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Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton finds himself juggling three cases when he sets out to learn whether a woman whose charred remains were found inside a burned car in Knoxville was a victim of murder followed by arson, while at the same time investigating a disreputable out-of-state crematorium, and trying to bring his nemesis, medical examiner Garland Hamilton, to trial.
2) Firestarter
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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...
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[2018]
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English
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An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.
4) Underwater
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[2020]
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English
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An underwater research team is highly involved in a drilling operation to look for oil at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. As an earthquake destroys their laboratory in the depths of the ocean, the team must now work together on a plan to insure their safety. However, the crew soon discovers that there is something dangerous in their midst.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
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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Dr. Bill Brockton takes on a seemingly routine case to exhume a body and obtain a bone sample for a DNA paternity test. But when the coffin is opened, Brockton and his colleagues are stunned to see that the corpse has been horribly violated. Soon he finds himself drawn into a flourishing and lucrative back market in body parts, when the FBI recruits him to help bring down a postmortem chop shop. Meanwhile, Brockton's friend and colleague, medical...
8) Replica
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Replica volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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820L
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In a book that invites readers to start at either end or alternate between perspectives, Lyra and Gemma get the chance to escape from the protective environments in which they were raised while uncovering secrets about the bioresearch facility that connects them.
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Escape from Furnace volume 3
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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.
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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.
11) Eye in the sky
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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...
13) Carved in Bone
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Investigation of the discovery of a woman's body, mummified after 30 years in a Tennessee cave, brings forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton of the Body Farm into conflict with inhabitants of a remote mountain community. The county's uncooperative sheriff and incompetent deputy threaten to derail the investigation, as do Brockton's personal demons-- lingering guilt over the death of his wife and the fury of a medical examiner whom Brockton opposes...
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When Miranda Lovelady and Dr. Bill Brockton discover what could be the bones of Jesus of Nazareth, their finding triggers a deadly tug-of-war between the anthropologists, the Vatican, and a deadly zealot who hopes to use the bones to bring about the Second Coming--and trigger the end of time.
15) Golden years
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2013.
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This made-for-TV mini-series from the notorious horror writer centers upon a hapless old janitor who begins undergoing incredible physical changes after he is accidentally covered with experimental chemicals following a laboratory mishap. Now the government will stop at nothing to get him back.
17) 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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In the summer of 1990, Dr. Bill Brockton - a bright, ambitious young forensic scientist - is hired by the University of Tennessee to head, and to raise the profile of, the school's small Anthropology Department. Six months later, the ink on his contract barely dry, Brockton is called to a gruesome crime scene in a rural area to identify a corpse and determine how the woman died. But the case - one of Brockton's first murder investigations in Tennessee...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 18
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A forensic anthropologist traces his work at his Tennessee body farm lab and cites his contributions to the investigations of several murder cases, as well as his theories about such famous cases as the Lindbergh kidnapping. Dr. Bill Bass, one of the world's leading forensic anthropologists, gained international attention when he built a forensic lab like no other, the Body Farm. Now, this master scientist unlocks the gates of his lab to reveal his...
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[2008]
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The moment the Grace family moves into the dilapidated Spiderwick Estate, strange things begin to happen. Jared is a curious, adventurous boy who quickly seeks out and finds the hidden laboratory of his great great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. He unleashes a mysterious force when he locates a field guide full of the secrets of the magical creatures that inhabit the forest surrounding the mansion. His twin brother Simon is calm and reserved. He is the...
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