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1) Black wind
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt volume 18
Language
English
Description
In the final days of World War II, the Japanese launch two submarines carrying a new strain of a deadly virus to the west coast of the United States, but years after the subs are lost at sea, someone plots to use their deadly cargo.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While harvesting algae for conversion into food, the beleaguered human/refugee fleet is discovered by a small group of Cylon raiders. A brief battle ends with the destruction of a Cylon heavy raider. A colonial issue escape pod found floating among the debris reveals two survivors inside: Singer Peter Attis ... and his captor, a Cylon Number Eight. Soon after Peter's liberation, people begin babbling incoherently and dropping into comas.
Author
Series
Graham's resolution volume 4
Publisher
Apocalyptic Ventures, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What the world dreads most has happened and now Graham's group has found a way to fight back, but is it too late? And are their methods going too far in the name of humanity? Surviving a terrorist's weaponized pandemic means becoming less human and vengeance is a fight for absolute survival"--Page 4 of cover.
8) Hobbs & Shaw
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ever since hulking lawman Hobbs, a loyal agent of America's Diplomatic Security Service, and lawless outcast Shaw, a former British military elite operative, first faced off, the duo have swapped smack talk and body blows as they've tried to take each other down. But when anarchist Brixton gains control of an insidious bio-threat that could alter humanity forever, these two sworn enemies will have to partner up to bring down the only guy who might...
Author
Series
Janitors of the post-apocalypse volume Book 1
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
viii, 358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Krakau came to Earth to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. But they hadn't counted on a mutated plague wiping out half the human population, turning the rest into shambling, near-unstoppable animals, and basically destroying human civilization. You know, your standard apocalypse. The Krakau's first impulse was to turn around and go home. (After all, it's hard to have diplomatic relations with mindless savages who eat...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A cylinder of nerve gas is discovered to be missing from its depot in Georgia and military investigator David Stafford is ordered to find it. The trail leads him to a racket involving the sale of military surplus for huge amounts of money.
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the use of biological weapons from early history to the present, and describes specific toxins, their effects, and how they have been employed, including the 1995 sarin attack in Tokyo and their use by both sides during World War II.
Author
Series
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
International kidnap-and-ransom expert Thea Paris is escorting two former child soldiers from Kanzi, Africa, to London when their plane is hijacked. As the plane heads for somewhere in the remote Libyan desert, Thea has to figure out how to take back control of the plane without endangering their lives. Behind the skyjacking is a former nemesis, a Sicilian mobster, who after tense negotiations finds himself with Thea at his beck and call. Revealing...
14) No time to die
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
2-disc collector's edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his war dog Kane are thrust into a global conspiracy that threatens to shake the foundations of American democracy in this second exciting Sigma Force spinoff adventure from New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Grant Blackwood. Tucker Wayne's past and his present collide when a former army colleague comes to him for help. She's on the run from brutal assassins hunting her and her son. To keep them...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him--the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Responding to rumors of a disease outbreak, an American spy discovers thousands dead in Tibet as the result of a Chinese weapons test based on genetic traits in the first novel in a new techno-thriller series.' --wordery.com.
Author
Publisher
Strawberry Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Noted science writer William Sargent delves into the murky, often intertwined worlds of medical research and biological warfare to determine if Covid-19 was caused by accidents similar to those that have occurred from 1617 to the present.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ten years ago, disaster struck the remote town of Indigo Falls. A horrific event drove the residents underground, into shelters that keep them safe from the danger on the surface. No one speaks about what happened that fateful day, but even the youngest still remember the fear and, most of all, the searing pain when sunlight touched their skin. Now, a handful of families inhabit this bunker together, guided by a charismatic leader named Dr. Imogen...
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