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Alafair Tucker 9 Counterfeit lady 3 Dear Canada Girls survive graphic novels You chooseBrown, 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 BROThompson, 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 THOPettit, 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 PETArnold, 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.
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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 ARNBrown, 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 BROHopkinson, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.5 HOPDallas, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DallasWallmark, 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 WALGilbert, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC NOBLehane, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LEHGoldberg, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GOLBarry, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.518 BARWood, 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOTodd, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TODGabhart, 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?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABHahn, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction HahnShoemaker, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOLukasik, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CamCat Publishing, LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LUKManning, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MANEnerson 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Enerson WoodMoore, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Canada 2007
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022