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41) The last man
Author
Language
English
Description
"Mary Shelley's landmark novel that invented the human extinction genre and initiated climate fiction, imagining a world where newly-forged communities and reverence for nature rises from the ashes of a pandemic-ravaged society, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, with a foreword by Rebecca Solnit A Penguin Classic Written while Mary Shelley was in a self-imposed lockdown after the loss of her husband and children, and in the wake of intersecting...
42) Plague ship
Author
Series
A Ballineau/Ross Medical Thriller volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious and potentially fatal illness strikes a luxury Caribbean cruise, every passenger is at risk--including Dr. David Ballineau, his young daughter, and his girlfriend, nurse Carolyn Ross. With a shortage of medical help and supplies, David and Carolyn struggle to treat and contain a deadly, highly contagious form of bird flu. Under quarantine, they are forbidden from docking--provoking panicked and desperate passengers to launch a mutiny...
Author
Series
Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"With the world consumed by a devastating plague, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on the Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together the remains of the US Navy, Wolf Squadron, and its leader Steve Smith, plans to retake the mainland from the infected, starting with North America. The next step: produce a vaccine. But to do that, forces led by Smith's terrifyingly...
Author
Series
Pegasus volume 4
Language
English
Description
Can Emily control the power of the flame and save Olympus? Or is everyone--god and human--doomed? A deadly plague has struck Olympus. When Pegasus falls ill, Emily has to act. Her hunt for a cute takes her to modern London and back to the origins of Olympus. In the present, she must face the full forces of the CRU. In the past, she must confront Cronus, the father of the gods and leader of the Titans, who is intent on destroying his offspring. When...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Dark Ages, England: a warrior gives his son to a monastery that rides the border between two rival Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Growing up in a land wracked by war and plague, the child learns of the oath that binds him to the church and forces a cruel choice upon him. To love one father, he must betray another. The decision he makes shatters his world and haunts him forever. This quietly exotic novel places us compellingly in another time, another place,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Gallery books trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"When a rare mental disorder begins to consume his small-town neighbors, a young psychiatrist digs up the past for clues to the epidemic's bone-chilling source in this brilliant supernatural horror debut. Convinced that evil spirits have overtaken his daughter, a desperate father introduces her to Nat Thayer, a young psychiatrist in their sleepy blue-blooded Massachusetts college town. Thayer quickly diagnoses the girl with Cotard Delusion, an obscure...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Ireland. AD 672. The Feast of Beltaine is approaching and the seven senior princes of the kingdom of Muman are gathering at Cashel to discuss King Colgu's policies. Just days before the council meets, Brother Conchobhar, the keeper of the sacred sword, is found murdered. Sister Fidelma and her brother Colgú fear that the killer had been trying to steal the sword that symbolises the King's authority to rule. And as rumours begin to spread of an...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Andalucia, 1587. En medio de un pueblo arrasado por la peste, uno de los comisarios de abastos del rey Felipe II encuentra a un nino que aun se aferra a la vida. Arriesgando su carrera, lo rescata de las garras de la muerte y lo lleva a Sevilla, sin poder imaginar lo que acabara suponiendo ese acto. Unos anos mas tarde, el joven Sancho se encuentra en las calles de una sociedad moldeada por la pobreza, la guerra y las intrigas. Abandonado a su ingenio...
49) Darkness hidden
Author
Series
Name of the blade volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
When the Underworld spawns a supernatural plague that sweeps through London, Mio must use her family's ancient mystical sword to save the world from the forces of evil.
Author
Series
Plague times trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Magnus McFall was a comic on the brink of his big break when the world came to an end. Now, like other survivors of the mysterious plague that has decimated the planet, he is a man on the run. Thrown into unwilling partnership with an escaped convict named Jeb, Magnus flees the eerie desolation of de-populated London to make the long journey north, clinging to hope that the sickness has not reached his family in Scotland. Traveling through a familiar...
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