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2) Earth abides
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Language
English
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Description
A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dreaded or hoped for.
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Language
English
Description
This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," in the rugged mountain spine of England. In 1666, a tainted bolt of cloth from London carries bubonic infection to this isolated settlement of shepherds and lead miners. A visionary young preacher convinces the villagers to seal themselves off in a deadly quarantine to prevent the spread of disease. The story is told through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Anna...
Author
Series
Deadly disease trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
1618, Württemberg, a German duchy. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun. Fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler, an illiterate widow known for her herbal remedies, is accused of being a witch by Ursula Reinbold, who accuses Katharina of offering her a bitter, witchy drink that has made her ill. Her son Johannes, the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author...
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Series
Blood of the Southlands volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A bitter old woman's curse and the deeds of previous generations wreak terrible consequences on both sides of a misbegotten war between the Qirsi of the Southlands and an Eandi army from Stelpana.
Author
Series
Blood of the Southlands volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history--from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism--have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social...
12) Illuminae
Author
Series
Illuminae files volume 1
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"--
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Gregor and his younger sister, Boots, return to the Underworld beneath New York City to find the cure for a terrible plague that threatens the life of their mother, as well as the lives of the people, bats, and rats who populate the underworld.
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Series
Merciful Crow volume 1
Language
English
Description
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 him from a ruthless queen, and he'll protect the Crows when he reigns. Hawk warrior Tavin, Jas's bodyguard, magically assumed the prince's appearance and...
15) Defy the worlds
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Sophisticated robot Abel must save teenaged soldier Noemi from capture on a hidden planet, while outwitting armies of deranged service robots and securing medical aid for a plague on Noemi's home world"--
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
In examining epidemics throughout the history of the US, Price examines how law and government affected their outcomes-- and how those outbreaks in turn shaped our government. She draws important conclusions about the gaps in our governmental and legal response that have been faced by officials for generations-- and how we can better address the panic, conflict and chaos next time.
17) The plague
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
18) The plague
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran.
Author
Series
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
346 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Geometric patterns spread across the skin, until you die in agony, or become a Carrier, doing the bidding of an evil intelligence, the Pattern Master. Anyone showing the tell-tale marks is put to death; that is Emperor Beyon''s law. But now the pattern is running over the Emperor''s own arms....
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