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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Diana O'Toole has a plan: 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 just knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the...
Author
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
Series
Darwin volume 2
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Greg Bear’s Nebula Award–winning novel, Darwin’s Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution—one that would alter our species forever. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where “survival of the fittest” takes on astonishing and controversial new dimensions.
Eleven years have passed since...
Eleven years have passed since...
4) Viral
Author
Language
English
Description
Brian Murphy and his family are enjoying a relaxing summer excursion in Cape Cod when his wife, Emma, comes down with mild flu-like symptoms. Their return home to New York City quickly turns into a race to the ER as she begins seizing and falls into a coma. Emma is diagnosed with Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a rare and highly lethal mosquito-borne viral disease caught during one of their evening cookouts-- and their daughter exhibits alarming signs...
Author
Series
Mallory brothers cycle volume 1
Language
English
Formats
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.
6) Resistant
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Series
Language
English
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...
7) Toxic game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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 will not risk exposing anyone else. He intends to find the ones responsible and go out in a blaze of glory. Shylah Cosmo's mission is to track the virus and remain...
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Language
English
Description
"Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly gripping novel of catastrophe and survival at the end of the world, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man. Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. Evacuated from a secluded boarding school during a snowstorm, her coach careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. They'll need to work together to escape--with...
9) Blackout
Author
Series
Newsflesh volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2041, Georgia Mason, held hostage by a team of CDC researchers, must find her way back to Shaun Mason, who is dealing with his own problems, such as zombie bears, mad scientists and rogue government agencies, before things get worse in her post-zombie, post-resurrection America.
10) Phantom wheel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Being recruited by the CIA to join a top-secret intelligence program should be the opportunity of a lifetime. For Issa, it's a shot at creating a new and better life for herself and her siblings. For Harper, it's a chance to bury the secrets of her troubled past and make sure that those secrets stay buried. But for Owen it sounds like a trap. He's right. They've been tricked by a multibillion-dollar tech company into creating the ultimate computer...
11) The last shadow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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...
12) Reaper
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
13) MADicine
Author
Publisher
Kunati
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
14) Virus
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
16) Dogs
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
17) Final diagnosis
Author
Series
Sector General novels volume 10
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
19) Toxic prey
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon"--
20) Ammonite
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First Del Rey trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
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