant virus that can transform human physiology--and turn it into something else... In the Amazon rainforest, a newly evolving life form known as Subject Z acquires the ability to think conceptually, build elaborate traps, create new carriers--and spawn a new race... In Mexico and Turkey, the men and women of Unit 51 race to uncover a global link between the mutations:...
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O'Dell and Cunningham believe they're responding to a threat made at Quantico. Instead they walk into a trap. Now, inside an isolation ward at a biosafety containment hospital, she must analyze clues to catch the killer... knowing she may not live long enough to discover who it is.
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Series
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Robert Ludlum has been acclaimed as the master of. suspense and international intrigue for over twenty-five years. His many books have thrilled millions of readers, reaching the top of bestsellers lists the world over and setting a standard that has never been surpassed. Now, from the imagination of one of America's greatest storytellers comes Robert Ludlum's The Hades Factor. A homeless man in Boston, an Army major in California, and a teenage girl...
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Series
Wild cards volume I
Publisher
ibooks, Inc
Language
English
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"Ten visionary authors tackle a single provocative theme...Death comes quickly and painfully to most of the victims when the Wild Card virus strikes. But others are transformed: some horribly, into grotesque 'jokers'; a lucky few into superhuman 'aces'. The alien virus arrived just after World War II--and Earth would never be the same." -- Dust jacket.
17) Blind spots
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seven years ago, a mysterious virus blinded everyone in the world in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people's brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to manipulate it and change what people see? Homicide detective Mark Owens has been on the force since before The Blinding. When a scientist is murdered, and the only witness...
19) Mississippi roll
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of World War II, an alien virus struck earth, endowing a handful of survivors with extraordinary powers. People with admirable abilities were called aces. Others became physically mutated and labelled as jokers. Every generation, the virus creates new aces and jokers. Every generation, there are those who use their powers in the service of humanity, or for the purpose of evil. Wild Cards is their story.
After the suspicious death...