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1) Snow crash
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
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.
Series
Wild cards volume 24
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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...
4) Xenocide
Author
Series
Ender Wiggin volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
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... 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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
10) 28 days later
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Understanding viruses with Max Axiom, super scientist: 4D an augmented reading science experience
Author
Publisher
an imprint of Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
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!
12) Viral
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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"--
13) Germ
Author
Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
v, 490 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
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...
14) The totem
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
12 sound discs (14 hr., 24 min). : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When police chief Nathan Slaughter settles in the tiny mountain community of Potter's Field, Wyoming, his most fervent prayer is that he has left behind him forever the nightmare he barely survived on a blizzardy night in Detroit. But nothing prepares him for the greater sanity-threatening nightmare he is about to confront. Beginning with the discovery of mutilated cattle on outlying ranches, Slaughter is drawn deeper and deeper into a vortex of...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
One ordinary afternoon, research specialist Dr. Erin Cross steps into a local deli to get some lunch and nearly takes a bullet instead. Thanks to timely intervention from a former Marine, she walks away from the seemingly freak incident. But when she returns to find her lab under security lockdown and her apartment ransacked, she realizes the attack was anything but random. Erin can't make sense of the threat, given her low profile after a disastrous...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their creation quickly spread around the U.S., where it now regularly appears as innumerable forms of kitsch ... Although the jackalope is an invention of the imagination, it is nevertheless connected to actual horned rabbits, which exist in nature and have for centuries been collected...
Author
Series
In Death volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
355 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Andromeda novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiv, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle--designated The Andromeda Strain--killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta, Virginia's chief medical examiner, has been called to Ireland to help investigate a series of grisly murders in which the killer dismembers his victims. Then Scarpetta returns to the U.S. and finds the killer--or a terrifying copycat--has struck at home. Worse, the victims appear to have been exposed to a deadly, highly contagious smallpox-like virus. To complete her personal nightmare, Scarpetta may have been exposed to the virus,...
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