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[2022]
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"Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with--of all things--her mind. True chemistry results. But like science,...
3) Whitewash
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Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
Description
A leading scientist at EcoEnergy, a company seeking a clean, alternative energy source, Sabrina Galloway makes the alarming discovery that an unknown saboteur has tampered with the production process, and risks her life to uncover the truth about a deadly conspiracy.
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Mad Morelands volume 7
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
The long-awaited prequel to the Mad Morelands series-the story of Thisbe, the oldest Moreland daughter.
5) Abyss
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Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 15
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
Description
When an NOAA scientist has a breakthrough that could enable a sustainable energy source and prevent dangerous weather systems, former CIA director Kirk McGarvey begins a cat-and-mouse chase with a contract killer seeking to trigger a nuclear disaster.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"A brilliant and dangerous group of scientists are determined to save the world from the perils of overpopulation by releasing into the world a brutal virus. Having just arrived at the research station at the earth's southernmost tip, returning hero Hallie Leland has seven days to stop them from putting their plan into action"--
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Waters of time volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"After the disappearance of her father and sister, Ellen Creighton wants nothing to do with the holy water they were seeking, even if it would cure her deadly genetic disease--until a friend helps her recognize its true power in this suspenseful, time-crossing romantic adventure"--
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Series
Waters of time volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Scientist Marian Creighton was skeptical of her father's lifelong research of ancient holy water-until she ingests some of it and finds herself transported back to the Middle Ages. With the help of an emotionally wounded nobleman, can she make her way back home? Or will she be trapped in the past forever?"--
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Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Earth us a paradox - a fertile world three-quarters covered with water, yet in danger of running dry. Overuse and pollution have drained most of its fresh water, and scientist Francesca Carval's brilliant formula for desalination has vanished with her plane over South America. But when Kurt Austin and his NUMA team come across a pod of dead whales, their investigation takes them to the Venezuelan jungle where a cadre is bent on controlling the world's...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Elizabeth Zott es madre soltera y renuente estrella del programa de cocina de televisión más seguido de Estados Unidos. El enfoque inusual de Elizabeth para cocinar, combinar una cucharada deácido acético con una pizca de cloruro de sodio, resulta revolucionario. Sin embargo, a medida que suéxito aumenta lo hacen también sus enemigos, porque Elizabeth no sólo esté enseñando a las mujeres a cocinar sino también desafiándolas a alterar el...
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Identity: Unknown (2000) : Navy SEAL Mitchell Shaw woke up one morning with no clue as to who he was. The items hidden in his possession were no help: an address and a .22 caliber sidearm. But the address led him to the Lazy 8 Ranch--and its beautiful manager, Becca Keyes, who made him believe he might have a future. Even if he wasn't sure about his past.--P. [4] of cover.
The admiral's bride (1999) : When six canisters of a lethal nerve agent are...
12) The split
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you... The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer - which signifies safety to resident glaciologist Felicity Lloyd. Felicity lives in fear - fear that her ex-husband Freddie will find her, even out here. She took a job on this isolated island to hide from him, but now that he's out of prison, having served a term for murder, she knows...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
Description
"Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star. But she kept a secret more shocking than her...
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Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Attentive readers of Lady Trent's earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar with how a bookish and determined young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic course that would one day lead her to becoming the world's premier dragon naturalist. Now, in this remarkably candid second volume, Lady Trent looks back at the next stage of her illustrious (and occasionally scandalous) career. Three years after her fateful...
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Secret scientists of London volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"How do you solve the Perfect Equation? Add one sharp-tongued mathematician to an aloof, handsome nobleman. Divide by conflicting loyalties and multiply by a daring group of women hell-bent on conducting their scientific experiments. The solution is a romance that will break every rule. Six years ago, Letitia Fenley made a mistake, and she's lived with the consequences ever since. Readying herself to compete for the prestigious Rosewood Prize for...
16) Lovelock
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Series
Mayflower trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
On the Ark, a colony ship bound outward across the stars, not everyone is a volunteer--or even human. Lovelock is a capuchin monkey engineered from conception to be the perfect servant: intelligent, agile, and devoted to his owner. He is a "witness," privileged to spend his days and nights recording the life of one of Earth's most brilliant scientists via digital devices implanted behind his eyes. But Lovelock is something special among witnesses....
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
Description
"Rosalind Franklin knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture--one more after thousands--she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her. Then it finally happens--the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what happens...
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Deeper than the dead novels volume 1
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English
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California, 1985. Detective Tony Mendez, fresh from a law enforcement course at FBI headquarters, is charged with discovering the identity of a brutal, calculating psychopath. His search pushes him ever deeper into the lives of three children, and closer to the young teacher whose interest in recent events becomes as intense as his own.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world's first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project--and future of time travel--in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from the team--erasing her contributions from history. Fifty years later, time travel is a big business. Twenty-something Ruby Rebello knows her beloved grandmother,...
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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-- A Natural History of Dragons, -- "Saturated with the joy and urgency of discovery and scientific curiosity." -- An NPR Best Book of 2013 -- In the Labyrinth of Drakes5. Within the Sanctuary of Wings At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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