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English
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Two weeks before the end of the world predicted by the ancient, Maya calendar, Dr. Gabriel Stanton receives a call from a hospital resident alerting him to the presence of a patient whose every symptom confounds and terrifies him. Meanwhile, Chel Manu, a Guatemalan American researcher at the Getty Museum, finds herself in possession of an illegal ancient artifact: a priceless codex from a lost city of her ancestors. This record seems to hold the...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The bizarre deaths of everyone in a remote Colorado ski town thrusts world-class virologist Lyle Martin into a mystery involving a deadly syndrome that causes him to wonder if the world might be better left unsaved.
3) Dust
Author
Series
Resurgam trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Nine years after dying in a car crash and being reborn as a zombie, Jessie has found her place in a zombie gang, but when a mysterious illness threatens both humans and zombies, Jessie must make a choice between ignoring the threat or hanging onto the life she knows now.
4) The q
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When the president's son, Lennon, is kidnapped and pushed out of an airplane over the Q, a vast quarantine zone, Maisie gives him a seventy-two hour vaccine and together the two teenagers attempt to fight their way through the Q in order to survive.
6) Coldbrook
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Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The world as we know it has changed forever. The reason is Coldbrook. The facility lay deep in Appalachian Mountains, a secret laboratory called Coldbrook. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were unleashing.
Author
Series
Dead of night volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Stebbins Little School is full of bodies. It's unthinkable to Desdemona Fox. Children are sobbing as panicked teachers and neighbors beat down their family members outside of the school...or the things that used to be their family members. Parents don't eat their children do they? Officers Fox and Hammond, along with journalist Billy Trout, are calling it the beginning of the end. This is the zombie apocalypse. An insane escaped serial killer is...
Author
Series
Covert-One series volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
9) The winners
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A widely assorted group of people win as a lottery prize a cruise with an unknown destination.
10) Phase six
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic--completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged--that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's harrowing...
12) Autumn: the city
Author
Series
Autumn novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"A disease of unimaginable ferocity has torn across the face of the planet, leaving billions dead. A small group of survivors shelter in the remains of a devastated city, hiding in terror as the full effects of the horrific infection start to become clear. The sudden appearance of a company of soldiers again threatens the survivors' fragile existence. Do they bring with them hope, help, and answers, or more pain, fear, and suffering?"--Page 4 of cover....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Injected by a prison doctor with a formula designed to keep his consciousness awake after death, a condemned serial killer experiences unforeseen, contagious side effects and emerges from his grave to begin a murderous rampage that is combated by two small-town cops.
15) Sundown
Author
Series
Sky King Ranch volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Everyone else might believe the mysterious woman at Sky King Ranch has lost her memory, but Colt Kingston knows when someone is lying. Now he just has to find out if the lies are meant to save her . . . or protect them"--
"Former Delta Operative Colt Kingston knows when someone is lying. He may not know the truth, but he sure doesn't trust Tae, the woman who is caring for his ailing father at Sky King Ranch. Behind those beautiful blue eyes, he...
16) The key to fear
Author
Series
Key volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Autumn novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomads Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"A bastard hybrid of War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead, the Autumn series chronicles the struggle survivors are forced to contend with in a world torn apart by a deadly disease. 99% of the population of the planet has been killed in less than 24 hours. Animated by "phase two" of some unknown contagion, the dead begin to rise. At first slow, blind, dumb and lumbering, the bodies soon regain their most basic senses and abilities--sight,...
Author
Series
Andromeda novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle--designated The Andromeda Strain--killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before a...
19) Among the living
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Estranged friends Dean and Bethan meet after five years apart when they are drawn to a network of caves on a remote Arctic island. Bethan and her friends are environmental activists, determined to protect the land. But Dean's group's exploitation of rare earth minerals deep in the caves unleashes an horrific contagion that has rested frozen and undisturbed for many millennia. Fleeing the terrors emerging from the caves, Dean and Bethan and their...
20) Silver
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When the students at Mortingham Boarding Academy find a group of strange, silvery beetles on school grounds they are excited, but when the beetles attack them and a mysterious virus starts spreading, a group of mismatched students must work together to survive.
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