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The two-time Booker Prize winner now gives us an exceedingly timely, exhilarating novel—at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny—that journeys to the place where the cyber underworld collides with international power politics.
When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into Australia’s prison computer system, hundreds of asylum-seekers walk free. And because the Americans run the prisons (let’s
2) Virals: #1
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Publisher
Razorbill
Publication Date
c2010
Physical Desc
454 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
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English
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Tory Brennan is the leader of a band of teenage 'sci-philes' who live on an island off the coast of South Carolina and when the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever.
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's...
5) Sylo: #1
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Razorbill
Publication Date
c2013
Physical Desc
407 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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"They came from the sky parachuting out of military helicopters to invade Tucker Pierce's idyllic hometown on Pemberwick Island, Maine. They call themselves SYLO and they are a secret branch of the U.S. Navy. SYLO's commander, Captain Granger, informs Pemberwick residents that the island has been hit by a lethal virus and must be quarantined. Now Pemberwick is cut off from the outside world. Tucker believes there's more to SYLO's story. He was on...
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Kurt Austin puts the NUMA team on a case involving a hideous series of medical experiments, an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization, and a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. In this eighth NUMA File novel, Kurt Austin and his National Underwater and Marine Agency Special Projects team return, squaring off with the elusive and dangerous Pyramid Triad organization of China in a race to acquire the antidote...
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Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Publication Date
2014
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Fallen goddess Tavia Michaels must use her growing powers to stop a virus from wiping the Earth away, all while deciding to be with either her eternal lover, Logan, or her former best friend, Benson.
Tavia Michaels will again have to make a choice about who to be with even as she tries to stop the virus that is destroying the world and uncover the truth about the two Earthbound organizations that have her tangled up in their webs.
8) The fireman
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
752 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman. The Fireman is coming. Stay cool. No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2020
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"IAt an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a...
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Bantam Books
Publication Date
c2013
Physical Desc
495 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Army epidemiologist Frank Slater's offered a job no one else wants: to travel to a small island off the coast of Alaska and investigate a potentially lethal phenomenon. The permafrost has begun to melt, exposing bodies from a colony that was wiped out by the dreaded Spanish flu of 1918 and was once devoted to the mad Russian monk Rasputin. Frank must determine if the thawed remains still carry the deadly virus in their frozen flesh and, if so, ensure...
11) Resistant: #3
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Attending a national conference in Atlanta with Welcome, Duncan injures his leg while running. Surgeons manage to save the leg, but the open wound is the perfect breeding ground for a deadly microbial invader committed to eating him alive from the inside out. The germ is resistant to any known antibiotic-- and the government scientist tasked with finding a cure has been kidnapped. A shadowy group known as One Hundred Neighbors has infiltrated our...
12) One cursed rose
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
After an unwanted rescue by the head of a rival social media empire, Alana, the sole heir of Aquarius Social, is held captive by the Beast, a rich, ruthless man with an iron rule: no one sees his face, but when he shows himself to her, she knows he'll never let her go.
13) Dead on arrival
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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The bizarre deaths of everyone in a remote Colorado ski town thrusts world-class virologist Lyle Martin into a mystery involving a deadly syndrome that causes him to wonder if the world might be better left unsaved.
14) American rapture
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
633 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
Description
"A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sophie, a good Catholic girl, must traverse the hellscape of the midwest to try to find her family while the world around her burns. Along the way she discovers there are far worse fates than dying a virgin... The end times are coming"-- Provided by publisher.
15) Toxic prey
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2024.
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"Gaia is dying. That, at least, is what Dr. Lionel Scott believe. A renowned expert in tropical and infectious diseases, Scott has witnessed the devastating impact of illness and turmoil at a critical state. While most are concerned about deadly disease, Scott knows that is truly humanity itself will destroy Gaia. When he disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport is tasked with tracking down any and all leads. As Letty begins to uncover startling...
16) The drift
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Publication Date
[2023]
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English
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"Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly gripping novel of catastrophe and survival at the end of the world, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man. Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. Evacuated from a secluded boarding school during a snowstorm, her coach careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. They'll need to work together to escape - with...
17) Dengue boy
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Astra House
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
205 pages : map ; 19 cm.
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English
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"A dystopian cyberpunk coming-of-age novel about a mutant mosquito-kid set in 2272 Argentina when all the ice caps have melted and mega-conglomerates rule the world with their virofinance"-- Provided by publisher.
The protagonist of this story has no understanding of the words “winter”,"cold”, or "snow" because he has never experienced the phenomena they describe. We find ourselves in Victorica, a province of La Pampa, Argentina, some time...
18) Wayward son
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Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
"Ed Runyon, a former sheriff's deputy haunted by past missing child cases that went horribly wrong, is struggling to launch a PI agency and still live in the Ohio farm country he loves. His love life is in shambles, too, as his partner turns to someone else. His best friend got roughed up by a rogue cop, so Ed is in a fighting mood. Ed finds a new focus when he is hired to find a runaway chess aficionado who is keeping secrets from his homophobic,...
Publisher
Tor
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
After the suspicious death of a crew member on the historical steamboat Natchez, retired NY police detective Leo Storgman seeks to discover the ship's secrets, including the truth behind ghostly sightings of its first captain.
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St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date
2015
Physical Desc
466 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"On opening day of the new baseball season, a small model-kit airplane flies down from the stands and buzzes the mound, where a decorated veteran pilot is about to throw out the first ball. The toy plane is an exact replica of the one flown by the war hero. Everyone laughs, thinking it a good prank or a publicity stunt. Until it explodes, killing dozens. Seconds later a swarm of killer drones descend upon the panicked crowd, each one carrying a powerful...

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