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41) Remember me
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Blue Owens wakes up with the overwhelming feeling that something is wrong with her memory, she meets Adam Mendoza, who explains that she paid to have her unpleasant memories erased in order to "start over"--and that begins Blue's journey to recover her memories and understand the truth of why she felt the need to lose them in the first place.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by Esquire magazine as “one of America’s best young writers.”
Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to bring him home, she finds a man who remembers nothing, not even his own name. The removal of a small brain tumor saves his life, but...
Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to bring him home, she finds a man who remembers nothing, not even his own name. The removal of a small brain tumor saves his life, but...
Series
Indicator volume 093
Publisher
Powerhouse Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Soames -- a man locked, since birth, in a 30-year coma -- has a groundbreaking cure when Dr. Bergen gives him a brain transplant. The problem is that the brain comes from a baby, and when Soames comes back to the waking world, he assumes the mental state of a young child. The journey, documented by a television crew, backfires when Dr. Bergan attempts to speed up his rate of maturation, resulting in an explosive climax.
46) Dead end
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
47) Aftertime
Author
Series
Aftertime novels volume 1
Publisher
Luna
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Awakening in a bleak landscape as scarred as her body, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls surviving something terrible. Having no idea how many weeks have passed, she slowly realizes the horrifying truth: Ruthie has vanished. And with her, nearly all of civilization. Where once-lush hills carried cars and commerce, the roads today see only cannibalistic Beaters--people turned hungry for human flesh by a government experiment gone wrong. In a broken, barren...
48) Scanner cop
Publisher
Vinegar Syndrome
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray + 1 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rookie cop Sam Staziak has a unique gift: he is a Scanner, which gives him the power to read the thoughts of others, and also to inflict great bodily harm ... and death. To repress his abilities, he takes a medication designed to keep Scanners sane and rational and from exacting harm on others. When a mad scientist named Karl Glock begins using mind control to murder police officers, Sam realizes that only he and his unique gift can put an end to...
49) Lucy
Language
English
Formats
Description
Altered by a dangerous new drug allowing her to use 100% of her brain capacity, Lucy transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic, allowing her to turn the tables on her captors who intended to use her for their own purposes.
50) Positive match
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
51) Inversion
Author
Publisher
Lily Thu Fierro, Generoso Fierro
Pub. Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Researcher Dr Paul Vang and subject or respondent Phoung Do are participants in a mission named Europa set in the year 2079. Blurring the lines between researcher and subject are experiences known as 'virtualizations', simulations that mirror past experiences or create new stimuli. Phoung may seem like a subject in a state of suspended animation, but Dr Vang doesn't fare much better either, and seemingly struggles to cope with the mundanity of his...
52) Horizon
Author
Series
Aftertime novels volume 3
Publisher
Luna
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As hope emerges from beneath the wastelands of California, Cass Dollar must overcome the worst of what's inside her to defeat the Beaters once and for all.
53) In the name of science: a history of secret programs, medical research, and human experimentation
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 448 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
ix, 406 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A fascinating and shocking historical exposé, The Malaria Project is the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II--a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis.
56) Deception
Author
Series
Dark matter trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
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...
57) Red sky at night
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
58) The curiosity
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After discovering the body of a man buried deep in the Arctic ice, Dr. Kate Philo and her team bring him back to life in their Boston lab, igniting a media firestorm that forces them to decide how far they are willing to go to protect their experiment.
Author
Language
English
Description
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 cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]-
Edition
First Fantagraphics Books edition.
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a powerful multinational corporation creates a machine that can communicate with God, does it spell humanity's salvation or the end of days? This sprawling saga, set in the not-so-distant future, explores the collision course of science, religion, and corporate greed." -- back cover of volume one.
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