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2) The plague
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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran. A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.
3) Champion
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Legend (Marie Lu) volume 3
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"June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic--and each other--and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. Just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities"--
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A 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio, told as a frame story coveriing 100 tales by ten young people. The bawdy tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Includes tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons and also documents life in 14th-century Italy.
7) Silent city
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Series
Orpen novels volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Outside the walls of Phoenix City, where the plague has overrun Ireland, one bite from the savage skrake means death or infection. Inside, Orpen and the other survivors of the plague gather in meager numbers. They are protected from disease and death, but the city is by no means a refuge. Phoenix City is ruled with an oppressive hand, with even the best of the leadership power hungry and ruthless. Orpen and the banshees--a fierce, all-women force...
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Illuminae files volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
599 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"--
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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"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...
11) Light of my life
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
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A decade after a plague has wiped out nearly all of the world's female population, a father and daughter live on the outskirts of what's left of civilization as they once knew it. Disguising his daughter as a boy, the father struggles to protect her from newfound dangers as they are forced from their home into dangerous territory.
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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 Frith, the vicar's maid, as she confronts the loss of her family, the disintegration of her community, and the lure of a dangerous...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Venice, 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo along with a secret stowaway. Within days the city is fighting to protect itself from the plague."--
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Underland chronicles volume 3
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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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Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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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.
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Mortal coil series volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Cat is desperate to find a way to stop Cartaxus and the plague, but to do so, she'll have to face her most devastating enemy yet"--
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Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, photographs. ; 20 cm.
Description
"While the coronavirus COVID-19 changed the world in 2020, it still isn't the largest and deadliest pandemic in history. That title is held by the Plague. This disease, also known as the “Black Death,” spread throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe in the fourteenth century and claimed an astonishing 50 million lives by the time it officially ended. Author Roberta Edwards takes readers back to these grimy and horrific years, explaining just how this...
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Fox film noir volume 3
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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 bubonic plague, he must find and inoculate the killers.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment Llc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (2,090 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A time traveller from the post-apocalyptic future appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will nearly destroy the human race.
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