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Enter an adrenaline-laced epic where dreams and reality collide. Fleeing his assailants through deserted alleyways, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of a building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head...and his world goes black. From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world-a world where evil is contained. A world where Thomas Hunter is in love with a beautiful woman.... (more)

Sheva: Book 2

Darwin's Children

by Greg Bear

Greg Bear’s Nebula Award–winning novel, Darwin’s Radio , painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution—one that would alter our species forever. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where “survival of the fittest” takes on astonishing and controversial new dimensions. DARWIN’S CHILDREN Eleven years have passed... (more)

Robert Ludlum's The Moscow Vector (A Covert-One Novel)

Robert Ludlum's The Moscow Vector (A Covert-One Novel)

by Patrick Larkin

At an international conference in Prague, Lt. Col. Jon Smith, an Army research doctor specializing in infectious diseases and secretly an agent attached to Covert-One, is contacted by a Russian colleague, Dr. Valentine Petrenko. Petrenko is concerned about a small cluster of mysterious deaths in Moscow and about the Russian government’s refusal to release publicly any information or data on the outbreak. When the... (more)

The Strain Trilogy

The Strain

by Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan

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.... (more)

Virus Outbreak (Classified)

by Ian Probert

Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues

Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues

by Frank Ryan

In a book that takes readers into the "hot zones" of today's most dangerous viral outbreaks, Dr. Frank Ryan presents a radical theory about the origins of these deadly microbes, and reveals what research scientists and doctors are doing to try and control them.

Wheeler Hardcover - Large Print - Whiteout (Wheeler Hardcover - Large Print)

Wheeler Hardcover - Large Print - Whiteout (Wheeler Hardcover - Large Print)

by Ken Follett

A New York Times Bestseller A missing canister of deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Human betrayal, medical terror, and a race against time . . . Like no other suspense author, Ken Follett reinvents the thriller with each new storyline. But nothing matches the knife-edge drama of Whiteout.

101 Diseases You Don't Want to Get

by Michael Powell

Every illness you've ever shuddered at is here in this handy pocket guide, from African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) to zoonoses, all charmingly illustrated. Find out what the symptoms are (you probably have one or more of them already), what your prognosis is (probably not good), where you caught it, and how it can be treated—if it can. And, of course, there are illustrations to let you know what you're... (more)

The Adolescence of P-1

by Thomas J. Ryan

Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist's Microscope (Scientists in the Field Series)

Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist's Microscope (Scientists in the Field Series)

by Stephen P. Kramer

There are hidden worlds in nature—places you can visit only with a microscope. Dennis Kunkel has been exploring these worlds for more than twenty-five years, and now you can go along with him as he uses his powerful microscopes to reveal the hidden beauty of everyday objects: a crystal of sugar, a grain of pollen, a blade of grass. For Dennis, science has always been an adventure, the chance to make discoveries... (more)

Scientists and Discoveries (Microlife)

by Robert Snedden

An overview of the work of scientists who have advanced the study of microorganisms including Robert Hooke, Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, Ferdinand Cohn, Joseph Lister, and Alexander Fleming.

Wash Your Hands: Dirty Truth About Germs, Viruses and Epidemics...and the Simple Ways to Protect Yourself in a Dangerous World

Wash Your Hands: Dirty Truth About Germs, Viruses and Epidemics...and the Simple Ways to Protect Yourself in a Dangerous World

by Frédéric Saldmann

Did you know that the brown spots on apples are carcinogenic? That gardening can lead to Legionnaire?s disease? That a toothbrush can pass on the hepatitis virus, or that an improperly cared-for cavity can endanger your heart? These health risks?the very real results of diminished attention to personal hygiene, especially hand-washing?crop up in every part of daily life, from working and eating out to staying in... (more)

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story

by Richard Preston

A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal... (more)

Robert Ludlum's The Paris Option (A Covert-One Novel)

Robert Ludlum's The Paris Option (A Covert-One Novel)

by Robert Ludlum, Gayle Lynds

For thirty years, Robert Ludlum's novels have set the standard for the finest in international intrigue and suspense. With an unbroken string of bestsellers in almost every country in the world, his books have been enjoyed by hundreds of millions of readers and are widely acknowledged as classics in the field. Now, after the bestselling Covert-One novels The Hades Factor and The Cassandra Compact , comes the... (more)

Robert Ludlum's the Cassandra Compact (Covert-One (Paperback))

Robert Ludlum's the Cassandra Compact (Covert-One (Paperback))

by Robert Ludlum

Robert Ludlum's The Altman Code: A Covert-One Novel

Robert Ludlum's The Altman Code: A Covert-One Novel

by Gayle Lynds

Robert Ludlum's exciting books of international suspense are enjoyed by millions of readers around the world while critics hail them as classics. Now comes the fourth volume in the bestselling Covert-One series-Robert Ludlum's The Altman Code. On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer is recording cargo being secretly loaded when he's brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Two weeks later, on the... (more)

Fighting Infectious Disease (Raintree Perspectives: Microlife)

Fighting Infectious Disease (Raintree Perspectives: Microlife)

by Robert Snedden

This series will introduce readers to the fascinating and complex world of micro-organisms, particularly bacteria and viruses. Children are fascinated by germs and bugs and also need to know about them for their own health and as part of their life processes education. The four titles in the series cover science, health, education and history teaching requirements. Each book introduces an area of microbiology: A... (more)

Alex Rider: Book 1

Stormbreaker

by Anthony(Author) Horowitz

Microlife: A World of Micro-organisms (Microlife)

Microlife: A World of Micro-organisms (Microlife)

by Robert Snedden

This series introduces readers to the complex world of micro-organisms, especially bacteria and viruses. The four titles cover science, health, education and history teaching requirements. Each book introduces an area of microbiology - this text shows what micro-organisms are, what the do, what they look like, and the differences between them.

Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron: Biology, Physics, and Change in Science

Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron: Biology, Physics, and Change in Science

by Park Doing

After World War II, particle physics became a dominant research discipline in American academia. At many universities, alumni of the Manhattan Project and of Los Alamos were granted resources to start (or strengthen) programs of high-energy physics built around the promise of a new and more powerful particle accelerator, the synchrotron. The synchrotron was also a source of very intense x-rays, useful for research... (more)

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by Ted Dekker

by Greg Bear

by Patrick Larkin

by Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan

by Ian Probert

by Frank Ryan

by Ken Follett

by Michael Powell

by Thomas J. Ryan

by Stephen P. Kramer

by Robert Snedden

by Frédéric Saldmann

by Richard Preston

by Robert Ludlum, Gayle Lynds

by Robert Ludlum

by Gayle Lynds

by Robert Snedden

by Anthony(Author) Horowitz

by Robert Snedden

by Park Doing