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1) Virals
Author
Series
Virals novels volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
454 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Description
Tory Brennan is the leader of a band of teenage 'sci-philes' who live on an island off the coast of South Carolina and when the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
x, 245 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Journalist Mark Bowden delivers a look at the ongoing and largely unreported war taking place literally beneath our fingertips. When the Conficker computer worm was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cybersecurity experts did not know what to make of it. Was it a platform for criminal profit, or a weapon? The worm, exploiting security flaws in Microsoft Windows, grew at an astonishing rate, infecting millions of computers around the world within...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
352 pages
Description
"At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a...
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Series
Gameknight999. Herobrine reborn volume 1
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Herobrine, the artificially intelligent virus intent on escaping Minecraft and infecting the Internet with his evil, was captured after an epic showdown on the shores of Minecraft. Gameknight999, having trapped the virus in an unlikely prison, saved the lives of his friends in the game and was finally able to return to the physical world. Everyone thought the Last Battle was over and Minecraft was safe-- but they were wrong. The powerful evil held...
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Series
Magnificent makers volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
97 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
In the Maker Maze, third graders Violet and Pablo, along with their classmate Aria, learn about good and bad germs and why it is important to stay home until fully recovered from an illness.
7) Life: the leading edge of evolutionary biology, genetics, anthropology, and environmental science
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xii, 367 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Scientists? understanding of life is progressing more rapidly than at any point in human history, from the extraordinary decoding of DNA to the controversial emergence of biotechnology. Featuring pioneering biologists, geneticists, physicists, and science writers, Life explains just how far we?ve come?and takes a brilliantly educated guess at where we?re heading. Richard Dawkins and J. Craig Venter compare genes to digital information, and sketch...
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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.
9) Mood science
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Franny K. Stein has had quite enough of her feelings getting in the way. So she physically removes them with the help of one of her machines. But it turns out that not having feelings can make things even worse, especially when you've accidentally released a virus that's turning everybody into toads. Good thing she has the help of her grandma, Granny Fran, and her Sense of Duty to help her shake the apathy"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
421 pages : color illustration ; 22 cm
Description
After a deadly Fly Flu spreads throughout the world, survivors Nico, her dog, young artist Kit, and the mysterious Deliverer roam the earth, seeking to evade the Flies and find a place where life and love can thrive again.
Author
Publisher
Guardalmazán
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
''En esta nueva edición, revisada y ampliada, de Virus y pandemias Ignacio López-Goñi --uno de los mejores y más expertos divulgadores de microbiología--, nos adentra en el mundo de la virología, y contesta a muchas de las cuestiones más apasionantes y desconocidas de una forma divertida, asequible y rigurosa.''--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
304, 20 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
When a new virus surfaces, Lucy and her husband Reed, along with their five closest friends and family, sequester themselves on Reed's family's private island off the coast of Maine where she feels her own grip on reality slipping as tempers flare, strange signs appear and accidents turn deadly.
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Description
"Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will 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's not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about...
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Description
"Where do viruses come from? Why do they make us sick? And how can we prevent them from spreading? The Secret Life of Viruses is full of all the amazing and fascinating facts you should know about the millions of viruses all around us! Young readers will learn about how viruses spread, how our bodies fight them, the history of viruses in the world, and much more. By teaching readers about the science behind this timely topic and offering context for...
17) Sylo
Author
Series
SYLO chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
407 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"They came from the sky parachuting out of military helicopters to invade Tucker Pierce's idyllic hometown on Pemberwick Island, Maine. They call themselves SYLO and they are a secret branch of the U.S. Navy. SYLO's commander, Captain Granger, informs Pemberwick residents that the island has been hit by a lethal virus and must be quarantined. Now Pemberwick is cut off from the outside world. Tucker believes there's more to SYLO's story. He was on...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Unlike those other Jedi sidelined to the Agricultural Corps, Hestizo Trace possesses one extraordinary Force talent: a gift with plants. Suddenly her quiet existence among greenhouse and garden specimens is violently destroyed by the arrival of an emissary from Darth Scabrous who seeks the final ingredient in an ancient Sith formula that promises to grant Darth Scabrous his greatest desire: immortality. But at the heart of the formula is a never-before-seen...
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From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman. The Fireman is coming. Stay cool. No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading...
20) Monster mayhem
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
When the Joker unleashes a computer virus that wipes out all of Gotham City's technology, Batman must thwart the supervillain's plans.
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