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1) Toys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Bond and Jason Bourne have just been topped! A battle for the world is set into unstoppable motion and Hays Baker is the only one who can save it. Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do--they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. The only problem in their perfect world: humans...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vesuvian Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
PLAYING GOD HAS CONSEQUENCES. Jake Wood has it made. He is a tough homicide detective with a partner who's like a brother, and he's about to marry the girl of his dreams. Then Jake learns a close friend is missing and travels to South America in search of him. After a freak accident in the Amazon Rainforest, Jake wakes up in the hospital -- eighteen months later. Long presumed dead, he discovers his fiancée is married and pregnant, his house was...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The memorable story begun in When the Wind Blows continues in this thrilling novel, and it's one that really soars! Frannie O'Neil, a Colorado veterinarian, knows a terrible secret that will change the history of the world. Kit Harrison, an FBI agent under suspension, has seen things that no one in his right mind would believe. A twelve-year-old girl named Max and five other incredible children have powers we can only dream of. These children can...
5) Parasite
Author
Series
Parasitology volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Genetically engineered tapeworms that protect most of the human populace from illness, boost everyone's immune system, and even secrete designer drugs begin to change and want out of human bodies they occupy.
6) Silver Shark
Author
Series
Publisher
NYLA
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The World of Kinsmen Family is everything. Talent is power. And revenge is sweet. In a distant, future world Kinsmen -- small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families -- control vast financial empires. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits are other Kinsmen. The struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport: in business, on the battlefield ... and sometimes in the bedroom. Claire Shannon...
Author
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of genetic engineering, discussing what it is and why it is important; features biographical sketches of key individuals related to the topic; collects data, documents, and opinions central to the genetic engineering controversy; and includes a list of resources for further research, and a glossary of terms.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"His body hosting a pair of strange alien presences, an amnesiac space traveler returns home to an unrecognizable Earth Many centuries in the future, a two-hundred-year-old man is discovered hibernating in a space capsule orbiting a distant star. Transported back to his home planet, Andrew Blake awakens to an Earth he does not recognize--a world of flying cars and sentient floating houses--with no memory whatsoever of his history or purpose. But...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unconventional FBI agent Kit Harrison, determined to pursue a conspiracy of illegal human genetic experimentation, travels to Colorado where he and veterinarian Frannie O'Neill work together to save a group of children who can fly.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Two enthralling novels by Robert Silverberg about a future in which the minds of the living can be changed for a price-often with dire consequences In To Live Again, thanks to the Scheffing Institute, death is not the end. For a hefty fee, the soul bank stores the personas of those who have died and inserts them into the brains of willing, living hosts. It's a process that integrates the two minds, imbuing the host with a menu of highly valuable abilities,...
12) Frankenstein
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
There is no greater novel and no more well-known monster than Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Now you can enjoy the original 1818 version in this beautifully designed edition . The creature at the center of this tale is more than just a lumbering giant. He is in reality a thinking intelligent being who is tormented by a world in which he does not belong. Shelley draws upon the universal themes of creation and the nature of existence with the overall...
13) Holy Fire
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Memory, morality, and immortality merge in this "haunting and lyrical triumph" from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus ( Time ). In the late twenty-first century, technology has lengthened lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible. Existence itself has become relatively easy -- if boring. In this futuristic paradise, ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann longs for something different and undergoes a radical new treatment that restores...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the last thirty years global demand for food has doubled. In a race to feed the planet, scientists have discovered how to manipulate DNA, the blueprint of life, and produce what they claim are stronger, more disease-resistant crops. However, fears that genetically modified food many not be safe for humans or the environment has sparked.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Nebula Award-winning author's "masterful SF trilogy" is a multigenerational epic of human colonists terraforming the second planet from the sun ( Publishers Weekly ). Often compared to Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed Mars trilogy, the three novels gathered here comprise the complete Venus saga by the author of The Shore of Women , "one of the genre's best writers" ( The Washington Post ). The Venus Project -- making the planet's atmosphere habitable...
Author
Publisher
Sunbury Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In a future without limits, humans can manipulate their genetic structure with animal DNA to become whatever they wish to be. Fast, strong, beautiful ... or deadly. The only force able to stand against these modified humans is the Agency, where brutal government enforcers are raised from childhood to protect the peace by any means necessary. For Liane, the Agency is the only home she's ever known. Alongside her Handler, Damian, she fights against...
Author
Series
Thrilled to Death volume 1
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When man plays god, evil follows in these three sci-fi fantasy thrillers by the international bestselling author whose "pacing is nonstop" ( Publishers Weekly , on Hunter ). Hunter Scientists have accidentally tapped into the deepest recesses of the human mind -- and unleash a terrifying force. Now, with an infected creature is loose in the Alaskan wilderness, the America military asks expert tracker Nathaniel Hunter to locate the beast before it...
Author
Publisher
NYLA
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
** PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED - This is an anthology edition of the Kinsmen Universe, which includes SILENT BLADE, SILVER SHARK, plus a new short story, and three original illustrations. ** Family is everything. Talent is power. And revenge is sweet. In a distant, future world Kinsmen-small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families-control vast financial empires. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits...
19) Wrath
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling coauthors Shäron Moalem and Daniel Kraus's terrifying sci-fi horror thriller takes place in a future that is much nearer than you think. It is a world where scientific experimentation is exploited for commercial profit and under-supervised cutting-edge technology creates a menace that threatens the very fabric of our existence.
Wrath is the story of Sammy, a lab rat instilled with human genes whose supersized intelligence...
20) The genesis code
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
During the course of a murder investigation a high-tech investigator discovers a widespread conspiracy involving child killing, a ruthless geneticist, and a plot to retrieve the remains of deceased theologins.
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