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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world's first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project--and future of time travel--in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from the team--erasing her contributions from history. Fifty years later, time travel is a big business. Twenty-something Ruby Rebello knows her beloved grandmother,...
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English
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Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...
23) Shards of honor
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English
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It was the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons. And Captain Cordelia Naismith of the Betan Expeditionary Force would be forced into a separate peace with her enemy, Lord Vorkosigan. Shards of Honor is the novel in which Lois McMaster Bujold introduced the science-fiction world to Barrayar and Aral Vorkosigan, Beta Colony and Cordelia Naismith. From this beginning the author has created a multigenerational saga spanning...
24) Afterparty
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Following the suicide of a seventeen-year-old Toronto street girl who used a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, Lyda Rose, one of the original scientists who developed the drug, sets out to find the other three survivors of the five who made the Numinous in a quest to set things right.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In a 2030 America led by an isolationist authoritarian government, a star biotech scientist trying to discover the key to immortality becomes a whistleblower when she uncovers alarming activity in the wastelands of what was once Florida.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant and dangerous group of scientists are determined to save the world from the perils of overpopulation by releasing into the world a brutal virus. Having just arrived at the research station at the earth's southernmost tip, returning hero Hallie Leland has seven days to stop them from putting their plan into action"--
Author
Series
Periodic table mysteries volume 3
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
Former physics professor Gloria Lamerino investigates the murder of a physics lab janitor at a university in Massachusetts. The janitor apparently discovered a plot by scientists to hide the environmental hazards of a new lithium battery. By the author of The Hydrogen Murder.
28) Silent scream
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Series
South Shores volume 5
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What started as an exploration of the past soon escalates into an all-too-current danger. Someone is watching--someone who really doesn't want Claire digging into the past or Nick making connections to a current, violent murder case he's investigating. The bog's corpses may be long dead, but if Claire and Nick don't figure out who's gunning for a fresh kill, the next bodies to be discovered will be their own.
29) Gambit
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Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Dr. Cammy Talbot, a leading expert on missile defense systems, is called in to investigate when three commercial American jetliners are shot out of the sky by unknown weaponry and finds herself in mortal jeopardy as she races to stop a ruthless mastermind
Author
Series
Periodic table mysteries volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow and Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"Retired physicist Gloria Lamerino suspects something is amiss when she learns that Gary Larkin has died of beryllium poisoning in his Berkeley, California, physics laboratory. The police declare his death a tragic accident, but Gloria, who had worked with Gary, knows better." --
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Series
Heroes of the Pacific Northwest volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
She's living a lie ... to stay alive! Running for her life, scientist Layla Morant - aka Regan Jones - thinks her perfectly crafted secret is safe ... until Dr Jamie Weathers arrives on the scene of her car crash. Badly injured, Layla must tell lie after lie to the handsome local hero who only wants to protect her. Can she trust him with the truth? Or will divulging her secret prove deadly to him, too?
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English
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"Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda's ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career--after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator. Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops her...and claims they've met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she's mourning, why she's there. And he needs Mariana to remember everything he's saying. But just as they figure out this new life,...
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Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Seven years ago Atagaris set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary" bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a maritime tragedy. Now, a new crew has been assembled. But this time they're not out to entertain. Some seek to validate their life's work. Some seek the greatest hunt of all. Some seek the truth. But for the ambitious young...
34) Barrayar
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English
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In the wake of interplanetary war, former commander Cordelia Naismith has deserted her own planet to marry the leader of the defeated enemy, Aral Vorkosigan. On his home planet of Barrayar, two rival factions are eyeing the recently vacated throne, and Aral, recently appointed Regent of Barrayar by the Emperor on his deathbed, must stand between them. As Lord and Lady Vorkosigan, Aral and Cordelia struggle to establish stability in a fragile government...
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English
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"Sophie Jones is a physics prodigy on track to unlock the secrets of the universe. But when she meets Jake Kristopher during their first week at Yale they instantly feel a deep connection, as if they've known each other before. They quickly become a couple, and as college goes on, Sophie distances herself from academia as Jake intensely pursues a finance career. But when a shocking change forces Sophie into a new reality, she returns to physics and...
36) The river below
Author
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a mangled car is pulled from the river, containing bloodstains and a gun, the sense of safety is shattered in Tessa's Californian hometown. Tessa, who works at the river conservancy, thinks she saw a girl out on the riverbank - but Tessa's memory is failing and could this be the start of something more serious? Tessa's friend and co-worker, Claire Barrett, is worried - about the car and the gun, but also about Tessa. With Tessa's attorney husband...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Stage four. Surgery. Recovering." While those are the simple words that once described Dr. Francine Burk's situation, the reality is much more complex. Her new reality is feeling unduly thrilled by her increasing ability to walk across a room without assistance. And it's being offered a placement at a prestigious research institute where she can put to good use her recent award money. With the Foundation's advanced technological resources and a group...
38) The curiosity
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Kate Philo and her scientific exploration team make a breathtaking discovery in the Arctic: the body of a man buried deep in the ice. As a scientist in a groundbreaking project run by the egocentric and paranoid Erastus Carthage, Kate has brought small creatures-plankton, krill, shrimp-'back to life.' Never have the team's methods been attempted on a large life form. Heedless of the consequences, Carthage orders that the frozen man be brought...
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The admiral's bride (1999) : When six canisters of a lethal nerve agent are stolen from a military testing lab, Admiral Jake Robinson must recover the chemicals--by any means necessary. With Dr. Zoe Lange at his side he defies convention and decides to infiltrate the compound where religious fanatics have stored the deadly toxin. But Jake fears his instant attraction to Zoe might compromise the mission.--P. [4] of cover
Identity: Unknown (2000) :...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A few years from now, in a world similar to ours, there exists a sort of “depression plague” that people refer to simply as “The Grey.” No one can predict whom it will afflict, or how, but once infected, there's no coming back. A young Hong Kong based scientist, Lily Barnes, is trying to maintain her inner light in an increasingly dark world. The human race is dwindling, and people fighting to push forward are increasingly rare. One day,...
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