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3) Plague
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Series
Gone novels volume 4
Language
English
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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.
5) Severance
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After an epidemic causes most New Yorkers to flee, Candace Chen stays behind and continues her routine: going to work, getting paid, and blogging about the deserted city. Eventually, though, Candace will have to leave--putting her at the mercy of a power-hungry IT specialist named Bob.
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English
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This new interpretation of the New England Witch Trials offers an innovative, well-grounded explanation of witchcraft's link to organic illness. While most historians have concentrated on the accused, Laurie Winn Carlson focuses on the afflicted. Systematically comparing the symptoms recorded in colonial diaries and court records to those of the encephalitis epidemic in the early twentieth century, she argues convincingly that the victims suffered...
Author
Series
Roman mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan and his friends are called to Rome by the emperor in the winter of 80 A.D. to find the new Prometheus believed to have brought an epidemic to the city, but Jonathan, obsessed with reuniting his parents, makes some unwise--and life-threatening--choices.
11) The Gemini virus
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English
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While a pair of charismatic CDC researchers and their team search frantically for the cure of a wildly contagious virus that kills within four days, a married couple and their children, seeking safety, flee to an isolated mountain cabin, not knowing that they are heading to the source.
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English
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Teeth takes readers on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects, low educational achievement, social mobility, and the troubling state of our public health.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1987, only 3 perfect of American children were diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. In 2014 the number rose to an alarming 11 percent. Wedge questioned why, if ADHD is a true biological disorder of the brain, the rate of diagnosis is so much higher in America that it was abroad. She argues that different approaches to therapy, parenting, diet and education may explain why rates of ADHD are so much lower in other countries.
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Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
This Element is an excerpt from Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today (9780137019960) by David P. Clark. Available in print and digital formats. ¿ Is there a "good" side to epidemics? It all depends on how you look at it... ¿ The way epidemics have intervened in history shows that disease is not uniformly negative. An epidemic's long-term outcome may be quite complex. Whether we regard any particular outcome as "good"...
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Series
Running out of time volume 1
Language
English
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When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
18) A matter of days
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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In the not-too-distant future when a global pandemic kills most of humanity, a teenaged girl and her younger brother struggle to survive.
19) Contagion
Author
Series
Contagion duology volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Responding to a distress call on the distant planet of Achlys, Thea Sadik and her search-and-rescue crew are confronted by a zombie-like outbreak that uncovers a monstrous enemy.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Insomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows. Even his beloved wife, Carolyn, has succumbed to the telltale red-rimmed eyes, slurred speech and cloudy mind before disappearing into the quickly collapsing world. Yet Biggs can still sleep, and dream, so he sets out to find her.
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