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1	Fever 1793 more books like this by Laurie Halse Anderson add to wishlist In this work of historical fiction, 14-year-old Matilda Cook is caught in the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. When Matilda recovers from the illness, she attempts to find her missing mother and is taken in by a family friend--a freed slave named Eliza. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance more books like this by Laurie Garrett add to wishlist After four decades of assuming that the conquest of infectious diseases was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged. The water we drink is improperly purified, the air we breathe potentially deadly, and the food we eat possibly poisonous. What went wrong? This book follows the doctors and scientists in their 50 year battle ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	More Than a Dream more books like this by Lauraine Snelling add to wishlist Book 3 of RETURN TO RED RIVER by bestselling author Lauraine Snelling. Thorliff's goal of becoming a writer is within reach. Working for a newspaper in Northfield, Minnesota, he is busy writing articles and stories for the Minneapolis Tribune and Harper's Magazine. But his idyllic world comes to a sudden halt when an epidemic hits the town of ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $4.33! \| SVS
4	Kimono Dragons more books like this by Brian K Vaughan, Pia Guerra (Illustrator), Goran Sudzuka (Illustrator) add to wishlist This work brings to a conclusion the hunt for Ampersand--the monkey who can unlock the mystery of the male-killing plague--as the last man on Earth and his companions finally reach Japan and discover the truth behind Ampersand's abduction. (Rated for mature readers) see all copies from $6.95! new only from $7.86! \| SVS
5	City of the Dead more books like this by S D Perry add to wishlist A botched attempt by the Umbrella Corporation to retrieve a devastating mutagenic weapon has turned the city into a necropolis. Every man, woman and child has been transformed into one of the living dead. And all of them are hungry. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $11.17! \| first editions
6	Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times more books like this by Arno Karlan, Arno Karlen add to wishlist A noted medical historian places recent outbreaks of deadly diseases in historical perspective, with accounts of other alarming and recurring diseases throughout history and of the ways in which humans have adapted. Reprint. 17,500 first printing. see all copies from $2.62! new only from $6.63! \| SVS
7	Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned more books like this by Brian K Vaughan, Pia Guerra (Illustrator), Pamela Rambo (Illustrator) add to wishlist When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown suddenly discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his ... see all copies from $3.79! new only from $7.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Plagues and Peoples more books like this by William H McNeill add to wishlist This popular history of plagues, disease, and epidemics shows their effect on world history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	One Small Step more books like this by Brian K Vaughan, Pia Guerra (Illustrator), Jose Marza, Jr. (Illustrator) add to wishlist Suggested for a mature audience, this perfect blend of humor and drama is a fascinating tale of catastrophe and consequences when a mysterious occurrence instantaneously kills every male human on Earth--except for one. see all copies from $7.25! new only from $7.25! \| signed copies \| SVS
10	Black Death more books like this by Philip Ziegler add to wishlist Between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed at least one third of Europe's inhabitants. Bringing total destruction, the plague was greeted with incomprehension and a terrified helplessness as it spread from Asia into Europe, reaching England in 1348. Philip Ziegler's classic account traces the course of the virulent epidemic through Europe and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 more books like this by Alfred W Crosby add to wishlist Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives - more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this vivid narrative, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course ... see all copies from $2.60! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Y: The Last Man Vol 02: Cycles more books like this by Brian K Vaughan, Pia Guerra (Illustrator), Jose Marzan, Jr. (Illustrator) add to wishlist After a mysterious plague kills every living being with a Y chromosome, escape artist Yorick Brown inexplicably becomes the last man on Earth. see all copies from $7.25! new only from $7.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Where Two Seas Met more books like this by Gilbert Morris, Lynn Morris add to wishlist Newlyweds Cheney Duvall and Shiloh Irons-Winslow are enjoying an idyllic honeymoon aboard a ship in the West Indies. But when a fierce storm interrupts their carefree days, Cheney and Shiloh find themselves on a small island facing a mysterious illness. Quarantining the island and the ship's crew, Cheney and Shiloh work themselves to exhaustion as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $42.20! \| first editions
14 view cover	Plague Year more books like this by Jeff Carlson add to wishlist The Machine Plague wipes out five billion people, forcing Earths survivors to live at an altitude above ten thousand feet. The only hope for the human race is a scientist aboard the International Space Station, who is desperate to cure the plague. One of the best debut novels in years.--David Brin. Original. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Y: The Last Man, Volume 10: Whys and Wherefores more books like this by Brian Vaughan, Pia Guerra (Illustrator), Jose Marzan, Jr. (Illustrator) add to wishlist The final volume in the critically acclaimed graphic novel series--written by the award-winning author of "Pride of Baghdad" and "Lost"--answers all of the questions that readers have been waiting for and brings the series to its explosive conclusion. see all copies from $6.37! new only from $8.03! \| SVS
16 view cover	Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu more books like this by Philip Alcabes add to wishlist This comprehensive, fascinating journey through the history of epidemics focuses on the less-told story of how societies have responded to them - and what those responses reveal about their fears, their believes, and their times. When most of us hear the word epidemic, we think plague, festering wounds, unmitigated disease followed by death. A ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Girl on Girl more books like this by Brian K Vaughan, Pia Guerra (Illustrator), Goran Sudzuka (Illustrator) add to wishlist After a mysterious plague kills every living being with a Y chromosome, escape artist Yorick Brown inexplicably becomes the last man on Earth. see all copies from $5.95! new only from $7.25! \| SVS
18 view cover	Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues more books like this by Christopher Wills add to wishlist the exotic pasts of the viruses and bacteria that periodically emerge in deadly outbreaks with such disasterous results. It is our knowledge of their secret lives in the moist and teeming rain forests that gives us hope of taming future epidemics. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Magnolia Creek more books like this by Jill Marie Landis add to wishlist On the eve of the Civil War, Sara Collier marries the dashing Dru Talbot, just before he rides off to join the Confederate Army. Later, hearing that he has been killed, Sara rises above her grief and makes one wrong choice--which the battle-scarred surgeon must deal with when he returns to start over with his bride. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Brief History of the Dead more books like this by Kevin Brockmeier add to wishlist From the author of the widely praised "The Truth About Celia" comes a mesmerizing new work that imagines the world of the afterlife and its stark relation to the world of the living. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It more books like this by Gina Kolata add to wishlist Through personal stories, modern research, and harrowing medical descriptions, a science writer chronicles the widespread devastation of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918, a plague that killed 40 million people worldwide. Addressing both the layperson and scientists, the author claims that learning about the causes of this epidemic is the only way to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Y: The Last Man Vol 09: Motherland more books like this by Brian K Vaughan, Massimo Carnevale (Illustrator), Pia Guerra (Illustrator) add to wishlist Featured in the "New York Times" and on National Public Radio, "Y: The Last Man" is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. see all copies from $8.03! new only from $8.03! \| SVS
23 view cover	Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism more books like this by Dr. Sheldon Watts add to wishlist A wide ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity - plague, leprosy. smallpox, syphilis, cholera and yellow fever/malaria - over the last six centuries. Sheldon Watts, applies his perspective to the study of global disease, exploring the connections between the movement of epidemics and the manifestations of imperial power in the ... see all copies from $8.97! new only from $24.44! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader more books like this by Alan M Kraut add to wishlist One Doctor's Fight to End an American EpidemicGoldberger's War chronicles one of the U.S. Public Health Service's most renowned heroes--an immigrant Jew who trained as a doctor at Bellevue, became an early recruit to the federal government's health service, and ended an American plague. And he did so by defying conventional wisdom, experimenting ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Safeword more books like this by Brian K Vaughan, Pia Guerra (Illustrator), Goran Parlov (Illustrator) add to wishlist S & M tells the story of the Last Man on Earth and his entourage as they continue to head west. Their journey is impeded by one of Agent 355's fellow Culper Ring members, as she forces Yorick to confront his tremendous feelings of survivor guilt. see all copies from $4.23! new only from $7.03! \| signed copies \| SVS

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