Beukes, Lauren
Summary: "Three years after a plague has wiped out the male population, twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence, and pursued by Cole's own ruthless sister, Billie - all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as a reproductive resource or a sex object or a stand-in son....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books / Little Brown & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEUKing, Stephen
Summary: In a near-future where women succumb to a sleeping disease and men revert to their primal natures, one mysteriously immune woman struggles to survive in an Appalachian town where she is treated as both a demon and a lab specimen.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KINMasterton, Graham
Summary: A young woman pours acid over her own body. A loving husband kills his wife. A headteacher throws her pupils out of a window. DC Jerry Pardoe and DS Jamila Patel of Tooting Police are at a loss. Why are such violent crimes being committed by the most unlikely of people? Ordinary Londoners are being infected with an insatiable lust to murder . All of the killers were wearing second-hand clothes....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASSchultz, Emily
Summary: "Hazel Hayes is a grad student living in New York City. As the novel opens, she learns she is pregnant (from an affair with her married professor) at an apocalyptically bad time: random but deadly attacks on passersby, all by blonde women, are terrorizing New Yorkers. Soon it becomes clear that the attacks are symptoms of a strange illness that is transforming blondes--whether CEOs, flight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHRollins, James
Summary: Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, the leader of a British archeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, comes stumbling out of the sands, frantic and delirious, but he dies before he can tell his story. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor's body--while he was still alive. His strange remains are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROLCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Rollins 2016Warren, Susan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steeple Hill 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARLee, Tosca Moon
Summary: "In this frighteningly believable thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee, an extinct disease re-emerges from the melting Alaskan permafrost to cause madness in its victims. For recent apocalyptic cult escapee Wynter Roth, it's the end she'd always been told was coming"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEELee, Tosca Moon
Summary: Six months after vanishing into an underground silo, Wynter and Chase emerge to an altered world, ravaged by disease. They begin a desparate search for antibiotics, even as good and water are in short supply.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEELai, Larissa
Summary: "In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a "starfish," a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAISlaughter, Karin
Summary: "On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. The authorities are desperate to save the doctor who's been vanished into thin air. One month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by the boom of a ground-shaking blast--followed by another seconds later. One of Atlanta's busiest and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SLARoberts, Nora
Summary: With the world in chaos and survivors heading west, those immune to the sickness that decimated half the world's population and the gifted are targeted by the authorities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Roberts 2017Parker, Hank
Summary: "From a former US government advisor on agro-terrorism comes a ripped-from-the-headlines debut thriller about a global plot to release a deadly virus and the elite response team who must try to stop it. When the outbreak of a terrifyingly gruesome new virus, which threatens to overcome the entire East Coast, is traced to an extremist group in Southeast Asia, the race to find a vaccine and stop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCrouch, Blake
Summary: Investigating a suicide, New York City police officer Barry Sutton finds a connection to the outbreak of a memory-altering disease and a controversial neuroscientist working to preserve precious memories. New York City cop Barry Sutton investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome-- a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Crouch 2019King, Stephen
Summary: This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides or are chosen. A world in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINShepherd, Peng
Summary: "Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself. One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man's shadow disappears--an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEVillareal, Raymond A.
Summary: This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman found in an Arizona border town, presumed to be an illegal immigrant, disappears from the town morgue. To the young CDC investigator called in to consult with the local police, it's an impossibility that threatens her understanding of medicine. Then, more bodies, dead from an inexplicable disease that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VILToro, Guillermo del
Summary: Abraham Setrakian, a former professor and survivor of the holocaust, joins forces with CDC specialist Eph Goodweather to battle a vampiric virus that has infected New York in this first installment in a thrilling trilogy about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009