Shepard, Jim
Summary: "A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic--completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged--that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHENielsen, Jennifer A.
Summary: When the lethal plague known as the Scourge returns to Keldan the victims are sent to Attic Island, and Ani Mells of the River People is among them--but Ani does not feel sick, and with the help of her best friend, Weevil, she sets out to uncover the truth of what is happening, and expose the lies the people of Keldan have been told.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION NIESummary: Robert Neville is the last human survivor in what is left of New York City. A pandemic has left only 1% of the population alive and most of those who survived are no longer human. The infected, now lurking in the shadows, watch Neville's every move. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by the only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI IHaddix, Margaret Peterson
Summary: When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HADSummary: A plague of global proportions. Anarchy in the streets. The collapse of government and the rule of law--perhaps even the end of civilization itself!--followed by the rise of tyranny and vigilantism. Present-day Britain has fallen prey to a particularly nasty influenza virus. Within days, it's clear that the disease won't be easily contained; within a couple of weeks, at least 90 percent of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2 Entertain Video Ltd. 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by a devastating plague, "Survivors" explores how humanity would cope in a world stripped of modern technology and comforts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Ltd. 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SURSummary: A collection of teenage love stories set during life in lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic. There's flirting and romance through window signs and over Skype and Zoom. There's a determined girl with a mask-making business, and two boys who meet through socially distant dog-walks. It's about finding love in unexpected place during an unprecedented time. In other words, it's like real life
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TOGMcChesney, Elizabeth M.
Summary: "In this children's story, one little girl and her family deal with having to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic and discover new ways of doing things together."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archway Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCCWeitz, Chris
Summary: Old friends are separated when Jefferson tries to bring a cure for the mysterious Sickness back to the Washington Square tribe in New York City while Donna faces an unimaginable new world in England, but an even greater disaster than the Sickness looms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WEISummary: When a killer plague wipes out 99% of the world's population, the embattled survivors struggle to make their way in a post-apocalyptic reality. This 2020 adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand frames the eternal battle between good and evil, as embodied by the peaceful prophet Mother Abagail and the menacing presence Randall Flagg, and closes with a new coda written by Stephen King himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: After a viral pandemic decimates the world, a survivalist is forced to take on a group of heavily armed religious fanatics who believe that he is harboring a woman who could be the key to ending the virus and repopulating the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SURMandel, Emily St. John
Summary: Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal, an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022