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Series
Stranger things graphic novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2021-
Description
v. 1: "The Other Side follows Will Byers after he has been pulled into a mysterious nightmare realm. Isolated, disoriented, and scared, he quickly realizes he isn't alone-monsters lurk around every corner, and they are hunting him. In Science Camp, Dustin Henderson arrives at Camp Know Where anxious about spending the summer away from his friends after they've saved their town from eldritch horrors." -- v. 2: "A chilling glimpse at the machinations...
Author
Series
Passage trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
In the present, three individuals--Lila, a pregnant doctor, Kittridge, a loner, and April, a teenager caring for her younger brother--struggle to survive as a man-made apocalypse unfolds. While, one hundred years in the future, Amy and others support the Twelve as they fight a dark enemy with plans for humankind that are worse than extinction.
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The Tuskegee Study is one of the most infamous medical studies ever conducted. From 1932 to 1972, the federal government studied the long-term effects of syphilis on 399 men. The study has been condemned because the black men were never treated for the disease and were never told the true nature of their illness.--Publisher description.
84) Iron wolf
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
In their desperation the Nazis turn to the most obscure scientists. Through cruel experiments a new secret weapon has been created, unstoppable and alive.
85) A slow burning
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"It has been twenty years since Nat Hennessy watched a street thug beat his father to death. When a routine homicide investigation unexpectedly leads to an opportunity to avenge the murder, the NYPD detective does not hesitate to act - but only at enormous risk to himself and the woman he loves." "Dr. Cush Walker lives with the childhood memory of watching the Ku Klux Klan lynch his father. A pioneering brain surgeon, Walker has dedicated his life...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you're a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are? When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of personality development that predicts who she and her cohort...
90) Embryo
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Frightening tale of a genetic scientist who creates a beautiful woman from an embryo. The woman-child is addicted to a drug she must take from the bodies of pregnant women.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In 1846, a young surgeon, J. Marion Sims ("The Father of Gynecology"), began several years of experimental surgeries on a young enslaved woman known as Anarcha ("The Mother of Gynecology"). This series of procedures-performed without anesthesia and resulting in Anarcha's so-called "cure"-forever altered the path of women's health. Despite brutal practices and failed techniques, Sims proclaimed himself the curer of obstetric fistula, a horrific condition...
92) Downsizing
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Description
A social satire in which a guy realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself.
When scientists find a way to shrink humans to five inches tall, Paul Safrane and his wife Audrey decide to ditch their stressed out lives in order to get small and live large in a luxurious downsized community. Filled with life-changing adventures and endless possibilities, Leisureland offers more than riches, as Paul discovers a whole new world and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Dr. Jake Rosen, world-famous pathologist, deputy chief medical examiner, and devoted scientist; and top litigator Manny Manfreda, who is as lovely (and accessorized) as she is gutsy, take on a case with a bizarre serial killer. The case begins in New York as a strange kind of thief stalks his victims with the purpose of extracting a vial of blood -- earning him the nickname Vampire in the tabloids. As the attacks escalate from torture to murder,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Obsessed with natural philosophy, the young Victor Frankenstein succeeds in creating life from its basic elements - and abandons the newborn monstrosity in terror when he cannot bear to look at it. The rejected creature vanishes, and Victor attempts to forget what he has done... But the monster survives. It learns. Deprived of everything, fated to forever be alone, it has nothing left but revenge."--
96) Lucy
Pub. Date
2015
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
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Little Lucy Snow was meant to be enjoying her first day at the nice elementary school in town; however, a macabre twist of fate sees her enrolled instead at Miss Weaver's Academy for the Scientifically Gifted and Ethically Unfettered -- also known as Hollow Fields. The grim boarding school dedicates itself to raising the next generation of mad scientists and evil geniuses!
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Collects four classic horror films, including "House of Wax, " in which a wax sculptor devises a murderous plan to restock his museum; "The Haunting, " in which four individuals travel to a haunted house to study its supernatural phenomena; "Freaks, " featuring a group of carnival performers who inflict revenge on a trapeze artist who mocks them; and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, " the classic tale of one man's disastrous attempts to harness the evil...
100) Deadpool
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After a rogue experiment leaves him with accelerated healing powers, ex-special forces operative Wade Wilson adopts the alter ego Deadpool to fight crime.