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3) Fear nothing
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English
Description
While investigating the death of his mother who was a scientist, Chris Snow discovers she was engaged in secret experiments on a nearby military base, experiments which went wrong and which produced monsters. The next he knows, the monsters come visiting and they are not friendly.
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Language
English
Description
Moonlight Bay, California is a peaceful, picturesque small town until children begin disappearing. The police aren't much help since they've been corrupted behind the shuttered walls of adjacent military bas, Fort Wyvern. Christopher Snow is convinced that the children are alive and that their disappearances have to do with secret research conducted deep within Fort Wyvern. But there are extremely violent and powerful forces protecting Fort Wyvern,...
7) Gladiator
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
A professor injects his pregnant wife with a chemical; she gives birth to a child of super-human strength. The child, Hugo, learns to hide his strength, but it betrays him again and again.
10) Evolution
Author
Series
Dark matter trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Shay, her manipulative father, Xander, and the other survivors are hiding out at the secret Multiverse compound in Scotland, where Shay still hopes to find some trace of the real Callie, her boyfriend's missing sister, and heal the breach between herself and Kai--who remains her best chance to escape her father's clutches and stop the deadly contagion.
11) The grief keeper
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English
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After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to El Salvador.
12) Deception
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Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Language
English
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Description
"Believing that she is a carrier of the deadly disease they are calling the "Aberdeen flu," Shay has surrendered herself to the Royal Air Force and along with other survivors becomes an unwilling test subject in the effort to find a cure; but when the lab is attacked she and a few of the others with the strongest supernatural abilities escape, and her boyfriend Kai is determined to find her, while ghostly Callie, the true carrier, will atone for her...
13) Nightmare island
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Serenity has a recurring nightmare, but things get real when her parents take her brother, Peace, to Duppy Island for "treatment" and Serenity is confronted by the creepy Dr. Whisper and the faceless douen children who are trapped between the living and the dead.
14) Show me a sign
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Series
Language
English
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Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
15) Remember me
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Blue Owens wakes up with the overwhelming feeling that something is wrong with her memory, she meets Adam Mendoza, who explains that she paid to have her unpleasant memories erased in order to "start over"--and that begins Blue's journey to recover her memories and understand the truth of why she felt the need to lose them in the first place.
Author
Publisher
Fifth East Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Richard Carson sent his baby boy to The Newman Home--an experimental boarding school that takes kids at six months and raises them in the perfect environment for developing leaders--and now he wants him back. Richard and a secretive "support group" of parents suspect the Newman Home is hiding something and is determined to come up with a plan to save their children. Set in the near future.
Author
Publisher
Forest Avenue Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a near-future world that both needs and resents him. As the United States president spouts anti-reanimation rhetoric and giant pharmaceutical companies rake in profits, the man falls in love with lawyer Faustina Godínez. His world expands as he meets her network of family and friends, setting him on a course to discover his first-life history, which the...
18) Killing gravity
Author
Series
Voidwitch saga volume 1
Publisher
a Tor /A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Mariam Xi can kill you with her mind. She escaped the MEPHISTO lab where she was raised as a psychic supersoldier, which left her with terrifying capabilities, a fierce sense of independence, a deficit of trust and an experimental pet named Seven. She's spent her life on the run, but the boogeymen from her past are catching up with her. An encounter with a bounty hunter has left her hanging helpless in a dying spaceship, dependent on the mercy of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
When a pharmacist rescues a young woman on the side of a California freeway, he becomes embroiled in a disturbing and potentially lethal investigation into a nearby hospital (once owned by the military) that could be involved in the research and production of biological agents and brain implants.
Author
Publisher
Jaded Ibis Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Unwieldy Creatures, a biracial, queer, gender-swapped retelling of Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein, follows the story of three beings who all navigate life from the margins: Plum, a queer biracial Chinese intern at one of the world's top embryology labs, who runs away from home to openly be with her girlfriend only to be left on her own; Dr. Frank, a queer biracial Indonesian scientist, who compromises everything she claims to love in the...
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