![]() ![]() Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. The exact total of lives lost will never be known, but the best estimate is between 50 and 100 million.In this powerful book, nonfiction master Albert Marrin examines the history, science, and impact of this great scourge - and the possibility for another worldwide pandemic today.Contact me for any questions: In the space of 18 months in 1918-1919, about 500 million people - one-third of the global population at the time - came down with influenza. No war, no natural disaster, no famine has claimed so many. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself.Of all diseases, the 1918 flu was by far the worst that has ever afflicted humankind not even the Black Death of the Middle Ages comes close in terms of the number of lives it took. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. Go to Title: Very, Very, Very DreadfulSubtitle: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918Author: Albert MarrinNarrator: Jim FrangioneFormat: UnabridgedLength: 5 hrs and 44 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-09-18Publisher: Listening LibraryRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votesGenres: Teens, Ages 11-13Publisher's Summary:From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic - and the chances for another worldwide pandemic.In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests.A tale of friendship, baking, and derring-do.Warning: May contain nuts.Contact me for any questions: And in a world without magic, she doesn't have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. But Rini can't let Reality get in the way of her quest - not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.)If she can't find a way to restore her mother, Rini will have more than a world to save: She will never have been born in the first place. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the "real" world.When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. Go to Title: Beneath the Sugar SkyAuthor: Seanan McGuireNarrator: Michelle DockreyFormat: UnabridgedLength: 4 hrs and 11 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-09-18Publisher: Macmillan AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 63 votesGenres: Teens, Ages 11-13Publisher's Summary:Another fantasy audiobook from Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series, which began with the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist Every Heart a Doorway.Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third audiobook in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns listeners to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children in a contemporary fantasy for fans of all ages. Ramon de Ocampo's skillful narration captures a full cast of diverse and well-developed characters as several gripping plot lines wind toward a startling conclusion.Critic Reviews:"This excellent recording will bring new fans to a book that has become a YA classic." (School Library Journal)Contact me for any questions: But as the year goes on, shocking secrets emerge that change the Fisher family forever.This remarkable, award-winning book received glowing reviews in numerous publications and landed atop most reading lists. While his brother's football heroics make headlines, Paul simply fights for playing time on the soccer field. Go to Title: TangerineAuthor: Edward BloorNarrator: Ramon De OcampoFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9 hrs and 59 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 07-31-06Publisher: Recorded BooksRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 463 votesGenres: Teens, Ages 11-13Publisher's Summary:When a huge sinkhole swallows half his school, Paul enrolls at Tangerine Middle and struggles to fit in. ![]()
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