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Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Scopes believes he is leading the way to a new world order,...
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Jenna Fox chronicles volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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In the not-too-distant future, when bio-technological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
3) Intervention
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Its been more than thirty years since New York City medical examiner Jack Stapletons college graduation and almost as long since hed been in touch with former classmates Shawn Doherty and Kevin Murray. Once a highly regarded ophthalmologist, Jacks career took a dramatic turn after a tragic accident that destroyed his family. But that, too, is very much in the past: Jack has remarriedto longtime colleague and...
4) Pandemic
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"After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: first, that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and second, that her DNA matches that of the transplanted heart. Strangely, two more incidences...
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Avery Keene thrillers volume 1
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"Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together—excelling in an arduous job with the court while also dealing with a troubled family. When the shocking news breaks that Justice Wynn—the cantankerous swing vote on many current high-profile cases—has slipped into a coma, Avery’s life turns upside down. She is immediately notified that Justice Wynn has left instructions...
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2017
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Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week
Weaving together vivid storytelling and groundbreaking science, The Body Builders explores the current revolution in human augmentation, which is helping us to triumph over the limitations and constraints we have long accepted as an inevitable part of being human
For millennia, humans have tried-and often failed-to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier...
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2024.
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Dr. Laura Reynolds had a job she loved and the respect of her peers. One day, it all went away. She saw the wrong thing, a colleague's mistake. And to escape, he framed her. Laura's only option is to join a secretive research project in Antarctica, where she hopes to keep practicing medicine and one day get her life back. But soon after arriving, she realizes that things aren't what they seem in this advanced facility. And perhaps something strange...
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