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Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In March 1900, San Francisco's health department investigated a strange and horrible death in Chinatown. A man had died of bubonic plague, one of the world's deadliest diseases. But how could that be possible? Bubonic Panic tells the true story of America's first plague epidemic--the public health doctors who desperately fought to end it, the political leaders who tried to keep it hidden, and the brave scientists who uncovered the plague's secrets....
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2015.
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English
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"When authorities in Alaska receive a disturbing call from a teenage girl, their investigation leads them to discover an entire family of researchers dead. Joe Rush is called to help examine the bodies. On the surface, it looks like a brutal murder/suicide. But the situation is nowhere near that simple--nor is it over. Upon closer investigation, Rush discovers the terrifying truth. The research team has fallen victim to something that seems impossible...
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In this New York Times best-seller, Norman F. Cantor digs through the medical evidence and concludes that the Black Death of the 14th century was probably two diseases at once: bubonic plague and anthrax. He shows how these diseases affected the masses as well as individuals, and thus altered history. Concise, informative, and touched with dark humor, this book is a startlingly fresh view of a frightening epidemic.
4) The great mortality: an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time
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English
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Traces the history of the Black Death that spread across Europe in the fourteenth century, describing the devastating impact the plague had on European history and culture.
5) Illuminae
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Illuminae files volume 01
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic--and each other--and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. Just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities"--
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"Plagues upon the Earth is a history of human civilization and the germs that have shaped its course. At every stage in our species' past, micro-organisms have had macro-effects on the development of human societies. Kyle Harper proposes the first history of human disease to make full use of a radical new source of evidence: pathogen genomes as a biological archive and window into prehistoric times. We can now begin to reconstruct the natural history...
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From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind-unknown, unstoppable... and merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow. Operatives of the shadowy covert organization Sigma Force, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis search for answers to the bizarre affliction aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital. But a sudden and savage attack by terrorist hijackers turns the mercy ship into a floating...
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Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In gloriously gross detail, you'll meet dangerous microscopic invaders like protozoa, fungi, viruses, and foreign bacteria - then see how our bodies work to fight back and defend us against future infections. We get to know the critters behind history's worst diseases. We delve into the biology and mechanisms of infections, diseases, and immunity, and also the incredible effect that technology and medical science have had on humanity's ability to...
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English
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In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord's reconstruction of life during plague times presents the personal experiences of a wide range of individuals, from historical notables Samuel Pepys and Isaac Newton to common folk who tilled the land...
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Out from Egypt volume 1
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English
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Sold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was supposed to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a mistress who takes pleasure in her humiliation. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya is in the middle of it all. To save her older brother and escape the bonds of slavery, Kiya flees with the Hebrews during the Great Exodus. She finds herself utterly dependent on a fearsome God she's only just beginning to learn about, and in love...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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The people of fourteenth-century Florence, Italy, starving after years of bad weather and natural disasters, now face the Black Plague but twelve-year-old Maria is determined to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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Merciful Crow volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Fie, a sixteen-year-old chieftain from a lowly cast of mercy-killers, must rely on her wits and bone magic to smuggle the crown prince of Sabor to safety.
Fie's Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin; when they're called to collect royal dead, she's hoping they'll find the payout of a lifetime. But Crown Prince Jasimir faked his death, and Fie's ready to cut his throat. He offers a wager that she can't refuse: protect...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy that will restore peace to the people, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders who populate the underworld.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Before an ambush by enemy soldiers, Lord Cassia was an engineer's apprentice on a mission entrusted by the king. When plague sweeps over the land, devastating the kingdom, even Cas's title cannot save him from a rotting prison cell and a merciless sickness. Three years later he wants only to return to his home in the mountains and forget past horrors. But his castle has become a refuge for the royal court... and they have brought their enemies with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Explores the roles of prairie dogs in grassland ecosystems, including prairie dogs' importance to ecosystems, threats to prairie dog populations, and conservation efforts. Features sidebars, two infographics, and a "That's Amazing!" special feature"--
18) Illusionarium
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English
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As apprentice to his father, the second-best medical scientist in the empire, Jonathan leads a quiet life in a remote aerial city. Then the king arrives, calling on them to find the cure to a plague that has struck the capital city and put the queen's life at risk. A newly discovered chemical, fantillium, may help, but the side effects will also put at risk all that Jonathan holds dear.
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"1666. It is a year after plague has devastated England. Young widow Cecilia Thorowgood is a prisoner, trapped and isolated within the cavernous London townhouse of her older sister. At the mercy of a legion of doctors who fail to cure her grief with their impatient scalpels, Cecilia shows no signs of improvement. Soon, her sister makes a decision borne of desperation: she hires a new physician, someone known for more unusual methods. But he is a...
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