Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda's ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career--after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator. Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops her...and claims they've met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she's mourning, why she's there. And he needs Mariana to remember everything he's saying. But just as they figure out this new life,...
Author
Series
Theresa MacLean novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean investigates a crime spree from Cleveland's past when the bodies of recent murder victims show up bearing the hallmarks of an uncaught serial killer who had terrorized the city seventy-five years earlier.
3) Deception
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unwittingly involved in insurance fraud, Hannah Gray leaps at the chance to take an Adriatic cruise, but after she befriends the wife of a scientist, she finds herself drawn into an intrigue that may cost her her life.
4) Skyhook
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A scientist and a pilot's daughter investigate a top-secret computer program that can control any plane in the sky in this spine-tingling thriller from New York Times–bestselling author John J. Nance For eighteen months, Dr. Ben Cole has worked to develop Skyhook, a highly advanced autopilot that can direct aircraft from the ground. On the first test run, something goes wrong over the Gulf of Alaska plunging Cole's plane toward a supertanker at...
Author
Series
Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
"All the world, from Scirland to the farthest reaches of Eriga, know Isabella, Lady Trent, to be the world's preeminent dragon naturalist. She is the remarkable woman who brought the study of dragons out of the misty shadows of myth and misunderstanding into the clear light of modern science. But before she became the illustrious figure we know today, there was a bookish young woman whose passion for learning, natural history, and, yes, dragons defied...
6) In ascension
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of Earth's first life forms--what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
"The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didn't exist before - and one night, it opens to reveal an exact physical copy of her. This doppelgänger is sweet and biddable where Tamsin is calculating...
8) Geneva
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's is invited to a prestigious conference in Geneva to meet a enigmatic neuroscientist who has developed technology that could change medicine forever and also save her life.
Author
Series
Locard Institute volume 3
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
When the pregnant daughter of software pioneer Martin Post, the third richest man in America, is murdered, expert forensic analysts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies, called in to investigate, are drawn into the Posts' increasingly dangerous family dynamic to determine who--and what--is at the heart of the crime.
10) Gambit
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this second book of the White House national security thriller series, Dr. Cameron Talbot, a famous expert on missile defense systems, returns to investigate how American airplanes could plummet from the sky-though nothing shows up on radar and none of the usual terrorist suspects have claimed responsibility.
With the country in a panic and the economy taking a nose-dive, the beautiful scientist finds herself once again enmeshed in international...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A ferociously cool Cold War thriller from the author of The Ipcress File. Len Deighton's third novel has become a classic, as compelling and suspenseful now as when it first exploded on to the bestseller lists. In Berlin, where neither side of the wall is safe, Colonel Stok of Red Army Security is prepared to sell an important Russian scientist to the West - for a price. British intelligence are willing to pay, providing their own top secret agent...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A South Carolina family endures one life-shattering day in 1961 in a town that lies in the shadow of a nuclear bomb plant. It's November 1, 1961, in a small town in South Carolina, and nuclear war is coming. Nine-year-old Wilson Porter believes this with every fiber of his being. He prowls his neighborhood for Communists and studies fallout pamphlets and the habits of his father, a scientist at the nuclear plant in town. Meanwhile, his mother Nellie...
13) Ship fever
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One novella and seven stories dealing with science and set in the 19th Century. In The Behavior of the Hawk weeds, the spirit of Mendel, the discoverer of the laws of heredity, haunts a geneticist of whose work Mendel disapproves, in Birds with No Feet, Darwin's theory of evolution provides a zoologist with consolation for his personal misfortunes, while in The English Pupil, Linnaeus, who brought order to botany, must deal with the mental disorder...
Author
Series
Harlequin medical romance volume 1355
Language
English
Description
Robotics scientist Harper dreams of helping prosthetics patients worldwide. The problem? Infuriating neurosurgeon Dr. Dom. This man raises her temper--and her pulse But despite a series of heated clashes, the layers of his cold exterior begin to melt. Soon, cautious Harper finds resisting her rival an impossible task, as days--and nights --in the lab blur the lines between professional and deeply personal...
15) The infinite
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Time is running out for the planet Jai. The artificially intelligent Gods who rule the galaxy have withdrawn their protection from the chaos-ravaged world, just as an ancient enemy closes in. For Yasira Shien, a scientist who has devoted herself to Jai's rising rebellion, it's time to do or die--and the odds are overwhelming. The enters Dr. Evianna Talirr.Talirr, the visionary who decimated the planet and began the rebellion, is not a woman to be...
16) Preset: a novel
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the Last War destroyed most of the world, survivors formed a new society in four self-sustaining cities in the Mojave Desert. To halt extinction, everything in the Four Cities is carefully predicted and carefully controlled...even love. But how can you control love and freedom? In the engrossing prequel to Reset, Preset weaves the tales of Eleanor, the Crone, and Eli, the Planner, before and after the creation of the Four Cities. Much has changed...
17) Prophet song
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
One Summer of Love: Business, wine and seduction... What could possibly go wrong? Brains and beauty? Scientist Delaney Carlisle challenges all of CFO Nolan Valentine's professional boundaries--and inspires a passion unlike any other. And she's an employee. Off-limits. The determined single mom is only in town for the summer to help turn Valentine Vineyards into a success. But seduction is on Nolan's agenda, and Delaney is worth breaking a few rules...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the spring of 1877 in Washington, D.C., and at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Hugh Allison has conceived a secret ambition: to project an image through time and space. But his plan takes on urgent life only when the mathematically gifted Cynthia May enters his orbit as one of the observatory's human "computers." A Civil War widow whose beauty has been shadowed by worry and poverty, Cynthia reluctantly falls in love with the younger Hugh, who missed...
20) Mine
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the conclusion to the series, Lydia and Daniel brace themselves for his inevitable decline, but must first go on a dangerous rescue mission.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request