Before the Outbreak
An Original Zombie Thriller (Virus Z, Book 1)
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K.M. Stewart
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Virus Z, the series. Before the Outbreak. Book one. A short story.
Emma Johnson is 12 years old. She lives with her aunt and her two cousins, as her parents died when she was two years old. At home, she is treated more like a servant than a member of the family.
She often thinks about her parents, who were both virologists and worked on secret government projects. She wonders what really happened to them. A few theories exist as to the real cause of their disappearance and if they really are dead.
Possessing a keen interest in science, one day she discovers something unusual using the school lab’s microscope. The find startles everyone, especially her science teacher, Mrs. Norris, who tells her to keep the matter a secret for the time being.
Virus Z is an original zombie thriller, unlike any zombie story ever written. In this unique and fascinating adventure, our young protagonist must figure out the mysteries that are beginning to emerge. Agencies around her are hiding secrets upon which hinge the survival of mankind.
Emma must forge alliances and get to the bottom of everything to piece the puzzle together, and time is running out. Amid the chaos that ensues and the colossal challenges that lay ahead, she must act swiftly as the fate of the world rests in her hands.
So scroll up and click the buy button, and follow her in this gripping tale!
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Double Digit
- By: Annabel Monaghan
- Narrated by: Julia Farhat
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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To say eighteen-year-old Farrah Higgins—or Digit—is good at math is a laughable understatement. She’s been cracking codes since childhood, and is finally at home with “her people” at MIT in Cambridge. Her talents are so off the charts that her laptop is under surveillance by both the CIA and an ecoterrorist named Jonas Furnis. So when she thoughtlessly hacks into the Department of Defense’s database, she lands in serious hot water inside and outside the law.
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Great Follow Up
- By Lifeisshort on 05-23-14
By: Annabel Monaghan
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The Boy from the Woods
- Wilde, Book 1
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Steven Weber
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Thirty years ago, Wilde was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. Now an adult, he still doesn't know where he comes from, and another child has gone missing. No one seems to take Naomi Pine's disappearance seriously, not even her father - with one exception. Hester Crimstein, a television criminal attorney, knows through her grandson that Naomi was relentlessly bullied at school. Hester asks Wilde - with whom she shares a tragic connection - to use his unique skills to help find Naomi.
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Coben could do a whole series on Hester!!!!
- By shelley on 03-18-20
By: Harlan Coben
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Emily the Strange
- The Lost Days
- By: Rob Reger
- Narrated by: Angela Goethals
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Emily the Strange: 13 years old. Able to leap tall buildings, probably, if she felt like it. More likely to be napping with her four black cats; or cobbling together a particle accelerator out of lint, lentils, and safety pins; or rocking out on drums/ guitar/ saxophone/ zither; or painting a swirling feral sewer mural; or forcing someone to say "swirling feral sewer mural" 13 times fast.... and pointing and laughing.
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Grrrrrrrrrraaattrt!!!
- By Vkatz76 on 05-20-23
By: Rob Reger
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Picture Us in the Light
- By: Kelly Loy Gilbert
- Narrated by: James Chen
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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When Danny discovers a taped-up box in his father's closet filled with old letters and a file on a powerful Silicon Valley family, he realizes there's much more to his family's past than he ever imagined. Danny has been an artist for as long as he can remember, and it seems his path is set, with a scholarship to RISD and his family's blessing to pursue the career he's always dreamed of. Still, contemplating a future without his best friend, Harry Wong, by his side makes Danny feel a panic he can barely put into words.
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A poignant, touching novel for the Asian American millennial
- By Jenny on 06-30-23
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Faces of the Gone
- Carter Ross, Book 1
- By: Brad Parks
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Four bodies, each with a single bullet wound in the back of the head, stacked like cordwood in a weed-choked vacant lot: That's the front-page news facing Carter Ross, investigative reporter with the Newark Eagle-Examiner. Immediately dispatched to the scene, Carter learns that the four victims - an exotic dancer, a drug dealer, a hustler, and a mama's boy - came from different parts of the city and didn't seem to know one another.
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Wish Brad Parks were more prolific!!!!
- By shelley on 02-16-18
By: Brad Parks
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Liar, Liar
- The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Deception
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Joshua Swanson
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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Kevin has a big talent. Some might call it compulsive lying. He calls it common sense. Kev doesn’t mean to cause trouble by lying all the time; he’s just trying to make everything easier for everyone (and himself). And, of course, a few harmless, um, falsehoods are crucial to his plan to convince Tina that he’s the perfect boyfriend for her. In Gary Paulsen’s irresistible and chaotic comedy, Kevin’s lies spiral out of control until he’s faced with the need to do the unthinkable: tell the truth.
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Mindless entertainment
- By Melody on 01-21-15
By: Gary Paulsen
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Real Murders
- An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Book 1
- By: Charlaine Harris
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Though a small town at heart, Lawrenceton, Georgia, has its dark side - and its crime buffs. One of them is librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, a member of the Real Murders Club, which meets once a month to analyze famous cases. It's a harmless pastime - until the night she finds a member killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss.
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Adjusting expectations
- By Jeanie on 04-22-10
By: Charlaine Harris
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Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
- Timmy Failure, Book 1
- By: Stephan Pastis
- Narrated by: Jared Goldsmith
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
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The New York Times best selling cartoonist behind the nationally acclaimed comic strip Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis has won raves for Timmy Failure, the hilarious first book in a new series for young listeners. With the help of a polar bear named Total, Timmy Failure hopes to strike it rich by running the best detective agency around. The only problem is that our supremely confident hero is often more bumbling than brainy.
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Good
- By Linton A Harrington on 05-14-16
By: Stephan Pastis
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NEED
- By: Joelle Charbonneau
- Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating, Therese Plummer
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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"No one gets something for nothing. We all should know better." Teenagers at Wisconsin's Nottawa High School are drawn deeper into a social networking site that promises to grant their every need...regardless of the consequences. Soon the site turns sinister, with simple pranks escalating to malicious crimes. The body count rises.
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Thought provoking and a little too real
- By Yvonne Smiley on 12-19-15
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Eliza and Her Monsters
- By: Francesca Zappia
- Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly, Kate Rudd
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she’s worked for begins to crumble. In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, Eliza is LadyConstellation, anonymous creator of a popular webcomic called Monstrous Sea. With millions of followers and fans throughout the world, Eliza’s persona is popular. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves her digital community.
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Just...... Breathtaking
- By Amazon Customer on 06-15-19
By: Francesca Zappia
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Breaking Bailey
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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Bailey welcomes a fresh start at the prestigious boarding school, Prescott Academy, far away from the painful memories of her mother's death and the unendurable happiness of her father and his new wife. She expects rigorous coursework and long hours of studying - what she doesn't expect is to be inducted into the Science Club, a group of wealthy and intelligent students who run a business cooking up drugs in their spare time. Suddenly, Bailey has everything she's ever wanted, including a sweet and handsome boyfriend named Warren, the brainy lead chemist in the Club.
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Too cliché and is very unrealistic
- By Kim on 01-25-21
By: Anonymous
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Buzz Kill
- By: Beth Fantaskey
- Narrated by: Erin Moon
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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When the widely disliked Honeywell Stingers football coach is found murdered, 17-year-old Millie is determined to investigate. She is chasing a lead for the school newspaper - and looking to clear her father, the assistant coach, and prime suspect. Millie's partner is gorgeous, smart - and keeping secrets. Millie joins forces with her mysterious classmate Chase who seems to want to help her even while covering up secrets of his own.
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'eh' book, FANTASTIC narrator
- By adolfo suarez on 09-25-21
By: Beth Fantaskey
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- Susan
- 09-04-24
I couldn't even finish this
It was the weird narration that made me shut this off. I tried several times to listen to this but the very odd narration was so cringe that I couldn't even listen to it. She talks like every word is said in a curt manner and with an odd tone and. Almost attitude. It was embarrassingly awkward and awful.
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- David C Taylor
- 10-22-21
Very good start to a Zombie series
This is a very short episode in a series of short episodes, don’t get me wrong, the length is perfect for entertaining yourself when you have to wait for something- Dr’s appointment etc. This first episode provides a really good introduction to Emma and her backstory and current living conditions. To be honest I was hooked on this story once I heard Emma’s dream. No, I won’t be elaborating on that, you need to read or listen to the story to figure out why. Speaking of listening, Sara Hogan does an awesome job of briming this story to life- especially giving each young character an individual voice.
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- BigT
- 12-14-21
Really good
This is a very intriguing story that is a great beginning to what looks like a great zombie apocalypse series
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- Gerald Reynolds
- 11-28-21
slow start, wasn't memorable
slow start, wasn't memorable
I just did not get into the story. the story was fine as was the narrator. but as I finished, just not hyped for next in series.
other reviewers loved it so could be just me.
apologies for bland generic review. just no hook for me, bad or good...
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- R. Campbell
- 03-06-21
Kids entertainment
While the story appears to be aimed at teens, the narration appears to be aimed at preteens. The narrator has a good grasp of inflection but doesn’t appear to have a clue as to when to use it. And near the end of this story the writing and narration come together to make a conversation between a police officer and an FBI agent sound like a playground argument with all the depth and meaning of “Did not!” “Did too!”
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- Neesie315
- 07-24-22
Teenagers and Zombies!
Emma is an orphan, living with her Aunt and two cousins. They have nicknamed her "Cinderemma", which is an appropriate description of the way she is treated. Emma's parents (supposedly) died in a car crash when she was 2 years old. But, Emma has dreams that seem very real and point to much more behind her parents' death.
This was a fun short story, told from the perspective of a young teenage girl. Emma is determined to find out if her parents were working on something involving zombies or another nefarious government attempt to use a virus in a bad way.
I think this is a great start to a fun addition to the overcrowded zombie genre. the narrator was perfect for the young snarky/whiny teenage characters and added a lot to my enjoyment of the story. I was given the chance to listen to this audiobook by the narrator/publisher/author through Story Origins and chose to review it.
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- Lori D. Bowland
- 10-30-21
Intriguing Beginning
I thought that this was a very good beginning to a series. It whets the reader's appetite for further stories. It was, however, a bit short. I appreciated that a potential cause of this zombie outbreak was illustrated. The author captured the maturity level and voice of a teenager well. The narrator does present the actual voice of the main character aptly but tends to be abrupt with the sentences.
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