Main Home > Circulation > Staff Picks 1 & 2
Submitted by Sherry B.
Bossier Central Library
Step onto the most perilous mountain in the world with this fast-paced read. Commercialization of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, lulled climbers and non-climbers alike into a false assurance of reaching the summit. Follow Jon Krakauer as he gives a haunting narrative of his fateful expedition, in which 8 climbers were lost in one tragic push to reach the summit.
Title: |
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster |
Type: |
Book |
Author: |
Jon Krakauer |
| Availability: |
|
Submitted by Tammy S.
Bossier Central Library
For more infectious than AIDS, filoviruses (thread viruses) are relentless killer machines that consume a human body in days, causing a gruesome death. Outbreaks of the Ebola filovirus devastated Sudan and Zaire in 1976. And in 1989 Philippine monkeys in a Reston, Va., research lab, found to be infected with Ebola, were the target of a U.S. Army-led biohazard task force that decontaminated the lab, exterminating hundreds of monkeys to prevent the possible airborne spread of the disease to humans.
The outbreak starts after Charles Monet becomes infected with Marburg, while in a cave in 1980. Within three days, his eyes become red, his face starts to droop, his skin begins to turn a yellowish color, and he develops little red-shaped specs all over his body...This book will keep you at the edge of your seat, even after the story ends.
Title: |
The Hot Zone |
Audio: |
Book |
Author: |
Richard Preston |
| Availability: | 1. Bossier Central (View Record) |