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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, comes an astounding, eye-opening look at the world of genetics as it's happening now, told as only Michael Crichton can tell it, with lightening fast pacing and thrilling chases.
Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control. This is not the world of the future—it's the world right now. Is a loved one missing some body parts?
...Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When nineteen-year-old Gem of the Desert People, called Monstrous by the Smooth Skins, becomes the prisoner of the seventeen-year-old Smooth Skin queen, Isra, age-old prejudices begins to fall aside as the two begin to understand each other.
Author
Series
Young elites volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen. Adelina Amouteru is done suffering. She's turned her back on those who have betrayed her and achieved the ultimate revenge: victory. Her reign as the White Wolf has been a triumphant one, but with each conquest her cruelty only grows. The darkness within her has begun to spiral out of control, threatening to destroy all she's gained. When a new danger appears, Adelina's...
4) Middlesex
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a "starfish," a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing. When...
Series
Wild cards volume 22
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
When residents of Jokertown begin going missing, an inexperienced lieutenant hoping to prove himself teams up with a motley group of unlikely Jokers to identify and stop the culprits.
Author
Series
Delta Devlin novels volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"After a near-fatal car crash, Royce Lowell-Vandeweghe wakes up to find he's one of the first patients to undergo a radical new procedure: a full-body transplant. Convalescing years later and suffering from waking nightmares, he answers the door at his Long Island home and meets Delta Devlin, a New York detective. She sees things nobody else can--visions created by a mutation to her eyes--and meeting Royce sets off an unraveling chain of events ......
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2013, c2005.
Language
English
Description
Biologist Domenica Ligrina lives in a dying world. In the year 2052, a nuclear disaster near the French-German border irradiates all of Northern Europe. Global warming runs rampant, and economic and political calamities threaten the survival of Earth. While human DNA mutates and plant species are going extinct, scientists like Domenica work day and night to save their planet. It becomes increasingly apparent that the key to saving the future lies...
11) Hard lessons
Author
Series
Ultimate X-Men volume 12
Publisher
Marvel Comics
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Storm travels to the Great White North to find her missing friend and finds herself facing Lady Deathstrike instead. Then, a mutant resistant to psychic control takes the Manhattan Bank hostage with Xavier inside. Finally, the Ultimate Juggernaut returns to obtain the Gem of Cuttorak, which will make him truly unstoppable.
Series
Colorless (Manga) volume 3
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A massive solar flare erased nearly all color from the surface of the Earth, and the mutated descendants of the human race exist in a state of slow decline. What little color remains now holds a strange and seductive power. Some people, like the lone-wolf professor Avidia, try and understand it. Others, including the cult-like Iodopsy Order, use it for power and control. When an Order assassin draws innocent bystanders into their rivalry, it'll take...
Series
Wild cards volume 28
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The next anthology in George R.R. Martin's ongoing Wild Cards alternate-history series, Three Kings. In the aftermath of World War II, the Earth's population was devastated by an alien virus. Those who survived were changed forever. Some, known as jokers, were cursed with bizarre mental and physical mutations; others, granted superhuman abilities, became the lucky few known as aces. Queen Margaret, who came to the English throne after the death of...
Series
Night of the living cat volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Like a cat out of hell The city is overrun by adorable fluffy disease vectors that used to be human...and they want cuddles! Now, with Tsutsumi's allergies as a cat detector, Kunagi is striving to keep his small band of survivors from going feline. But when a peculiar white kitty with a large jewel produces an earsplitting screech, all the cats in the city converge on their location! When their cat energy merges into a massive mystical cat beast,...
Series
Night of the living cat volume 3
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"EVEN VILLAINS ARE PRECIOUS (WHEN THEY BECOME CATS). The world has fallen under the long shadow of a cat apocalypse. Mankind has been overwhelmed by the power of their fearsome floof, turning into cats one after another. Those few survivors who remain live in a world on the precipice of total collapse. In a new age where cats are everything, is there any future for what's left of mankind?! The absurd tale of kitty-cat armageddon continues!"--
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Mutants are turning into monsters and fear is spreading in Mutant Town. Jennika takes to the underworld to get to the bottom of the situation, but enemies old and new await! As she delves deeper into the mystery in search of answers to the bizarre transformations that have been affecting her fellow citizens she is forced to work with a former enemy, realizing that the situation is far more complicated and dangerous than she originally thought!"--Provided...
Series
Colorless (Manga) volume 4
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"THE ADVENT OF THE DIVINE CHROMA. A cosmic disaster erased almost all color from the world, and now the mutated descendants of humanity live in a moody, noir cityscape draped with shades of grey. There is great power hidden in what little color remains, and a secretive cult known as the Order hopes to use that power to awaken their mysterious gods. Standing against them is Avidia, a gun-toting investigator and scientist who works outside the law....
18) Jungle juice: 1
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"PREY VS. PREDATOREvery society has its hierarchy, and college student Suchan Jang is at the top of the human one. But despite his popularity and charisma, he has a secret that keeps him from getting close with others—under his clothes lies a pair of dragonfly wings! And when he’s forced to expose them to save the girl he likes, Suchan suddenly finds himself plummeting to the bottom of the food chain. It is then, alone and at his lowest point,...
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"New characters and new threats emerge as the Turtles struggle to maintain a hold on the city! First, the Turtles celebrate the holidays but feel the absence of Master Splinter. With tensions climbing in the neighborhood, can they find their way back to the spirit of the season before disaster strikes? Then, a mysterious new figure arises. Who is Dr. Jasper Barlow and what will some of our heroes do when he makes them an offer they may find hard to...
Series
Night of the living cat volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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