Based on a true story, this novel tells the story of a young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the most extraordinary year of the English plague, 1666.
Plague
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Author:BROOKS, GeraldineSummary: - Author:Blackburne, LiviaSummary:
The mission was a failure. Even though Zivah and Dineas discovered a secret that could bring down the empire, their information is useless without proof. Now, with their cover blown and their quest abandoned, their only remaining hope...
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In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising up from the filth only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. Shortly after, an outbreak of the bubonic plague erupts and envelops the human population. Albert Camus'...
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Author:Malfi, Ronald DamienSummary:They call it Wanderer's Folly--a disease of delusions and nightmares. After two years of creeping decay, David Arlen woke up thinking that the worst was over. But by midnight his wife is dead, and he's on the run with his daughter--who...
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First published in a 1842 edition of Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, The Masque of the Red Death tells the story of Prince Prospero as he tries to avoid a plague by confining himself and his nobles to a masquerade in an abbey...
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations, fifteen years apart, of unidentified bodies washed up from the sea may...
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A healer who cannot be healed... When Zivah falls prey to the deadly rose plague, she knows it's only a matter of time before she fully succumbs. Now she's destined to live her last days in isolation, cut off from her people and unable...
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Author:Bennett, HollySummary:Rowan is the sole survivor when his entire family is struck down by the plague. Alone and grief-stricken, Rowan ekes out a living by playing music on his button box in the small towns and villages of Prosper. He lives and travels in his...
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For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate...
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Author:Beresford, J.D.Summary:A global plague has decimated England's male population and the once-predictable Gosling family is now free to fulfill its long-frustrated desires. When Mr. Gosling leaves his family to peruse his sexual vices, the Gosling daughters,...
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Author:Reed, Mary, Mayer, EricSummary:The year is 542. While plague stalks Constantinople, an angel sets John the Eunuch on the trail of a human killer. Peter, John’s elderly servant, claims a heavenly visitor revealed a murder to him. It transpires Peter’s old army friend...
- Author:Galchen, RivkaSummary:
It is 1618 in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading, the Thirty Years’ War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler, an illiterate...
- Author:Kaufman, Amie, Kristoff, JaySummary:
Ce matin de 2575, lorsque Kady quitte Ezra, elle croit avoir vécu le pire moment de sa vie. L’après-midi, sa planète est attaquée par une entreprise interstellaire sans foi ni loi — BeiTech. Obligée de fuir, Kady embarque sur le...
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Author:Cossette, ConnilynSummary:From Connilyn Cossette, a story of love, desperation, and hope during a great biblical epoch.
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When an archaeological dig unleashes a centuries-old virus, paramilitary operative Cole 'Tox' Russell is forced back into action. With the help of archaeologist Tzivia Khalon and FBI agent Kasey Cortes, Tox searches for answers--and...
- Author:Beukes, LaurenSummary:
Blade Runner meets The Handmaid's Tale in this thrilling story of how far a mother will go to protect her son in a hostile world transformed by the sudden absence of men. Cole and her twelve-year-old, Miles, are on the lam....
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Author:Defoe, DanielSummary:London's Great Plague of 1665 devastated the city, as Europe's final bubonic outbreak killed thousands of helpless citizens. Daniel Defoe, author of the classic Robinson Crusoe, was five years old when the Plague swept through London,...
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Author:Jackson, JoshilynSummary:Every fifteen years, trouble comes after the three Slocumb women. Now, as the youngest turns fifteen, she's desperate to know who used their yard as a makeshift cemetery, and why. The unlikely matriarch, forty-five-year-old Ginny, doesn...
