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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Technology makes them superhuman. But mere mortals want them kept in their place. The New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse creates a stunning, near-future world where technology and humanity clash in surprising ways. The result? The perfect summer blockbuster.
As he did in Robopocalypse, Daniel Wilson masterfully envisions a frightening near-future world. In Amped, people are implanted with a device...
As he did in Robopocalypse, Daniel Wilson masterfully envisions a frightening near-future world. In Amped, people are implanted with a device...
5) The savior
Author
Series
Black Dagger Brotherhood. Main series volume 17
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the venerable history of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, only one male has ever been expelled--but Murhder's insanity gave the Brothers no choice. Haunted by visions of a female he could not save, he nonetheless returns to Caldwell on a mission to right the wrong that ruined him. However, he is not prepared for what he must face in his quest for redemption. Dr. Sarah Watkins, researcher at a biomedical firm, is struggling with the loss of her fellow...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, death. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted twenty-seven-year-old marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial in London--perhaps humanity's last hope for a cure. Though isolated from the chaos outside, she and the other volunteers--Rachel, Leon, Yahiko, and Piper--cannot hide from...
Author
Series
When the Wind Blows volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Out in the world for the first time since escaping horrifying government experiments, six children make their way toward the Lake House in the hope of being reunited with Kit and Frannie, a couple who once saved their lives.
10) Orphan #8
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1919 Rachel Rabinowitz is a vivacious four-year-old living with her family in a crowded tenement on New York City's lower east side. When tragedy strikes, Rachel is separated from her brother Sam and sent to a Jewish orphanage where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research. Subjected to X-ray treatments that leave her disfigured, Rachel suffers years of cruel harassment from the other orphans. Years later she is confronted with her dark...
12) Nano
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acclaimed as the master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook is a fixture on the New York Times best-seller list. Fans of Death Benefit will welcome the return of embattled medical student Pia Grazdani, who takes a job at a burgeoning nanotech firm in the Rockies. Soon after her arrival on the secretive corporate campus, Pia starts to suspect her company may be using human guinea pigs to fuel its latest billion-dollar medical innovation.
...13) Silent rage
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three doctors turn a man into a mute homicidal maniac, who can regenerate from any wound, no matter how serious. When he starts killing the townspeople, the sheriff tries to stop him. But how can he stop something that cannot be hurt?
14) Chariot
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this dark and twisted thriller, Dr. Karn is an odd, eccentric specialist who guides unknowing patients through the reincarnation transition. When Harrison experiences mysterious recurring dreams, he turns to Dr. Karn for help and reveals his encounter with a woman he loved in a previous life. Noticing a glitch in the system, the doctor must fix the issue before permanently derailing his patient's future.
15) The curiosity
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After discovering the body of a man buried deep in the Arctic ice, Dr. Kate Philo and her team bring him back to life in their Boston lab, igniting a media firestorm that forces them to decide how far they are willing to go to protect their experiment.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics.
Author
Publisher
Jaded Ibis Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Unwieldy Creatures, a biracial, queer, gender-swapped retelling of Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein, follows the story of three beings who all navigate life from the margins: Plum, a queer biracial Chinese intern at one of the world's top embryology labs, who runs away from home to openly be with her girlfriend only to be left on her own; Dr. Frank, a queer biracial Indonesian scientist, who compromises everything she claims to love in the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the 1840s, a young man named Silas Weir begins practicing medicine in Pennsylvania. Though he is considered inept by family, neighbors, and even his mentor, Dr. Weir discovers he has a gift for phlebotomy, treating patients by bleeding them to purify their bodies. But when an experimental procedure goes horribly wrong, Dr. Weir is forced to start over, relocating his family to Trenton, New Jersey, and taking a position at the New Jersey State...
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