Riddle, A. G.
Summary: Dr. Kate Warner left California for Jakarta, Indonesia to escape her past. She has yet to put her life back together, but she has made a remarkable discovery: a cure for autism. But when two children in her research study are abducted, Kate is plunged into a world of intrigue and conspiracies. She quickly learns that her work is not what it seems. Her research could rewrite everything we know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.G. Riddle 2014
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Summary: In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead--and those the Atlantis Plague doesn't kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve. As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kindle Direct Publishing] 2013
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Summary: Northern Morocco: Dr. Kate Warner cured a global pandemic, and she thought she could cure herself. She was wrong. And she was wrong about the scope of the Atlantis conspiracy. Humanity faces a new threat, an enemy beyond imagination. With her own time running out and the utter collapse of human civilization looming, a new hope arrives: a coded message from a potential ally. Arecibo Observatory:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.G. Riddle 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RIDGrumley, Michael C.
Summary: It began in Ethiopia, hundreds of thousands of years ago. When a handful of genetic mutations caused evolution to split from the primates. And mankind was born. Now eons later, evidence of more splits from the apes are bing unearthed. And with them a disturbing realization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRULostetter, Marina J.
Summary: 2088. Humankind is at last ready to explore beyond Earth's solar system. Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has discovered an anomalous star that appears to defy the laws of physics, and proposes the creation of a deep-space mission to find out whether the star is a weird natural phenomenon, or something manufactured. The journey will take eons. In order to maintain the genetic talent of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOSBennett, Marguerite
Summary: "One day, for no reason, the Animals woke up. They started thinking. They started talking. They started taking REVENGE. Now, they've started building. In a city by the sea, a new power is on the rise...and they're making an animal kingdom all their own. From the brilliant mind of creator/writer Margueritte Bennett (INSEXTS, DC Bombshells, Batwoman) with artwork by Eric Gapstur and Juan Doe,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aftershock Comics 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BENDarnton, John.
Summary: Darnton blends fact and fiction to explore the life and work of Charles Darwin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DARGrumley, Michael C.
Summary: The world is losing hope. Political and social infighting threaten to destroy the world. Rancor and hatred only grow stronger, engulfing entire nations. And each day moral and economic strife brings embroiled countries ever closer to war. But hope is not dead. Everywhere, pockets of human kindness and compassion continue to persevere. Where lives are cherished and virtue endures. And one small,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRURemender, Rick.
Summary: "Tajo returns to her family home on Salus to find a city on the brink of devastation. There is no food, no air, no hope for mankind's last great domed city. Now, Tajo must fight for a future everyone else has given up on. Can mankind unite to survive the judgment of a merciless nuclear sun? Can we rise from the depths of despair to the promise of a unified tomorrow?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 REMWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "Written in the voice of Mother Africa, who speaks to her children--human beings--this stunning picture book thrums with the love between mother and child as it celebrates humanity's common roots. Before words or tools or fire, Mother Africa's caves sheltered us and her forests fed us. She could not protect us from all dangers, but, like mothers everywhere, she gave her children all she could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: "Set against the most dramatic time in our species' history, The Dog Master tells the story of one tribe's struggle for survival and one extraordinary man's bond with a wolf-a friendship that changed mankind forever... Thirty thousand years ago, ice was storming the planet. Among the species forced out of the trees and onto the steppes by the advancing cold was modern man, who was both predator...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMBaxter, Stephen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books/Del Rey 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAXStott, Rebecca.
Summary: Paris, 1815. Napoleon has surrendered at Waterloo and is on his way to the island of St. Helena to begin his exile. Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in the city to study anatomy, only to realize that his letters of introduction and his gift of precious coral specimens - on which his tenure with the legendary Dr. Cuvier depends - have been stolen by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STOWatterson, Bill
Summary: "In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "NEW STORIES AND ESSAYS FROM TOP AUTHORS AND EXPERT SCIENTISTS. Explorations of how interstellar travel may affect humanity by best-selling authors and scientists. The stars will change us. STELLARIS: PEOPLE OF THE STARS is a collection of original science fiction stories and nonfiction essays speculating about humanity's far-term expansion into the universe beyond the limits of our solar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2019
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STEBrière-Haquet, Alice
Summary: London, 1881. There's something a little eerie about Manon. She's not like the other girls at the orphanage. Maybe it's her red eyes. Maybe it's her silence. Maybe it's the series of violent deaths that seem to follow her. What we do know: someone is hot on her tail. And there's a lot of money at stake in finding out where exactly she comes from, and what exactly she is. In order to stay alive,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC BRILightman, Alan P.
Summary: God, or Mr. g, lives in the Void with his aunt and uncle, while he creates space and time through trial and error as his rival Belhor questions his choices as the universe grows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIGTchaikovsky, Adrian
Summary: "Four years ago, two girls went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor. Only one came back... Lee thought she'd lost Mal, but now she's miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And where has she been all this time? Mal's reappearance hasn't gone unnoticed by MI5 officers either, and Lee isn't the only one with questions. Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2020
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Tchaikovsky 2020Wilson, F. Paul (Francis Paul)
Summary: "Something sits in a bunker lab buried fifty feet below the grounds of Lakehurst Naval Air Station. The product of technology confiscated from the Germans after WWII occupies a chamber of steel-reinforced ballistic glass. Despite experimentation for nearly three-quarters of a century, no one knows what it is, but illegal human research reveals what it can do. Humans with special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wilson 2019Summary: In a remake of the original film, after an astronaut crash-lands on an uncharted planet he finds himself at odds with a society in which apes are the rulers--and humans are little more than slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI PLAGrunwald, Lisa
Summary: "Dayton, Tennessee. 1925. It is in this sleepy mountain town where Annabel, a devout woman, falls in love with George Craig, a cosmopolitan defense attorney. Annabel's outlook on everything from life to love to the law is shaped by her faith; George sees the law something to bend to his will, and sees a world shaped by science and reason alone. By the end of the year, their marriage, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: "Stel Caine rises from the depths to the sun-blasted surface of the Earth, the first human in millennia to do so. She's closer than ever to discovering the deep-space probe, which holds within it the potential to save all mankind. But eons of radiation have given birth to strange new life, and humans are no longer the dominant species here. Meanwhile, deep below the waves, Stel's daughters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 REMVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: A small group of apocalypse survivors stranded on the Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave new human race. Vonnegut is a post-modern Mark Train. ... Galapagos is a madcap genealogical adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2003