The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
By: Richard Preston
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.A highly infectious, dea…
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1. Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
By: Ken Alibek , Stephen Handelman
4.10
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Anthrax. Smallpox. Incurable and horrifying Ebola-related fevers. For two decades, while a fearful … read more
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- history
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
2. The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
By: Michael Crichton
3.91
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: cu… read more
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- thriller
- horror
"Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves."-Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
"A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ign…"-Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
3. Ebola
By: William T. Close
3.97
Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When a mysterious virus first exploded in Zaire in 1976, American physician William T. Close worked… read more
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- history
- medical
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- thriller
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4. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
5. Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
By: Mark Olshaker , C.J. Peters
3.97
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Notable Book The man who led the battle against Ebola in The Hot Zone teams up w… read more
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6. Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC
By: Leslie Alan Horvitz , Joseph B. McCormick , Susan Fisher-Hoch
3.99
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC, is a memoir by America's most famous virus researchers. "Level 4… read more
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7. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
By: David Quammen
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
"Science writing as detective story at its best." --Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American A New Y… read more
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8. Micro
By: Michael Crichton , Richard Preston
3.43
Format: 344 pages, ebook
In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high-concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured… read more
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9. Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory
By: None
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Strictly off limits to the public, Plum Island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests, ponds … read more
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10. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
By: Laurie Garrett
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Unpurified drinking water. Improper use of antibiotics. Local warfare. Massive refugee migration. C… read more
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11. Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
By: Maryn McKenna
3.72
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
IN THE WAR AGAINST DISEASES, THEY ARE THE SPECIAL FORCES. They always keep a bag packed. They seldo… read more
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12. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
By: Richard Preston
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.A highly infectious, dea… read more
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- thriller
- science
13. Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
By: David Quammen
4.15
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
In 1976 a deadly virus emerged from the Congo forest. As swiftly as it came, it disappeared, leavin… read more
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14. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
By: Jon Krakauer
4.38
Format: 234 pages,
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Kraka… read more
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15. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more
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16. Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
By: Steven Hatch
3.85
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six mon… read more
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17. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
By: John M. Barry
4.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, move… read more
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18. Scavenger Hunt
By: Chad Boudreaux
4.30
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
WHEN JUSTICE IS BLIND, SCAVENGERS DO THE HUNTING Blake Hudson just wants to serve his country we… read more
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"What other problems do American soldiers face when hunting down these fanatical killers?"-Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
"As Blake turned around to continue his walk back to Main Justice, he spotted one of the tourists taking his picture. “Don’t waste your film!"-Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
"Home was the one place he wanted to forget, the place from which he’d run away but never could escape. And, yes, home was the place he’d been instructed to leave—the place where the trouble began and…"-Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
"While waiting for her accomplice to gather his equipment, Hensley couldn’t help but think ahead to her next mission. She hadn’t told him. It wasn’t a mission for which she’d volunteered, nor a missio…"-Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
19. Black Fire
By: William Kely McClung
4.29
Format: 517 pages, Kindle Edition
Major Tommy Black is at the crossroads of a brilliant, clandestine career. Lost... without purpose … read more
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"Okay, sure, he’s a great fucking guy,"-William Kely McClung, Black Fire
"It was time to start thinking of darker things."-William Kely McClung, Black Fire
"Black once tried to tackle a Humvee head-on. This was worse"-William Kely McClung, Black Fire
"Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful."-William Kely McClung, Black Fire
20. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
By: Mary Roach
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s classic, now with a new epilogue. For two tho… read more
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"There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room..."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
21. The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
By: Steffanie Strathdee
4.39
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of one woman's effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure tha… read more
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"A wise person once said, "The most important two days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why."-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
"It's no joke that hospitals are now often referred to as the worst place to get well. Superbugs are looking out the hospital windows, licking their chops at the feast that awaits them in this era of …"-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
