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"For fans of J. G. Ballard and early Ian McEwan, a tense psychological thriller and Kafkaesque parable by the author of The Hole--called 'an airtight masterpiece' by the Korean Economic Daily. Distinguished for his talents as a rat killer, the nameless protagonist of Hye-young Pyun's City of Ash and Red is sent by the extermination company he works for on an extended assignment in C, a country descending into chaos and paranoia, swept by a contagious...
2) Bajo cero
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Español
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This volume, a part of the Old Testament Library, explores chapters 13-39 of Isaiah.
The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.
3) The crazies
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2010
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English
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After a strange toxin contaminates the water supply in a small town in Iowa, the residents are suddenly turned into bloodthirsty psychopaths. The town sheriff does all he can to make sense of the outbreak, as his wife and two other unaffected people fight for their survival.
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2014
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Español
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A mysterious epidemic spreads across the planet, causing the world population to be trapped inside buildings while developing an irrational fear of open spaces that causes instant death. One man seeks to find his missing girlfriend without ever going outside as Barcelona descends into chaos.
5) Petrov's flu
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Russian
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With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a goose-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where, beneath the layers of the ordinary, things turn out to be quite extraordinary. Part Science-fiction, mystery, and dark comedy, this Cannes Film Festival entry is a unique hybrid of genres.
6) Breach
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.
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PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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With more than eight million new infections every year, virulent new drug-resistant strains emerging faster than ever, and outbreaks across the world, tuberculosis has become the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease on the planet. Jezza Neumann travels to Swaziland, the country with the world's highest incidence of TB, to deliver this unforgettable portrait of the people living at the pandemic's epicenter.
8) The stand
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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When a killer plague wipes out 99% of the world's population, the embattled survivors struggle to make their way in a post-apocalyptic reality. This 2020 adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand frames the eternal battle between good and evil, as embodied by the peaceful prophet Mother Abagail and the menacing presence Randall Flagg, and closes with a new coda written by Stephen King himself.
9) The stand
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Originally aired as a television mini-series, this all-star filmization of Stephen King's gripping epic of good versus evil chronicles the episodic adventures of a disparate group of people who struggle to reestablish civilization after a man-made catastrophe wipes out most of the world's population. The world abruptly ends when a deadly virus accidentally escapes from a government sponsored biological warfare laboratory. Soon people are dropping...
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Nuevos cuadernos Anagrama volume 25
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Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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In the epic finale to the saga, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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Swati
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Amidst the highest prevalence of HIV in the world and the lowest life expectancy, three grandmothers in Swaziland, a small, landlocked country in southern Africa between South Africa and Mozambique, cope in this critical moment in time. The generation between the grandmothers and their grandchildren has been severely effected by HIV.
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2020.
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Español
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«Deslumbrante Quammen: desvela lo que nos hace vivir y lo que nos mata con pasión, humor y conocimiento.»
Daniel Arjona, El confidencial
EL LIBRO INTERNACIONAL DE REFERENCIA DURANTE LA CUARENTENA.
Desde hace años, para los expertos y cualquier persona informada, el estallido de la siguiente pandemia era una cuestión de tiempo, y su origen, evidente: un virus latente en animales
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Portuguese
Description
With the colonization of BrazilÕs Mid-West in the 1950s and the construction of the Transamazônica and other highways in the 1970s, whites began to make large-scale contact with Indians, with disastrous results. Epidemics decimated populations of groups such as the Cinta-Larga, with the deaths amounting in some cases to veritable genocide.
18) Outbreak
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A take-charge army virologist tryies to stave off global biological meltdown. A rare killer virus from the jungles of Zaire has taken hold in a California community. Its mortality rate is 100%. And some say the only way to stop its spread is to firebomb the town and everyone in it.
19) Contagion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on William Brinkley2s popular novel, it chronicles a global catastrophe that nearly decimates the world2s population. Because of its positioning, the Navy destroyer USS Nathan James avoided falling victim to the devastating tragedy. But now the crew and its captain must confront the reality of their new existence in a world where they may be among the few remaining survivors.
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