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A death-struck year
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Makiia Lucier |
When the Spanish influenza epidemic reaches Portland, Oregon, in 1918, seventeen-year-old Cleo leaves behind the comfort of her boarding school to work for the Red Cross. |
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Very, very, very dreadful
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Albert Marrin |
In this powerful book, filled with black and white photographs, nonfiction master Albert Marrin examines the history, science, and impact of this great scourge and the possibility for another worldwi… |
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Pale rider
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Laura Spinney |
With a death toll between fifty and one hundred million people across the globe, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. Drawing on the latest researc… |
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Diamond Ruby
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Joseph Wallace |
In early twentieth century Brooklyn, Ruby endures many hardships including the flu epidemic, the death of family members, and even starvation, until her pitching talents open new opportunities in the… |
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Pandemic influenza in fiction
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Charles De Paolo |
"The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919--the worst widespread outbreak in recorded history--claimed an estimated 100 million lives globally. This study surveys influenza research over the last century i… |
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The uninvited
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Cat Winters |
Twenty-five year old Ivy Rowan rises from her bed after being struck by the flu, only to discover the world has been torn apart in just a few short days. But Ivy's life-long gift--or curse--remains. … |
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Moonstone
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Sjón,SJÓN |
Reykjavik, 1918. The eruptions of the Katla volcano darken the sky night and day. Yet despite the natural disaster, the shortage of coal and the Great War still raging in the outside world, life in t… |
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One for sorrow
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Mary Downing Hahn |
Against the ominous backdrop of the influenza epidemic of 1918, Annie, a new girl at school, is claimed as best friend by Elsie, a classmate who is a tattletale, a liar, and a thief. Soon Annie makes… |
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The flu pandemic of 1918
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Kristin Marciniak |
Looks at how the influenza outbreak of 1918 broke out and spread, how it impacted World War I, and attempts to treat and prevent it-- |
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Tough guys
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Eric Zweig |
The story of "Bad" Joe Hall and Newsy Lalonde - two guys who learned to work together and deal with unexpected challenges. |
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Violeta
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Isabel Allende |
La historia de una mujer cuya vida abarca los momentos históricos más relevantes del siglo XX. Desde 1920 -con la llamada «gripe española»- hasta la pandemia de 2020, la vida de Violeta será mucho má… |
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A doctor like Papa
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Natalie Kinsey-Warnock |
When the influenza epidemic of 1918 comes to Vermont, eleven-year-old Margaret, who has always wanted to be a physician, finds out what doctoring is like. |
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Flu
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Gina Kolata |
The fascinating, true story of the world's deadliest disease. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic … |
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If I die before I wake
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Jean Little |
A girl named Fiona Macgregor experiences the 1918 flu epidemic firsthand. |
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The Great Influenza
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Amelia Pérez de Villlar,Amelia Pérez de Villlar,Amelia Pérez de Villlar,Amelia Pérez de Villlar,John M. Barry |
At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It kill… |
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This time of dying
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Reina James |
It is October 1918 and London is gathering in its dead. For Henry Speake, of Speake & Son Undertakers, laying to rest the shattered young bodies of those sent home from the Front to die has become a … |
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