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Return to Red River volume 3
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Book 3 of RETURN TO RED RIVER by bestselling author Lauraine Snelling. Thorliff's goal of becoming a writer is within reach. Working for a newspaper in Northfield, Minnesota, he is busy writing articles and stories for the Minneapolis Tribune and Harper's Magazine. But his idyllic world comes to a sudden halt when an epidemic hits the town of Blessing, North Dakota, following the Red River flood of 1897. Thorliff returns home to help family and friends...
3) Contagion
Author
Series
Contagion duology volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
423 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project--including its members' dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried--and some monsters are only too ready...
Author
Series
The three novels volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Follows the chaos that ensues when a cruise ship is stranded and passengers fall ill amid rumors of shadowy figures on the lower decks.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When the speech of children becomes toxic to adults, Sam and his wife Claire face the difficult choice of whether or not to abandon their spoiled teenage daughter Esther, as government scientists try to find a safe form of speech.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A small town comes unraveled after a young teen has a frightening, unexplained seizure in her high school class and rumors of a hazardous illness quickly move through the school and the community, spreading hysteria and destroying friendships and families.
8) Plague year
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Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
292 p. : maps ; 18 cm.
Description
The nanotechnology was designed to fight cancer. Instead, it evolved into the machine plague, killing nearly five billion people and changing life on Earth forever.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A pandemic virus stemming from a bizarre blood-solidifying mystery sweeps through the world, transforming victims into beautiful vampire-like beings who rise to prominence in all aspects of society, before one runs for political office.
10) Fever, 1793
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
251 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
11) Magnolia Creek
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On the eve of the Civil War, Sara Collier marries Dru Talbot just before he joins the Confederate Army. When Dru dies heroically on the battlefield, Sara rises above her grief. Then, a year after the end of the war, battle-scarred Dru surprises everyone when he returns home, still clinging to the dream of starting over with his bride.
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"In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there the harrowing and deeply moving story follows Aleq, one of the few survivors of the initial outbreak, through his identification and radical isolation as the likely index patient. While he shoulders...
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
iii, 399 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
A girl with a ticking mechanical heart created by her genius father, famed for his biomechanical limb creations, decides to create a companion to ease her loneliness.
16) The stand
Author
Description
After a virus kills most of the people in the world, a handful of survivors choose sides-- a world of good led by 108-year-old Mother Abigail-- or evil led by a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.
17) Head on
Author
Series
Lock in novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps," robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it..."--Amazon.com....
18) Conversion
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xi, 402 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When girls start experiencing strange tics and other mysterious symptoms at Colleen's high school, her small town of Danvers, Massachusetts, falls victim to rumors that lead to full-blown panic, and only Colleen connects their fate to the ill-fated SalemVillage, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago.
Author
Series
Virus hunters volume 3
Publisher
[Crown Publishers Inc.]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
The fight to defeat new, deadly pathogens never ends. Each time we achieve a victory, the battleground shifts. There is a new outbreak, a new virus, a new enigma. The microbes are not lurking in search of human prey. We find them.
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