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141) Birthmarked
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
362 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those who live outside it, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her parents are arrested and taken into the city.
142) This vicious cure
Author
Series
Mortal coil volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cat is desperate to find a way to stop Cartaxus and the plague, but to do so, she'll have to face her most devastating enemy yet"--
Cats hacking skills werent enough to keep her from losing everythingher identity, her past, and now her freedom. Shes trapped and alone, but shes survived this long, and shes not giving up without a fight. Though the outbreak has been contained, a new threat has emergedone thats taken the world to the brink of a devastating...
144) Inheritance
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When teens Reese and David are kidnapped after revealing that they were adapted with alien DNA, Reese is forced to reconcile her new love for David, a human, with feelings for Amber, an Imrian, and make a world-changing choice.
146) How to clone a sheep
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
92 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
147) Maximum Ride: 8
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st Yen Press ed.
Physical Desc
210 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Joining a scientific expedition gives Max and the flock a perfect opportunity to distance themselves from the heated debate over their future, but frostbite isn't the only danger in the Antarctic! A powerful figure in the underworld has promised the super-human kids to the highest bidder--and he has the robotic army to ensure the goods are delivered!" - Cover.
150) Genetic engineering
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
152) Lawe's justice
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Berkley mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The authorized sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction classic Against the Fall of Night, set on a dying planet Earth millions of years in the future.
In Against the Fall of Night, a young man named Alvin ventures beyond the domed city of Diaspar to explore a planet Earth left nearly barren by a centuries-old cataclysm. What he discovers is the thriving rural civilization of Lys and an insane non-corporeal being known as the Mad Mind-a danger...
154) The sleepless
Author
Publisher
Erewhon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious pandemic causes a quarter of the world's population to permanently lose the ability to sleep--without any apparent health implications. The outbreak creates a new class of people who are both feared and ostracized, and most of whom optimize their extra hours to earn more money. Jamie Vega, a New York journalist at C+P Media, is one of the Sleepless. When his irascible boss dies in an apparent suicidal overdose, Jamie doesn't buy this...
156) Maximum Ride: 1
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Yen Press ed.
Physical Desc
232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of her 'flock'-- Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel-- are just like ordinary kids, except they have wings and can fly! It may seem like a dream come true to some, but for the flock it's more like a living nightmare when the mysterious lab known as the 'School' turns up and kidnaps their youngest member. Now it's up to Max to organize a rescue, but...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a planet on the brink of total destruction, teenager Remy is determined to find her missing friend, Alora, but the only way to track her down amidst the chaos is to team up with a traitor to stage a revolution.
After a mission gone awry two years ago, Remy Castell has been desperately searching across worlds to find the friend she failed to save--the friend who changed her life by helping her overcome the brainwashing she was subjected to as a...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
442 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling and terrifying history of genetic engineering... In 2018, scientists manipulated the DNA of human babies for the first time. As biologist and historian Matthew Cobb shows in As Gods, this achievement was one many scientists have feared from the start of the genetic age. Four times in the last fifty years, geneticists, frightened by their own technology, have called a temporary halt to their experiments. They ought to be frightened:...