Shusterman, Neal
Summary: "Noah Prime discovers he can exhibit the traits and access the abilities of animals and must use them to fight back against those who are hunting him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROLSweren-Becker, Daniel
Summary: "Genetically engineered teenagers called 'The Ones' go to extremes fighting for their rights as society turns against them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SWEPatterson, James
Summary: The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PATMessner, Kate.
Summary: After a concussion that effects her balance, memory, and other abilities, twelve-year-old Kat goes to I-Can, the "Miracle Clinic in the Swamp," where she joins forces with other patients to expose a plot that endangers them all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: When Lacey Chu wakes up in a hospital room with no memory of how she got there, she knows something went really wrong. And with her cat baku, Jinx, missing in action and MONCHA, the company behind the invention of the robot pet, threatening her family, she isn't sure who to turn to for answers. When Lacey is expelled and her mom starts acting strangely after the latest update from MONCHA, Lacey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MCCScieszka, Jon
Summary: So far the AstroNuts have failed to find a suitable planet, but NNASA has come up with a new plan: send the the four animal astronauts back through time on Earth where they are to contact early homo sapiens and somehow set them on a path to a sustainablefuture--trouble is, humans seem inferior to many of the other species (especially the wolves), so the AstroNuts come up with a Survival of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCICrouch, Blake
Summary: "An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation-and fears that all of humanity may be next-in the mindblowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion Logan Ramsay can feel his brain...changing. And his body too. He's becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CROPatterson, James
Summary: In the City of the Dead, life happens in the shadows. That's why a war is brewing against an enemy no one can see. For Hawk, being a hero weighs heavily on her wings. But Hawk and Maximum Ride never back down from a conflict, or from each other, and they argue more than they agree. As the dead begin to outnumber the living, a mother's experience and a daughter's instinct can make one powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PATGrant, Mira.
Summary: 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. The broken doors are closing. Can Sal make it home?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAPatterson, James
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y Fiction PatSasuga, Yu.
Summary: Explorers from Earth prepare to exterminate the cockroaches used to transform Mars but are shocked to find that they had mutated into aggressive humanoids. However, the explorers have undergone an experimental surgery designed to make them more than human.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TERSummary: "Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. ... These are stories of adaptation, ingenuity, and optimism for the future of our world and others. For readers who are tired of dystopias and apocalypses, these visions of a brighter future will be a breath of fresh air."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Weaver Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLASuarez, Daniel
Summary: "On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle-- and his transformation begins. In 2045 Kenneth Durand leads Interpol's most effective team against genetic crime, hunting down black market labs that perform "vanity edits" on human embryos for a price. These illegal procedures augment embryos in ways that are rapidly accelerating human evolution--preying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUAScieszka, Jon
Summary: On their second mission to find another habitable planet, the four mutant animals, LaserShark, AstroWolf, SmartHawk, and StinkBug, splash land on the Water Planet, run by some suspiciously friendly clams, who are very eager to swap planets--and if the AstroNuts can stop arguing among themselves they may find out why before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Science Fiction, Call number: JT SF Scieszka 2020Brissett, Jennifer Marie
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRICampbell, Jack
Summary: "Earth, 2180 Genetically engineered with partly-alien DNA, Lieutenant Selene Genji is different than ordinary humans. And they hate her for it. Still, she's spent her life trying to overcome society's prejudice by serving in the Unified Fleet as Earth's international order collapses into war. Genji is stationed on a ship in orbit when humanity's hatreds and factions on the planet reach a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2024
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEAGrant, Mira.
Summary: Genetically engineered tapeworms that protect most of the human populace from illness, boost everyone's immune system, and even secrete designer drugs begin to change and want out of human bodies they occupy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF GRAMacaulay, Rose
Summary: "A government ministry decides to increase national brain-power, and stave off the coming idiocracy, through a program of compulsory selective breeding. The propaganda efforts in support of this endeavor are amazing. The book ends on an ambiguous note: Is the victory of "human perverseness, human stupidity, human self-will" over autocratic bureaucracy a triumph? Or not? Macaulay - a beloved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACScalzi, John
Summary: When humanity is threatened by an alliance of three adversarial races who would halt the world's expansion into space, Jared Dirac, a super-power clone, tries to discover why the scientist who gave him his DNA has revealed key military secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCAShusterman, Neal
Summary: Noah Prime never expected to wind up a fugitive hunted by aliens. To be honest, he had never even believed in aliens until a team of them blew up his house. He escaped-and managed to save the world-by using his mysterious ability to harness the traits of every animal on earth. Now he's in hiding, and thinks all is well. Until his friend Ogden buys a star for Claire, the most popular girl in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "In Joma West's Face, Margaret Atwood meets Kazuo Ishiguro in this sci-fi domestic drama that reimagines race and class in a genetically engineered society fed by performative fame. How much is your Face worth? Schuyler and Madeleine Burroughs have the perfect Face-rich and powerful enough to assure their dominance in society. But in SchAddie's household, cracks are beginning to appear....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESWesterfeld, Scott.
Summary: Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010