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105) The heavens rise
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
It's been a decade since the Delongpre family vanished near Bayou Rabineaux, and still no one can explain the events of that dark and sweltering night. No one except Niquette Delongpre, the survivor who ran away from the mangled stretch of guardrail on Highway 22 where the impossible occurred ... and kept on running. Who left behind her best friends, Ben and Anthem, to save them from her newfound capacity for destruction ... and who alone knows the...
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Looks at parasites - some benign, some deadly - that make humans their hosts. Examples are discussed in detail from the three major categories: single-celled; multicellular, or worms: and ectoparasites, those that live on the body as opposed to inside it. Experts show how these organisms proliferate through vectors, creatures that transmit parasites, such as the mosquito that carries malaria or the fly that transmits "river blindness." Interviews...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"Ginko sees what most cannot - Mushi, unexplainable forces which have altered the course of mankind since the genesis of life. Walking quietly through nature, Ginko investigates these rare embodiments of the primeval, aiding those plagued by the supernatural phenomena which surround the Mushi for reasons yet unknown. He is a Mushi-shi, one with the ability to peer into the places where the Mushi hide in plain sight"--Container
Author
Series
Parasitology volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde. Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads, but Sal and her companions must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped....
113) The Tingler
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
"Vincent Price stars as an obsessed doctor who discovers that fear manifests itself as a parasitic creature, which grows on the spinal cords of terrified people. If they scream, The Tingler can be destroyed. If they don't, it will sever the spinal column and kill them. He successfully isolates and removes The Tingler from a deaf-mute (Judith Evelyn) who has been scared to death by her devious husband. Once captured, the Tingler escapes and runs amok...
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