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The Pandemic Century
One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
By Mark Honigsbaum
Narrated by John Lee / 13 hours 39 minutes
Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu to the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in... Read more »
Crisis in the Red Zone
The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
By Richard Preston
Narrated by Ray Porter / 13 hours 2 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses and a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, told through the story of the deadly 2013–2014 Ebola epidemic
“Crisis in the Red Zone reads like a thriller. That the story it tells is all true makes it all more... Read more »
Hot Zone
By Richard Preston
Narrated by Richard M. Davidson / 11 hours 1 minute
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story,... Read more »
The Ghost Map
By Steven Johnson
Narrated by Alan Sklar / 8 hours 37 minutes
A thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London-and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world. From the dynamic thinker routinely compared to Malcolm Gladwell, E. O. Wilson, and James Gleick, The Ghost Map is a... Read more »
Pale Rider
The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
By Laura Spinney
Narrated by Paul Hodgson / 10 hours 4 minutes
In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska, and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus -- one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on twentieth-century history.
The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected... Read more »
The Great Influenza
The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
By John M. Barry
Narrated by Scott Brick / 19 hours 24 minutes
In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, 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 killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death... Read more »
Bird Box
A Novel
By Josh Malerman
Narrated by Cassandra Campbell / 9 hours 8 minutes
Bird Box
“Imagine something so terrifying, one glimpse and a person is impulsively driven to commit deadly violence, to oneself and others? Suddenly forced into a world of darkness, covered windows and blindfolds, Malorie must survive for the sake of her unborn child. Finding herself amongst a group of survivors, led by the knowledgeable Tom, Malorie soon learns the threat may not only be outside, but, living inside their house. While switching between the past and present, Josh Malerman's debut novel is a thriller from start to finish. Flash forward to five years later, Malorie is desperate to make a twenty mile journey downriver, blindfolded with the four-year olds, boy and girl. Will their wits and trained ears guide them to salvation or will they encounter the horrific threat that has annihilated most of mankind? Extremely creepy...especially if you are afraid of the dark, like myself!”
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The Book of M
A Novel
By Peng Shepherd
Narrated by James Fouhey & Emily Woo Zeller / 17 hours 6 minutes
The Book of M
“Imagine a zombie apocalypse where instead of becoming undead, people lose their shadows and, along with it, gradually lose their memories. This intense, heartbreaking, and beautifully-written book follows multiple characters on their search for hope in a hopeless world. I love what they did with the narration of this book. It fits perfectly with the story and creates more of an emotional pull for the listener. An amazing, amazing book!”
Colleen, An Unlikely Story
Love in the Time of Cholera
By Gabriel García Márquez & Edith Grossman
Narrated by Armando Durán / 15 hours 39 minutes
From the Nobel Prize–winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of anunrequited passion so strong that it binds two people’s lives together formore than half a century.
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fallpassionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy,well-born doctor,... Read more »
Severance
A Novel
By Ling Ma
Narrated by Nancy Wu / 9 hours 53 minutes
Severance
“A disaffected young woman just scraping by in the big city. A rag-tag group of survivors on a journey through a post-apocalyptic landscape. These are familiar tropes in contemporary fiction (albeit not usually in the same novel). But with Ling Ma's steely-eyed, wry treatment, they grow into something far more complex. In an alternate 2011, Shen Fever, a global pandemic, causes "a fatal loss of consciousness" in those infected. "The Fevered" forget to eat or drink or sleep, but instead get caught in a seeming zombie-like loop of muscle memory: a housewife sets the table for dinner over and over again; a taxi driver drives around the city until he runs out of gas; a young woman tries on all of the clothes in her closet in an endless loop. This post-apocalyptic world is woven with flashbacks of pandemic-survivor Candace Chen's pre-apocalypse life in New York, where a job she doesn't even like becomes the anchor of her identity such that she will seemingly do anything in order to continue to do it, even after she's the last survivor at her company. The question that lingers: is the rote repetition of our lives the very essence of who we are? And how far will we go to preserve that facade of living? Severance is a beautifully spare and wryly funny novel, by a huge new talent. ”
Rachel, The Book Table
Station Eleven
A novel
By Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by Kirsten Potter / 10 hours 39 minutes
2014 National Book Award Finalist
A New York Times Bestseller
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for... Read more »
The Stand
By Stephen King
Narrated by Grover Gardner / 47 hours 43 minutes
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... Read more »
The Andromeda Strain
By Michael Crichton
Narrated by David Morse / 8 hours 15 minutes
First published fifty years ago, The Andromeda Strain redefined the science fiction genre, and immediately established Michael Crichton as one of the brightest voices in contemporary literature worldwide.
"I love anything Michael Crichton writes."--Stephen King
A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper... Read more »