Las Animas - Bent County Library District

It's December 2012--only days away from the day the Mayan's believed the world would be destroyed, when Dr. Gabriel Stanton is called to the bedside of a man suffering from fatal insomnia. Meanwhile, a young Guatemalan-American scholar is given a priceless codex from the lost kingdom of the Maya. Little does he know it's linked to the dying man and the key to stopping the end of the world.

A killer's victims appear to be random, but in fact are chosen with precision, and the weapon used is a deadly virus. FBI Special Agent Maggie O'Dell, while waiting in an isolation ward see if she's been exposed to the virus, must help Assistant Director Cunningham and Agent R. J. Tully catch clues to the killer.

"One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep--and doesn't wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold...

ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.

They're one of the country's most telegenic couples : beloved TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York's hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman. Their family and social connections tie them to the highest echelons of the political, medical, and sports world -- threads that will tangle them in one of the most controversial and deadly issues of our time. In a clinic on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a divisive...

Dr. Kay Scarpetta becomes both investigator and victim when she is contacted over the Internet by a murderer who is threatening to loose a deadly virus on the world.

When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.

Microbiologist Richard Draman thought he'd answered this question when he walked away from his career to focus on curing a genetic defect that causes his daughter to age at a wildly accelerated rate. Just when Richard and his wife Carly force themselves to recognize that eight-year-old Susie's time is running out, they receive an unexpected gift - startling new research into the fundamental secrets of life that could be the answer to their prayers.When...

Forget everything you think you know about your body and food, and discover the new science of how the body heals itself. Learn how to identify the strategies and the dosages for using food to transform your resilience and health in EAT TO BEAT DISEASE. We have radically underestimated our body's power to transform and restore our health. Pioneering physician scientist, Dr. William Li, empowers readers by showing them the evidence behind over 200...

To Survive in a ruined world, she must embrace the darkness...

Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled-in city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten. Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them—the vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself dies...and becomes one of the monsters. Forced to flee her city, Allie must

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