Ocean State Libraries

On the night of the State of the Union address, President Max Hilliard expects to give the speech of his career. But no one anticipates the terrifying turn of events that forces him to quarantine everyone in the Capitol building.

"She gave up everything - and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe. In 1940s and '50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one's life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. Some of the world's best minds...

A mad scientist who imagines himself the wrath of God starts a series of plagues which kill many people. The plagues include swarms of bees, cholera, and ergot, the last causing deadly itching. Epidemiologist Jack Brynne and FBI agent Scott Hubbard join forces to catch the killer.

"Sheds light on Dr. Salk's groundbreaking journey and the importance of vaccination"--

"When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon-a knight in a white coat. In the wake of his achievement, he received a staggering number of awards and honors; for years his name ranked with Gandhi and Churchill on lists of the most revered people....

A biography of the scientist and humanitarian who discovered the vaccine for polio, a disease which crippled many people in the early part of the twentieth century.

A biography of the American doctor and medical researcher who helped to develop successful influenza and polio vaccines, then turned his attention to vaccines for cancer and AIDS prevention.

Recounts the successful search of Jonas Salk for the vaccine that conquered polio.