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A landing on the sun A landing on the sun Michael Frayn Unusual, captivating. A few books I speed read sometimes but not this one. Devoured every single word. Winner of Sunday Express Book of the Year 1991 OL13380W
Where petals fall Where petals fall Shirley Wells "When two young boys find a woman's body in a quarry, Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham experience a definite feeling of deja vu. Five years earlier, four women were found murdered in exactly the sam… OL13657033W
The sound of butterflies The sound of butterflies Rachael King Sophie Edgar barely recognizes her husband, Thomas, an amateur naturalist, when he returns from the Amazon, where he had hoped to find his long-dreamed-of mythical butterfly, Papilio sophia. The opti… OL13747860W
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein Peter Ackroyd When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only… OL14914924W
The Shaman Sings The Shaman Sings James D. Doss The howling Coyote, messenger of the dwarf master pitukupf and dancing balls of fire, the bruja. These are the omens that appear to the aged Ute shaman Daisy Perika and her shepherd friend Nahum Yaci… OL14926259W
Bloom's Reviews - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Bloom's Reviews - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Harold Bloom Summary: includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and index of themes and ideas. OL14942358W
Tentacles Tentacles Roland Smith After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, Marty and Grace go to live with their scientist uncle and accompany him on, what soon becomes, an increasingly dangerous expedition to New Zealand… OL15071758W
TIM TIM Sam Enthoven A huge, hilarious, monster of a story, pitting giant dinosaurs against evil professors...TIM is Tyrannosaurus Improved Model. He's a genetically modified dinosaur that the government have been growin… OL15174340W
CliffsCompleteTM Frankenstein CliffsCompleteTM Frankenstein Anca Munteanu The famous story of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his creation, the monster, was successfully dramatized throughout the last century and continues to fascinate audiences. CliffsComplete combines the … OL15178387W
Watch Over Me Watch Over Me Lucy Monroe Mission: IrresistibleSuper spy Mykola Chernichenko comes from a family of geniuses, and though he’s no idiot himself, he’d rather be where the action is than analyze it to death. That’s why his vacat… OL15179829W
Nim's friends Nim's friends Danielle Denega Living on a nearly deserted island with her scientist father, eleven-year-old Nim finds friends in the animals she encounters and the imaginary friends she creates from characters from her favorite b… OL15423482W
And falling, fly And falling, fly Skyler White Neuroscientist Dominic O'Shaughnessy, tortured by impossible visions, meets up with vampire and fallen angel of desire, Olivia, at the subterranean L'Otel Mathillide in an attempt to erase their tort… OL15440794W
Heresy Heresy S. J. Parris "Giordano Bruno was a monk, poet, scientist, and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy for his belief that the Earth orbits the sun and that the universe is infinite. Th… OL15498811W
The Indestructible Metal Men The Indestructible Metal Men Paul Collicutt An evil millionaire has kidnapped one of the Indestructable Metal Men--super-strong robots over one hundred years old--and is planning to use it to build an army of indestructible robots unless a fie… OL15586722W
Voyagers Voyagers Ben Bova Ex-astronaut turned physicist Keith Stoner knows that the signals he's picking up at his space station are anything but random. The fiery object heading toward Earth is an alien spacecraft. Yet the w… OL15832W
The invention of everything else The invention of everything else Samantha Hunt Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles across a man living permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific l… OL15843503W
The increment The increment David Ignatius When a hidden Tehran scientist sends encrypted messages to the CIA that reveal Iran's bomb-development program, agent Harry Pappas is directed to discern if the messages are true before enlisting the… OL15855626W
Hypno hounds! Hypno hounds! Michael Broad Young secret agent Amelia investigates three new cases, involving an evil genius who makes dogs howl, a sneaky science teacher who buys too much cereal, and a psychotic criminal picking the pockets o… OL15920509W
The Fo'c'sle The Fo'c'sle Nan Parson Rossiter In 1926 on Cape Cod, writer/naturalist Henry Beston, living in a little house named the Fo'c'sle, observes native and migratory birds and other wonders of nature as the seasons change. Excerpts from … OL16189123W
The fear index The fear index Harris, Robert "A visionary scientist creates a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions.… OL16283125W
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