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A year after the Civil War's end, battle-scarred surgeon Dru Talbot--presumed long dead by all who loved him--returns home. Through everything he'd clung to the dream of starting life over with the bride he'd married on the very eve he left for war. Yet the truth that awaits him in Magnolia Creek is nothing like his fairy tale. Young widow Sara Collier had risen above her grief for Dru, refusing to mourn her life away. But she'd put her faith and...
Author
Series
Return to Red River volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Book 3 of RETURN TO RED RIVER by bestselling author Lauraine Snelling. Thorliff's goal of becoming a writer is within reach. Working for a newspaper in Northfield, Minnesota, he is busy writing articles and stories for the Minneapolis Tribune and Harper's Magazine. But his idyllic world comes to a sudden halt when an epidemic hits the town of Blessing, North Dakota, following the Red River flood of 1897. Thorliff returns home to help family and friends...
4) Violeta
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"This sweeping novel from the New York times bestselling author of 'A Long Petal of the Sea' tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century"--
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City's only...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Insomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows. Even his beloved wife, Carolyn, has succumbed to the telltale red-rimmed eyes, slurred speech and cloudy mind before disappearing into the quickly collapsing world. Yet Biggs can still sleep, and dream, so he sets out to find her.
9) Bloodstream
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
A murderous outbreak of violence among teenagers occurs in a resort in Maine. Dr. Claire Elliot blames a brain-damaging parasite which attacks people when they swim in the lake, but the town ignores her call for a quarantine, fearing for the tourist trade. By the author of Life Support.
10) Salvation city
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Seeking refuge in the home of an evangelical pastor after a flu pandemic decimates the planet's populations, thirteen-year-old orphan Cole witnesses the community's preparations for a prophesied religious cataclysm and struggles with memories of a very different world.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 16
Description
When a deadly pandemic strikes, Ann Brooks's town is locked down and, as time passes, she is forced to confront her failing marriage and fight for survival as resources dwindle and neighbor turns against neighbor.
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Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
A deadly, flu-like epidemic and a plague of flesh-eating creatures threaten the lives of the children at Perdido Beach while Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Diana each struggle with doubts and uncertainties.
13) Wings of healing
Author
Series
Guardians of the north volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
©1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The chaos of a flu epidemic hitting Fort Macleod and the surrounding Blackfoot villages is compounded by a decree that the Indians of the area be moved to a reservation.
15) Outside, inside
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A beautiful book that describes the impact of COVID-19 on communities and why some essential workers could not quarantine.
16) Coldbrook
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Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The world as we know it has changed forever. The reason is Coldbrook. The facility lay deep in Appalachian Mountains, a secret laboratory called Coldbrook. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were unleashing.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
A group of teens at the Hope Juvenile Treatment Center are shocked to discover their guards have abandoned them, but their joy turns to fear when they learn a catastrophic pandemic has occurred outside their walls, turning their new-found freedom into a fight for survival.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Agnes must escape a cult and a Prophet as she attempts to save the world from a pandemic."--
Agnes loves her home of Red Creek, its dusty roads, and its God. She cares for her younger siblings and follows the town's strict laws. When Agnes meets Danny, an Outsider boy, she begins to question what is and isn't a sin. Her younger brother, Ezekiel, will die without the insulin she barters for once a month, even though medicine is considered...
19) Outbreak
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1987
Description
When a bizarre disease that attacks only physicians and their patients sweeps the country, Dr. Melissa Blumenthal discovers that sinister forces are behind the threat and finds her life in danger.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Eleven-year-old bird watcher Ben must defy his brother to save their father after the glass plague sweeps through their town and a voice on the radio demands the simultaneous shattering of all plague victims.
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