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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will 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...
3) Viruses
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Discusses the enormous scientific and medical contributions that have come from the field of virology
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"Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. But viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses...
5) Seizure
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Virals novels volume 2
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IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 12
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Tory Brennan and her friends team up to save the Loggerhead Island Research Institute when it runs out of funding and make tracks for Charleston, where the treasure of the she-pirate, Anne Bonney, was lost but never found, but Tory and her friends are not the only ones searching for the treasure and their special powers might not be enough to keep them out of trouble this time around.
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Darwin series volume 1
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Molecular biologist Kay Lang, a specialist in retroviruses, teams up with virus hunter Christopher Dicken and anthropologist Mitch Rafelson in an attempt to trace the ancient source of a flu-like disease that is killing expectant mothers and their offspring and threatening the future of the human race.
8) Virals
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Virals novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
11) The Fireman
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No one knows exactly when or where it began. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco incendia trychophyton. To everyone else it's Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that tattoos its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote....
12) Zero days
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A deadly virus is threatening the world's computers. It's smart, fast, and developed by a group of elite hackers. It can break through the highest security, crippling any system within seconds. It's the ultimate cyber weapon. Nobody understands the mind of a hacker quite like Chuck Drayton. But he's gone offline, rocked with guilt after a failed operation cost innocent lives. When Chuck is called back into action, he soon gets caught in the perilous...
13) Viruses
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes what a virus is and how it travels and how it affects the immune sytem and how it can be treated.
14) Xenocide
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have...
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Fast and Furious volume 9
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c2019.
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Ever since hulking lawman Hobbs, a loyal agent of America's Diplomatic Security Service, and lawless outcast Shaw, a former British military elite operative, first faced off, the duo have swapped smack talk and body blows as they've tried to take each other down. But when anarchist Brixton gains control of an insidious bio-threat that could alter humanity forever, these two sworn enemies will have to partner up to bring down the only guy who might...
17) Fever
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"Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa -- and the world, as far as they know -- to have survived a devastating virus which has swept through the country. Their world turned upside down, Nico realizes that his superb marksmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father's protector, even though he is still only a boy. But Willem Storm,...
19) Chasers
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Alone (James Phelan) volume 1
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In post-apocalyptic New York City, Jesse, Dave, Anna, and Mini discover the lengths they will go to survive in a world where horrifying predators roam the streets, searching for human flesh.
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