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Series
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Dr. John Stapleton, embittered by the deaths of his wife and daughters in a plane crash and the loss of his ophthalmology practice to AmeriCare, retrains for a career in forensic pathology where he uncovers a plot by the health care giant to kill off its more costly subscribers.
2) Gravity
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
A young NASA doctor must combat a lethal microbe that is multiplying in the deadliest of environments: Space.
3) Toxic prey
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Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest project could endanger the entire world, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. Gaia is dying. That, at least, is what Dr. Lionel Scott believes. A renowned expert in tropical and infectious diseases, Scott has witnessed the devastating impact of illness and turmoil at critical scale. Society as it exists is...
4) Silver
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When the students at Mortingham Boarding Academy find a group of strange, silvery beetles on school grounds they are excited, but when the beetles attack them and a mysterious virus starts spreading, a group of mismatched students must work together to survive.
5) Coldbrook
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The world as we know it has changed forever. The reason is Coldbrook. The facility lay deep in Appalachian Mountains, a secret laboratory called Coldbrook. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were unleashing.
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It's December 2012--only days away from the day the Mayan's believed the world would be destroyed, when Dr. Gabriel Stanton is called to the bedside of a man suffering from fatal insomnia. Meanwhile, a young Guatemalan-American scholar is given a priceless codex from the lost kingdom of the Maya. Little does he know it's linked to the dying man and the key to stopping the end of the world.
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"A homeless man in Boston, an Army Major in California, and a teenage girl in Atlanta all die suddenly and painfully - each a victim of an unknown doomsday virus. For three days, a team of scientists in a U.S. government laboratory has been frantically trying to unlock the virus's secrets. When the leading researcher from that lab, Lt. Col. Jonathan Smith, returns from overseas, he barely survives a series of well-orchestrated attempts made on his...
9) Captives
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Series
Safe lands volume 1
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In a dystopian future, most of the population is infected with a plague. The exceptions are those who live outside the Safe Land's city walls. When a mutation in the plague sends city enforcers looking for the uninfected, Levi's village is raided. While the attack leaves many dead, Levi's fiancee is being held captive. Levi launches a war against the city in an attempt to free her before it's too late.
10) Red
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Never before has an entire trilogy been released in less than a year. This second installment finds Thomas Hunter facing the devastating realization that he has helped unleash death in two parallel worlds. He must now discover how to defeat this evil--while trying to save his true love.
11) Streams of Babel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Six teens face a bioterrorist attack on American soil as four are infected with a mysterious disease affecting their small New Jersey neighborhood and two others, both brilliant computer hackers, assist the United States Intelligence Coalition in tracking the perpetrators.
12) Dust
Author
Series
Resurgam trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
Jessie and her gang of zombies have a wonderful life in "Hicksville", Indiana. But now new beings are in the woods; they aren't human nor are they zombies. But a new disease has come that makes the undead more alive and the living to exist on the brink of death.
Author
Series
Running out of time volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Believing herself to be a frontier child in 1840, Jessie is shocked when her mother reveals a secret--it's really 1996. After a diphtheria outbreak strikes the village children, Jessie must venture out into the modern world where she faces a wealth of confusing 20th century innovations and the sinister man who will stop at nothing to make sure the village residents remain locked in their 19th century world.
14) Outbreak
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When a bizarre disease that attacks only physicians and their patients sweeps the country, Dr. Melissa Blumenthal discovers that sinister forces are behind the threat and finds her life in danger.
15) Random in death
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"Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night of her life. It's the last night of her life. Minutes later, Jake's in the alley getting some fresh air, and the girl from the dance floor comes stumbling out, sick...
16) The key to fear
Author
Series
Key volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Touch is lethal. Love is dangerous. Nobody is safe. For fifty years, the Key Corporation has defended humanity against a deadly plague that spreads through touch. Lovers don't hold hands, or even kiss. Personal boundaries are valued above all. Break the laws, and you'll face execution. Elodie, a talented young nurse, believes in the mission of the Key and has never questioned the laws that control her life. But Elodie is forced to break the rules...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In 1910 New York City, four years after her Irish immigrant father dies of tuberculosis, twelve-year-old Essie's fear and anxiety continue to escalate, so much that when her mother, a brave nurse, remarries and the family moves to North Brother Island, where Essie's new stepfather runs a quarantine hospital for the incurably sick, Essie imagines all manner of horrors.
18) Autumn: the city
Author
Series
Autumn novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"A disease of unimaginable ferocity has torn across the face of the planet, leaving billions dead. A small group of survivors shelter in the remains of a devastated city, hiding in terror as the full effects of the horrific infection start to become clear. The sudden appearance of a company of soldiers again threatens the survivors' fragile existence. Do they bring with them hope, help, and answers, or more pain, fear, and suffering?"--P. [4] of cover....
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Nick Foley thrillers volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Traveling to China to escape the demons of his past, ex-Navy SEAL Nick Foley instead stumbles upon a conspiracy his training never prepared him for as he becomes the lead suspect in a bio-terrorism investigation, which forces him to team up with a beautiful Chinese CDC microbiologist to clear his name.
20) Fire will fall
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Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Moved to a mansion in the South Jersey Pine Barrens, four teenagers, trying to recover from being poisoned by terrorists, struggle with health issues, personal demons, and supernatural events, as operatives try to track down the terror cell.