Dr. Oscar LeBlanc is close to a medical breakthrough to cure dementia and other degenerative diseases...but in order to succeed, he needs to illegally obtain plasma from prepubescent children. He believes the ends justify the means, so...
Human experimentation in medicine
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Author:Fields, TriciaSummary: - Author:Émond, RichardSummary:
Et si la vie débutait réellement après un cancer ?Apprenant qu’il est atteint d’un cancer, Billy Boost, un Montréalais bien de son temps, se voit offrir un traitement de faveur. Ainsi, en raison de son jeune âge et de son excellente...
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"Chris Grabenstein just might be the smartest writer for kids in the universe." -James Patterson What if you could learn everything just by eating jellybeans?! Meet the Smartest Kid in the Universe and find out in this fun-packed new...
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A mysterious pandemic causes a quarter of the world's population to permanently lose the ability to sleep--without any apparent health implications. The outbreak creates a new class of people who are both feared and ostracized, and...
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Author:Griffin, Casey, Nesseth, Nina, Manson, Graeme, Herter, CosimaSummary:An official guide to the crazy science of Orphan Black
Delve deeper into the scientific terms and theories at the core of the Peabody-winning, cult favourite show. With exclusive insights from the show’s co-creator...
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Frannie O'Neill's life was turned upside down when six children blew in on the wind, and rescuing them from the school that created them took all her courage. Now the young flock wants to go back to the couple it regards as...
- Author:Skloot, RebeccaSummary:
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human...
- Author:Weise, Jillian MarieSummary:
It's 2015, and Anne Hatley is leaving her North Carolina home for a Long Island research lab called the Colony. Anne, who was born with a genetic mutation that left her only one leg, will be donating stem cells for gene research in...
- Author:Bond, GwendaSummary:
A mysterious lab. A sinister scientist. A secret history. If you think you know the truth behind Eleven's mother, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down in this thrilling prequel to the hit show Stranger Things. It's the...
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Author:Roach, MarySummary:Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers―some willingly, some unwittingly―have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest...
- Author:White, Corey J.Summary:
Corey J. White concludes his pulse-pounding space opera in Static Ruin. As the most wanted voidwitch in the galaxy has no place left to run-except back to those who created her. She killed the man who trained her. She killed the fleet...
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Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong, not with them, but with her own body. It's itching, it's stronger, it's...
- Author:LeZotte, Ann ClareSummary:
Mary Lambert has always felt safe and protected on her beloved island of Martha's Vineyard. Her great-great-grandfather was an early English settler and the first deaf islander. Now, over a hundred years later, many people there--...
- Author:Posner, GeraldSummary:
Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and...
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Samson Greene, who, during the removal of a brain tumor, loses his adult memories. Feeling lost as an outsider in his own life, Samson agrees to participate in a scientific experiment in which memories are grafted from one brain to...
- Author:Saint-Pierre, Fabrice P.Summary:
Igor Slobovitch est un citoyen exemplaire qui obéit aux lois. C’est d’ailleurs pour cette raison qu’il a été choisi comme candidat au prestigieux poste d’ambassadeur. Mais auparavant, il devra subir un difficile entraînement au...
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Author:Giddings, MeganSummary:Lena Johnson drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical expenses. A free place...
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Author:Goobie, BethSummary:Several years earlier Nellie and her mother fled the Interior and its hated security police for the Outbacks, a loose-knit resistance of small cities, towns and rural areas. Since then her mother has disappeared and twelve-year-old...
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Author:Needham, Chris FSummary:Two voices, two families, two interweaving narratives with thirty years dividing them. In 1972 Birdie Cormack enters a highly controversial experiment in Toronto. Her story unfolds piece by fascinating piece, mostly by way of a...
- Author:Robitaille, MadeleineSummary:
Pervers ? Bizarre ? Asocial ? Je me fous royalement de ce que le monde pense de moi. Il n'y a que moi qui compte, mon plaisir et ma liberté. Je n'ai pas d'amis et je n'en veux pas. Mon monde intérieur, ce qui s...
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