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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"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 killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Revised to reflect...
Author
Language
English
Description
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. As the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known, Violeta's family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. She...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From the darkest hours rises life in all its glory ... From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love. In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh start on its cobblestone...
Author
Series
Wide xi lie volume 002
Publisher
Jin zhou kan chu ban she gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
中文(繁體)
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1918, an army private reported to a hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, an illness that doctors knew little about. By the end of WWI, America was ravaged by a flu epidemic that killed 675,000 people.
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the United States alone, more than twenty-two million people were infected with Spanish flu and an estimated 675,000 died. Experts believe the virus killed between fifty million and one hundred million people worldwide. The Spanish flu is estimated to have killed about 2.7 percent of the world's population at the time. It laid bare the inadequacies of medical care around the world. It also led to calls for more doctors, nurses, and hospitals,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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 of people almost instantaneously. Deadly pandemics have always been a part of life, from the Great Mortality of the Middle Ages, to the Spanish Influenza outbreak of 1918, to the eruption of COVID-19...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled...
13) Violeta
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso día de 1920, siendo la primera niña de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estará marcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios, pues todavía se sienten las ondas expansivas de la Gran Guerra cuando la gripe española llega a las orillas de su país sudamericano natal, casi en el momento exacto de su nacimiento. Gracias a la clarividencia del padre, la familia saldrá indemne...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army. But as her city celebrates the end of war, an even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and desperate survivors wear white masks to ward off illness....
15) Rivka's presents
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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"--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"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, while the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic overwhelms medical...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"The early 20th-century in America was characterized by technological advancements. Chief among these was the rapid replacement of horse-drawn vehicles by gasoline-powered cars, which necessitated a nationwide network of paved highways and filling stations. Concern over unchecked industrialization and pollution led to a new awareness of nature and the creation of the nation's national park system. As well, the racial landscape of America was altered...
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