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1) My murder
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English
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"A tautly paced novel in which a young mother who was cloned and brought back to life following her own murder comes to suspect that there is more to the story of her life and death than anyone is telling her. What if the murder you had to solve was your own? Lou is a happily married mother of an adorable toddler. She's also the clone of the original Louise who, along with four other victims of a local serial killer, has been brought back to life...
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Series
Mickey7 volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The Martian meets Multiplicity in Edward Ashton's high concept science fiction thriller, in which Mickey7, an "expendable," refuses to let his replacement clone Mickey8 take his place. Dying isn't any fun...but at least it's a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there's a mission that's too dangerous-even suicidal-the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration...
3) Replica
Author
Series
Replica (Lauren Oliver) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In a book that invites readers to start at either end or alternate between perspectives, Lyra and Gemma get the chance to escape from the protective environments in which they were raised while uncovering secrets about the bioresearch facility that connects them.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"'When they said all happy families are alike, I don't think this is what they meant...' Evelyn Caldwell's husband Nathan has been having an affair - with Evelyn Caldwell. Or, to be exact, with a genetically cloned replica. After a morning that begins with a confrontation and ends with Nathan's body bleeding out on the kitchen floor, the two Caldwell wives will have to think fast--before sharing everything includes sharing a jail cell. The Echo Wife...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Edward Ashton's Antimatter Blues is the thrilling follow up to Mickey7 in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation. Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive--that last part thanks almost entirely to the fact that Commander Marshall believes that the colony's creeper neighbors are holding an antimatter bomb,...
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sue Burke, author of Semiosis and Interference, gives readers a new near-future, hard sf novel. Immunity Index blends Orphan Black with Contagion in a terrifying outbreak scenario. In a US facing growing food shortages, stark inequality, and a growing fascist government, three perfectly normal young women are about to find out that they share a great deal in common. Their creator, the gifted geneticist Peng, made them that way-before such things...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Sarah is on the run from a bad relationship when a lookalike stranger commits suicide right in front of her. Sarah sees a solution to all her problems by assuming the dead woman's identity and clearing out her bank account. Instead, she stumbles into a thriller mystery, and uncovers an earth-shattering secret: she is a clone. She learns there are more like her, genetically identical individuals, nurtured in wildly different circumstances, and someone...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Four previously terminally ill people must grapple with the reality of reentering their lives after being granted genetically perfect copies of their former bodies. Hannah, David, Connie, and Linda leave the SUBlife pilot program with their fingerprints different, their vision impeccable, and most importantly, their illnesses cured. But as each tries to re-enter their previous lives and relationships they are faced with the question: how much of your...
11) The island
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a utopian facility in the mid 21st century. Like all of the inhabitants, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the "The Island." But Lincoln soon realizes that everything about his existence is a lie. He discovers that all of the inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones. Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta. Relentlessly pursued by the forces of the evil...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Sarah and her sister clones are left to battle the top-secret military project producing these lethal male clones. At the same time, Sarah tries to track down her missing twin Helena and an ailing Cosima serches for the key to the synthetic sequences that may keep them all alive. How far are they willing to go, and who can they really trust?
13) Gemini man
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Henry Brogan, an elite assassin, is suddenly targeted and pursued by a mysterious young operative that seemingly can predict his every move.
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Ghost-Spider faces her own clone saga! Gwen Stacy comes face to face with some of the deadliest Spider-Man villains of all - including Doctor Octopus, Sandman and the Vulture! But wait - why do they all look like Gwen?! And what do these hybrid clones all want with the original? Luckily, with Reed Richards' help, Gwen is about to get some answers! Unluckily, the clones just keep on coming! Even worse, a mastermind is lurking in the shadows, just...
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When her ex-girlfriend Kay is murdered and everyone in her old commune is a suspect, Dora, while investigating, discovers Kay's death is one of several terrible incidents and is drawn into a twisted conspiracy while trying to stop a potential war between two nefarious companies.
Author
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves. Can the original Hank and Molly coexist in the same world as their clones? In Upgrade Soul, McDuffie Award-winning creator Ezra Claytan Daniels asks probing questions about what...
Author
Series
Afterschool charisma volume 3
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Leader of France during the first French Empire. Became known as a hero for his victories as a general and went on to seize absolute control of the state in a coup d'état. As emperor, Napoleon's rule spanned almost all of Europe, but opposition to his rule grew widespread after his army suffered a bitter defeat by the cruel Russian winter, leading to his eventual seizure and exile. Even then, Napoleon managed to return to power for a time, only...
18) Never let me go
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Three friends at a boarding school in England learn that they are all genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Season two hits the ground running with Sarah in a desperate race to find her missing daughter Kira. Her scorched earth tactics spark a war with pro-clone Rachel, dividing and imperiling all the clones. As Sarah discovers more about her past, mysterious newcomers appear. But can they be trusted?
Author
Series
Afterschool charisma volume 2
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
To enroll at St. Kleio Academy, a student must be a clone of a famous historical figure. This volume features Joan of Arc.
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