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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Language
English
Description
When a man escapes from a biological testing facility, he sets in motion a deadly domino effect, spreading a mutated strain of the flu that will wipe out 99 percent of humanity within a few weeks. The survivors who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge--Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious "Dark Man," who delights...
3) Fever, 1793
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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.
When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are Nico and her dog, on a voyage devised by Nico's father to find a mythical portal; a young artist named Kit, raised in...
5) The refuge
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
1849. Darcie and Walter Goodwin join a Shaker village to escape a cholera epidemic sweeping the area. It's meant to be a temporary stay, but Walter is killed in a riverboat accident. With no family and no money, Darcie has little choice but to stay with the Shakers. To complicate matters, she is expecting a baby conceived before she and her husband came to the Shaker village. Marital relationships are considered sinful in this celibate community,...
Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against man and giant Pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasihuman species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. While their reluctant prophet, Jimmy -- Crake's one-time friend -- recovers from a...
8) Briar's book
Author
Series
Circle of magic volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Briar, a young mage-in-training, and his teacher Rosethorn must use their magic to fight a deadly plague that is ravaging Summersea.
Author
Series
Souls of fire volume 2
Language
English
Description
As the plague-like virus spawned from a failed government continues to spread, Emberly Pearson, a phoenix that can transform into human form, and her partner, Jackson Miller, must find the stolen research for a cure before the virus becomes a pandemic.
10) The book of M
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man's shadow disappears--an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories"--Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
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"It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American...
12) Flameout
Author
Series
Souls of fire volume 3
Language
English
Description
Emberly and her red-hot partner, Jackson, have hit an impasse in their battle against the crazed humans infected by a plague-like virus derived from vampire blood. Their quest to unearth the leader of the group leads them into an ambush -- and leaves Emberly at odds with her former lover, Sam, who's pressuring her to join his Paranormal Investigations Team. To make matters worse, three local witches have been kidnapped -- and if their spells fall...
13) Isolation ward
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In Baltimoreś St. Raphaelś Hospital, three newly admitted patients are among societyś most helpless citizens: female residents of Baltimoreś group homes for the mentally impaired, their bodies racked by a virus the likes of which no one at St. Raphaelś has ever seen. Dr. Nathaniel McCormick is one of the first on the scene. A young investigator from the Centers for Disease Control, Nate is paid to explore the bizarre, the exotic, and the baffling--from...
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Language
English
Description
A propulsive and chillingly prescient novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award–winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.
"Absolutely riveting." — Stephen King
In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation
...15) Afterland
Author
Language
English
Description
Fleeing west to find a safe haven in a world vastly transformed by a pandemic that has killed nearly all men, a mother disguises her son as a girl to escape dangerous adversaries, including her own sister.
16) Violeta
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso día de 1920, siendo la primera niña de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estará marcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios, pues todavía se sienten las ondas expansivas de la Gran Guerra cuando la gripe española llega a las orillas de su país sudamericano natal, casi en el momento exacto de su nacimiento. Gracias a la clarividencia del padre, la familia saldrá indemne...
17) Wayward
Author
Series
Wanderers volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The sequel to the national bestseller Wanderers, the instant classic that "takes science, politics, horror, and science fiction and blends them into an outstanding story about the human spirit in times of turmoil, claiming a spot on the list of must-read apocalyptic novels" (NPR) Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country to a destination only they knew. And they...
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Language
English
Description
The fireman is coming. Stay cool. No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it’s Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies — before causing them to burst into...
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