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44) Pandemic
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"After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: first, that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and second, that her DNA matches that of the transplanted heart. Strangely, two more incidences...
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[2017]
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"A revolutionary, proven program for reversing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline from award winning neurologists and codirectors of the Brain Health and Alzheimer's Prevention Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center Over 47 million people are currently living with Alzheimer's disease worldwide. While all other major diseases are in decline, deaths from Alzheimer's have increased radically. What you or your...
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Andromeda novels volume 2
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"Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name, the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is as terrifyingly realistic and resonant as the original"--
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[2019]
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"A groundbreaking narrative exploration of the human immune system--the key to human health and longevity--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and acclaimed author of A Deadly Wandering"--
The immune system is a guardian vigilantly fighting illness, healing wounds, maintaining order and balance, and keeping us alive. Richtel interweaves the stories of four people: a terminal cancer patient who rises from the grave; a medical...
49) Leukemia
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c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 4
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Discusses the history, symptoms, and diagnosis of leukemia, explaining treatments, prevention, and ways of coping and living with the disease.
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In Clean Gut, Alejandro Junger, M.D, New York Times bestselling author of Clean and creator of the world-famous Clean Program, delivers a complete toolkit for reversing disease and sustaining life-long health.
All of today's most-diagnosed ailments can be traced back to an injured and irritated gut. The gut is an intricate and powerful system, naturally designed to protect and heal the body every moment of every day. And yet for far too many of us,...
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Blood of Eden volume 2
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[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
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When Allie follows the call of blood to save her creator, Kanin, from a psychotic vampire, she returns to her birthplace in New Covington and what she finds there may change the world forever.
54) Monster
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[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
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It's been four years since the invisible dome that was created by an alien virus appeared over Perdido Beach. Inside the dome, animals began to mutate and the teens remaining the dome developed dangerous powers. Now the dome has disappeared, but meteors are hitting the Earth with an even deadlier virus. Humans all over the world will mutate into monsters and as some teens begin to turn into heroes, they find that others are out of control and that...
55) Terminal
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Virals novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
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"Tory and her comrades must track a new pack of rogue Virals who have brought on the attention of a shadowy government organization intent on learning the secret to their powers"--
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[2020]
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"It's the end of the DC Universe as we know it. The Anti-Life virus has ravaged the Earth, turning its population-and most of its greatest heroes-into mindless, ravening zombies. The Justice League has fallen. The survivors are clinging to life. And in these dark times, only the darkest among the world's metahumans will survive! Led by Deathstroke, the world's greatest assassin, a lethal crew of villains and antiheroes has survived the initial onslaught,...
57) Wonder
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
58) The line between
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When Wynter Roth finally escapes from New Earth, a self-contained doomsday cult on the American prairie, she emerges into a world poised on the brink of madness as a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia spreads across the nation. As Wynter struggles to start over in a world she’s been taught to regard as evil, she finds herself face-to-face with the apocalypse she’s feared all her life—until the night her sister shows up at her...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
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It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name -- yellow fever -- but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown, and there is no cure. This powerful, dramatic account by award-winning author Jim Murphy traces the devastating course of the epidemic. The medical beliefs and practices of the time and the conditions that helped the disease...
60) Diseases
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2019.
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"Nobody likes to get sick! And yet, diseases are a constant source of fascination for us all. Whether it's the cold bug that kept you home from school or the genetic disease called hemophilia that sparked the Russian Revolution, human illnesses are an amazing and complex area of study. Diseases will introduce you to many ways in which the human body can malfunction, and also teach you about what doctors can do to fix it."--Provided by publisher.