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Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
Michael T. Osterholm - Little, Brown and Company Format: Ebook
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We are facing an overwhelming army of deadly, invisible enemies. We need a plan -- before it's too late. Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period of days, and illnesses, which have devastating effects but are limited to individuals and their... |
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An Ocean of Minutes
Lim, Thea Format: electronic resource
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Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlisted for the 2019 CBC Canada Reads Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst Award
An unforgettable love story of two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart, for readers of Station Eleven.
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The Animals in That Country
Laura Jean McKay - cribe Publications Pty Ltd Format: Ebook
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Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She’s never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide in an outback wildlife park.... |
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Year One: Chronicles of the One, Book 1
Nora Roberts - St. Martin's Press Format: eBook
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A stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author - an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magick, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives ... It began on New Year's Eve.The sickness came on suddenly, and spread... |
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The Extinction Agenda
Michael Laurence - 9781250158505 Format: Ebook
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An FBI agent fights to stop a conspiracy to unleash a deadly virus on the world in this propulsive, exhilarating new thriller. The discovery of a deadly virus being smuggled across the border pits FBI Special Agent James Mason and his strike force against an unknown adversary hell-bent... |
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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
Mark Honigsbaum - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A medical historian narrates the last century of scientific struggle against an enduring enemy: deadly contagious disease.Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease.... |
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
John M Barry - Penguin Books Format: Paperback
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At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year... |
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