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Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a "wonderful" husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks...
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Anna Bailey thought she left the tragedies of the past behind when she took on a new identity and moved from Pennsylvania to California. But now that her brother has vanished and his wife is crying out for help, Anna knows she has no choice but to come out of hiding, go home, and find him. Back in Lancaster County, Anna follows the high-tech trail her brother left behind, a trail that leads from the simple world of Amish farming to the cutting edge...
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Poet Christopher Snow, a man who cannot stand daylight, teams up with his genetically engineered dog, Orson, to investigate the abduction of children in Moonlight Bay, California. The children are believed to be prisoners in an army base populated by intelligent animals, produced by scientific experiments. Snow and Orson penetrate the base to search for them. A sequel to Fear Nothing.
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In The Third Twin, Follett offers a provocative, well-paced and sensational biotech-thriller about the genetic manipulation of human embryos. Striving to prove that offspring genetically predisposed toward aggression can learn to sublimate their combative nature through childhood conditioning by socially responsible parents, a feisty and brilliant young university researcher, Jeannie Ferrami, develops software to identify identical twins who have...
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In Oklahoma, a woman scientist on the verge of a medical breakthrough in genetics becomes the target of a hired assassin. She is Kate Denby, a single mother in her thirties, and the incident leads to her becoming involved romantically with two men. One is a fellow scientist who spirits her away where she can continue her research, the other is the mercenary protecting them.
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When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won't someone so open and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell researches her war-torn country and skims through popular...
7) Fear nothing
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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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Frustrated by her unsuccessful attempts to become pregnant, genetic researcher Lucy Morrigan--living with her boyfriend in her family's crumbling old family mansion--successfully clones her grandmother from a blood stain on an old apron, but instead of a baby, she brings to life a twenty-two-year-old woman, confused by the modern world and by the remnants of lives she cannot remember. A first novel.
11) Generosity
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Russell Stone is teaching creative nonfiction in Chicago when he meets a young Algerian woman with "a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell." His curiosity about her happiness despite her refugee status leads a geneticist to research further and announce discovery of a genotype for happiness. This fantasy fiction asks us to consider both science and imagination as...
13) Efekt Rosie
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Don Tillman powraca! Niesztampowy bohater „Projektu Rosie”, genetyk ze zdiagnozowanym zespołem Aspergera, podejmuje wysiłek, by przyswoić sobie protokół norm i zachowań dotyczących ojcostwa. Inicjuje więc projekt „Dziecko”: ustala nowy system posiłków, by dostarczyć swojej żonie Rosie odpowiednią ilość substancji odżywczych, projektuje najbezpieczniejszy wózek świata (w komplecie z kaskiem dla niemowląt) - krótko mówiąc,...
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Don Tillman, profesor de Genetica nunca he logrado tener una segunda cita con la misma mujer y ha decidido poner en marcha el proyecto esposa. Ha creado un algoritmo perfecto para excluir las candidatas inadecuadas. Este libro es el informe cientifico del resultado de mi proyecto. Quien lo lea descubrira la respuesta a una pregunta fundamental: puede el amor cambiar la vida de un individuo como yo?
Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor...
16) Shatter
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Phoenix rising novels (Joan Swan) volume 4
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"For seven years, Halina Beloi has been in hiding. But she's never forgotten Mitch Foster, the long, lean man she had to leave behind. Until, that is, Mitch shows up with a list of questions and a 9mm in his hand. All Mitch knows is that Halina broke his heart and disappeared. But new information has surfaced implicating her as a player in the deadliest game of Mitch's life. This time, he's not letting go withou answers. Now terror, danger and heat...
17) Ye mei mi qing
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Lang man jing dian volume 560
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Kate Denby, a genetic researcher, finds that someone will stop at nothing to keep her from finishing her work.
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"The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Rosie Project, starring the same extraordinary couple now living in New York and unexpectedly expecting their first child. Get ready to fall in love all over again. Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back. The Wife Project is complete, and Don and Rosie are happily married and living in New York. But they're about to face a new challenge because-- surprise!--Rosie is pregnant....
19) El tercer gemelo
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Bestseller) volume 98/14
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"La joven científica Jeannie Ferrami está llevando a cabo una investigación sobre la formación de la personalidad y las diferencias de comportamiento entre gemelos. Sus investigaciones se centran en los patrones de criminalidad en hermanos separados al nacer para determinar si los genes influyen en el desarrollo de delincuentes potenciales. Sin embargo, cuando descubre dos gemelos absolutamente idénticos nacidos de madres distintas, alguien intentará...