Crosby, Molly Caldwell.
Summary: Crosby, acclaimed author of "The American Plague," explores the frightening history of a long forgotten disease--sleeping sickness--and details the frantic effort to conquer it before it strikes again.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 CROSummary: Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. The awakening of the first patient proves a rebirth for the doctor, too, as the patient reveals life's simple but sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. Encouraged by Leonard's stunning recovery, Sayer administers the drug to other patients.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1997
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AWACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AWAArnold, Catharine
Summary: "Before HIV or Ebola, there was the Spanish flu--this narrative history marks the one hundredth anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history"--Dust jacket flap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 ARNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 614.5 ARNHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: "The deadly outbreak of plague known as the Great Mortality, which struck Europe in the mid 1300s and raged for four centuries, wiped out more than 25 million people in the course of just two years. With its vicious onslaught, life changed for millions ofpeople almost instantaneously. Deadly pandemics have always been a part of life, from the Great Mortality of the Middle Ages, to the Spanish...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.5 HOPHarper, Kyle
Summary: "Plagues upon the Earth is a history of human civilization and the germs that have shaped its course. At every stage in our species' past, micro-organisms have had macro-effects on the development of human societies. Kyle Harper proposes the first history of human disease to make full use of a radical new source of evidence: pathogen genomes as a biological archive and window into prehistoric...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.4 HARFitzharris, Lindsey
Summary: "This book delves into several illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations. Each chapter explores the history of a specific disease, detailing the symptoms, cures, and medical breakthroughs that it spawned"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.5 FITBrown, Don
Summary: Presents a graphic account of the events of the influenza epidemic of 1918, detailing the exceptionally violent spread of the disease worldwide and what made it so deadly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.2 BROEdwards, Roberta
Summary: While the coronavirus COVID-19 changed the world in 2020, it still isn't the largest and deadliest pandemic in history. That title is held by the Plague.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Wld Hist What EdwardsWallmark, Laurie
Summary: "A little Jewish girl living on the Lower East Side during the flu pandemic of 1918 can't start school because her father is sick, so she makes a trade with her neighbors: chores for lessons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALPettit, Dorothy Ann
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timberlane Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.518 PETPreston, Richard
Summary: The 2013-2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever--but the outbreaks continue. Now comes a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses--from the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, soon to be a National Geographic original miniseries. This time, Ebola started with a two-year-old child who likely had...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 PREAllende, Isabel
Summary: "Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Because of her father's prescience, the family will come...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ALLLaughlin, Kara L.
Summary: General information about what a pandemic is, examples of various pandemics throughout history, and ways humanity can fight future pandemics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.4 LAUThompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "Elizabeth Miles finds herself in a position no con can help her escape. Her beloved fiancé, Gideon Bates, is awaiting his turn in the draft to fight in the Great War. Elizabeth is finding it hard to think of anything else, but Gideon has thrown himself into his work, preparing wills for soldiers before they ship out. Corporal Tom Preston is part owner of Preston Shoes, a company that is making...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THOBarry, John M.
Summary: At the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, and then exploded worldwide, killing as many as 100 million people. It killed more in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. It killed many more people than COVID-19, especially those...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.518 BARBrown, Jeremy
Summary: "On the 100th anniversary of the devastating pandemic of 1918, Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu virus, from the origins of the Great Flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and how close are we to finding a cure? While influenza is now often...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 BROGilbert, Julie
Summary: "With two brothers fighting in the Great War, Gemma Dorgan's life is filled with worries. But when the Spanish Flu hits Philadelphia, the Dorgan family faces their own battle of sorts at home."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GIL (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Noble, Trinka Hakes
Summary: During the 1918 influenza outbreak, nine-year-old Rettie seeks ways to make Thanksgiving special for her siblings and ailing mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC NOBHonigsbaum, 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,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.4 HONMessner, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.4 MESMcCallum, Jamie K.
Summary: "The coronavirus pandemic threw life into a tumult for American workers, igniting new class struggles and further stoking those already under way. Across the country, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, both with labor union backing and without it. Nurses, teachers, grocery clerks, farmers, food processing workers, and many more fought for higher wages,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.0973 MCCSchama, Simon
Summary: "A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.409 SCHWerb, Dan
Summary: "An engrossing family history of coronaviruses and the modern-day scientific quest to conquer viral epidemics forever. The urgency of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic has fixed humanity's gaze on the present crisis. But the story of this pandemic extends far further back than many realize. In this engrossing narrative, epidemiologist Dan Werb traces the rising threat of the coronavirus family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022