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61) Black hole
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A chilling graphic novel set in suburban Seattle during the mid-1970s describes the lives of the area's teenagers, who are suddenly faced with a devastating, disfiguring, and incurable plague that has descended on the young people of Seattle.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Night of the living dead: "Barbara (Judith O'Dea) gets an unpleasant surprise while visiting her father's grave -- a man with a severe limp grabs her brother (Russell Streiner) and begins eating him alive. Left alone to fend for herself, Barbara seeks refuge in a secluded farmhouse. But she is not the only one affected by the strange goings-on. A family, a teen couple, and a lone man (Duane Jones) have already locked themselves inside. Together they...
Author
Series
Shakespeare stealer volume 2
Language
English
Description
In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In gloriously gross detail, you'll meet dangerous microscopic invaders like protozoa, fungi, viruses, and foreign bacteria - then see how our bodies work to fight back and defend us against future infections. We get to know the critters behind history's worst diseases. We delve into the biology and mechanisms of infections, diseases, and immunity, and also the incredible effect that technology and medical science have had on humanity's ability to...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Soon after she, her mother, and her younger brother move into an old house in an area once known as Beggarsgate, sixteen-year-old Emily begins to have terrifyingly real visions of seventeenth-century London devastated by the plague.
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After her parents' deaths, Edyth is sent to live in a priory, where she begins to make a new life--a life that will be threatened by the approach of the Great Plague.
Edyth lost her family and everything she held dear in the blink of an eye. Sent to live in a priory and work with ancient texts, Edyth comes to terms with her new life and the gifts she discovers in herself. But outside the priory, something much worse is coming. With the reappearance...
68) Black water
Author
Series
Pendragon volume 5
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon places himself, his friends, and the people of Halla in danger in order to protect the territories from a mysterious plague.
69) Blindness
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where societal norms quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hoarding the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. Inside the hospital is one eyewitness to the nightmare. Following her husband into the hospital, a woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague...
70) Epidemic
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley, in association with the American Museum of Natural History
Pub. Date
�2000
Language
English
Description
Discusses what an epidemic is, how it evolves, various causes and carriers, and efforts to prevent epidemics.