Books like 'Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs'
Readers who enjoyed Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael T. Osterholm & Mark Olshaker also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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The Wishing Bridge: An O'Brien Tale by Stacey Reynolds
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCross the bridge to the spring, and wish your heart’s desire… Caitlyn O’Brien left for Brazil in the aftermath of a heartbreaking loss. As much as she loves her husband, he can’t help her with the grief and disappointment that plague her life in Dublin. When she discovers that St... -
An Informal Introduction by Heather Gray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe saves lives. He protects them. And someone's trying to stop them both. Lily Ziminski is an ICU nurse near the nation's capital where politics are a regular part of hospital policy. Assigned a series of high-profile patients, she finds herself an unwilling focus of the media. Lily would much rather do without all the attention...except where one cowboy-hat-wearing state trooper is concerned... -
Stand By Me: A Romance Thriller Series by Kelly Moore, Dark Water Covers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA modern-day hero… of sorts.John Remington. A hit man hired to take out the evilest of men. He likes his job. The money. The no-questions-asked contracts. But there’s a turning point in every man’s life. His comes in the form of a beautiful woman being marked for nothing more than a cure she can offer the world. An easy prey becomes his tangled mess. The hit man becomes the hunted... -
Seduced by the Sheik by Elizabeth Lennox
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne glance changes everything!Sheik Amit el Raminar world has been thrown into chaos. After a tragedy leaves two small nieces in his care, Amit isn’t sure what to do. So he brings in a professional. Dr. Harper Ross is renowned as a pediatric psychologist…but the person stepping into his office isn’t the sedate, older woman he’s expecting. Instead, Dr... -
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Die vierte Wand: Roman by Sorj Chalandon
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKann Theater Frieden schaffen?Paris 1982: Georges verspricht seinem sterbenskranken Freund Samuel, einem Theaterregisseur, seinen Herzenswunsch zu erfüllen: die Aufführung von ›Antigone‹ im vom Bürgerkrieg zerrütteten Beirut, direkt an der Front, in einem zerbombten Kinosaal, mit einem Ensemble, das sämtliche Kriegsparteien repräsentiert... -
A Plain Man by Mary Ellis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBestselling author Mary Ellis offers an engaging new standalone Amish romance about a prodigal seeking to find his way home. Though Caleb Beachy lived in the Englisch world for some years, he is a Plain man at heart. When he decides to return to the Amish lifestyle, he moves back home and goes to work for his father. Soon these two strong-willed men find themselves at odds... -
Unforgettable Romances: Unforgettable Heroes by Mimi Barbour, Traci Hall
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeven unforgettable romances! Seven hot heroes! These emotionally satiating, tales of contemporary love stories will brighten your day, warm your heart, and quench your desire for happy ever after. From merry-go-round passion, to a beautiful Chilean earthquake survivor, an aristocrat coming to visit or that excruciating puppy love everyone endures - this collection has it all... -
Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990 by Eavan Boland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"[Boland is] an original, dazzlingly gifted writer.... Uncompromising intellect, wry perception, and verbal brilliance.... A wonderfully elegant and sensual writer, keenly attuned to the pleasures of form and sound.... She's as musically gifted and as uncompromisingly intelligent as Seamus Heaney, and deserves comparable attention... -
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU... -
Love Heals All Wounds Box Set: Books 1 - 5 by Layla Valentine
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove Heals All Wounds is Layla Valentine’s five book series of medical romance novels... -
Plague Maker by Tim Downs
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJuly Fourth: New York CityHundreds of thousands line the banks of the East and Hudson Rivers awaiting the nation's largest fireworks display. Soon the sky will explode in cascading showers of silver and gold. Everywhere, faces will turn skyward in wide-eyed wonder.Then the sky will grow dark again--but it will not be empty... -
Road To Recovery by Natalie Ann
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAll books can be read as stand alone or in order of the series. Being perfect isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. After surviving a horrific car crash, Brooke Malone is ready to start over. Moving from her hometown of Burlington, Vermont, to Albany, New York, for a new job, her only goals are to focus on her career and her recovery. The last thing she wants is the distraction of a relationship... -
Heart Seizure by Bill Fitzhugh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSpence Tailor, a lawyer with an actual set of principles, loves his mama, Rose. Rose—with advanced cardiomyopathy and a rare blood type—is scheduled for a heart transplant. But when the president's heart craps out during a photo op three months before the national election, the White House chief of staff orders the FBI to seize the heart that was going to Rose—all in the name of democracy... -
Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-party. They've returned home to toast their mentor Gina, newly inducted as president of a tiny Catholic college. But as their reunion spirals into spiritual chaos and clashing generational politics, it becomes less a celebration than a vicious fight to be understood... -
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Never My Love by Kathryn Shay
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe finally finds a woman he can love, but she wants to be president of the United States!Annalise Manwaring inherited the ambition gene from her presidential father. She planned her schooling and each of her jobs all to reach her goal of occupying the Oval Office. Nothing’s going to stop her.Luke Branson has always resented Annalise, even before he met her... -
Ahol megszakad by Péter Závada
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Moszkva tér kocsmáitól a népligeti fákig, az Oktogon hajszalonjaitól a Bartók Béla úti mecsetig sokféle tájat bejárnak Závada Péter versei, akit legtöbben a kortárs underground kultikus zenekara, az Akkezdet Phiai tagjaként ismernek, ám a dalszövegei mellett évek óta publikál rangos irodalmi folyóiratokban is... -
The Baby Doctor by Bobby Hutchinson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Baby Doctor is the second enthralling episode in our medical series centered around St. Joe's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. There, bodies are healed. And hearts are sometimes broken.... Dr. Morgan Jacobsen is a busy, warmhearted obstetrician with no time for men. But even she has secret fantasies. When the man who once starred in them, Dr... -
Jasmine Days by Benyamin
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSameera moves to an unnamed Middle Eastern city to live with her father and her relatives, when a revolution blooms. Set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, this is the story of a young woman, whose happy world falls apart when the promise of revolution turns into destruction and division... -
Royal Pain by Leslie Pike
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe only thing harder than being a royal? Falling in love with one. BelindaAs a political blogger living in Manhattan, I have no time to date. My few free hours are spent with best friend Soraya, and her husband Graham. Love has no place in this equation. Then Prince Zan walks into the coffee shop... -
Som pesten by Hanne-Vibeke Holst
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLäkaren Karoline Branner flyttar med sin familj till Genève för att arbeta med pandemibekämpning för WHO. Men på kontoret möter hon oväntat motstånd i den politiska organisationen, och hemma blir hennes man allt mer rastlös. Och så kommer signaler om en ny influensapandemi."Som pesten" är en bladvändare med både emotionellt djup och politisk udd... -
The Rationing: A Novel by Charles Wheelan
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmerica is in trouble—at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen. That ordinarily wouldn’t lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there’s just one problem: the government supply of Dormigen, the silver bullet of pharmaceuticals, has been depleted just as demand begins to spike... -
After Kilimanjaro by Gayle Woodson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDr. Sarah Whitaker has always been an obedient overachiever, but she is burned out. Training to be a surgeon is stressful. So when her fiancé, David, offers a solution—take a break year at a hospital in Africa and climb Mount Kilimanjaro together—she jumps on board. When he backs out, she embarks on the adventure alone...Categorized as:
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Slick Senator by Mika Lane
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen my college crush, Talbot Richardson--who didn't even know I existed--was elected to the United States Senate, I bragged a little too loudly that I knew him.Oops.Did I really know the sexiest, slickest guy on campus?Not a chance in hell.Unless knowing someone is following them around campus to see which dorm they live in, and which class they have at eight a.m. on Wednesdays... -
The Rebel and the Thief by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEighteen-year-old Niri and his family live a modest but secure life working in the villa of the wealthy Benzes. But when the pandemic comes, they are all let go, and left staring into the abyss of abject poverty... -
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Special Interests by Emma Barry
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCompared to love, politics is easy... Union organizer Millie Frank's world isn't filled with cocktails and nightclubs…until she's turned into an unwitting minor celebrity. As if being part of a hostage situation wasn't traumatizing enough, now her face is splashed across the news. But Millie's got fresher wounds to nurse—like being shot down by the arrogant bad boy she stupidly hit on... -
The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman, Laural Merlington
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn Our Town for our times, The Mammoth Cheese is beautifully crafted and driven by warm, vibrant characters as it follows the residents of rural Three Chimneys, Virginia, on their journey to re-create the original Thomas Jefferson-era, 1,235-pound “Mammoth Cheese... -
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice.Anti-fatness is everywhere...Categorized as:
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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFor those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios... -
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human...Categorized as:
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsIn The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with – and perished from – for more than five thousand years...
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