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Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Language
English
Description
Investigates a variety of experiments that have been done on animals in the past--such as breeding two-headed dogs, cats that can glow in the dark, and mice with human ears growing on their backs--and what these experiments have helped human beings figure out about science.
62) Hitman: Agent 47
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An elite assassin, 47, teams up with a young woman to discover his past and how he became the perfect killing machine, and why others are after those secrets as well.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: Whose values are guiding gene editing experiments? And what does this new era of scientific inquiry mean for the future of the human species? "That rare kind of scholarship that is also a page-turner." -Britt Wray, author of Rise of the Necrofauna At a conference in Hong Kong in November 2018, Dr. He Jiankui announced that he had created the first genetically modified...
64) Silent Rage
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small Texas town is terrorized by a psychotic killer. Dan Stevens is faced with the dilemma of stopping this invincible murderer, made virtually indestructible through genetic engineering. A young group of researchers are responsible for developing the serum and the head of the research institute is determined to continue the genetic experiments regardless of the consequences.
65) Bonereapers
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Dinah Pelerin heads off to Longyearbyen, Norway, to deposit some Hawaiian banana seeds at the Doomsday Seed Vault as a member of the U.S. delegation along with three other politicians. There, she becomes entangled with a murder investigation involving a journalist protesting genetically modified seeds. Things get even more complicated when one of the politician's secretaries is found dead and another politician's Norwegian wife goes missing. Dinah...
Author
Series
Salvagers volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
473 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Furious and fun, the first book in this bold, new science fiction adventure series follows a ragtag group of adventurers as they try to find a legendary ship that just might be the key to clearing their name and saving the universe"--
67) Elizabeth's wolf
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh comes a new, revised edition of a beloved classic in the passionate Breed series--Elizabeth's Wolf won the hearts of readers everywhere when it was first released, and now experience the magic again in this special, expanded edition! Special-Forces solider Dash has all but given up his will to live until an innocent letter from a little girl brings him back to life. Cassie writes to him every week,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lyrical Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's a dirty job, but some mutant's got to do it...
Joel Eisler is a mutant with special talents. He can detect an oil leak in the ocean simply by tasting the water. Because of this unique ability, he's been purchased by a large oil company, along with his dolph sister, Amy. The upside of spending his days and nights in the ocean is that it gives him the opportunity to save the lives of his brother dolphins. The downsides are life as a closely...
Joel Eisler is a mutant with special talents. He can detect an oil leak in the ocean simply by tasting the water. Because of this unique ability, he's been purchased by a large oil company, along with his dolph sister, Amy. The upside of spending his days and nights in the ocean is that it gives him the opportunity to save the lives of his brother dolphins. The downsides are life as a closely...
69) Juggernaut
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (104 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Bug Team Alpha investigates an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, but the asteroid is actually a mega-ship. They must use their genetically enhanced, insect-like capabilities to find out who is controlling it, why it is targeting Earth, and how they can force the hive-like inhabitants of the ship to abandon their purpose--harvesting the team's home planet.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
71) Maximum Ride: 4
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Yen Press ed.
Lexile measure
HL 390L
Physical Desc
177 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Despite their initial hesitation, living with Anne has softened the Flock, so Max is keenly aware that it's time to leave. With Thanksgiving so near, though, all of them want to stay, at least until they've had their first ever Thanksgiving turkey! But danger is on the horizon as Jeb's plan advances, and while the Flock's new school seems normal and safe, secrets are hidden beneath its prestigious facade.
72) Fever
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a future where genetic engineering has cured humanity of all diseases and defects but has also produced a virus that kills all females by age twenty and all males by the age twenty-five, teenaged Rhine escapes her forced marriage and journeys back to New York to find her twin brother.
Author
Language
English
Description
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: GENERAL INTEREST (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). This fascinating introduction to a complex subject explains the science of genetics and DNA in an approachable and understandable way, from basic biological structure and function to ethical debates such as genetic engineering and cloning. Internet links allow readers to discover the most up-to-date developments online. Ages 9+
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 373 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Once, he was Judd--Bengal Breed and brother to the notorious fugitive Gideon. After Gideon disappeared, Judd was experimented on until his tortured body knew nothing but agony. Now he is Cullen Maverick, serving as the commander of the Navajo Covert Law Enforcement Agency in the small community of Window Rock, Arizona. Despite his genetics, Cullen is able to pass as human because his Bengal traits are recessed. He lacks the ability to smell the emotions,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. Not, that is, until 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR - a revolutionary new technology that she helped create - to make heritable changes in human embryos. The cheapest, simplest, most effective way of manipulating DNA ever known, CRISPR may well give us the cure...
76) The dig
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (111 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
When an archaeologist disappears during a dig on the planet Niburi 3, a world once devastated by a swarm of meteor strikes, Bug Team Alpha is called in to use their DNA-enhanced buglike physical features to investigate. They find that the original inhabitants were also masters of genetic transformation and left plans for the resurrection of their species.
77) Bunker 10
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Something is going terribly wrong at the top secret Pinewood Military Installation, and the teenage geniuses who study and work there are about to discover a horrible truth as they lead a small military force trying to retrieve data and escape before the compound self-destructs.
78) Darwin's radio
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Greg Bear's fiction ingeniously combines cutting-edge science and unforgettable characters. It has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and choruses of critical acclaim. Now, with Darwin's Radio, Bear creates a nonstop thriller swirling with provocative ideas about the next step of human evolution. In a cave high in the Alps, a renegade anthropologist discovers a frozen Neanderthal couple-with a Homo sapiens baby. Meanwhile, in southern Russia, the...
79) Shadow puppets
Author
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
A new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth. Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School. But one person has a better idea. Peter Wiggin, Ender's older, more ruthless...