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42) GOD OF WAR
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Series
Op-center volume 19
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Description
The world is facing a devastating bio-terror event, and a game of brinksmanship gets underway as the major powers jockey for position: China sends a naval flotilla to seek the source of the plague and find a way to weaponize it; Russia maneuvers quietly on the sidelines to seize the deadly prize in its quest to regain an empire; while back in Washington D.C., Chase Williams and his top secret Black Wasp special ops team must find out who is behind...
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
In words for the general reader, the author offers a series of startling facts supported by quotations from world leaders that are a frightening, yet never histrionic explanation of the damage resulting from biological and chemical warfare and the potential threat lurking in Earth's future. Citing examples of military and civilian persons exposed to chemical-biological agents, primarily from World War I to the Persian Gulf War, Gay argues for the...
50) Greek fire, poison arrows, and scorpion bombs: biological and chemical warfare in the ancient world
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Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the largescale spreading of disease ... are these terrifying agents and implements of warfare modern inventions? Not by a long shot. Weapons of biological and chemical warfare have been in use for thousands of years, and Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs, Adrienne Mayor's revealing exploration of the origins of controversial weaponry, draws extraordinary connections between the mythical worlds...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began, The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.
Author
Series
No safety in numbers trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"With the power cut and the quarantined mall thrown into darkness, teens Shay, Marco, Lexi, Ryan, and Ginger must change in order to survive, and, when the doors finally open, they may not like what they've become"--Provided by publisher.
53) Caliban Cove
Author
Series
Resident evil volume 2
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
In the aftermath of their ordeal through the Umbrella Corporation's genetic research facility, the surviving members of the S.T.A.R.S. attempt to warn the world about the conspiracy to create terrifying biological weapons. But they are declared outlaws and forced to go underground to battle the conspiracy on their own.
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Pub. Date
[2011].
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"A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the worlds population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge- Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious 'Dark Man,' who delights...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Ten years into researching a book about the possibility that the United States had used biological weapons in the Korean War, Nicholson Baker was frustrated and disheartened. In the course of his research, he had become deeply disillusioned with the process of FOIA requests. He has been forced to wait years in some cases, while other requests have been answered only with documents rendered inscrutable, or even illegible, by copious redactions. Rather...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
In San Francisco, Jill Valentine is dealing with a zombie outbreak and a new t-virus, Leon S. Kennedy is on the trail of a kidnapped DARPA scientist and Claire Redfield is investigating a monstrous fish that is killing whales in the bay. Joined by Chris Redfield and Rebecca Chambers, they discover the trail of clues from their separate cases all converge on the same location, Alcatraz Island, where a new evil has taken residence and waits their arrival....
57) UltraViolet
Pub. Date
℗♭2006.
Description
Human society has been decimated by a holocaust caused by biological warfare research gone wrong. The intent was to create super-soldiers, but a genetically-engineered virus turns infected humans into Hemophages. These human, vampire-like sub-species have enhanced physical abilities. In the infection-paranoid and technologically advanced society that follows, Violet is a singular Hemophage warrior battling the totalitarian dictator who is determined...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The story of three couples, which are forced to make life altering decisions in the face of a disastrous war, which threatens to destroy the human race. Inspired and sometimes blinded by their love, Len, Mia, Andy, Esther, Anna and Erik are as flawed and beautiful as any of the billions who are facing this human-made biological disaster.
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1994.
Description
In a heavily guarded research lab in CAlifornia, something has gone hideously wrong. At first, the government denies there's a problem. Then, the horrorifying deaths begin. First, it's a few victims here and there. The, it's entire families. The, entire nations. Within a few days, only one percent of the world's population is left alive. Gathering in isolated groups, the few remaining survivors think the worst is over. But the real terror is yet to...
Description
Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began, The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.