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1) The bullet
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After being divorced from Joe Quinn for many years, Diane Connors abruptly returns to disrupt his life by begging his current wife, Eve Duncan, to do her a favor. Diane is on the run with a secret that will not only put Eve in danger but make her choose between protecting her family and doing what is right. Diane is not Eve's favorite person. But years of animosity must be cast aside because Diane is no longer the selfish woman that Eve once knew....
2) Arrowsmith
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
A man of science must overcome public ignorance and the petty greed of associates as he seeks knowledge.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.
Author
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant. The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol....
5) Ruins
Author
Series
Partials volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kira, Samm, and Marcus fight to prevent a final war between Partials and humans in the gripping final installment in the Partials Sequence. There is no avoiding it--the war to decide the fate of both humans and Partials is at hand. Both sides hold in their possession a weapon that could destroy the other, and Kira Walker has precious little time to prevent that from happening. She has one chance to save both species and the world with them, but it...
6) The jury
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Paul Madriani has ample reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr. David Crone, a respected medical researcher and principal in mapping the human genome, is charged with the murder of a young colleague: twenty-six-year-old Kalista Jordan, an African-American research physician whose body washed up on a beach in San Diego Bay. Forensic evidence links her murder with material in Crone's garage. Crone had both opportunity and motive: Kalista...
Author
Language
English
Description
Poet Christopher Snow, a man who cannot stand daylight, teams up with his genetically engineered dog, Orson, to investigate the abduction of children in Moonlight Bay, California. The children are believed to be prisoners in an army base populated by intelligent animals that were produced by scientific experiments. Snow and Orson penetrate the base to search for them. A sequel to Fear Nothing.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle--designated The Andromeda Strain--killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before a...
10) The fifth vial
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A suspended Harvard Medical School student is kidnapped and left for dead in Rio de Janeiro while presenting a medical paper, while a terminally ill medical genius works on a potentially world-changing cure, and a Chicago detective struggles to identify a mysterious accident victim.
11) Partials
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
"In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training"--
12) The shadow side
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Berkley Sensation ed.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
There is a dark side to every passion . . . Cases of random violence have erupted across the countrymurderous acts committed by previously non-violent people. Detective Adam Boedecker, grieving brother to one of the suicide-murderers, has discovered that all the suspects had taken a new breakthrough anti-depressant, Valazine. Elizabeth Barnes has devoted her heart and soul to pharmaceutical research. Shes at the top of her game and slated to be awarded...
13) Lost city
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An enzyme that prolongs life has been discovered in the North Atlantic, in an area known as Lost City. But why are all those connected with it getting killed? The people attempting to harvest it are dying, the scientists stationed in a remote Greek laboratory are disappearing one by one, and a body found frozen in the Alps are all part of the mystery. To Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team, and his colleague Joe Zavala, it will...
14) Fear
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott... Everyone has a memory they'd like to forget. For federal witness Miles Kendrick, it's the shootout that left his best friend dead--and Miles a hunted and haunted man. While helping his psychiatrist with a mysterious favor, Miles stumbles upon an illegal research program that could free him--and millions of others with post-traumatic stress disorder--from crippling memories. But when his doctor...
17) Dead end
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A scientist's miraculous discovery pits him against a multinational drug company in a fight for his life Richard Parnell is one of the leading minds in gene therapy research, and he expects the job at Dubette, Inc., to be his first step to a Nobel Prize. But when he arrives at the American pharmaceutical giant, he finds himself shut out of the main avenues of research, isolated from the cutting edge in a way he has never been before. To force his...
18) Lucy
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An action-thriller that tracks a woman accidentally caught in a dark deal who turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
19) Grievers
Author
Series
Black dawn volume 1
Publisher
AK Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dune's mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks--in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life--casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers. Dune must navigate poverty and the loss of her mother as Detroit's hospitals, morgues, and graveyards begin to overflow. As the quarantined city slowly empties of life, she investigates what caused the plague, and what might end it, following in the footsteps...