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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Jess Davis, a freelance statistician and single mother, is ready to swear off dating after her most recent lackluster outing. And nothing about River Peña, a grumpy if hot regular at her favorite coffee shop, tempts her to change her mind, especially after he insults her and makes an already terrible day worse. Yet somehow learning that he is a scientist who has designed a gene-based matchmaking product piques Jess? interest. On a whim, she provides...
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aliens have landed in New York. A deadly cloud of spores has already infected and killed the inhabitants of two worlds. Now that plague is heading for Earth, and threatens humans and aliens alike. Can either species be trusted to find the cure? Geneticist Marianne Jenner is immersed in the desperate race to save humanity, yet her family is tearing itself apart. Siblings Elizabeth and Ryan are strident isolationists who agree only that an alien conspiracy...
3) Inheritance
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the sudden death of her husband, Annie Devereaux flees to England, site of the nostalgic fantasies her father spun for her before he deserted the family. A chance encounter in London leads Annie to cancel her return to New York and move in with Julian, the disaffected, moody son of Helena Denby, a famous British geneticist. As their relationship progresses, Annie meets Julian's sisters Isabel and Sasha, each of them fragile in her own way, and...
Author
Series
Joe Ledger novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Otto Wirths was the second-worst mass murderer in the history of the world. Compared to him Hitler, Stalin, Attila the Hun, and even Alexander the Great were amateurs, poseurs who could not hold a candle to Otto and his body count.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a US facing growing food shortages, stark inequality, and a growing fascist government, three perfectly normal young women are about to find out that they share a great deal in common. Their creator, the gifted geneticist Peng, made them that way--before such things were outlawed. Rumors of a virus make their way through an unprotected population on the verge of rebellion, only to have it turn deadly. As the women fight to stay alive and help,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
More than 250 years after a pretender marquis escapes the palazzo of his vengeful prince, an American Army unit discovers a secret lab in Baghdad where victims have been subjected to torturous experiments, a finding that places two women on the trail of an ancient mystery.
7) The geneticist who played hoops with my DNA: ...and other masterminds from the frontiers of biotech
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
12) I am God
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Restless books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Diabolically funny and subversively philosophical, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori's I Am God is the diary of the Almighty's existential crisis that erupts when he falls in love with a human. And not just any human, but a geneticist and fanatical atheist who's certain she can improve upon the magnificent creation she doesn't even give him credit for. Which is frustrating, for a god.
13) Apple Tree Yard
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An intelligent, erotically charged thriller with deep moral implications. Yvonne Carmichael, renowned geneticist, public authority, happily married mother of two, sits in the accused box. The charge is murder. Across the courtroom, not meeting her eye, sits her alleged accomplice. He wears the beautiful pin-striped suit he wore on their first meeting in the Houses of Parliament, when he put his hand on her elbow, guided her to a deserted and ancient...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Star-crossed lovers get a second chance at romance when they're reunited at a wedding in Nigeria, in a heartfelt novel from the acclaimed author of The Sweetest Remedy. Dunni hasn't seen her high school boyfriend, Obinna, since she left Nigeria to attend college in America. Before their devastating separation, they vowed to find their way back to each other one day. Twelve years later, and their vow is a thing of the past. Dunni works as a geneticist...
17) Immunity
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 203 min.) : anamorphic, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Genetics professor Sherman Klump weighs in at 400 pounds and needs the help of his large, eccentric family to fight off his slimmed-down alter ego, "Buddy Love."
19) The coming storm
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
New York City, 2023: Rising seas and superstorms have ravaged the land. Food and electricity are scarce. A dangerous Washington regime has terrorized the city, forcing the most vulnerable into the flood-ravaged neighborhoods. New laws are enforced by a genetically enhanced army, designed to be the fiercest, cruelest of killers. Geneticist Jenna Khan knows too much about how these super-soldiers were engineered. Escaping arrest, Jenna joins forces...
20) Hybrids
Author
Series
Neanderthal parallax volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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