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1) The passage
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 50
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English
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A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment that only six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte can stop.
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Survivors of a government-induced apocalypse endure their violent and disease-stricken world while protecting their loved ones; while a century into the future, members of a transformed society determinedly search for the original twelve virals.
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On the night of the State of the Union address, President Allaire must quarantine everyone in the Capitol building because a terrorist group has released a deadly, contagious virus into the building. The only expert who might be able to help is virologist Griffin Rhodes, currently imprisoned for alleged terrorist acts himself, including the theft of that same virus.
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Mark Spitz and his squad of three "sweepers" move through Zone One of lower Manhattan, a walled-off enclave scheduled for resettlement in the aftermath of a zombie plague. The great masses of the undead have been violently dispatched by a Marine detachment. It falls to Spitz and his fellows to take care of the handful that remain, as well as a second-tier of the infected known as "stragglers": zombies who have bypassed the cannibalistic urges of their...
6) Red
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Hunter finds himself again torn between two realities after a 15-year respite from his dreams. Pitted against the New Allegiance, which has intentionally spread a deadly virus known as the Raison Strain that threatens to destroy the modern world, he launches a desperate search for the scientist who can provide the vaccine.
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"Sue Burke, author of Semiosis and Interference, gives readers a new near-future, hard-sf novel. Immunity Index blends Orphan Black with Contagion in a terrifying outbreak scenario. In a US facing growing food shortages, stark inequality, and a growing fascist government, three perfectly normal young women are about to find out that they share a great deal in common. Their creator, the gifted geneticist Peng, made them that way-before such things...
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Key volume 1
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English
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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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When a new virus surfaces, Lucy and her husband Reed, along with their five closest friends and family, sequester themselves on Reed's family's private island off the coast of Maine where she feels her own grip on reality slipping as tempers flare, strange signs appear, and accidents turn deadly.
10) The Raven
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2020.
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English
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"All cultures share versions of the same legends: vampires, witches, werewolves, and other macabre creatures. There's a reason for this. They were all once real. When the missiles containing a terrifying virus first exploded, no one realized what was happening. But within a month, the deprogramming of human DNA became apparent. Millions of years of evolution fell away, revealing the long-forgotten genetic strands that caused people to thirst for blood,...
11) Pandemic
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"After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: First, that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and second, that her DNA matches that of the transplanted heart. Strangely, two more incidences...
12) Viral
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Trying to find some normalcy during the Covid-19 pandemic, Brian Murphy and his family are on a summer excursion in Cape Cod when his wife, Emma, comes down with concerning flu-like symptoms. But their leisurely return home to New York City quickly becomes a race to the local hospital as she suddenly begins seizing in the car. At the ICU, she is diagnosed with eastern equine encephalitis, a rare and highly lethal mosquito-borne viral disease seemingly...
13) The last Nazi
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Pub. Date
2003
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abridged
Physical Desc
5 CD's(6 hrs.):digital;4-3/4 in.
Language
English
14) Head on
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Lock in novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are “threeps,” robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it..."--Amazon.com....
15) Nocturna
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Series
Strain trilogy volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1. ed.
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
16) Zero-G
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Outer Earth volume 2
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. mass market paperback edition.
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472 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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Riley Hale is the newest member of Outer Earth's law-enforcement team. When a doctor is determined to blackmail her, Riley has no choice but to give in to his demands and break a dangerous prisoner out of jail. This is not just any prisoner, but one who is capable of bringing the entire space station to its knees.
17) Lock in
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"Fifteen years from now, a new virus sweeps the globe. 95% of those afflicted experience nothing worse than fever and headaches. Four percent suffer acute meningitis, creating the largest medical crisis in history. And one percent find themselves "locked in"--fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. One per cent doesn't seem like a lot. But in the United States, that's 1.7 million people "locked in"...including the President's...
18) Ases en lo alto
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Wild cards volume 2
Publisher
Oceano De Mexico
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
"It struck in the wake of World War II, a mysterious disease that killed almost 90 percent of those infected. A few of the survivors gained extraordinary powers while others were blighted with severe disabilities. Some of those afflicted chose to use their new abilities to help the human race. But some took a different path. In Aces high, it's the 1980s, but a 1980s both like and unlike our own. Now, after centuries of travel through space, an extraterrestrial...
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47North
Pub. Date
[2016]
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275 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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In the wake of a devastating plague, two communities emerge as bastions of survival. One is called the City, and its people scrabble for scraps in the wasteland. The other, New Charity, enjoys the bounty of its hydroelectric dam and refuses City denizens so much as a drop of precious water. When City-dweller Cressyda inherits her fathers ranch within New Charity, she becomes intent on opening the dam to allno matter the cost. But when Syd...
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Hollows (Kim Harrison) volume Prequel
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to her beloved Hollows series with The Turn, the official prequel to the series that will introduce you to a whole new side of Rachel Morgan's world as they've never seen it before! Can science save us when all else fails? Trisk and her hated rival, Kal, have the same goal: save their species from extinction. But death comes in the guise of hope when a genetically modified tomato created to...
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