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141) The deluge: a novel
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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
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"In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters—a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist,...
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Series
Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In this, the fourth volume of her memoirs, Lady Trent relates how she acquired her position with the Royal Scirling Army; how foreign saboteurs imperiled both her work and her well-being; and how her determined pursuit of knowledge took her into the deepest reaches of the Labyrinth of Drakes, where the chance action of a dragon set the stage for her greatest achievement yet.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A top-secret operation is launched to extend the lives of key scientists by cloning them. Dr Jance is only months away from perfecting a weapons system but is also weeks away from dying of cancer. He is persuaded to join the Fountain Society
A scientist's brain is removed from his sick body and placed into a healthy banker, his clone. This is so the scientist can continue work on the ultimate weapon. But compatibility problems arise, involving not...
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Series
Mass Effect. Main series volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In a fictional prequel to the award-winning video game, it is the year 2183, and a mysterious race of machines returns to the galaxy with the intent of harvesting all organic life.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs take on the investigation of a brutal triple murder in Manhattan's Diamond District. The killer, known as the Promisor, is murdering men and women midway through the purchase of an engagement ring.
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Capital code trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the conclusion of a trilogy that began with Forty Signs of Rain and Fifty Degrees Below, humankind races against time to prevent or control the repercussions of a series of international disasters, including global warming and environmental instability, before it is too late.
147) Give me your hand
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school echemistry class. But Diane's academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship... until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them. More than a decade later, Kit thinks she's put Diane behind her forever, and she's begun to fulfill the scientific dreams Diane awakened in her. But the...
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Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2012, c1974
Language
English
Description
What really happened in Switzerland between Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes in 1891? And why is Holmes, now in London at 221B Baker Street, curiously uncooperative with Scotland Yard's inquiries? Furthermore, why has Moriarty planned a grand meeting with the international crime syndicate? These are the questions that make up the larger mystery of the sinister Professor Moriarty's return.
149) The kill: a novel
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Series
Predator trilogy (Allison Brennan) volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
For thirty years, FBI scientist Olivia St. Martin has lived with guilt and one abiding certainty that while she wasnt able to save her sisters life, she did testify and helped to convict the rapist and killer. When shocking new evidence exonerates the man Olivia is sure she saw abduct her sister, she breaks every rule in the book to uncover the truth.
150) Kallocain
Author
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
This classic Swedish novel envisioned a future of drab terror. Seen through the eyes of idealistic scientist Leo Kall, Kallocains depiction of a totalitarian world state is a montage of what novelist Karin Boye had seen or sensed in 1930s Russia and Germany. Its central idea grew from the rumors of truth drugs that ensured the subservience of every citizen to the state.
151) Power challenges
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Series
Jake Ross novels volume 4
Publisher
Caezik SF & Fantasy, Arc Manor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The current space advisor and all-out trouble shooter for the President, ex-astronaut Jake Ross is determined to start colonizing the solar system despite political intrigue, conflicting priorities, and a strong contingent in the legislative body who thinks that the money is better spent elsewhere.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Reality-show producer and habitual liar Ritchie Shephard can't stand his sister Bec's relentless honesty, while Bec helps a gene-therapy researcher build a family of his own, even as her ex-fiancé Val, a tabloid editor, plots to destroy Bec by exposing people close to her.
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English
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"The dazzling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from Clive Cussler, the grand master of adventure. When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt doesn't trust either version of his recollection. Determined...
154) Silent scream
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Series
South Shores volume 5
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What started as an exploration of the past soon escalates into an all-too-current danger. Someone is watching--someone who really doesn't want Claire digging into the past or Nick making connections to a current, violent murder case he's investigating. The bog's corpses may be long dead, but if Claire and Nick don't figure out who's gunning for a fresh kill, the next bodies to be discovered will be their own.
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Series
Girl genius novels volume 1
Publisher
Night Shade
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become all-out war, Mad Science rules the world, with mixed success. At Transylvania Polygnostic University, Agatha Clay was a student with trouble concentrating and rotten luck. Dedicated to her studies but unable to build anything that actually worked, she seemed destined for a lackluster career as a minor lab assistant. But then the University was overthrown, and Agatha was taken aboard the giant airship...
156) The final prophecy
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Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Scientist Nen Yim, ordered to find weak spots in the technology of a captive Zonama Sekot ship, makes startling discoveries that have implications for the future of the Yuuzhan Vong people, while General Wedge Antilles, attempting to retake the Bilbringi system, becomes stranded in Yuuzhan Vong territory.
158) The suicide house
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Reconstructionist Rory Moore and her psychologist partner, Lane Phillips, investigate a chilling murder in a prestigious prep school. Rory, an expert in reconstructing cold cases, is working on The Suicide House podcast with Lane, recreating the night of the killings in order to find answers that have eluded the school, the town, and the police. But the more they learn about the troubled students, the chillingly stoic culprit, and a dangerous game...
159) Wild life
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Harlequin
Language
English
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"The Plan was simple: find a cure for the cancer that nearly took her sister's life. But for Zoey Fong, something about The Plan isn't working anymore. When a crucial tissue sample accidentally winds up in the hands of a very distracting--and disarmingly handsome--visitor, Zoey jumps at the chance to follow him home to retrieve it. Davy Hsieh's rugged island estate is no manicured suburban park. His plan is simple: establish a legitimate animal sanctuary...
160) The vanished man
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs are pitted against an unstoppable "invisible" killer. As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, they must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.
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