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21) Plague land
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An unidentified virus wipes out most of the Earth's population, liquefying their bodies. The virus moves as if it has an agenda-- it adapts as it moves quickly across the planet. Leon, his mother, and younger sister Grace, who just moved to London from New York, must run for their lives.
22) Night Fall
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Quantico files volume 1
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Now that Alexandra "Alex" Donavan is finally free of her troubled upbringing, she's able to live out her childhood dream of working for the FBI. But soon after she becomes a member of the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, authorities in Kansas and Missouri contact them about bodies found on freight trains traveling across the country-all killed in the same way. Alex never expected to be forced to confront her past in this new job, but she immediately...
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380 pages ; 25 cm
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"IAt 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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Wild cards volume 4
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640 pages ; 23 cm.
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Español
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¿Cómo sería nuestro mundo si los superhéroes y los supervillanos de la fantasía fueran hombres y mujeres de carne y hueso que vivieron los acontecimientos históricos más relevantes del turbulento siglo XX? Este nuevo volumen de la sensacional serie coordinada por George R.R. Martin, y escrita de manera conjunta por un puñado de talentosos autores, gira en torno a una misión de investigación que busca la verdad sobre cómo los superhéroes...
26) The last shadow
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315 pages ; 24 cm.
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The children of Ender and Bean 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 were allowed to escape from Lusitania.
27) Extinction point
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7 audio discs (approximately 518 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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First comes the red rain: a strange, scarlet downpour from a cloudless sky that spreads across cities, nations, and the entire globe. In a matter of panicked hours, every living thing on earth succumbs to swift, bloody death. With only wits, weapons, and a bicycle, Emily must undertake a grueling journey across a country that's turning increasingly alien. For though she fears she's been left to inherit the earth, the truth is far more terrifying than...
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Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Scopes believes he is leading the way to a new world order,...
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Extinction cycle volume 1
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356 pages ; 19 cm.
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The worst of nature and the worst of science will bring the human race to the brink of extinction. Master Sergeant Reed Beckham has led his Delta Force Team, codenamed Ghost, through every kind of hell imaginable and never lost a man. When a top secret Medical Corps research facility goes dark, Team Ghost is called in to face their deadliest enemy yet -- a variant strain of Ebola that turns men into monsters. After barely escaping with his life, Beckham...
30) Phantom wheel
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Hackers volume 1
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409 pages ; 22 cm.
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"A group of teenage hackers has been conned into creating the most devastating virus the world has ever seen, and now it's up to them to take down the shadowy corporation behind it before it's too late"--
Being recruited by the CIA to join a top-secret intelligence program should be the opportunity of a lifetime. For Issa, it's a shot at creating a new and better life for herself and her siblings. For Harper, it's a chance to bury the secrets of...
31) Full disclosure
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309 pages ; 22 cm
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Simone, seventeen, HIV-positive and in love for the first time, decides that facing potential bullies head-on may be better than protecting her secret.
Simone Garcia-Hampton is starting over at a new school, making real friends, making a name for herself as student director of Rent, and making a play for Miles. The last thing she wants is for word to get out that she's HIV-positive, because last time things got ugly. As Simone and Miles start going...
32) Fever: a novel
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536 pages : map ; 24 cm
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"Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa -- and the world, as far as they know -- to have survived a devastating virus which has swept through the country. Their world turned upside down, Nico realizes that his superb marksmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father's protector, even though he is still only a boy. But Willem Storm,...
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"The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing...
34) Malice
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"Dead Zone meets Sixth Sense when a girl learns that a boy in her class will one day launch World War III. Can she kill his still-innocent self today in order to save millions of lives tomorrow?" --
"What I know: a boy in my class will one day wipe out two-thirds of the population with a virus. What I don't know: who he is. In a race against the clock, I not only have to figure out his identity, but I'll have to outwit a voice from the future telling...
35) SYLO
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SYLO chronicles volume 1
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407 pages ; 21 cm.
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"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...
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viii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
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Veterinarian Samantha Lewis and her team are dedicated to providing a sanctuary for unwanted, abused, and abandoned dogs in New York City. But every day it gets harder to operate her no-kill shelter. Sam is already at her breaking point when she learns of an unidentified, dangerous virus spreading through their neighborhood. The medical community can only determine that animals are the carriers. Amid growing panic and a demand for immediate answers,...
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550 pages ; 25 cm.
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As the alien Xenovirus reaches Britain, Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, now gifted with extraordinary longevity, joins with Alan Turing to set up a special organization, the Order of the Silver Helix, to outmaneuver the terrifying mutations of the virus in Britain.
38) Toxic game
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GhostWalker novel volume 15
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"On a rescue mission in the heart of the Indonesian jungle, Dr. Draden Freeman and his GhostWalker team need to extract the wounded as quickly as possible -- or risk spreading a deadly virus unleashed by a terrorist cell. When Draden gets infected he forces his team to leave him behind. He won't risk exposing anyone else. He intends to find the ones responsible and go out in a blaze of glory ... Shylah Cosmos's mission is to track the virus and remain...
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752 pages ; 24 cm
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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...
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264 pages ; 21 cm
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"Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet's disastrous transformation and told through the eyes of three women trying to survive the nightmare, from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lucy A. Snyder. To survive they must evolve. A virus tears across the globe, transforming its victims in nightmarish ways. As the world collapses, dark forces pull a small group of women together. Erin, once quiet and closeted, acquires...
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