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1) Annihilation
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into the Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
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It seems like paradise, but dark secrets lurk just below the surface. When a tragic accident downs a tourist boat off the coast of Hawaii, dolphin researcher Kala Oana is one of the first in the water, risking her own life to try and save others. She's enlisted to help the U.S. Navy find out what really happened--utilizing her speciality trained dolphins to help. Kala and Lieutenant Commander Jesse Matthews team up in the investigation--but as they...
3) Annihilation
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Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition, consisting of four women, hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
990L
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English
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A collection of biographical sketches about the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, from the ancient world to the present, profiling each notable individual.
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Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
550L
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English
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Eleven-year-old Ellie has never liked change. She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best friend. She even misses her dearly departed goldfish. Then one day a strange boy shows up. He's bossy. He's cranky. And weirdly enough . . . he looks a lot like Ellie's grandfather, a scientist who's always been slightly obsessed with immortality. Could this pimply boy really be Grandpa Melvin? Has he finally found the secret to eternal youth?
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"From USA Today bestselling author of The Hating Game Sally Thorne comes something a little unexpected... a historical rom-com that imagines Victor Frankenstein's sheltered younger sister, and her attempts to create the perfect man. For generations, every Frankenstein has found their true love and equal, unlocking lifetimes of blissful wedded adventure. Clever, pretty (and odd) Angelika Frankenstein has run out of suitors and fears she may become...
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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
11) Lost city
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Kurt Austin and the NUMA team have their work cut out for them when people are killed trying to harvest an enzyme that affects longevity that was found at the bottom of the Atlantic, while scientists in a remote Greek village are disappearing one by one, and a body turns up frozen high in the Alps.
12) What harms you
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Locard Institute volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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The Locard Institute is a state-of-the-art forensic research center where experts from around the world come together to confront and solve the world's most challenging and perplexing crimes. When Dr. Ellie Carr arrives for her first day as an instructor at the prestigious facility, the buildings glimmer amid the brilliant fall foliage on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. But within hours a colleague, Dr. Barbara Wright, is found dead on the floor...
13) Perish
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The scene of the crime is lavish but gruesome. In a luxurious mansion on the outskirts of Cleveland, a woman's body lies gutted in a pool of blood on the marble floor. The victim is Joanna Moorehouse, founder of Sterling Financial. The killer could be any one of her associates. Only Maggie recognizes the blood-soaked handiwork of a killer who has committed the most heinous of crimes--and will continue killing until he is stopped. Burdened with unbearable...
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Love hypothesis volume 02
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English
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"When forced to work on a project with your nemesis, it's best to stick to the science. Further research could trigger explosive results. Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project--a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia--Marie would accept without...
15) That darkness
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"In this psychological suspense, Cleveland forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner and police detectives endeavor to identify a Jane Doe and apprehend her killer. Homicide detective Jack Renner, tired of seeing the guilty walk free, has become a vigilante and will challenge everything Maggie believes about justice, morality, and the true nature of evil"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
400L
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English
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Kat is reluctant to visit her Uncle Vic Frankenstein because of all the rumors about him. People in the small town where he lives say he's a mad scientist like his great-grandfather, Victor Frankenstein, who created a monster that came alive and terrorized the town. But Kat is relieved to find that even though he lives in a dark, old castle-like mansion, Uncle Vic is a quiet, gentle man, a scientist interested in building robots with artificial intelligence....
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1060L
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Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide fame, and indeed, one of the great scientists of this century. Winner of two Nobel Prizes (for physics in 1903 and for chemistry in 1911), she performed pioneering studies with radium and contributed profoundly to the understanding of radioactivity. The history of her story-book marriage to Pierre Curie, of their refusal to patent their processes or otherwise profit...
18) Blasphemy
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Wyman Ford novels volume 2
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English
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The Torus, the world's biggest supercollider, is locked in an Arizona mountain. Built by Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius, for the purpose of divulging the mysteries of the creation of the universe, there are others who believe it will suck the earth into a black hole, or that it's a challenge to God. When 12 scientists are sent to turn the machine on, they discover a secret that will either destroy the world or save. Either way, the countdown...
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
810L
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English
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Tells the life story of history-making physicist Albert Einstein, describing his beginnings as a scientist, his experiences in Nazi Germany, his arrival in the U.S., and his major accomplishments, and includes a chronology.
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