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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 450L
Language
English
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious-during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona-the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde-has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative...
2) Eversion
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Language
English
Description
Doctor Silas Coade tries to keep his crew safe while figuring out why maritime disasters keep happening to him in different centuries in a time and space adventure from the author of Revelation Space.
3) Dr. Futurity
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English
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In a future where death is embraced, a time-traveling doctor is the only one who can save a wounded resistance leader. When Dr. Jim Parsons wakes up from a car accident, he finds himself in a future populated almost entirely by the young. But to keep the world run by the young, death is fetishized, and those who survive to old age are put down. In such a world, Parsons-with his innate desire to save lives-is a criminal and outcast. But for one revolutionary...
4) Black order
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Series
Sigma Force novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The globe-trotting adventurers of Sigma Force, that elite American special-ops team, return in this high-powered thriller. The story begins cryptically. In Nepal, a strange plague has struck a remote Himalayan monastery, and a Nazi swastika is found on a cave wall. In Denmark, someone is buying up rare historical documents connected to Victorian scientists (for instance, Charles Darwin's family Bible), and the purchaser is desperate enough to kill...
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Razorland volume Related work
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Tegan signs on as a ship's doctor, hoping for an epic adventure, but soon finds romance with Szarok, the Uroch vanguard, in a relationship that is both alien and forbidden.
6) Snowfall
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Series
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English
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Catania Olsen works as a doctor and spiritual guardian of a band of hunters who live at the edge of a great wall of ice in what was once Colorado, and as she struggles to help her group survive the New Ice Age, she risks both her life and her place in society.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his...
8) Leech
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
"In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron's doctor has died. The doctor's replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and...
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Series
Star trek the original volume Spoken word
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English
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An epic new Star Trek saga by New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox set during the original five-year mission!
The planet Vok is holding its first free elections after years of oppressive military rule. Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise have been dispatched by Starfleet to serve as impartial observers, but remaining neutral proves a challenge, as Kirk confronts a tangled web of scandal, conspiracy, and assassination...
10) Gravity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. Jack McCallum, Emma's estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded and embittered him. He must watch from the sidelines as his wife prepares for her first mission to the International Space Station. Once aboard the space station, however, things start to go terribly wrong....
11) Machine
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Series
White space volume 2
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English
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"In this compelling and addictive novel set in the same universe as the critically acclaimed White Space series and perfect for fans of Karen Traviss and Ada Hoffman, a space station begins to unravel when a routine search and rescue mission returns after going dangerously awry. Meet Doctor Jens. She hasn't had a decent cup of coffee in fifteen years. Her workday begins when she jumps out of perfectly good space ships and continues with developing...
12) The patient
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Someone is killing off the world's most gifted neurosurgeons, and Alex Bishop, a renegade CIA agent, thinks he knows who it is. When he learns that Malloche is afflicted with an inoperable brain tumor, Bishop understands why the murdered neurosurgeons died, why Dr. Jessie Copeland is being forced to perform surgery with a robot not yet tested on humans.
13) Observer
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English
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"Dr. Caroline Soames-Watkins's star has been on the rise. But when she accuses a superior of sexual misconduct, the Twitterstorm that follows upends her career. With few professional options and an impoverished sister with a disabled child to support, Caro is willing to consider a mysterious proposal from her great-uncle, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Samuel Watkins. Sam Watkins has invested untold sums of money to build a medical facility in...
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Series
Lexile measure
720L
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English
Description
Zahra IbSada, a medicant on the planet of Irustan, chafes beneath the restrictions that keep women under the control of their fathers and husbands, but she sets off a revolution when she surreptitiously helps a friend keep her young daughter from being given in marriage to a man who has already killed two wives.
16) Beyond Varallan
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Series
StarDoc volume 02
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
After being revealed as a genetically-enhanced clone--legally no more than a lab animal--Dr. Cherijo Grey Veil Torin takes refuge with her late husband's warrior clan until suspicious accidents place everyone at risk.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Disgraced Civil War surgeon, Dr. Alexander Potter, now con artist and snake-oil seller, travels the wet roads of the Pacific Northwest with a disheartened company of strongmen, illusionists, fortunetellers and musical whores. Under their mysterious and murderous leader they entertain the masses while peddling the Chock-a-saw Sagwa Tonic, a vital elixir touted to cure all ills both physical and spiritual.
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Series
StarDoc volume 05
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Cherijo Torin and her husband have found refuge from the Hsktskt, the League, and her half-mad creator. Now they intend to find Cherijo's foster mother, and the truth behind the subliminal messages she left in Cherijo's brain.
19) Dead of winter
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Series
Doctor Who (New series adventures) volume 44
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"In a remote clinic in 18th-century Italy, a lonely girl writes to her mother. She tells of pale English aristocrats and mysterious Russian nobles. She tells of intrigues and secrets, and strange faceless figures that rise from the sea. And she tells about the enigmatic Mrs Pond, who arrives with her husband and her physician. What she doesn't tell her mother is the truth that everyone knows and no one says - that the only people who come here do...
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Series
StarDoc volume 07
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious plague is sweeping the planet of the reptilian Hsktskt species, inducing lethal violence within the population. All of their attempts to find a cure have failed, and they demand Cherijo's help. As more and more die, Cherijo realizes the answer may lie in the past. In order to find a cure, she will need to delve into memories: the Hsktskt's and her own.
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