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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes a devilishly clever, breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and genetic ownership shatters our assumptions.
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? Are
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Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Language
English
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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...
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...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: Whose values are guiding gene editing experiments? And what does this new era of scientific inquiry mean for the future of the human species? "That rare kind of scholarship that is also a page-turner." -Britt Wray, author of Rise of the Necrofauna At a conference in Hong Kong in November 2018, Dr. He Jiankui announced that he had created the first genetically modified...
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw and ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Nevertheless, human nature reigns supreme. And one fo the most enduring human drives is the search for love. Aces and jokers alike both want to find it, or have lost it...or perhaps just want to use it for personal gain. Within these stories,...
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
Series
Young Captain Nemo volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Gabriel Nemo--a descendant of Captain Nemo himself--and his friends embark on a series of worldwide underwater adventures in Nemo's Nemotech submarine.
Series
Night of the living cat volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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,...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The emotional story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family seeks help from an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive. Connected to the X-Men film series, set in an alternate timeline where the X-Men have disappeared.
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Serval Industries, one of the world's most trusted names in electronics and a leader in cutting-edge internet and weapons technology, has just unveiled their newest contribution to society...the All-New XFactor! Led by mutant mistress of magnetism, Polaris, the team uses its corporate backing for the betterment of society. But with her half-brother Quicksilver, notorious thief Gambit and more by her side, can Polaris trust that her corporate masters...
14) Promare
Publisher
Gkids, Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Thirty years have passed since the appearance of the Burnish, a race of flame-wielding mutant beings, who destroyed half of the world with fire. When a new group of aggressive mutants calling themselves Mad Burnish appears, the epic battle between Galo Thymos, a new member of the anti-Burnish rescue team Burning Rescue, and Lio Fotia, the leader of Mad Burnish begins.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles come to the big screen in a major summer 2023 theatrical event! Producer Seth Rogen and his partners at Point Grey Pictures take Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello back to their DNA in this animated boys-to-men origin story."--
16) Middlesex
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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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.
17) Super Torta!
Author
Publisher
Lil' Libros
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Multiple
Description
A Bombo le encantan las tortas. Bombo nunca olvida empacar sus tortas para el almuerzo. Pero cuando accidentalmente deja caer una de sus tortas en un balde lleno de sustancia radiactiva durante un viaje escolar, ¡la ͠nica persona que puede salvar a la ciudad de la fatalidad es el propio Bombo! ¿Qǔ es una torta? Una torta es el ͠ltimo s̀ndwich hecho con un pan estilo baguette llamado bolillo. Puedes comer una torta de pollo, una torta de carne,...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods. The characters from the original X-Men film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from X-Men: First Class in an epic battle that must change the past --and save our future.
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