plague

Tells the parallel stories of Alejandro Canches, a fourteenth-century physician who is conscripted against his will to serve as a plague doctor in the court of Edward III, and Janie Crowe, an American medical archaeologist who unwittingly releases the bubonic plague upon the world in 2005 while doing research in England.

In the future, a virus has rendered humans barren; no new births have happened in fifteen years and human cloning remains illegal because only grotesque failures have resulted from it. When three friends, teenagers Xian, Jesse, and Mia, stumble across mystery of a girl who has been missing for sixty years, they may have found a way to save the human race.

Mall Percival tells how the plague came to her Derbyshire village of Eyam in the year 1665, how the villagers determined to isolate themselves to prevent further spread of the disease, and how three-fourths of them died before the end of the following year.

In Kingsbridge during the year 1327, four children witness two men being killed in the forest; and years later, even though they have grown apart, they are connected by what they saw.

This book describes the Black Death that killed millions of people from 1347-1352, including how it spread, how people responded, and who invented a cure.

When the plague comes to her medieval town, a young girl must flee to find sanctuary.

Discusses life expectancy in the Middle Ages, examining at the reasons why people died, what they believed to be the cause of illness and disease, and the practices of medieval doctors and surgeons, and looks at the spread of the plague and the vast number of deaths it caused.

In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy becomes an apprentice actor with Shakespeare's troupe and finds out more about his parents along the way.

A young musician whose entire family has died from the plague forms an uneasy alliance with a young man who possesses strange powers.

Supposedly an eye-witness account of the devastation of the Great Plague of London in 1665, this is really a fictional narrative told with such vividness that it feels real. The answer to why it feels so real can possibly be found in the introduction to this edition.