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"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... But then a virus that felt worlds away has appeared in the city... Almost immediately, Diana's dream vacation goes awry. Her luggage is lost, the Wi-Fi is nearly nonexistent, and the hotel they'd booked is shut down due to the...
2) Snow crash
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IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that is striking down hackers everywhere, he races through a search-and-destroy mission to find the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about Infocalypse.
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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...
4) Xenocide
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Ender Wiggin volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
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English
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Lusitania seems to be a planet on which three intelligent species--humans, the pequininos, and the Hive Queen--can finally live together, until a virus dangerous to humans but vital to the pequininos is found, and the Starways Congress orders Lusitania and its inhabitants to be destroyed.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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In the Micronesian Islands, a top secret, U.S. government- sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly . . . disappears. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless a half mile below the surface, its passengers - including Zavala - left to die. Only Kurt Austin's heroic measures save them from a watery grave, but, suspecting...
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Ender Wiggin volume 7
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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The children of Ender and Bean must solve the great problem of the Ender Universe--the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it is allowed to escape from Lusitania.
"Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe-the deadly virus they...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name—and spawned a new genre, the technothriller—the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.
The Evolution is Coming.
In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
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"Bell has spent his whole life - all eleven years of it - on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid - he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell - a regular kid...
9) Exposed
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Maggie O'Dell novels volume 6
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English
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Agent Maggie O'Dell and Assistant Director Cunningham believe they're responding to a threat made at Quantico. Instead they walk into a trap. Before they realize it, they've both been exposed to a killer who can strike at anyone, at any time, and no one can predict who might be next--until it's too late. The killer's tactics suggest he's an aficionado of criminal minds. He uses bits and pieces from those he admires: a phrase from the Beltway Snipers,...
10) Darwin's radio
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Darwin volume 1
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English
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Molecular biologist Kay Lang, a specialist in retroviruses, teams up with virus hunter Christopher Dicken and anthropologist Mitch Rafelson in an attempt to trace the ancient source of a flu-like disease that is killing expectant mothers and their offspring and threatening the future of the human race.
11) Viral
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English
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"In this electrifying new medical thriller from New York Times bestseller Robin Cook, a family's exposure to a rare yet deadly virus puts them at the center of a terrifying danger to mankind--and pulls back the curtain on a healthcare system powered by greed and corruption"--
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2017.
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English
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Hell on earth is only one click of a mouse away... The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now an ancient darkness is gathering there as well. This force is threatening to spread virally into the real world unless it can be stopped by members of a ragtag crew: Twelve-year-old Hannah...
13) Mississippi roll
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Wild cards volume 24
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Now on its final voyage, the historical steamboat Natchez is known for her super-powered guest entertainers. But after the suspicious death of a crewmember, retired NY police detective Leo Storgman decides to make this incident his personal case. His findings only lead to a growing number of questions. Is there some truth behind the ghostly sightings of the steamboat’s first captain Wilbur Leathers? What secret does the current captain seem to be...
14) 28 days later
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
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English
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An infirmary patient wakes up from a coma to an empty room ... in a vacant hospital ... in a deserted city. A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. Now a handful of survivors must fight to stay alive, unaware that the worst is yet to come.
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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It Kills. . . On a hot summer night in Montauk, the bodies of two local bar patrons are discovered in the dunes, torn to shreds, their identities unrecognizable. . . It Breeds. . . In another part of town, a woman's backyard is invaded by four terrifying creatures that defy any kind of description. What's clear is that they're hostile--and they're ravenous. . . It Spreads. . . With every sunset the terror rises again, infecting residents with a virus...
16) The giant germ
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Series
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The students in Ms. Fizzle's class board the Magic School Bus in order to get up close and personal with microbes.
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In Death volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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In the year 2059, New York police lieutenant Eve Dallas is rattled by memories of her abusive childhood while working on the case of a computer virus--created by a vigilante terrorist group targeting pedophiles and drug dealers--that kills users rather than files.
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Series
Covert-One novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperback
Pub. Date
2006, c2000
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English
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Col. Jonathon Smith, a combat doctor attached to the Army Research Institute of Infectious Disease, is assigned to investigate a deadly virus that has killed three people in three different cities. First warned off by a shadowy FBI contact, Smith then barely survives an attempt on his life. Not knowing where to turn, he assembles a private team that must search highest levels and the darkest corners of the world.
19) Understanding viruses with Max Axiom, super scientist: 4D an augmented reading science experience
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an imprint of Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Follow Max Axiom on a microscopic adventure into the world of VIRUSES! In this action-packed graphic novel, the one-and-only Super Scientist shrinks to the size of bacteria, discovers ways to stay healthy, and more! Through comic-book style art, Max Axiom transforms science topics, like biology, into superpowered adventures!
20) Germ
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Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
Description
If you breathe...It will find you. The list of 10,000 names was created for maximum devastation. Business leaders, housewives, politicians, celebrities, janitors, children. None of them is aware of what is about to happen--but all will be part of the most frightening brand of warfare the world has ever known. The germ--an advanced form of the Ebola virus--has been genetically engineered to infect only those people whose DNA matches the codes embedded...
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