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1) Virals
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
Tory Brennan is the leader of a band of teenage 'sci-philes' who live on an island off the coast of South Carolina and when the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever.
Author
Series
Welcome to the stone age volume 1
Publisher
S.A. Ison
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Which is more deadly, a computer virus or biological virus? What happens when both hit? Kelly, Randal, Larry, and Stephen don't know each other and they have nothing in common. They don't even live in the same cities, yet they will all come to the same conclusion, life is over as they know it. Nothing has prepared anyone for the unimaginable hell that is about to crash into their lives. How strong is their will to live? Time will tell."--adapted...
7) Virus
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This stunningly illustrated book provides a rare window into the amazing, varied, and often beautiful world of viruses. Contrary to popular belief, not all viruses are bad for you. In fact, several are beneficial to their hosts, and many are crucial to the health of our planet. Virus offers an unprecedented look at 101 incredible microbes that infect all branches of life on Earth--from humans and other animals to insects, plants, fungi, and bacteria....
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Frank Hartman, a virologist working for the government's top-secret biohazard agency, is the only man capable of stopping George Galen, a geneticist who has discovered how to "improve" humans by making them stronger, healthier, and compliant to his will.
Author
Language
English
Description
Diana O'Toole has a plan: be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She just knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the...
13) Computer viruses
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books/Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 276
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Viruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly being bombarded with information about new lethal infections. In this Very Short Introduction Dorothy Crawford demonstrates how clever these entities really are. From their discovery and the unravelling of their intricate structures.
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As the alien Xenovirus reaches Britain, Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, now gifted with extraordinary longevity, joins with Alan Turing to set up a special organization, the Order of the Silver Helix, to outmaneuver the terrifying mutations of the virus in Britain.
17) Earth abides
Author
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
"First published in 1949 and the winner of the inaugural International Fantasy Award in 1951, Earth Abides went on to become one of the most influential science-fiction novels of the twentieth century. It remains a fresh, provocative story of apocalyptic pandemic, societal collapse, and rebirth"--
"When a plague of unprecedented virulence sweeps the globe, the human race is all but wiped out. In the aftermath, as the great machine of civilization...
Author
Series
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
"This title examines viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa with a focus on flu viruses from how they infect the body and are spread from person-to-person, to symptoms and treatment, and when to see a doctor. Secondary complications and flu vaccines are also covered. A list of healthy habits is included to help readers combat disease."--Provided by publisher
20) Viruses
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Describes the complexity of viruses, the difficulty of isolating them, common and uncommon viral diseases, vaccines and immunity, and modern virus research.