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Find me [large print] / by Van den Berg, Laura,author.(CARDINAL)564152;
Things I will never forget: my name, my made-up birthday...The dark of the Hospital at night. My mother's face, when she was young. Things other people will forget: where they come from, how old they are, the faces of the people they love. The right words for bowl and sunshine...What is a beginning and what is an end. Joy spends her days working the graveyard shift at a store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with silver blisters and memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is immune. At once a hauntingly beautiful portrayal of a dystopian future and a powerful exploration of loneliness.
Subjects: Large print books.; Dystopias.; Black humor.; Fiction.; Epidemics;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Find me : a novel / by Van den Berg, Laura,author.(CARDINAL)564152;
After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us Find Me, her highly anticipated debut novel - a spellbinding, darkly funny tale of a young woman searching for her place in the world. Joy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at the grocery store on the outskirts of Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. When a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, has an advantage: she is immune. After her immunity gains her admittance to a research hospital in rural Kansas, she submits to peculiar treatments and forms cautious bonds with other patients, including her roommate, whom she turns to in the night for comfort, and twin boys who are digging a secret tunnel. As winter descends, the hospital's fragile order breaks down and Joy breaks free, embarking on a journey from Kansas to Florida, where she believes she can find her birth mother, the woman who abandoned her as a baby. On the road in a ravaged America, she encounters curious companions, cities turned strange, and one very eerie house. As Joy closes in on Florida, she must confront her own damaged memory and the secrets she has been keeping from herself. At once grisly and gorgeous, devastating and full of hope, Find Me evokes an unforgettable vision of a future America and spins a gripping, haunting story about a young woman's courageous search for herself and a way to love. -- Jacket flap.
Subjects: Black humor.; Dystopias.; Fiction.; Epidemics;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 20
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Ending epidemics : a history of escape from contagion / by Conniff, Richard,1951-author.(CARDINAL)327385;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface: The healing -- What the draper saw -- Deadly preconceptions -- Foreign bodies -- Precursors -- Ridiculous diseases, inconceivable ideas -- Buying the pox -- Slaying the speckled monster -- An angel's trumpet -- The great sanitary awakening -- Finding Pathogens -- The Semmelweis reflex -- Making sense of cholera -- The Broad Street pump -- Louis Pasteur: the rising -- The subtle foe -- The mystery of the cursed meadows -- A new vaccine -- The bible of bacteriology -- Defining the indefinable something -- (Re)discovering cholera -- A sacred delirium -- Immunity and the strangling angel -- Deadly carriers -- The beast in the mosquito -- Fit for duty -- A pathogen too far -- Midnight work -- The antibacterial revolution -- Penicillin -- Race to the vaccine -- Zero pox -- Epilogue: The plague next time"From the discovery of microorganisms to the end of smallpox, the story of how we came to understand the infectious diseases that once killed us & how we might escape such diseases in the future"
Subjects: Epidemics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Emerging epidemics : the menace of new infections / by Drexler, Madeline,1954-(CARDINAL)662562;
Subjects: Anthrax; E.Coli; Epidemiology; H1N1 influenza; SARS;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Plagues, pox, and pestilence / by Platt, Richard.(CARDINAL)272511; Kelly, John,1964-(CARDINAL)384312;
Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Epidemics;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 4
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Man and microbes : diseases and plagues in history and modern times / by Karlen, Arno.(CARDINAL)175591;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Epidemics;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The chickens fight back : pandemic panics and deadly diseases that jump from animals to humans / by Waltner-Toews, David,1948-(CARDINAL)739872;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Zoonoses.; Epidemics.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Yellow fever, black goddess : the coevolution of people and plagues / by Wills, Christopher.(CARDINAL)515663;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-317) and index.
Subjects: Epidemics;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The epidemic : (a global history of AIDS) / by Engel, Jonathan.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-369) and index.1. First reports -- 2. Growing panic -- 3. Race to the vector -- 4. Conservative backlash -- 5. Organizing and selling -- 6. Dugs -- 7. The shooting galleries -- 8. Who pays? -- 9. Myths -- 10. Africa -- 11. Breakthrough -- 12. Asia -- 13. Backsliding -- 14. Pandemic.
Subjects: AIDS (Disease); AIDS (Disease);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Epidemics & plagues / by Walker, Richard,1951-(CARDINAL)328238;
MARCIVE 12/19/07Includes bibliographical references and index.Death and disease: First epidemics -- Powerful pathogens -- Person to person -- Defence force -- Disease detectives -- Childhood scourges -- Bad eating -- Famine and blight -- Summary and information panel -- Plagues and pestilence: Black Death -- Medieval sickness -- Great pox -- Vulnerable to attack -- Plague in London -- Summary and information panel -- Old and new: White death -- Pandemic cholera -- Public health -- Endemic diseases -- Colds and flu -- Fatal flu -- Beating smallpox -- Germ warfare -- HIV -- Future epidemics -- Summary and information panel -- Glossary -- Index -- Acknowledgements.Discusses the spread of infectious diseases and their impact on human populations, from the Black Death in medieval Europe to such modern diseases as AIDS and West Nile virus, as well as efforts to stop the spread of these diseases.NC1180LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Epidemics; Epidemics; Plague.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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