The Secret of the Yellow Death; A True Story of Medical Sleuthing by Suzanne Jurmain

If you think you don't have to worry about Yellow Fever, think again in this era of Global Warming. It was called the yellow death and it was a feared killer. The United States army decided at the turn of the 1900s that they had to find what this killer was and how people got it since it was killing too many of its soliders. A team lead by Walter Reed - yes, that hospital is named after him, goes to Cuba to track the killer. Theories of how it was transmitted were tested and the one that most thought was the most outlandish and crazy may be the one, but how to test it out. Could you really pay someone to volunteer to get this killer? What type of person would volunteer but turn down all that money? If you enjoy a good whodunit, science, history, or just love reading about things that kill lots of people, this is the book for you.  Yellow Fever is still killing people around the world even with a vaccine if they can't afford it or the government can't afford to provide it.   

Tsunami; The True Story of an April Fool's Day Disaster by Gail Langer Karwoski

How could a dream job in Paradise turn into a life or death moment?  How could we as a country forget this type of event? How could a normal school day suddenly turn out so wrong? Can it happen again? Learn the answers to these questions and why living on any large body of water could not be as safe as you thought. If you like reading about what those cable shows seem to like scaring people with, this book is for you. If you are a science geek who likes to learn how the world works, you will enjoy this who, why, and how book on not just this tsunami but others that have hit and killed too many people.