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Biophysicists Great Britain Biography Juvenile literature College teachers Australia Fiction DNA DNA Research History Fiction Genetics Genetics Fiction Genetics Research Fiction Marriage Fiction Molecular biologists Great Britain Biography Fiction Women molecular biologists Great Britain FictionSimsion, Graeme C.
Summary: Don Tillman, a professor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Simsion 2013Simsion, Graeme C.
Summary: Don is a brilliant, yet socially inept professor of genetics, who's decided it's time he found a wife. So, in his scientific manner he designs the Wife Project. Rosie fits his qualifications and is also beguiling, fiery, and intelligent. Although Don disqualifies her as a potential wife, he is suited for Rosie's project: finding her biological father. As they collaborate, a relationship forms,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SIMClark, Mindy Starns.
Summary: Anna thought she left the tragedies of the past behind when she moved from Pennsylvania to California, but when her brother vanishes from the genetics lab where he works, Anna has no choice but to head back home. Using skills well-honed in Silicon Valley, she follows the high-tech trail her brother left behind, a trail that leads from the simple world of Amish farming to the cutting edge of DNA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2009
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Summary: "Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquanitance informs him that he would make a "wonderful" husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SIMPowers, Richard
Summary: When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won't someone so open and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: 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 shared by only one thousand other Americans, a 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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Summary: "Rosalind Franklin knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture-one more after thousands-she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her. Then it finally happens-the double helix structure of DNA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2022