Adult

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

by Laura Spinney

Describes the enormous-scale human disaster caused by the 1918 Spanish Flu and uses the latest findings in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology and economics to show how the pandemic permanently changed global politics, race relations, medicine, religion and the arts.

Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History

By Catherine Arnold

Describes the outbreak of the Spanish Flu 100 years ago that killed more than 50 million people around the world, including 550,000 in the United States, right in the middle of World War I.

Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You

By Catherine Carver

Explains how the immune system works, likening it to a well-fortified castle, and notes how new drugs are being designed to harness its power to treat illness.

Children’s

Germs: Fact and Fiction, Friends and Foes

By Lisa Cline-Ransome

An introduction to the world of good and bad bacteria is told from the perspective of Sam the Salmonella and reveals fascinating facts about the role of germs in everyday life, how germs were discovered and the invention of important germ-fighting practices and medicines.

Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918: A Tragedy in Three Acts

By Don Brown

The award-winning creator of The Unwanted and Drowned City presents a graphic novel history of the devastating Spanish Influenza epidemic and its violent impact on World War I.