Summary: Inspired by a true story about the origins of Ebola, a highly infectious and deadly virus from the central African rainforest and its arrival on U.S. soil in 1989. When this killer suddenly appeared in monkeys in a scientific research lab in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., there was no known cure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOTSummary: As the Ebola epidemic threatens to spiral out of control, NOVA reports from the hot zone, where courageous medical teams struggle to cope with a flood of victims, to labs where scientists are racing to test vaccines and find a cure. Surviving Ebola includes chilling firsthand interviews of what it's like to catch and survive this terrible affliction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SURPreston, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 PREDekker, Ted
Summary: "For two realities time is running out. In one world, a lethal virus threatens to destroy all life as scientists and governments scramble to find an antidote. In the other, a forbidden love could forever destroy the ragtag resistance known as 'The Circle'."--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Macgregor, Eloise
Summary: As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread around the world, it's left many adults and children searching for answers about how they can stay safe. By focusing on facts presented in a relatable way rather than fear, this illustrated guide to health and safety gives children the tools they need to understand what's happening in the world and to discover how they can become a virus warrior. Facts about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 579.2 MACSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SURHansen, Grace
Summary: Factual yet simple text about the rise of COVID-19, how it spreads, and steps we can take to avoid spreading disease to others. Colorful diagrams show how viruses enter a host and replicate in cells, and explain how lower-respiratory illnesses affect people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Kids Jumbo, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.5 HANSummary: "When a mysterious virus turns people into mindless, flesh-eating zombies, a handful of survivors wage a desperate, last-stand battle to stay alive ... and human."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR DAWSummary: Returning but not on land, action packed and boat adventures await. Constant threats made after the last escape from land. Truly makes protecting one another the most important on the unsafe waters. Just because zombies can't swim, doesn't mean there isn't anything to be worried about.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FEASummary: Shu's entire world was shattered after a meteorite crashed into Japan, unleashing the lethal Apocalypse Virus. The chaos and anarchy born of the outbreak cost Shu his family and reduced him to a timid, fearful shell of the boy he'd once been. His life took another unexpected turn after a chance encounter with the stunning pop star, Inori. This mysterious beauty introduced Shu to the King's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Funimation Productions 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME GUISummary: In the epic finale to the saga, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MAZCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAZCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAZCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MaSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STAMcBride, Amber
Summary: In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCBDolbear, Emily J.
Summary: "Addresses the social and emotional needs of kids during the COVID-19 pandemic: their fears, anxieties, and how to manage stress in various ways. Additional features include informative captions, interesting factual sidebars, suggested activities, a phonetic glossary, resources for further research, information about the author, and an index." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's Worldy 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.5 DOLSummary: As it returns for Season 3, families will be brought together in the vibrant and violent ecotone of the U.S.-Mexico border. International lines done away with following the world's end, the characters must attempt to rebuild not only society, but family as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AMC 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FEASummary: After being torn apart by the Pioneers Morgan's group is not dispensed across their far-reaching settlements, with life behind the Pioneers' walls testing each of the group's members in different ways, and forcing them to define who they really are in this new world. As Morgan's bid to free the remaining members of the group grows bolder, Virginia's desperation to find her sister accelerates,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FEASummary: As it returns for Season 4, families will be brought together in the vibrant and violent area of the U.S.-Mexico border. After international lines were done away with following the world's end, the characters must attempt to rebuild not only society, but family as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FEASummary: After barely escaping with their lives, the survivors of Season One attempt to move on from the horrors that took place at Arctic Biosystems. But when their work takes them to a mysterious and remote wooded island, they quickly discover the Ilaria Corporation's reach is deeper and darker than anyone imagined, and a deadly new virus will present a threat that no one thought possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELLaughlin, Kara L.
Summary: "A kid-friendly look at the economic and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as why businesses are closed, why people are losing jobs, and how the environment is being (positively) impacted in the absence of industry. Additional features include informative captions, interesting factual sidebars, suggested activities, a phonetic glossary, resources for further research,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.5 LAUSummary: The survivors of Teddy's nuclear "End" will find out who they are and what they're made of in this new "Beginning"⁵even if it comes at the cost of those they once considered family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Midthun, Joseph
Summary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces the human body's immune response to infectious disease"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2022