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Brown, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.2 BRO

Thompson, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THO

Pettit, Dorothy Ann

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Timberlane Books 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.518 PET

Arnold, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 614.5 ARN

Brown, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018

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

Hopkinson, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Dallas, Sandra

Summary: "Sandra Dallas's Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver amid America's last deadly flu pandemic Colorado, 1918. World War I is raging overseas, but it's the home front battling for survival. With the Spanish Flu rampant, Denver's schools are converted into hospitals, churches and funeral homes are closed, and nightly horse-drawn wagons collect corpses...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dallas

Wallmark, 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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WAL

Gilbert, 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."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC NOB

Lehane, Dennis.

Summary: Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, this novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. It tells the story of two families--one black, one white--swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2008

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LEH

Goldberg, Myla.

Summary: Lydia is an Irish American shopgirl with bigger aspirations than your average young woman from South Boston in the early part of the twentieth century. She marries Henry Wickett, a shy medical student and the scion of a Boston Brahmin family. However, soon after their wedding, Henry abruptly quits medical school to create a mail-order patent medicine called Wickett's Remedy, and just as Lydia...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GOL

Barry, 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 BAR

Wood, Tracey Enerson

Summary: "Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced young nurses arrive on the front lines of WWI to find chaos. With 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500, providing even the most basic care is challenging and Julia quickly learns that male doctors see her as a threat to their authority. Based on a true story, The War Nurse follows Julia through WWI in France,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOO

Todd, Charles.

Summary: While contending with wounded soldiers and influenza patients, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford stumbles upon the body of an officer and family friend who has been murdered, and uses her father's connections in the military to search for an elusive killer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOD

Gabhart, Ann H.

Summary: "Widow Rose Meadows eagerly accepts her brother-in-law's offer for her and her two daughters to live on his farm after her treatments in a sanatorium finds them needing a home. But is this scarred and reclusive man ready for all the changes these women will bring to his life?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

Hahn, Mary Downing

Summary: "When unlikeable Elsie dies in the influenza pandemic of 1918, she comes back to haunt Annie to make sure she'll be Annie's best--and only--friend soon"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Hahn

Shoemaker, Karen Gettert

Summary: "Set in 1918 in the farm country at the heart of America, The Meaning of Names is the story of an ordinary woman trying to raise a family during extraordinary times. Estranged from her parents because she married against their will, confronted with violence and prejudice against her people, and caught up in the midst of the worst plague the world has ever seen, Gerda Vogel, an American of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHO

Lukasik, Gail

Summary: Nurse Nellie Lester can't escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit mansion on a desolate Michigan island, convinced the island holds the secret to her mother's murky past. The only problem? Her dead mother seems to have followed her there. Nightly she's haunted by a ghostly presence that appears in her bedroom. But is it her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: CamCat Publishing, LLC 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUK

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LUK

Manning, Matthew K.

Summary: "The year is 1918. World War I is nearing its end. But the world is just beginning to suffer from a deadly pandemic. Within months, the deadly flu virus has spread around the world, infecting and killing tens of millions of people. As you return from the war, will you go to see your family and friends or quarantine to keep your loved ones safe? Will you shut down your small store to avoid...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MAN

Enerson Wood, Tracey

Summary: "Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced young nurses arrive on the front lines of WWI to find chaos. With 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500, providing even the most basic care is challenging-and Julia quickly learns that male doctors see her as a threat to their authority. Based on a true story, The War Nurse follows Julia through WWI in France,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Enerson Wood

Moore, Bryce

Summary: In 1918 New Orleans, seventeen-year-old Gianna Crutti's worries about her family's grocery, the Great War, and influenza are overshadowed when a murderer returns to terrorize the city--years after he attacked Gianna's parents and left her with a psychic connection between them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022

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Little, Jean

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Canada 2007

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Allende, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ALL

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