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In the locked office of a Honolulu building, three men are found dead, with no sign of struggle except for ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies.
In the lush rain forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Here, seven brilliant graduate students recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up company are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising...
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BZRK volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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With the BZRK cell in tatters, the Armstrong Twins seize the opportunity to take control of the president's mind. While they carefully seek to rewire the president's brain, knowing a slight mistake could spell disaster, the remaining members of BZRK attempt to pick up the pieces of their broken team and find a way to thwart the Armstrongs' plans.
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2017
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"When novice monk Tenzin Dorje is told by his lama that the Red Army is invading Tibet, his country's darkest moment paradoxically gives him a sense of purpose like no other. He accepts a mission to carry two ancient, secret texts across the Himalayas to safety. Half a century later, in a paradox of similarly troubling circumstances, Matt Lester is called upon to convey his own particular wisdom as a scientist, when Matt's nanotech project is mysteriously...
4) BZRK
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BZRK volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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In the near future, the conjoined Armstrong twins, under the guise of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation, plot to create their own version of utopia using nanobots, while a guerilla group known as BZRK develops a DNA-based biot that can stop bots, but at risk of the host's brain.
5) Nano
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After a tumultuous year in which her mentor is murdered and her estranged father comes back into her life, Pia Grazdani, decided to take some time off from her medical studies and escape New York City. Intrigued by the promise of the burgeoning field of medical technology and the chance to clear her head in the cool air of Colorado, Pia takes a job at Nano, LLC, a lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology institute in the Rockies. Nano is...
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Takeshi Kovacs novels volume 1
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In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve") making death nothing more than a minor...
7) Dust
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Armed with secret knowledge, Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18 and her crew set out to rescue a world she hates but now understands better -- the world of the Silos with its rigid rules and terrible consequences for disobedience.
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BZRK volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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A rebel band of teens faces off against twins Charles and Benjamin Armstrong, who are determined to eliminate humanity's free will, in a war that is fought at the nano level in the human brain.
9) Hammerfall
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Gene Wars volume 1
Pub. Date
2001.
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Marak, a prince and warrior, is ordered by the dictator to find the elusive silver tower, and when he accomplishes this task, the beings within the tower give him a new mission--lead his people to safety before the hammer of the dictator's dreaded enemies falls.
11) Forge of heaven
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Gene Wars volume 2
Pub. Date
[2004]
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A deadly cataclysm threatens the survival of a tiny planet that holds the key to peace between Earth and the alien world Ondat, a situation that is complicated by the arrival of an unexpected ship that could restart the Gene Wars.
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Covert-One series volume 5
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For the past three decades Robert Ludlum's bestselling novels have been enjoyed by hundreds of millions of readers worldwide and have set the standard against which all other thrillers are measured. His Covert-One series has been among his most beloved creations and now comes the latest thrilling novel in the series. The Lazarus Movement, the dominant force in the eco-conscious, "anti-technology" protest movement, has sent rumblings down the halls...
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Frankenstein series volume 4
Pub. Date
[2010]
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
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As Victor Leben, formerly Frankenstein, begins his work to create a race of superhumans, five people, including Victor's original creation, Deucalion, gather in a small Montana town to face dangers they have never known before in order to oppose Victor.
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[2012]
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It is the future. The end of the world is no more than a distorted memory. A sentient glacier has wiped out most of North America's cities. Medical care is supplied by networked and human nervous systems can be hacked. Abby Fogg is a film archivist with a niggling feeling that her life is not her own. And she's right. Al Skinner is a former mercenary for the Boeing Army, who's dragged his war baggage behind him for nearly a century. Woo-jin Kan is...
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Frankenstein series volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
20) Shift
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Silo series volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
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"In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same...