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Author
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Her name is Luna, and she's the perfect secret agent. Grown in a lab from the finest genetic material, she has been trained since her birth fifteen years ago to be the U.S. government's ultimate espionage weapon. But now, she is given an assignment that will test her abilities to the max--high school! Her mission: to pose as a high school student at Nobel High and uncover a sinister plot engineered by her arch nemesis, Count Von Brucken. But the...
82) Children of time
Author
Series
Children of time volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
629 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied....
83) Adaptation
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a series of plane crashes caused by birds, seventeen-year-old Reese and her debate-team partner, David, receive medical treatment at a secret government facility and become tangled in a conspiracy that is, according to Reese's friend, Julian, connected with aliens and UFOs.
84) Goliath
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
543 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.
85) The time vortex
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (104 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
When an explosion activates an ancient alien time traveling device in the middle of battle, half of the Bug Team Alpha is transported to seventeenth-century Japan and right into the middle of a samurai battle. The team members will have to find their way back home without changing history forever.
86) This mortal coil
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a world where people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, gene-hacking genius Cat must decrypt her late father's message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague" --
Author
Publisher
Erewhon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In Locus and British Fantasy Award nominee Cassandra Khaw's first novel, a crew of diminished former criminals get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission. But the universe's highly-evolved AI has its own opposing agenda... and will do whatever it takes to keep humans from ever controlling them again.
Maya has died and been resurrected into countless cyborg bodies through the years of a long, dangerous career with the...
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
207 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Zahn is one of Krypton's elites: wealthy, privileged, a future leader. Sera is one of Krypton's soldiers: strong, dedicated, fearless. Their rule-bound society has ordained that their paths should never cross. But groundquakes are shaking the planet's surface. Rebellious uprisings are shaking the populace. Krypton's top scientists-Jor-El and Lara-conduct a secret experiment that is meant to reform their planet from the cellular level up. Zahn and...
89) Behemoth
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
485 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the frozen tundra of Siberia to the cutting-edge genetics labs of Harvard University, a group of young scientists--under the guidance of Dr. George Church, the most brilliant geneticist of our time--is working to make the impossible happen. Their task? To bring the Woolly Mammoth, a creature that has been extinct for three thousand years, back into our world. How will they do it? By sequencing the DNA of a frozen Woolly Mammoth harvested from...
91) Sever
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, teenaged Rhine finds hope for a brighter future from a surprising source.
92) Spider game
Author
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Jove mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
445 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Cajun dive in the middle of the godforsaken swamps wasn't exactly Trap Dawkins' idea of fun. But the GhostWalker wasn't there for a good time. He was looking for her. Cayenne. It's where she found her victims. Poor suckers. Then again, who wouldn't want to leave a place like this with a woman like her? It's not Cayenne's fault. Locked up, experimented on and never knowing kindness, she was bred this way--with a heart of pure venom. Trap understands...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Genetic engineering, and related research, is helping to shape the future of humankind. Over the past two decades scientists have made impressive breakthroughs. They have used the technology to discover cures for diseases, solve crimes, and develop drought-resistant crops that can be used to feed millions of people. However, not everyone is excited about the potential benefits of this technology. Some people believe that it is not right for scientists...
Author
Series
House of El volume 2
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
188 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sera is a young soldier, bred her entire life to fight for Krypton. She would die for this planet, but she's never had the time or inclination to enjoy it. Zahn, however, is a young scientist, full of hope and ideas for how to improve Krypton for all its citizens. And yet, the cracks in his world are beginning to appear. In fact, both Sera and Zahn are unique in ways that will soon drive them from their destinies and toward each other--toward a cataclysmic...
95) Hulk
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Special ed. ; full screen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A scientist performs regeneration experiments on himself, and passes on the genes to his son, Bruce. Now Bruce is performing experiments that expose him to radiation and nanomeds, which combined with his unique genes, unleashes the Hulk.
97) Broken angels
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn't just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another. Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers and bodies once more...trading sleuthing for soldiering...
98) Tool of war
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a future beset with rising seas, corporate government, and constant civil war, a bioengineered half-man/half-beast super-soldier who calls himself Tool breaks his conditioning to overcome his genetically enhanced sense of loyalty to the corporation that created him and seeks revenge against his old masters.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Erie has never lived life fully in the sunlight. After destructive wildfires wreaked havoc on the world around her, the government came up with a plan--engineer a plant that cannot burn. Thus, the fire-resistant lockwood was born. The lockwood protects Erie and her hometown of Prine, but it grows incredibly fast and must be cut back every morning. Only the town's youngest and smallest citizens can fit between the branches and tame...