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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction--is it worse than the disease? We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of...
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English
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"Rosalind Franklin knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture--one more after thousands--she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her. Then it finally happens--the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what happens...
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Series
Jack McEvoy novels volume 3
Language
English
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"Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. McEvoy investigates--against the warnings of the police and his own editor--and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he himself...
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the twenty-second century, sixteen-year-old Crater Trueblood, who mines the moon for Helium-3 to produce energy for a desperate, war-torn Earth, undertakes a deadly mission that could mean the difference between life and death for every inhabitant of the moon.
Author
Series
Ice sequence volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Something sits in a bunker lab buried fifty feet below the grounds of Lakehurst Naval Air Station. The product of technology confiscated from the Germans after WWII occupies a chamber of steel-reinforced ballistic glass. Despite experimentation for nearly three-quarters of a century, no one knows what it is, but illegal human research reveals what it can do. Humans with special abilities--abilities that can only have come from whatever occupies the...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Joe O’Brien is a forty-four-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer, Joe begins experiencing bouts of disorganized thinking, uncharacteristic temper outbursts, and strange, involuntary movements. He initially attributes these episodes to the stress of his job, but as these symptoms worsen, he agrees to see...
7) Eve & Adam
Author
Series
Eve and Adam saga volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
16-year-old Eve Spiker lives an easy life with her geneticist mother, Terra. That is, until she's involved in a freak accident and left with life-threatening injuries. Injuries that seem to be healing faster than physically possible. Recuperating at her mum's lab, Eve meets Solo, a hot teenage lab assistant who seems to know more about what's going on at Spiker Biotech than he should do. Joining forces to investigate, Solo and Eve uncover a secret...
8) Genome
Author
Series
Extinction files volume 2
Publisher
Riddle, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
443 pages ;
Language
English
Description
In 2003, the first human genome was sequenced. But the secrets it held were never revealed. The truth was discovered thirty years ago, almost by accident. Dr. Paul Kraus had spent his entire career searching for what he called humanity's lost tribes -- human ancestors who had gone extinct. When Kraus compared the DNA samples of the lost tribes with our own, he found a pattern of changes: a code. At the time, the technology didn't exist to unravel...
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Series
Origin mystery volume 2
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead -- and those the Atlantis Plague doesn't kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve. As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge. Industrialized nations offer a miracle drug, Orchid, which they...
Author
Series
Origin mystery volume 3
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the clock ticks down to humanity's extinction, a team of scientists will risk everything to unravel the secrets of the past. Northern Morocco: Dr. Kate Warner cured a global pandemic, and she thought she could cure herself. She was wrong. And she was wrong about the scope of the Atlantis conspiracy. Humanity faces a new threat, an enemy beyond imagination. With her own time running out and the utter collapse of human civilization looming, a new...
Author
Series
Origin mystery volume 1
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
70,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how. Until now. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time. The Immari are good at keeping secrets. For 2,000 years, they've hidden the truth about human evolution. They've also searched for an ancient enemy -- a threat that could wipe out the human race. Now the search is over. Off the coast of Antarctica,...
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