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1) Toys
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Animosity between the genetically engineered Elites and their human subjects is fierce, and many rebels fight back against Elite rule. Hays Baker is a high-ranking agent in the Elite forces and at the forefront of keeping the humans under control. However, Hays is unknowingly hiding a secret that will make him the greatest threat to the Elite regime, and their number one target.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Six kids on the run must face a villain who threatens the future of human existence . . . but winning comes at a high price.
Six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity, and a frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by an overpowering...
Six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity, and a frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by an overpowering...
3) Transhuman
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist who is battling lung cancer, has one joy in life, his ten-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When he learns that Angela has an inoperable brain tumor and is given less than six months to live, Abramson wants to try a new enzyme, Mortality Factor 4 (MORF4), that he believes will kill Angela's tumor. However, the hospital bureaucracy won't let him do it because MORF4 has not yet been approved by the FDA. Knowing...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pregnant veterinarian Maura Kelly, along with U.S. Marshall Jack Menard, risks everything, including the life of her unborn child, to unravel the mystery of a smuggler's cache of mutated animals, a puzzle that involves fractal intelligence, stem-cell research, and a secret history of the Book of Genesis.
Author
Publisher
Tor/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of aliens, refugees, and genetic engineering in Jennifer Marie Brissett's Destroyer of Light. Having destroyed Earth, the alien conquerors resettle the remains of humanity on the planet of Eleusis. In the three habitable areas of the planet--Day, Dusk, and Night--the haves and have nots, criminals and dissidents, and former alien conquerors irrevocably...
6) Fang
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 6
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Max and the Flock discover an unscrupulous scientist who is experimenting on humans in an effort to "improve" the human race, they decide that they must try to stop him, in spite of Angel's prediction about Fang dying.
Author
Series
Breeds volume 32
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fans of #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh's scorching Breed series first met Cassie as a little girl in Elizabeth's Wolf. Now Cassie has finally come into her own as a young woman, and she's about to discover the one she is destined for--but it is unclear whether her fate is to be mated for life, or marked for death... The Breeds are humans altered before conception with the DNA of the predators of Earth. But although they all carry...
8) Chimera: #3
Author
Series
Parasitology volume 3
Publisher
Orbit, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
488 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The outbreak has spread, tearing apart the foundations of society, as implanted tapeworms have turned their human hosts into a seemingly mindless mob. Sal and her family are trapped between bad and worse, and must find a way to compromise between the two sides of their nature before the battle becomes large enough to destroy humanity, and everything that humanity has built...including the chimera.
Author
Series
Breeds volume 26
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
354 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
10) The sky inside
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Martin lives in a "perfect world" under the protective dome of suburb HM1, where every year a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parents. And it's all about to come crashing down because a stranger has come to take away all the little children, including Martin's sister, Cassie, and no one wants to talk about where they have gone. Martin has a choice either to remain in the dubious safety of HM1, or to break...
11) Hidden
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Spell
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Breeds volume 16
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Someone has been slipping the Sanctuary's secure information to a pharmaceutical company. Now it's up to Ria Rodriguez to uncover the leak. Yet she has no idea of the danger she's about to encounter--or the passion she will ignite in one of the greatest Breeds ever created.
Author
Series
Night Huntress volume 7
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Dysasters volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
P.C. and Kristin Cast, the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of the House of Night phenomenon, return to the scene with The Dysasters--the first action-packed novel in a new paranormal fantasy series. Adoptive daughter of a gifted scientist, Foster Stewart doesn't live a "normal" life, (not that she'd want to). But controlling cloud formations and seeing airwaves aren't things most eighteen year olds can do. Small town star quarterback and quintessential...
15) The ice lion
Author
Series
Rewilding report volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Teen members of a group of archaic humans, Lynx and Quiller, flee the increasing coldness and monstrous predators for a new land, where they meet a strange old man who tells them how to save the world.
One thousand years in the future: the zyme, a thick blanket of luminous green slime, covers the oceans; glaciers rise over the continents. Old stories say that the Jemen, godlike beings from the past, realized their efforts to halt global warming had...
Author
Publisher
Tor Dot Com
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
139 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In a long-ago war, the all-powerful A.I. ruler of the Voluntary State of Tennessee--Athena Parthenus, Queen of Reason--invaded and decimated the American Southeast. Possessing the ability to infect and corrupt the surrounding environment with nanotechnology, she transformed flora, fauna, and the very ground itself into bio-mechanical weapons of war. Marcia, a former captain from Kentucky, experienced first-hand the terrifying, mind-twisting capabilities...
Author
Series
Breeds volume 31
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
"When readers of dark romance and unbridled desire want to be satisfied, they turn to #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh and her "powerful and highly erotic" (Fresh Fiction) Breed novels. Now a Breed hides in the world of man--until a woman arouses the amused and wildly carnal animal within... Once, he was Judd--Bengal Breed and brother to the notorious fugitive Gideon. After Gideon disappeared, Judd was experimented on until his tortured...
Author
Series
Brave new girl volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Dahlia thinks all of her clones have been destroyed, but then discovers that one still exists--Waverly Whitmore, who is teenage royalty, a media sensation with millions of fans--who has no idea that she is a clone.
Author
Publisher
Tor.com
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
109 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gene-edited human clans have scattered throughout the galaxy, adapting themselves to environments as severe as the desert and the sea. Atuale, the daughter of a Sea-Clan lord, sparked a war by choosing her land-dwelling love and rejecting her place among her people. Now her husband and his clan are dying of a virulent plague, and Atuale's sole hope for finding a cure is to travel off-planet. The one person she can turn to for help is the black-market...
Author
Language
English
Description
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future-of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring...