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Author
Publisher
Harper
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
353 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Researcher Marina Singh is sent by her boss at Vogel, a drug manufacturer, to the jungles of Brazil following the death of a co-worker. It is there that the company is looking into a miracle drug based on a tree bark used by a native tribe. Upon her arrival, Marina must find out the circumstances of her colleague's death, as well as find out why work has slowed to a crawl on the drug. That means dealing with Annick Swenson, a determined researcher...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When a NUMA research vessel is suddenly destroyed by a malevolent black substance originally mistaken for an oil spill, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala pursue an investigation in the Indian Ocean, where they discover a plot targeting millions of victims.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
454 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After an undersea lab conducting research on a rare jellyfish known as the blue medusa mysteriously disappears and a bathysphere harboring Joe Zavala is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless on the sea floor, Kurt Austin puts the NUMA team on the case.
Author
Series
NUMA File volume 6
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
433 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the leader of an antiglobalization group plans to use the sixty-year-old findings of a Hungarian genius to create a polar shift and give the industrialized nations a jolt before reversing the effect, the NUMA Special Assignments Team must stop him.
Author
Series
Numa files volume 10
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
404 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
NUMA Files volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A confrontation between a radical environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser forces NUMA Special Assignments Team leader Austin and colleague Joe Zavala to come to the rescue of a ship of trapped men.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and members of the NUMA Special Assignments Team are called in to investigate after ships are destroyed near the Azores and they find themselves entangled in the ambitions of an African dictator who may have developed a weapon with extraordinary power.
9) Devil's gate
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
474 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster-when their boat explodes. What is happening in this part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2005
Edition
Bantam Books mass market ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
455 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Victor's latest creations, an army of engineered killers set loose in modern-day New Orleans, begin to exceed his expectations and exhibit logistical and analytical skills, he plans to eliminate the entire race, a plan that backfires into humankind's ultimate nightmare.
Author
Series
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison; Victor's engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victor's first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewed--and tested--by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered....
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison; Victor's engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victor's first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewed--and tested--by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered....
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The events of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein unfold from the perspective of Elizabeth Lavenza, who is adopted as a child by the Frankensteins as a companion for their volatile son Victor.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Bantam mass market ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
423 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The last of the survivors in Rainbow Falls, Montana, band together to brave the onslaught of the creatures set loose upon the world, discovering the full scope of Victor Frankenstein's nihilistic plan to remake the future.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Doctoring water samples to help his corrupt agribusiness employer continue illegal dumping in the Everglades, biologist Chaz Perrone attempts to murder his wife, who has figured out his scam and who survives to plot her husband's downfall.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 38
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a portrait of Benjamin Franklin as a scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, business strategist, and statesman while tracing his life as one of America's Founding Fathers.
18) Frankenstein
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
This book tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of generating life from lifeless matter, and puts this knowledge to use by creating a monster being.
19) The last lecture
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.