Manning, Matthew K.
Summary: "The year is 1918. World War I is nearing its end. But the world is just beginning to suffer from a deadly pandemic. Within months, the deadly flu virus has spread around the world, infecting and killing tens of millions of people. As you return from the war, will you go to see your family and friends or quarantine to keep your loved ones safe? Will you shut down your small store to avoid...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MANCasey, Donis
Summary: Boynton Oklahoma's Alafair Tucker finds time while caring for relatives sick with the Spanish flu to investigate the deaths of two neighbors. With death so commonplace, most have assumed that influenza was the cause, but Alafair suspects foul play. Without the aid of the only witness, a young girl stunned into silence, It is up to Alafair and the new town doctor to discover the truth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASWallmark, Laurie
Summary: "A little Jewish girl living on the Lower East Side during the flu pandemic of 1918 can't start school because her father is sick, so she makes a trade with her neighbors: chores for lessons"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALNorth, Anna
Summary: "The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Fiction NorthJansson, Anna
Summary: As the bird flu pandemic reaches Gotland Island, panic spreads among the inhabitants who are frantic for an elusive cure. In the desperation that rises, the hunt for scapegoats begins, and extremist and anti-immigrant groups gain ground. Meanwhile, nurse Sandra Hägg makes a gruesome discovery at the health clinic where she works—a discovery that will cost her life. Soon Detective Inspector...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stockholm Text 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANCook, Robin
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the cutting-edge world of gene modification in this pulse-pounding new medical thriller.</strong> When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case is an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton of the 1918 flu pandemic. Fearful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOThompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "Elizabeth Miles finds herself in a position no con can help her escape. Her beloved fiancé, Gideon Bates, is awaiting his turn in the draft to fight in the Great War. Elizabeth is finding it hard to think of anything else, but Gideon has thrown himself into his work, preparing wills for soldiers before they ship out. Corporal Tom Preston is part owner of Preston Shoes, a company that is making...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THOGibbons, Kaye
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBNoble, Trinka Hakes
Summary: During the 1918 influenza outbreak, nine-year-old Rettie seeks ways to make Thanksgiving special for her siblings and ailing mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC NOBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Thanksgiving, Call number: JE NOBCook, Robin
Summary: "The explosive new medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: First,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cook 2018Dallas, Sandra
Summary: "Sandra Dallas's Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver amid America's last deadly flu pandemic Colorado, 1918. World War I is raging overseas, but it's the home front battling for survival. With the Spanish Flu rampant, Denver's schools are converted into hospitals, churches and funeral homes are closed, and nightly horse-drawn wagons collect corpses...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DallasMoore, Bryce
Summary: In 1918 New Orleans, seventeen-year-old Gianna Crutti's worries about her family's grocery, the Great War, and influenza are overshadowed when a murderer returns to terrorize the city--years after he attacked Gianna's parents and left her with a psychic connection between them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MOOKing, Stephen
Summary: After a virus kills most of the people in the world, a handful of survivors choose sides-- a world of good led by 108-year-old Mother Abigail-- or evil led by a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.King, Stephen
Summary: This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides or are chosen. A world in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINLukasik, Gail
Summary: Nurse Nellie Lester can't escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit mansion on a desolate Michigan island, convinced the island holds the secret to her mother's murky past. The only problem? Her dead mother seems to have followed her there. Nightly she's haunted by a ghostly presence that appears in her bedroom. But is it her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: CamCat Publishing, LLC 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUKShoemaker, Karen Gettert
Summary: "Set in 1918 in the farm country at the heart of America, The Meaning of Names is the story of an ordinary woman trying to raise a family during extraordinary times. Estranged from her parents because she married against their will, confronted with violence and prejudice against her people, and caught up in the midst of the worst plague the world has ever seen, Gerda Vogel, an American of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOHahn, Mary Downing
Summary: "When unlikeable Elsie dies in the influenza pandemic of 1918, she comes back to haunt Annie to make sure she'll be Annie's best--and only--friend soon"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction HahnLehane, Dennis.
Summary: Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, this novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. It tells the story of two families--one black, one white--swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LEHGoldberg, Myla.
Summary: Lydia is an Irish American shopgirl with bigger aspirations than your average young woman from South Boston in the early part of the twentieth century. She marries Henry Wickett, a shy medical student and the scion of a Boston Brahmin family. However, soon after their wedding, Henry abruptly quits medical school to create a mail-order patent medicine called Wickett's Remedy, and just as Lydia...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GOLWood, Tracey Enerson
Summary: "Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced young nurses arrive on the front lines of WWI to find chaos. With 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500, providing even the most basic care is challenging and Julia quickly learns that male doctors see her as a threat to their authority. Based on a true story, The War Nurse follows Julia through WWI in France,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOEnerson Wood, Tracey
Summary: "Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced young nurses arrive on the front lines of WWI to find chaos. With 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500, providing even the most basic care is challenging-and Julia quickly learns that male doctors see her as a threat to their authority. Based on a true story, The War Nurse follows Julia through WWI in France,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Enerson WoodGabhart, Ann H.
Summary: "Widow Rose Meadows eagerly accepts her brother-in-law's offer for her and her two daughters to live on his farm after her treatments in a sanatorium finds them needing a home. But is this scarred and reclusive man ready for all the changes these women will bring to his life?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABTodd, Charles.
Summary: While contending with wounded soldiers and influenza patients, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford stumbles upon the body of an officer and family friend who has been murdered, and uses her father's connections in the military to search for an elusive killer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TODCrownover, James D.
Summary: " Can the walls of an abandoned house absolve a man accused of a thirty-year-old murder? Not before Silent Cooper and Dempsy Nealy battle Apache thieves, Pancho's Villistas, marauding outlaws, and El Tigre of the Playas Valley. The loss of a letter beneath the ruins of a famous Arizona ranch house thirty years ago led to an untimely marriage for Dempsy's Aunt Cindy, who now runs three ranches...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star Publishing 2018