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1) Toxic prey
Author
Series
Prey series volume 34
Thorndike Press large print top shelf
Lucas Davenport novel volume 34
Prey novel volume 34
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Thorndike Press large print top shelf
Lucas Davenport novel volume 34
Prey novel volume 34
More Series...
Language
English
Description
"Lucas Davenport takes on another challenging case in this thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author"--
Gaia is dying. That, at least, is what Dr. Lionel Scott believes. A renowned expert in tropical and infectious diseases, Scott has witnessed the devastating impact of illness and turmoil at critical scale. Society as it exists is untenable, and the direct link to Earth's death spiral; population levels are out of control...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet's disastrous transformation and told through the eyes of three women trying to survive the nightmare, from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lucy A. Snyder. To survive they must evolve. A virus tears across the globe, transforming its victims in nightmarish ways. As the world collapses, dark forces pull a small group of women together. Erin, once quiet and closeted, acquires...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overview: In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rory Rooney likes to be prepared for anything, but when he inexplicably turns green and finds himself in an experimental hospital ward with his nemesis, school bully Tommy-Lee "Grim" Komissky, everyone is baffled but Rory believes he and Grim have become superheroes.
6) Frenzy
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Chaos ensues at Camp Harmony when a virus turns the animals in the surrounding wilderness into raging, foam-spewing predators.
7) Blackout
Author
Series
Blackout volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious virus is spreading through America, infecting teenagers with incredible powers--and a group of four teens are about to find their lives intertwined in a web of danger and catastrophic destruction"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Hannah, Compton, and Kira have been close friends since medical school, reuniting once a year for a much-needed vacation. Just as they gather to travel in Spain, an outbreak of a fast-spreading virus throws the world into chaos. When Compton Winfield returns to her job as an ER doctor in New York City, she finds a city changed beyond recognition--and a personal loss so gutting it reshapes every aspect of her life. Hannah Geier's career as an ob-gyn...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
10) The XY
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sixty years after a virus wiped out nearly all men on earth, fourteen-year-old River finds a sick boy, Mason, and helps restore his health while learning dark truths behind the lies she has been told.
11) Monster
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When new meteorite strikes introduce an alien virus, humans develop unique superpowers that trigger a battle between teen hero defenders and supermonsters.
Author
Series
ReMade volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Eighteen months after the plague struck, Leon and Freya hope two hard winters killed it off, but when they set out for a rescue ship they find the virus has been busy.
14) Viral
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After Brian Murphy's wife falls ill and is diagnosed with a rare virus, outrageous hospital bills ensue and the insurance company finds loopholes. Brian decides to investigate the dark side of a callous medical industry.
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It begins with a fever. By the time the spots appear, it's too late: Morris's disease is loose on the world, and the bodies of the dead begin to pile high in the streets. When its terrible side consequences for the survivors become clear, something must be done, or the dying will never stop. For Dr. Isabella Gauley, whose niece was the first confirmed victim, the route forward is neither clear nor strictly ethical, but it may be the only way to save...
Author
Series
Lake Wobegon volume 11
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider...
17) Ozland
Author
Series
Everland volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
With Everland and Umberland destroyed, Gwen, Pete, and Alyssa and the other survivors have taken refuge in Evergreen Village in the forest, where they plot to assassinate the Bloodred Queen, while trying to avoid her monstrous creations, and Doc works on his cure for the Horologia virus--but with the Queen of England dead, and the King of Germany either dead or hidden away, who can they trust to save their devastated world?
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A plague is pulsing through the world. Already infected by the droves of Singers, the ultraviolet mosquito-like insects who carry the plague, the Wicked roam the world freely. They don't want much-- only to maim and dismember you. And they always ask politely first. The True live in contained, isolated communities. They found safety from the Singers, and the threat of the Wicked has been contained. The Vexed survived the sting of the Singers, leaving...
19) Villain
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Perdido Beach dome is down, but the horrors within have spread. The alien virus-infested rock that created the FAYZ is creating monsters. Into the chaos comes a villain with the power to control anyone with just the sound of his voice. Dillon Poe wanted to be a comedian once, but everyone made fun of him. Now he's sending thousands to their deaths. The only people who stand in his way are the superpowered heroes: Dekka, Shade, Cruz, Malik, Armo...
Author
Series
Newsflesh volume 4
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"FEEDBACK is a full-length Newsflesh novel which overlaps the events of Feed and covers the Presidential campaign from the perspective of reporters covering the Democrats side of the story. There are two sides to every story... The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we unleashed something horrifying and unstoppable. The infection spread leaving those afflicted with a single uncontrollable impulse: FEED....
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