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41) Leviathan
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Leviathan trilogy volume 1
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In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
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"How scientists are closer than ever to not only uncovering the mystery of how life was created, but to replicating that moment Within the first billion years after this planet formed, a spark of life spontaneously ignited, turning inanimate chemicals into what we now would recognize as a living thing: a cell. Four billion years later, science has cataloged more than a million species. Science writer Adam Rutherford shows how unprecedented advances...
43) The troop
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"Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip--a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfire. But when an unexpected intruder stumbles upon their campsite--shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry--Tim and the other boys are exposed to something far more frightening than any tale of terror. The human carrier of a bioengineered...
44) Watchers
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Out of a government laboratory so sinsister and secret that its very name cannot be whispered and into the life of certain good and evil people come two escaped creatures, one murderous and one benign and both "changed, changed utterly" from the ordinary animals they once were. To the scientists who fashioned them they are the end products of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence and they want them back. To the people who encounter...
45) Rule Breaker
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Breeds volume 28
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"Lion Breed and enforcer Rule Breaker has just a few rules he doesn't break. Not for anything. But having sex with a woman outside his own Breed, even a human woman at that, is not one of them. Especially when it's Gypsy, the party girl he can't seem to stay away from. Gypsy is determined to lead him on a merry chase, but she won't be able to outrun either the lion or the man in hot pursuit. But at least she isn't his mate--otherwise, he'd have to...
47) Bengal's quest
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Breeds volume 29
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"He was a shadow, ever shifting and insinuating, able to blend in everywhere and anywhere. The elusive ideal conceived and created by the Genetics Council, he went by just as many names as he had identities--the last one being Gideon. Now calling himself Graeme, he hides in plain sight, terrifyingly close to his goal. A rogue Bengal Breed, he has loyalties to no one but himself. And he has a need for vengeance that surges hot and swift through his...
48) City of light
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"When the bombs that stopped the species war tore holes in the veil between this world and the next, they allowed entry to the Others-demons, wraiths, and death spirits who turned the shadows into their hunting grounds. Now, a hundred years later, humans and shifters alike live in artificially lit cities designed to keep the darkness at bay...As a déchet-a breed of humanoid super-soldiers almost eradicated by the war-Tiger has spent her life in hiding....
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In a near future where most adults are connected to the multiweb through neural implants, a twelve-year-old uncovers a corporate plot to genetically manipulate her classmates, and her scientist mother may be involved in the conspiracy.
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Maximum Ride volume 9
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Max boldly navigates post-apocalyptic regions with her broken flock in search of answers about what has happened to their world.
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Old Man's War universe volume 2
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The members of the Ghost Brigades, made up of perfect soldiers created from the DNA of the dead, band together to protect the future of humanity when three alien races vow to stop humans' expansion into space.
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A catastrophic event renders the Earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain ... Five thousand years later,...
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"For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves. Can the original Hank and Molly coexist in the same world as their clones? In Upgrade Soul, McDuffie Award-winning creator Ezra Claytan Daniels asks probing questions about...
54) Immortal rising
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Argeneau series volume 34
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"Stephanie McGill was attacked and turned when she was just a teenager. Worse, her abilities are unlike any other immortal. Now 13 years later, with the help of her adopted Argeneau family, Steph has carved out a new - if not lonely - life for herself. Until a new neighbor arrives... Thorne is also one-of-a-kind. The result of a genetic experiment, he's not an immortal, but he's not mortal either. He's looking for a place to hide, to get some peace...
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AstroNuts volume 1
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Carbon dioxide is out of control on Earth, and the fate of humankind rests in the paws of four experimental, untested Animal Astronauts (AlphaWolf, SmartHawk, LaserShark, and StinkBug) who are seeking another habitable planet; first destination is the Plant Planet which at first looks perfect, except that the abundant plant life can think for itself--and it thinks that it really does not like the AstroNuts.
56) Aetherbound
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After escaping her abusive family's interstellar merchant ship, seventeen-year-old Pendt lands on a remote space station run by the Brannick twins, and together they make plans to thwart the destinies they never wanted.
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Maximum Ride volume 8
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This is it: one last incredible, explosive Maximum Ride adventure with an astonishing ending no one could have seen coming. Maximum Ride and her faithful friends stand ready to face the two greatest threats that humankind has ever known, now combining forces in an unbeatable plot to destroy life as we know it once and for all. And this time, the enemy truly can't be stopped. The danger mounts just as Dylan has worked his way into...
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Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
59) Change agent
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"On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle-- and his transformation begins. In 2045 Kenneth Durand leads Interpol's most effective team against genetic crime, hunting down black market labs that perform "vanity edits" on human embryos for a price. These illegal procedures augment embryos in ways that are rapidly accelerating human evolution--preying on human-trafficking victims to experiment and advance...
60) Dawn's awakening
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New in the sexy paranormal series that put Lora Leigh on the bestseller lists.
"Leigh draws readers into her stories and takes them on a sensual roller coaster."
An erotic thrill ride about genetically altered Breeds with feline DNA-and the humans who arouse their lust.
The runt of the lab she was created in, Dawn Daniels endured years of torture by her pride brother and the council soldiers. Finally freed from her torment,...
"Leigh draws readers into her stories and takes them on a sensual roller coaster."
An erotic thrill ride about genetically altered Breeds with feline DNA-and the humans who arouse their lust.
The runt of the lab she was created in, Dawn Daniels endured years of torture by her pride brother and the council soldiers. Finally freed from her torment,...