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Hernández, Daisy

Summary: "Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases, and even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of a rare illness called Chagas. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas--or the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 HER

Summary: "Provides basic consumer health information about the transmission and treatment of diseases spread from person to person, along with facts about prevention, self-care, and drug resistance. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 CON

Laughlin, Kara L.

Summary: "A kid-friendly look at the economic and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as why businesses are closed, why people are losing jobs, and how the environment is being (positively) impacted in the absence of industry. Additional features include informative captions, interesting factual sidebars, suggested activities, a phonetic glossary, resources for further research,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.5 LAU

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Lessons from the Covid War is plain-spoken and clear sighted. It cuts through the enormous jumble of information to make some sense of it all and answer: What just happened to us, and why? And crucially, how, next time, could we do better? Because there will be a next time. The Covid war showed Americans that their wondrous scientific knowledge had run far ahead of their organized ability to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 LES

Quammen, David

Summary: "The story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 QUA

Jarrow, Gail

Summary: Chronicles the story of the early 1900s typhoid fever epidemic in New York, providing details as to how its infamous carrier was ultimately tracked down and stopped.--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J614.5 JAR

Honigsbaum, Mark

Summary: Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu to the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 "parrot fever" pandemic,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.4 HON

Mackenzie, Debora

Summary: Over the last 30 years we learned nearly every lesson needed to stop this coronavirus outbreak in its tracks-- and we heeded almost none of them. The result is a pandemic on a scale never before seen in our lifetimes. MacKenzie lays out the full story of the previous viruses that should have prepared us, the shocking public health failures that paved the way, the failure to contain the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 MAC

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.2 MAC

Latta, Sara L.

Summary: Explains the symptoms of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, as well as explains how it's diagnosed, how it's treated, and how it spreads.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.5 LAT

Messner, Kate

Summary: "With a mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels, this book uncovers the hidden truths about history's pandemics, from the Black Death to COVID-19"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021

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Quinlan, Heather

Summary: "Pandemics can come in waves--like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that knowledge and social cooperation can save lives. Viruses are neither alive nor dead and are the closest thing we have to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 QUI

LaRocca, Rajani

Summary: "Do you remember every time you've been sick? You may not, but your body does! With many illnesses, you can't get sick more than once because your body remembers and fights it off before you get sick again. But what if your body could recognize germs that you've never had before so you don't get ill? There's where vaccines come in!"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 615.3 LAR

Perry, Alex.

Summary: "In 2006, the Wall Street pioneer and philanthropist Ray Chambers flicked through some holiday snapshots taken by his friend, development economist Jeff Sachs, and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of sleeping Malawian children. They're not sleeping, Sachs told him. They're in malarial comas. A few days later, they were all dead. Chambers had long avoided the public eye, but this moment...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.532 PER

Kenny, Charles

Summary: This history of mankind's battles against infectious diseases looks at how epidemics shaped empires and economies and how medical revolutions freed us from these cycles until new threats caused by changes in global trade and climate.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 614.4 KEN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.4 KEN

Bartlett, Karen

Summary: "No one will ever again die of smallpox. With the battle against that "most terrible of the ministers of death" won, an unprecedented humanitarian coalition has now turned to polio, malaria and measles."--Jacket flap.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.1 BAR

Sachs, Jessica Snyder.

Summary: Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises by disrupting the intimate, age-old balance between humans and the microorganisms that inhabit our bodies and our environment. As a result, antibiotic resistance now ranks among the gravest medical problems of modern times. [This book]...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9041 SAC

Allen, Arthur

Summary: "In this account of vaccination's miraculous, inflammatory past and its uncertain future, journalist Arthur Allen reveals a history both illuminated with hope and shrouded by controversy--from Edward Jenner's discovery of smallpox vaccine in 1796 to Pasteur's vaccines for rabies and cholera, to those that safeguarded the children of the twentieth century, and finally to the tumult currently...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.47 ALL

Kinch, Michael S.

Summary: Presents an informed examination of the science of immunity, the public policy implications of vaccine denial, and the real-world outcomes of failing to vaccinate.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.4 KIN

Neustaedter, Randall

Summary: The Vaccine Guide gives consumers the information they need to make informed decisions about vaccination. Parents who face a multitude of vaccines for their children and adults who must decide about flu shots, vaccination for international travel, hepatitis, and booster doses, now have a guide to the complex and often confusing realm of vaccine choices.

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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.4 NEU

Levy, Elinor.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.01 LEV

Goodreau, Olivia

Summary: "So many young people are faced with life-changing hardships--from illness and disease to loss and calamity. What Olivia Goodreau discovers through her journey with chronic Lyme , and what she has been sharing with the world, is that inside of every predicament is also a possibility. This is the story of how Olivia turned the physical challenges and emotional hardships she had faced since she...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gaudium Publishing 2023

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Moss, Candida R.

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Summary: "For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture have credited the authorship of the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul. But hidden behind these named and sainted individuals are a cluster of unnamed, enslaved coauthors and collaborators. These essential workers were responsible for producing the earliest manuscripts of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024

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Huelat, Barbara J.

Summary: "The dementia journey for both caregiver and patient can be chaotic and scary, and while there is no cure for dementia, there ARE interventions that can help make the journey a calmer and more comfortable one. Barbara Huelat offers practical strategies to mitigate the turbulence of dementia care"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging Huelat

Edsel, Robert M.

Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 EDS

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