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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Out in the world for the first time since escaping horrifying government experiments, six children make their way toward the Lake House in the hope of being reunited with Kit and Frannie, a couple who once saved their lives.
Author
Series
Passage volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Description
A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment that only six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte can stop.
Author
Series
Passage volume 2
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The end of the world was only the beginning.
In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward . . .
In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three...
In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward . . .
In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three...
4) MirrorWorld
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Robinson treats readers to a wildly imaginative, frenetically paced thriller exploring the origins of fear.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After discovering the body of a man buried deep in the Arctic ice, Dr. Kate Philo and her team bring him back to life in their Boston lab, igniting a media firestorm that forces them to decide how far they are willing to go to protect their experiment.
6) I for an eye
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Searching in Los Angeles for the descendant of the man whose right eye was used to create his dad, J.D. discovers that the man, Sam Hammer, is a detective on the trail of a werewolf--and finds himself arrested at the request of Frankenstein's daughter.
Author
Series
Frankenstein journals volume 1
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this combination of two separately published works, J.D. discovers that he is the son of Frankenstein's monster, and armed with the Doctor's journal he sets out to find his "relatives"--the descendents and relations of the people whose body parts Doctor Frankenstein used.
8) Feet first
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On the day the orphanage where he has grown up closes, J.D. discovers that he is the son of Frankenstein's monster, so he sets out to find the people that all the mismatched parts that he inherited came from--and do it before Frankenstein's creepy daughter, who wants to outdo her father, can find them.
Author
Series
When the wind blows volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Two women try to unravel an astonishing murder plot with the help of an amazing eleven year old girl.
10) The savior
Author
Series
Black dagger brotherhood volume 17
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the venerable history of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, only one male has ever been expelled--but Murhder's insanity gave the Brothers no choice. Haunted by visions of a female he could not save, he nonetheless returns to Caldwell on a mission to right the wrong that ruined him. However, he is not prepared for what he must face in his quest for redemption. Dr. Sarah Watkins, researcher at a biomedical firm, is struggling with the loss of her fellow...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Three years ago, a collision between a fast-moving freight train and a school bus full of kids led to devastation and grief on an unimaginable scale. But a fresh clue leads San Antonio police detective Amara Alvarez to the unlikely conclusion that one of the children may still be alive. If she's correct, everything law enforcement believes about the accident is a lie. With time running out, Amara must convince others--and herself--that despite all...
Author
Publisher
MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Vern―seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised―flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body...
13) Fear nothing
Author
Series
Moonlight Bay volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay, different from anyone you’ve ever met. For Christopher Snow has made his peace with a very rare genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who must embrace the dark. He knows the night as no one else can—its mystery, its beauty, its terrors, and the eerie silken rhythms that seduce one into...
14) Nano
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pia takes a year off from her medical studies to work at Nanobots, a lavish nanotechnology institute that is a leader in the construction of microbivores, tiny nano-robots than can gobble up viruses and bacteria. But troubling occurrences cause her to wonder: is the tech giant on the cusp of huge medical discoveries, or have they already sold out to the highest bidder?
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A stunning debut novel that delves fearlessly into the taboo subject of modern-day medical experimentation on African Americans"--
When Lena Johnson's beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the black millennial drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical...
16) Seize the night
Author
Series
Moonlight Bay volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Children are disappearing at night, and there's nothing their families can do about it. In Moonlight Bay, the police work their hardest to conceal crimes and silence victims. Christopher Snow isn't afraid of the dark. He knows the night world better than anyone. He believes the lost children are still alive and that their disappearance is connected to the town's most carefully kept secret, one that will force him to confront the most dangerous darkness...
17) At sea
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Cara and Brendan first meet, she's fresh out of college with a degree in the fine arts, recovering from the recent death of her mother and spending time on Martha's Vineyard while trying to figure out her next steps. She's swept away by Brendan's humor and charm and intoxicated by his thrilling, dangerous secret. He claims -- no, he insists -- that he can breathe underwater. He shows Cara his gills. He dives beneath the waves and doesn't emerge...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw as a prisoner at Auschwitz-nor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max's family to the gas chambers. As the war came to a close, Schramm was one of the many high-ranking former-Nazi officers who managed to escape Germany for new lives in South America, where leaders like Argentina's...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, death. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted twenty-seven-year-old marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial in London-perhaps humanity's last hope for a cure. Though isolated from the chaos outside, she and the other volunteers-Rachel, Leon, Yahiko, and Piper-cannot hide from the...
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