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21) Elemental
Author
Series
Elemental novel volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a dystopian colony of the United States where everyone is born with powers of the elements, water, wind, earth, and fire, sixteen-year-old Thomas, the first and only child born without an element seems powerless, but is he?
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. When Dr. Reed confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague he must find and innoculate the killers.
Author
Series
Black tide rising volume 3
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"With the world consumed by a devastating plague, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on the Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together the remains of the US Navy, Wolf Squadron, and its leader Steve Smith, plans to retake the mainland from the infected, starting with North America. The next step: produce a vaccine. But to do that, forces led by Smith's terrifyingly...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Here are the fascinating stories of three of the most serious and damaging diseases of all time: the Black Death, smallpox, and AIDS. It addresses the difference Pasteur's research made in fighting disease and describes today's work of the Pasteur Institute.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A team of soldiers and scientists has five years to find a cure for a plague decimating Earth.
War zone: After the Drakh infect Earth with a plague, Captain Gideon is called to Earth and given a new assignment. Using the brand-new Interstellar Alliance deep range vessel Excalibur, he and his crew must search for any clues to a cure for the plague. If a cure is not found within five years, everyone on Earth will soon die.
The long road: Earth's strip...
27) Epidemic
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Danish
Description
Tells the bizarre story of a director (played by von Trier himself) and a writer who create a script about a mysterious plague that engulfs Europe, only to find their horrific scenario coming true in real life.
29) Plague
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A deadly, flu-like epidemic and a plague of flesh-eating creatures threaten the lives of the children at Perdido Beach while Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Diana each struggle with doubts and uncertainties.
Author
Series
Agora trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A special document and the lives of Lily and Mark, two children who know its secrets, are at the center of a dangerous adventure upon which the fate of Agora, the materialistic world in which they live, rests.
Author
Publisher
47 North
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A single raindrop opens a Pandora's box when the spawn of perverse genetic research performed during World War II is unleashed on an unsuspecting modern world. By dawn, only a dead city remains, eerily quiet and still, except for mutant beasts that hide from the light, multiply, and await the shadows of night to continue their relentless advance. Ordered to investigate the unfolding crisis, biowarfare specialist Carolyn Ridnour barely escapes the...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This book delves into several illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations. Each chapter explores the history of a specific disease, detailing the symptoms, cures, and medical breakthroughs that it spawned.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
James Cole and Cassandra Railly embark on a desperate search across time to find the man responsible for the apocalypse, a time traveler who calls himself the Witness. Killing the Witness will mean saving the world. But the journey will come at tremendous personal stakes for both Cole and Railly, and call into question new alliances, old bonds, and the virtue of the mission.
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"In the winter of 1664-65, a bitter cold descended on London in the days before Christmas. Above the city, an unusually bright comet traced an arc in the sky, exciting much comment and portending "horrible windes and tempests." And in the remote, squalid precinct of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields outside the city wall, Goodwoman Phillips was pronounced dead of the plague. Her house was locked up and the phrase "Lord Have Mercy On Us" was painted on the...
Author
Series
[Day by day Armageddon] volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An ongoing journal depicting one man's personal struggle for survival, dealing with the trials of an undead world unfolding around him. An unknown plague sweeps the planet. The dead rise to claim the Earth as the new dominant species. Trapped in the midst of a global tragedy, he must make decisions ... choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them.
40) The grand dark
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Great War is over. The city of Lower Proszawa celebrates the peace with a decadence and carefree spirit as intense as the war's horrifying despair. But this newfound hedonism--drugs and sex and endless parties--distracts from strange realities of everyday life: Intelligent automata taking jobs. Genetically engineered creatures that serve as pets and beasts of war. A theater where gruesome murders happen twice a day. And a new plague that even...
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