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Author
Series
Maze runner volume 3
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.
Author
Series
[Darwin's radio series] volume 1
Language
English
Description
Molecular biologist Kaye Lang's theory--that ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans can return to life--has become a chilling reality. The shocking evidence: a "virus-hunter" has tracked down a flu-like disease that kills expectant mothers and their offspring.
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Explores the hidden world of viruses, explaining how they profoundly affect human lives and updates current virus-related issues, including the frenetic evolution of the HIV virus, which could pose greater dangers in the future.
Author
Language
English
Description
The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton: a highly contagious spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies before causing them to burst into flames. There is no antidote. Harper Grayson was a nurse who treated hundreds of infected patients; now the telltale gold-flecked marks are on her skin. But Harper wants to live at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. Her husband Jakob becomes unhinged...
Author
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...
8) Viruses
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Discusses viruses, including their physical characteristics and some of the diseases they can cause.
9) Snot, sneezes, and super-spreaders: everything you need to know about viruses and how to stop them
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Discover the extraordinary world of viruses, from their creation and transmission to vaccination. If we didn't know it before, we certainly know it now: viruses can be powerful--so powerful, in fact, that they can hold the world in their grip for months at a time. But what exactly is a virus? Where do they come from and what do they do to our bodies? How do they spread, and what can we do to protect ourselves? Author Marc ter Horst tackles these...
12) I am legend
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Immune to an incurable virus, Robert Neville believes he is the last human on Earth and tries to find a cure to stop the mutant creatures that still roam New York City.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fallen goddess Tavia Michaels must use her growing powers to stop a virus from wiping the Earth away, all while deciding to be with either her eternal lover, Logan, or her former best friend, Benson.
Tavia Michaels will again have to make a choice about who to be with even as she tries to stop the virus that is destroying the world and uncover the truth about the two Earthbound organizations that have her tangled up in their webs.
14) I'm a virus!
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In friendly, simple text, the most "common" virus, rhino virus (the common cold) explains how viruses work and spread to young children"--
17) Ammonite
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep--and its forces find themselves fighting for their lives. Terrified of spreading the virus, the company abandons its employees, leaving them afraid...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In The Viral Storm, award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and human beings have evolved side by side through history; how deadly viruses like HIV, swine flu, and bird flu almost wiped us out in the past; and why modern life has made our species vulnerable to the threat of a global pandemic. Wolfe's research missions to the jungles of Africa and the rain forests of Borneo have earned him the nickname "the Indiana Jones...
19) Last last chance
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When a lethal virus vanishes from a Washington, D.C., lab, everyone blames Lucy's late father for the resulting epidemic, while Lucy struggles to overcome her drug addiction and to keep intact her family, which includes a pagan mother, a Christian-fundamentalist half-sister, her grandmother, and her lover.
20) Daybreakers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010.
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.
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