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21) Defy the worlds
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English
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"Sophisticated robot Abel must save teenaged soldier Noemi from capture on a hidden planet, while outwitting armies of deranged service robots and securing medical aid for a plague on Noemi's home world"--
23) Voyage to Avalon
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Mice of the Round Table volume 2
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English
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After a mysterious plague threatens Camelot, Calib and Cecily set off on a voyage to Avalon to find a cure and need to use magic and the help of friends to solve the mystery of the plague and return in time to save Camelot.
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Mortal coil series volume 3
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English
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"Cat is desperate to find a way to stop Cartaxus and the plague, but to do so, she'll have to face her most devastating enemy yet"--
25) Breath
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English
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Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.
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Blackthorn key volume 2
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English
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As the plague decimates London in 1665 and an assassin threatens the apothecary's life, apprentice Christopher Rowe and his faithful friend Tom, following a trail of puzzles, riddles, and secrets, risk their lives to untangle the heart of a dark conspiracy.
28) The plague
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Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran. A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.
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Deadly disease trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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In March 1900, San Francisco's health department investigated a strange and horrible death in Chinatown. A man had died of bubonic plague, one of the world's deadliest diseases. But how could that be possible? Bubonic Panic tells the true story of America's first plague epidemic -- the public health doctors who desperately fought to end it, the political leaders who tried to keep it hidden, and the brave scientists who uncovered the plague's secrets....
30) Casket of souls
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Nightrunner series volume 6
Publisher
Ballantine Books/Spectra
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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More than the dissolute nobelmen they appear to be, Alec and Seregil are skillful spies, dedicated to serving queen and country. But when they stumble across evidence of a plot pitting Queen Phoria against Princess Klia, the two Nightrunners will find their loyalties torn as bever before. Even at the best of times, the royal court at Rhiminee is a perpents' nest of intrigue, but with the war aginst Plenimar going badly, treason simmers just below...
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RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Since WWII, Calvin Barr has lived with the secret that he was responsible for the assassination of Adolf Hitler. Now, decades later, the US government has called on him again for a new top-secret mission. Bigfoot has been living deep in the Canadian wilderness and is carrying a deadly plague that is now threatening to spread to the general population. Relying on the same skills that he honed during the war, Calvin must set out to save the free world...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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14th century Crusaders returns to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. A beleaguered church, deeming sorcery the culprit of the plague, commands two knights to transport an accused witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.
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BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A plague envelops the earth, decimating the population and leaving one man still alive, scientist Robert Morgan, who exhibits a strange immunity to the deadly disease. The rest of the earth's people slowly turn into bloodsucking vampires and Morgan must use all of his knowledge to survive their onslaught.
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history--from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism--have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social...
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The story follows the journey of James Cole, a man from 2043 sent back in time to stop a malevolent organization known as the Army of the 12 Monkeys from destroying the world. Joining forces with Dr. Cassandra Railly in the present day, Cole must untangle a conspiracy that's been spun throughout centuries. As Cole, Dr. Railly and their unlikely allies get closer to discovering the truth they will learn that there are not only deadly consequence for...
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
Description
Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, a man from the post-apocalyptic future, James Cole, travels to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will decimate the human race. But as he and virologist, Dr. Cassandra Railly, track the mysterious cult behind the outbreak, the Army of the 12 Monkeys, the effects of time travel threaten to destroy humanity's last hope.
40) The bone code
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations, fifteen years apart, of unidentified bodies ignite a terrifying series of events. On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside...