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Series
Publisher
Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
In March 1900, San Francisco's health department investigated a strange and horrible death in Chinatown. A man had died of bubonic plague, one of the world's deadliest diseases. But how could that be possible? Bubonic Panic tells the true story of America's first plague epidemic--the public health doctors who desperately fought to end it, the political leaders who tried to keep it hidden, and the brave scientists who uncovered the plague's secrets....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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"When authorities in Alaska receive a disturbing call from a teenage girl, their investigation leads them to discover an entire family of researchers dead. Joe Rush is called to help examine the bodies. On the surface, it looks like a brutal murder/suicide. But the situation is nowhere near that simple--nor is it over. Upon closer investigation, Rush discovers the terrifying truth. The research team has fallen victim to something that seems impossible...
3) Illuminae
Author
Series
Illuminae files volume 01
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all"--
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Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind-unknown, unstoppable... and merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow. Operatives of the shadowy covert organization Sigma Force, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis search for answers to the bizarre affliction aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital. But a sudden and savage attack by terrorist hijackers turns the mercy ship into a floating...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"1666. It is a year after plague has devastated England. Young widow Cecilia Thorowgood is a prisoner, trapped and isolated within the cavernous London townhouse of her older sister. At the mercy of a legion of doctors who fail to cure her grief with their impatient scalpels, Cecilia shows no signs of improvement. Soon, her sister makes a decision borne of desperation: she hires a new physician, someone known for more unusual methods. But he is a...
Author
Series
River of time volume 4
Publisher
Bergren Creative Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Betarrinis and the boys they love are back with these two novellas that follow Waterfall, Cascade and Torrent. In Bourne, the story picks up right where Torrent left off ... Find out what has happened to wounded warriors returning from battle, to the Betarrinis, fighting for the men who've captured their hearts, and what will happen to them next ... A year later, in Tributary, Lia struggles to overcome the fear that constant battle has heaped...
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In gloriously gross detail, you'll meet dangerous microscopic invaders like protozoa, fungi, viruses, and foreign bacteria - then see how our bodies work to fight back and defend us against future infections. We get to know the critters behind history's worst diseases. We delve into the biology and mechanisms of infections, diseases, and immunity, and also the incredible effect that technology and medical science have had on humanity's ability to...
9) The dead
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
As a disease turns everyone over sixteen into brainless, decomposing, flesh-eating creatures, a group of teenagers head to London. Ed, Jack, Bam and the other students at Rowhurst School learn more about the Disaster, and meet an adult who seems to be immune to the disease.
Author
Series
Out from Egypt volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Sold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was supposed to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a mistress who takes pleasure in her humiliation. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya is in the middle of it all. To save her older brother and escape the bonds of slavery, Kiya flees with the Hebrews during the Great Exodus. She finds herself utterly dependent on a fearsome God she's only just beginning to learn about, and in love...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic--and each other--and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. Just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The people of fourteenth-century Florence, Italy, starving after years of bad weather and natural disasters, now face the Black Plague but twelve-year-old Maria is determined to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy that will restore peace to the people, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders who populate the underworld.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Before an ambush by enemy soldiers, Lord Cassia was an engineer's apprentice on a mission entrusted by the king. When plague sweeps over the land, devastating the kingdom, even Cas's title cannot save him from a rotting prison cell and a merciless sickness. Three years later he wants only to return to his home in the mountains and forget past horrors. But his castle has become a refuge for the royal court... and they have brought their enemies with...
16) The great mortality: an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the Black Death that spread across Europe in the fourteenth century, describing the devastating impact the plague had on European history and culture.
Author
Series
Merciful Crow volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Fie, a sixteen-year-old chieftain from a lowly cast of mercy-killers, must rely on her wits and bone magic to smuggle the crown prince of Sabor to safety.
Fie's Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin; when they're called to collect royal dead, she's hoping they'll find the payout of a lifetime. But Crown Prince Jasimir faked his death, and Fie's ready to cut his throat. He offers a wager that she can't refuse: protect...