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It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived.
2) Masterminds
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"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ira Fishman pushes the button on a prize that looks like a camera and discovers an exact double of himself in his bedroom, but after he decides to send his double to school in his place, Ira's clone begins to take over his life, and then a second clone appears.
4) My murder
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"A tautly paced novel in which a young mother who was cloned and brought back to life following her own murder comes to suspect that there is more to the story of her life and death than anyone is telling her. What if the murder you had to solve was your own? Lou is a happily married mother of an adorable toddler. She's also the clone of the original Louise who, along with four other victims of a local serial killer, has been brought back to life...
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic.
One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best...
One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best...
8) Six wakes
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"A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -- before they kill again. It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. At least, Maria Arena had never experienced it. She had no memory of how she died. That was also new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died. Maria's vat was in the front of six vats, each one holding the clone...
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Emily, Joel, Paelen, Pegasus, and the sphinx Alexis investigate a series of incidents back on Earth, and discover that the CRU has been cloning Olympians and Nirads--and now they want a clone of Emily! Emily and her friends try to stop the CRU before Jupiter puts an end to the Earth once and for all.
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"When Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate a mass stranding of aquatic life in the Indian Ocean, they accidentally uncover a much deeper mystery. A strange figure soon steals NUMA's findings, forcing a high-speed chase--someone really didn't want them examining those dead whales. But who, and why? A cryptic text through the NUMA satellite network makes things still stranger: these odd phrases and numbers look like NUMA codes. But who could be tantalizing...
14) Payback
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Fighting for survival after being separated into pairs in the aftermath of a betrayal, the Project Osiris clones search for notorious mob boss Gus Alabaster while tracking down Eli's elusive DNA donor alongside a surprising new ally.
15) Cloning humans
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"What makes a person who they are? This is one of the fundamental questions of human life. Scientists of the 21st century have made rapid advances in cloning and editing human DNA and cells, even if their understanding of how human characteristics are shaped is still relatively new. Readers will learn about three life-changing pieces of genetic technology--from therapeutic cloning to embryonic gene editing. By exploring these innovations and how they...
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Examines the possibility of using DNA of extinct animals to bring them back to life, such as recently extinct animals like the gastric-brooding frog of Australia, as well as less-recently extinct animals, from the passenger pigeon to the wooly mammoth. Explores the pros and cons of "de-extinction" and why some scientists are opposed to it while others think it could be great for the ecosystem.
19) The reactor
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When Joe and his friends are locked out of an abandoned building they have claimed as their own, they set out to discover whether sinister activities are taking place there.
20) Criminal destiny
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"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment, and they must find a way to prove it to the rest of the world"-- Provided by publisher.