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1) Amazonia
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"The Rand scientific expedition entered the lush wilderness of the Amazon and never returned. Years later, one of its members has stumbled out of the world's most inhospitable rainforest--a former Special Forces soldier, scarred, mutilated, terrified, and mere hours from death, who went in with one arm missing . . . and came out with both intact. Unable to comprehend this inexplicable event, the government sends Nathan Rand into this impenetrable...
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Passage trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 50
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NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND LIBRARY JOURNAL--AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington PostEsquireU.S. News & World ReportNPR/On PointSt. Louis Post-DispatchBookPage An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival,The Passage is the story of Amy--abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions....
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Key volume 1
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Touch is lethal. Love is dangerous. Nobody is safe. For fifty years, the Key Corporation has defended humanity against a deadly plague that spreads through touch. Lovers don't hold hands, or even kiss. Personal boundaries are valued above all. Break the laws, and you'll face execution. Elodie, a talented young nurse, believes in the mission of the Key and has never questioned the laws that control her life. But Elodie is forced to break the rules...
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Virologist Griffin Rhodes, locked in a maximum security prison for alleged terrorist acts, is called upon for help when a terrorist group unleashes a deadly virus in the Capitol Building, forcing the president of the United States, who is also inside the building, to literally quarantine the federal government.
5) Exposed
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Maggie O'Dell novels volume 6
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Agent Maggie O'Dell and Assistant Director Cunningham believe they're responding to a threat made at Quantico. Instead they walk into a trap. Before they realize it, they've both been exposed to a killer who can strike at anyone, at any time, and no one can predict who might be next until it's too late. The killer's tactics suggest he's an aficionado of criminal minds. He uses bits and pieces from those he admires: a phrase from the Beltway Snipers,...
6) The twelve
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In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos. They will learn that in connection lies hope, even on the darkest of nights. One hundred years in the future, Amy and the others fight on for humankind's salvation...unaware that the rules have changed.
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A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Through the provisional government in Buffalo, the military has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected and teams of civilian volunteers clear out the catatonic "stragglers." On a team sweeping lower Manhattan, Mark Spitz endures Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder in a fallen world. And then things start to go...
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Blood of Eden volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
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Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city, until she too becomes an immortal vampire. Forced to flee into the unknown, outside her city walls, she joins a ragged band of humans who are seeking a legend -- a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike.
9) Kalahari
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Corpus volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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"Deep in the Kalahari Desert, a Corpus lab protects a dangerous secret. But what happens when that secret takes on a life of its own? When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide"--
10) The loners
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Quarantine volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High-until a massive explosion devastated the school. When loner David Thorpe tried to help his English teacher to safety, the teacher convulsed and died right in front of him. And that was just the beginning. A year later, McKinley has descended into chaos. All the students are infected with a virus that makes them deadly to adults. The school is under military quarantine. The teachers are gone. Violent...
12) Contagion
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Dr. John Stapleton, who became a pathologist after he lost his job and his family, investigates a series of extremely lethal illnesses that seem to originate in hospitals owned by a giant medical corporation.
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"In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can before they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and dying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, the...
14) Wilder girls
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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HL 730L
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Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island.
15) The strain
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Strain trilogy volume 1
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A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold....
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"In a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. Or perhaps something very different is happening. When a disease affects how reality is perceived, it's hard to be certain of anything. Spence is one of the "cured" living at the Ironside rehabilitation facility. Haunted by guilt, he refuses to face the changed world until a new inmate challenges him...
17) The isle
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Although Ren is able to find the supply of magical water that cures her sister, she faces more trouble when Governor Voss kidnaps Aven and an ancient order called the Tetai are determined to protect the healing water that the city needs to survive.
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The stakes are high—and the passions are higher—in the New York Times bestselling author's sexy post-apocalyptic thriller.
Before surviving the Scorpius bacterium, Tace Justice was a good ole Texas cowboy who served his country and loved his mama. After Scorpius, the world became dark, dangerous, and deadly—and so did he. The Vanguard medic is stronger, faster, and smarter than before, but he's lost the line between...
Before surviving the Scorpius bacterium, Tace Justice was a good ole Texas cowboy who served his country and loved his mama. After Scorpius, the world became dark, dangerous, and deadly—and so did he. The Vanguard medic is stronger, faster, and smarter than before, but he's lost the line between...
19) The giant
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Quarantine volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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750L
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"Gonzalo, now released from the high school quarantine, travels across a ravaged America looking for his beloved girlfriend Sasha"--
20) The way we fall
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Fallen world trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Sixteen-year-old old Kaelyn challenges her fears, finds a second chance at love, and fights to keep her family and friends safe as a deadly new virus devastates her island community.
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