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Author
Series
Sonic the hedgehog volume 7
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
"The world has completely fallen to the Metal Virus. Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends find themselves on Angel Island, the last safe place, launching a desperate plan with their old foe, Dr. Eggman, to defeat the Deadly Six and reclaim the Chaos Emeralds in a last-ditch effort to save the world."--
64) Zero days
Author
Pub. Date
c2019.
Description
A deadly virus is threatening the world's computers. It's smart, fast, and developed by a group of elite hackers. It can break through the highest security, crippling any system within seconds. It's the ultimate cyber weapon. Nobody understands the mind of a hacker quite like Chuck Drayton. But he's gone offline, rocked with guilt after a failed operation cost innocent lives. When Chuck is called back into action, he soon gets caught in the perilous...
67) Viral
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
Brian Murphy and his family are enjoying a relaxing summer vacation when his wife, Emma, comes down with mild flu-like symptoms. Their leisurely return home to New York City quickly turns into a race to the ER when her condition dramatically deteriorates. At the hospital, she is diagnosed with Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a rare and highly lethal mosquito-borne viral disease caught during one of their evening cookouts. Worse still, Brian and Emma's...
68) Blackout
Author
Series
Blackout volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When the spread of a virus bestows upon American teenagers powerful abilities, the government begins rounding up all teens for testing and monitoring. In one government-run facility, four teens from very different backgrounds are introduced, and their encounters and decisions will have a world-shattering impact on the nation and its future.
69) Insurrection
Author
Series
Nevermore volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
The virus ran swiftly on the hot summer breeze. Unseen. Unheard. Unknown. It swept through the entire earth in a matter of months, having mercy on no one. Young -- old -- it didn't matter. Brought to us by the Drabs, it was the last thing we expected. But the Drabs knew. They even fought a war over whether or not they should save us. In the end, it was decided that we were diseased insects who were unfit to breathe their air. Our air. So they left...
Pub. Date
[c2014]
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
71) Transmission
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
In a networked world, anything can change in an instant, and sometimes everything does.... Transmission, Hari Kunzru's new novel of love and lunacy, immigration and immunity, introduces a daydreaming Indian computer geek whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer. Lonely and naïve, Arjun Mehta spends his days as a lowly assistant virus tester and pining away for his free-spirited colleague...
73) The giant germ
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a picnic in the park but they end up in another world, one of microbes and a giant germ.
74) Viruses
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes what a virus is and how it travels and how it affects the immune sytem and how it can be treated.
75) A heartbeat away
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Formats
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On the night of the State of the Union address, President James Allaire expects to give the speech of his career. But no one anticipates the terrifying turn of events that forces him to quarantine everyone in the Capitol building. A terrorist group calling itself "Genesis" has unleashed WRX3883, a deadly, highly contagious virus, into the building. No one fully knows the deadly effect of the germ except for the team responsible for its development-a...
Author
Description
A study of new and reappearing diseases that have been causing death and terror around the world in the last few decades of the twentieth century, spotlighting the doctors and scientists who are risking their lives to contain the viruses, and arguing that the deadly microbes are a result of the human impact on earth's ecosystem.
77) Snow crash
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 27
Description
"Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don't dare leave their mansions. Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse,...
78) Germs up close
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Have you ever seen a germ up close? Really, really close? Award-winning science writer Sara Levine introduces readers to a variety of viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi that can make people sick--including SARS-CoV-2, E. coli, and ringworm. Micrographs and illustrations show extremely close-up views of the germs that are at once incredible and a little gross. The book concludes with tips for staying healthy as well as information about the immune...
Pub. Date
2014
Description
When a deadly virus is accidentally released into a major city, its population is quarantined by military blockade. And for a wealthy industrialist desperate to rescue his daughter from inside the rabid chaos, his only hope is former commando Max Gatling. Now Gatling has one day to bust in, blast through hordes of the undead, find the girl, and hunt for a way to get them both out alive.
80) Germ
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Summary: Special agent Julia Matheson races to track the source of a virus that can infect and destroy specific individuals by matching their DNA.