Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague-a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice. Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"MICHAEL CRICHTON meets STEPHEN KING at their finest ... with the creepiest opening I've ever read." -- Lisa Gardner * "Joins the ranks of classic paranoid thrillers about human achievement run amok, with STEPHEN KING's The Stand and Michael Crichton's Terminal Man ." -- Joseph Finder * "A heart-stopping thriller... a must-read for MICHAEL CRICHTON fans." -- Dallas Morning News * "Similar in atmosphere and style to MICHAEL CRICHTON and STEPHEN KING......
8) The hot zone
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
9) Blackout
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Homeland meets Marie Lu's Legend in Blackout , which #1 New York Times bestselling author Ally Condie called a thrilling combination of Wells's trademark twists and terror. Fantastic!" Laura and Alec are highly trained teenage terrorists. Jack and Aubrey are small-town high school students. There was no reason for their paths ever to cross. But now a mysterious virus is spreading throughout America, infecting teenagers with impossible superpowersand...
11) Lost Horizon
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This gripping sequel to Forgotten City is a twist-filled survival adventure that's Mad Max for tweens. Everything Kobi once believed was a lie. Not only are there other survivors of the Waste that devastated the world thirteen years ago, but beyond the wasteland of Old Seattle lies a gleaming new city where thousands are desperate for a cure. To put an end to the Waste-and bring justice to those responsible-Kobi and his new friends will have to return...
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The New York Times -bestselling author returns to his mythical prairie town, where a mysterious outbreak has the locals losing all their inhibitions . . . A troublesome virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer. The most alarming symptom is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring memoir and work of fierce advocacy by a mother whose child is born deaf, leading her to investigate and expose a preventable virus that causes more childhood disabilities than any other--but is kept quiet by the medical community. One virus causes more birth defects and disabilities in children than any other infectious disease, yet 93% of Americans don't know it exists. In 2015, after an outwardly uneventful pregnancy, Megan Nix's second...
14) Wasteland
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Fans of the Divergent and Hunger Games series will love Wasteland , the first installment of the Wasteland trilogy, by five-time Emmy Award-nominated writer Susan Kim and Edgar Award-winning Laurence Klavan. With heart-pounding thrills, this harrowing survival story is alive with action and intrigue. Welcome to the Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic U.S. where no one lives past the age of 19. But an early death isn't the only doom waiting around the corner:...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"If you have yet to add Liu to your must-read list, you're doing yourself a disservice." --Booklist "A fresh thrill for anyone in the market for an extraordinary romance." -- Publishers Weekly Extraordinary is the word for the paranormal romance of New York Times bestseller Marjorie M. Liu -- who broke exciting new ground when she created the Dirk and Steele Detective Agency. The unique security organization comprised of psychics, telekinetics, and...
17) Toxic prey
Author
Series
Lucas Davenport volume 34
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lucas Davenport takes on another challenging case in this thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author"--
18) A heartbeat away
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Virologist Griffin Rhodes, locked in a maximum security prison for alleged terrorist acts, is called upon for help when a terrorist group unleashes a deadly virus in the Capitol Building, forcing the president of the United States, who is also inside the building, to literally quarantine the federal government.
19) North
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A Guardian Book of the Month'Echoes of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Stephen King's The Stand...' Guardian on SouthIf a virus doesn't kill you, the South will...The USA has been ravaged by Civil War. It's been thirty years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South. While the South has been devastated by disease - the North has emerged victorious, but terrified of reprisals. Both territories remain at the mercy of the...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In the present, three individuals--Lila, a pregnant doctor, Kittridge, a loner, and April, a teenager caring for her younger brother--struggle to survive as a man-made apocalypse unfolds. While, one hundred years in the future, Amy and others support the Twelve as they fight a dark enemy with plans for humankind that are worse than extinction.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request