Edwards, Roberta
Summary: While the coronavirus COVID-19 changed the world in 2020, it still isn't the largest and deadliest pandemic in history. That title is held by the Plague.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHAMessner, Kate
Summary: "With a mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels, this book uncovers the hidden truths about history's pandemics, from the Black Death to COVID-19"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.4 MESSummary: Killing one third of Europe's population in just three years and ravaging the flourishing cities of Italy, France, Germany, England, and Spain, the Black Death swept across the continent at an inconceivable rate. Through chilling reenactments, interviews with experts and historians, and excerpts from original accounts, discover the origins, progress, and cultural repercussions of the Plague's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BLASummary: The Black Death is spreading all across 14th century England. A group of desperate villagers, lead by the visions of a young boy travel to a remote cave and tunnel their way into the future. Somehow these medieval time travelers must survive the 20th century, make their way home, and save their village from certain death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hen's Tooth Video 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE NAVCunningham, Kevin
Summary: A history of the plague which caused one of the most catastrophic losses of life in history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.9232 CUNDe Hahn, Tracee.
Summary: Describes the origins, spread, and effects of the terrible plague that devastated fourteenth-century Europe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Pub. 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.9232 DEHDeen, Natasha
Summary: The people of fourteenth-century Florence, Italy, starving after years of bad weather and natural disasters, now face the Black Plague but twelve-year-old Maria is determined to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DEEHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: "The deadly outbreak of plague known as the Great Mortality, which struck Europe in the mid 1300s and raged for four centuries, wiped out more than 25 million people in the course of just two years. With its vicious onslaught, life changed for millions ofpeople almost instantaneously. Deadly pandemics have always been a part of life, from the Great Mortality of the Middle Ages, to the Spanish...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.5 HOPTarshis, Lauren
Summary: "The Black Death was a pandemic of unimaginable proportions, taking the lives of 75 - 200 million people worldwide. Lauren Tarshis's story of one girl surviving the plague pulses with terror, action, and hope. The deadliest disease in the history of the world... Elsie dreams of becoming a brave warrior like her father, who is an archer fighting in England's war against France. But life isn't...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2024
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TARMedina, Tony
Summary: The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MEDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MEDSummary: The year is 1348. Europe has fallen under the shadow of the Black death. As the plague decimates all in its path, fear and superstition are rife. There are rumors of a village, hidden in marshland that the plague cannot reach. There is even talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to bring the dead back to life. Ulric, a fearsome knight, is charged by the church to investigate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BLADeLozier, Elizabeth
Summary: "Gorgeously drawn, full of captivating historical drama, and rich with unforgettable characters, Eleanore of Avignon is the story of a woman who is unwilling to bend to the limitations her society places upon her when she becomes the unlikely apprentice to the pope's physician at the most challenging and dangerous moment in medieval European history"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEDeaux, George.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weybright and Talley 1969
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 DEAMortimer, Ian
Summary: With 1348 Britain in the grip of the Black Death, brothers John and William fear that they will die and suffer in the afterlife; but as the end draws near, they are given an unexpected choice: either to go home and spend their last six days in their familiar world, or to search for salvation across the forthcoming centuries—living each one of their remaining days 99 years after the last.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORWinawer, Melodie
Summary: "Equal parts transporting love story and gripping historical conspiracy--think The Girl with a Pearl Earring meets Outlander--debut author Melodie Winawer takes readers deep into medieval Italy, where the past and present blur and a twenty-first century woman will discover a plot to destroy Siena. Accomplished neurosurgeon Beatrice Trovato knows that her deep empathy for her patients is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Winawer 2017Biel, Timothy L.
Summary: Describes the social and economic conditions in medieval Europe at the outbreak of the Black Death and the causes and effects of the epidemic.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 1989
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.9232 BIEWalters, Minette
Summary: When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in Dorseteshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and religious fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment for wickedness. But Lady Anne of Develish has her own ideas. Educated by nuns, Anne is a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2018
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Walters 2018Cantor, Norman F.
Summary: Contrary to popular belief, Cantor concludes that the Black Death was probably two diseases at once--bubonic plague and anthrax. The author shows how these diseases affected the masses as well as specific individuals, and thus profoundly altered history. Benefits of the outbreak, including explosions in artistic and scientific thought, are also described.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 614.5 CANMaitland, Karen.
Summary: In 1348, as the Black Plague holds England in it's grip, nine strangers attempt to outrun death. Each member has their own story to tell and each has a secret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIRasche, Anna
Summary: "A woman's secret. A deadly Plague. Unleash the hidden magic... 1348. As the Black Plague ravages Italy, Ginevra di Gasparo is summoned to Florence after nearly a decade of lonely exile. Ginevra has a gift--harnessing the hidden powers of gemstones, she can heal the sick. But when word spread of her unusual abilities, she was condemned as a witch and banished. Now the same men who expelled...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC RASCantor, Norman F.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5732 CANFollett, Ken.
Summary: Two centuries after the building of the elaborate Gothic cathedral in Kingsbridge, its prior finds himself at the center of a web of ambition and revenge that places the city at a crossroad of commerce, medicine, and architecture.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FolHerlihy, David.
Summary: The Black Death was the great watershed in medieval history. In this compact book, David Herlihy makes bold yet subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about this disastrous period. As in a finely tuned detective story, he upturns intriguing bits of epidemiological evidence. And, looking beyond the view of the Black Death as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy sees in it...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.192 HERKelly, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005