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...
Scientists
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Author:Fields, TriciaSummary: - Author:Ignotofsky, RachelSummary:
The New York Times bestseller Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world.
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Author:Anders, AdrianaSummary:Angel Smith is finally ready to leave Antarctica for a second chance at life. But on what was meant to be her final day, the remote-research station she's been calling home is attacked. Hunted and scared, she and irritatingly gorgeous...
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Author:Klages, EllenSummary:Living with the Gordons in their quiet desert town in New Mexico in 1946, Dewey is learning a lot from her science-obsessed adoptive family, but just as she begins to settle in and get comfortable, Dewey's long-lost mother reemerges to...
- Author:Labatut, BenjamínSummary:
When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger--these are...
- Author:Michaels, SeanSummary:
In a finely woven series of flashbacks and correspondence, Lev Termen, the Russian scientist, inventor, and spy, tells the story of his life to his "one true love," Clara Rockmore, the finest theremin player in the world. In the first...
- Author:Hazelwood, AliSummary:
Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on this universal truth: When it comes to love and science, opposites...
- Author:Sandford, JohnSummary:
Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest project could endanger the entire world, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. Gaia is dying ....
- Author:Debbink, AndreaSummary:
Packed with real-life tales of adventure and practical tools, this handbook is an inspiring guide for the next generation of climate activists, conservationists, and nature lovers.
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Author:Wells, H. G., Paul, Frank R.Summary:Testing his time machine for the first time, a Victorian scientist finds himself in the year 802,701 ad. Encountering a childlike people called the Eloi, who live in futuristic buildings and have no need of work, the Time Traveller...
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Author:Wells, H. G.Summary:An unnamed Time Traveller visits the year 802,701 and finds two unusual races whose ways of life lead him to question the social and financial assumptions of his own era. Packed with adventure, romance and a great deal of social...
- Author:Liu, CixinSummary:
The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution...
- Author:Witmans, HendrikSummary:
Dr. Yabul Kozak is a brilliant, but frustrated scientist, who wants to make the world a better place by changing the way people think. Using the facilities of the mind research center where he works he creates a powerful viral drug that...
- Author:King, SJ.Summary:
Blast off into space with this lunar themed installment of DK's new educational fiction series for children. Meet the Secret Explorers-a band of brainiac kids from all over the world. Everyone in this diverse group of young experts has...
- Author:King, SJ.Summary:
Learn about caves and the Earth in this geology themed instalment of DK Books' new educational fiction series for children. Meet the Secret Explorers - a band of brainiac kids from all around the world. Everyone in this diverse...
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Author:Cutler, A.Summary:The story of enigmantic scientist-turned-priest, Nicholas Steno, who first proposed that the shell-shaped rocks commonly found on Italian mountaintops actually were fossils--a notion completely antithetical to the 17th century...
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Author:Franklin, Ursula M.Summary:In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the impact of technology upon our lives and addresses the extraordinary changes since The Real World...
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Author:Beason, PamelaSummary:A missing baby. A teenage mother suspected of murder. A jaded detective whose reputation is on the line. A signing gorilla destined for the auction block. A scientist who is about to lose everything. Will the revelation that a gorilla...
- Author:Hazelwood, AliSummary:
The Instant New York Times Bestseller and TikTok Sensation! As seen on The View! A BuzzFeed Best Summer Read of 2021 When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully...
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Author:Wells, H. G.Summary:An arrogant medical student renders himself invisible in an experiment and terrorizes a small town in England while attempting to reverse the procedure. An iconic fleshing out of Plato’s parable, “The Ring of Gyges.”
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