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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When hospice nurse, Rachel, realizes that her new patient is the doctor that spent years subjecting her to tortuous medical experiments at a Jewish orphanage, she is forced to confront her memories of the time and their lasting effect.
6) Lucy
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
An action-thriller that tracks a woman accidentally caught in a dark deal who turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this sly, surprising, and razor-sharp debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator's new job is a coveted one among New York's beauty-obsessed, and it affords her entry into a new world of privilege. She becomes transfixed by Helen-a model, and the niece of Holistik's charismatic owner-and the two strike...
9) Downsizing
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A couple with financial problems decides to undergo the procedure of shrinking their bodies to a hight of five inches to be able to live an easy and care-free life but the wife changes her mind after her husband has already been downsized and now he has to build his new life alone.
11) Overlord
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
On the eve of D-Day, a group of American soldiers are sent on a mission to disable a radio tower behind enemy lines and unexpectedly discover a laboratory where Nazis are conducting secret experiments.
12) Deadpool
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After a rogue experiment leaves him with accelerated healing powers, Wade Wilson adopts the alter ego Deadpool to fight crime.
13) The Mirror Man
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In the near-future, a man agrees to be replaced by a clone, only to have his life spiral out of control, and everything he values put at risk.
14) Akira
Publisher
FUNimation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
日本語
Description
After a motorcycle accident, Tetsuo is taken away to a military lab, and when his friend Kaneda tries to rescue him, he discovers that Tetsuo has been the victim of an extreme experiment.
15) Show me a sign
Author
Series
Show me a sign volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times journalists who first uncovered S.S. officer Aribert Heim's secret life in Egypt traces police investigator Alfred Aedtner's multi-decade pursuit of Heim across Europe, sharing insights into Germany's evolving attitude toward its past and how Heim evaded capture.
18) The grief keeper
Author
Publisher
putnam/G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to El Salvador.
19) Deception
Author
Series
Dark matter trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Believing that she is a carrier of the deadly disease they are calling the "Aberdeen flu," Shay has surrendered herself to the authorities and along with other survivors becomes an unwilling test subject in the effort to find a cure; but when the lab is attacked she and a few of the others with the strongest supernatural abilities escape, and her boyfriend Kai is determined to find her, while ghostly Callie, the true carrier, will atone for her deception....
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