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"I have never seen [its] theme handled with greater technical dexterity or given more psychological meaning."—Fantasy and Science Fiction
When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from that world is not the end, though, as they plunge into a Communist...
When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from that world is not the end, though, as they plunge into a Communist...
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"After barely escaping a lab explosion that kills her boss, microbiologist Kinsley Langell discovers that the blast was no accident--someone intentionally set off a bomb. With a target on her back and the police compromised, Kinsley must rely on her ex, protection specialist Brett Honor, to help investigate the crime. But someone won't stop until she's silenced--this time permanently. Can Kinsley and Brett uncover the culprit before hired killers...
4) The key
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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410L
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On her first day of seventh grade MJ meets the nice new science teacher--but when Ms. Fleek finally gets the door to the laboratory, room 201, open she changes and suddenly MJ does not want to go anywhere near her or that room.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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920L
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Somewhere in the U.S., in a small farming community called Lowland County, a girl named Piper McCloud is born to a simple, God-fearing farmer and his wife. Piper has a special talent: she can fly. Home-schooled and kept away from outsiders, Piper is lonely. Finally, her parents let her go to a community picnic, where she thinks sheĺl meet new friends. Instead, she terrifies the neighbors by flying up to catch a ball during a kids ́game. In no time,...
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In the summer of 1992, Arkansas governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee senator Al Gore begin their long-shot campaign to win the White House. On a sweltering hillside in Knoxville, Dr. Bill Brockton, the bright, ambitious young head of the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Department, launches an unusual - some would call it macabre - research facility, unlike any other in existence. Brockton is determined to revolutionize the study of forensics...
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Forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton, founder of the Body Farm, is on the verge of breaking open a gruesome murder case when events take a terrifying turn: Brocton has recreated the death scene at the Body Farm, but a killer places another corpse at the setting, confusing authorities and putting Brockton's career--and even his life--in jeopardy. -- pub.
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Escape from Furnace volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
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960L
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After his failed attempt to escape from Furnace Penitentiary, Alex struggles to survive the bloodstained laboratories beneath where monsters are manufactured, with a death sentence--or worse--hanging over his head.
9) Nearly found
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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High school senior and science whiz Nearly Boswell, called Leigh, is thrilled when she gets an internship in a forensic science lab, since it is a step toward college and a way out of the trailer park--but soon she finds herself the target of a serial killer, one who seems to know a lot about the residents of Sunny View Trailer Park as well as her absent father's secrets.
10) Firestarter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
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890L
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"Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them--manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable...
11) Death benefit
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Pia Grazdani is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center's premier scientist on cutting edge research that could revolutionize health care by creating replacement organs for critically ill patients. But when tragedy strikes in the lab, Pia, with the help of classmate George Wilson, launches an investigation into the unforeseen calamity in the hospital's supposedly secure biosafety lab. Meanwhile,...
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[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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HL 700L
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"Grace, sixteen, fears that she will succumb to the schizophrenia that took her mother away, while she and her father work for a genetics lab rushing to find a cure." --From WorldCat.org
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