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1) The one
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Language
English
Description
"How far would you go to find The One? A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon you'll be matched with your perfect partner--the one you're genetically made for. That's the promise made by Match Your DNA. A decade ago, the company announced that they had found the gene that pairs each of us with our soul mate. Since then, millions of people around the world have been matched. But the discovery has its downsides: test results...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted with the help of undisputable DNA evidence, the athlete swears his innocence and threatens both his lawyer and his accuser as he's sent to prison. Not long after, there's another rape and the DNA test shows that the same person committed both rapes--which is seemingly impossible since the man convicted of the first rape was in prison at the time of the second one. Now, the...
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Language
English
Description
"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...
4) Genesis
Author
Language
English
Description
When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery's autopsy table, at first it appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine drug overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren't adding up. Kera's family and friends swear she never touched drugs. Administrators from the hospital where Kera...
5) At risk
Author
Language
English
Description
A Massachusetts DA who is running for governor looks for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology to fight crime, but when a shocking piece of violence intervenes, her state investigator is not so sure it is a random event.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
376, 12 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Investigating DNA revelations that say her father is a man she never met, Paige learns about her mother's past as a straitlaced university student who had a one-night stand with the campus golden boy.
Now: When Paige Meyer gets an email from a DNA testing website announcing that her father is a man she never met, she is convinced there must be a mistake. Digging deeper into her mother's past-- and her own feelings of being the odd child out growing...
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English
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"Set against the natural beauty of the San Juan Islands in the Pacific Northwest, the novel tells a story of one woman's life-changing discovery about her past... As a child, Evie Lindsay was unnerved by her premonitions. As an adult, they have become a simple fact of life--sometimes disruptive but also inescapable, much like her quirky, lovable family. Evie's mother, Poppy, and her aunts, Camellia and Iris, are well known on San Orcanita island...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
What would you do if you knew your life's potential? That's the question facing the residents of Deerfield, Louisiana, when the DNAMIX machine appears in their local grocery store. It's nothing to look at, really--it resembles a plain photo booth. But its promise is amazing: With just a quick swab of your cheek and two dollars, the device claims to use the science of DNA to tell you your life's potential. With enough credibility to make the townspeople...
9) Burn factor
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Vince Flynn
Bright, young, and ambitious, Quinn Barry desperately wants to be an FBI agent, even as she programs databases in the basement of the J. Edgar Hoover Building. But Quinn's career -- and her life -- are about to change wildly. Testing a new program, Quinn's computer savvy turns up a mysterious DNA link among five gruesome murders. A link that the old FBI system had been carefully programmed...
12) District 9
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom.
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Language
English
Description
In this series finale, true-crime writer Regan Landry helps free a rapist/murderer who seems to have been wrongly convicted. Then she wonders whether she's made a really big mistake. Less than a week after the prisoner is released, he vanishes from Florida. Soon after, a string of women are raped and murdered in North Carolina.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a twenty-year-old murder case comes back to life, a detective must race against his failing sight to unravel the mystery When Allison Wallis was beaten to death, Detective Francis X. Loughlin found the killer-Julian Vega, a teenager with a crush on the murdered girl. Using his natural sense of empathy, he cozied up to young Julian, convincing him to give a confession that would put him away until he was thirty-six. Twenty years later, Julian...
15) Impostor
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tessa is a Variant, able to absorb the DNA of anyone she touches and mimic their appearance. Shunned by her family, she's spent the last two years training with the Forces with Extraordinary Abilities, a secret branch of the FBI. When a serial killer rocks a small town in Oregon, Tessa is given a mission; she must impersonate Madison, a local teen, to find the killer before he strikes again. Tessa hates everything about being an impostor--the stress,...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the near-future United States, where advanced technology can create egg or sperm from any person's cells, celebrities face the alarming potential of meeting biological children they never conceived. Famous singer Trace Thorne is tired of being targeted by the Vault, a black market site devoted to stealing DNA. Sick of paying ransom money for his own cell matter, he hires bio-security guard Ember Ryan to ensure his biological safety. Ember will...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a young geneticist's shocking DNA discovery, power-hungry Homer Stennis Ironwood endeavors to penetrate the MacClary family, who guard ancient secrets about humanity's past associations with gods.
18) Splice
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two young scientists become superstars by splicing different animal DNA to create fantastical new creatures. Ignoring legal and ethical boundaries, the scientists, who are romantically involved, introduce human DNA into their experiment and risk the dawn of a terrifying new era.
19) The raven
Author
Publisher
Flame Tree Press, an imprint of Flame Tree Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"All cultures share versons of the same legends: vampires, witches, werewolves, and other macbre creatures. There's a reason for this. They were all once real. When the missiles containing a terrifying virus first expoded, no one realized what was happening. But within a month, the deprogramming of human DNA became apparent. Millions of years of evolution fell away, revealing the long-forgotten genetic strands that caused people to thirst for blood,...
Author
Publisher
Grupo Nelson
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Sólo el 0,1% de nuestros genes nos hace únicos. Somos en un 99,9% idénticos, parecidos, iguales. Este libro refleja al 100% esa verdad."--
In rhyming text, illustrates through the concept of DNA how we are all part of the human race.