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"Professor Von Skalpel lives in Monster Manor with many creatures of the unnatural kind! But lately the professor can't seem to please any neighbor, living or dead. His new invention, monster glue, is a disaster and is causing some monstrous problems. How will the professor fix this monster madness?"--P. [4] of cover.
63) Genome
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Extinction files volume 2
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In 2003, the first human genome was sequenced. But the secrets it held were never revealed. The truth was discovered thirty years ago, almost by accident. Dr. Paul Kraus had spent his entire career searching for what he called humanity's lost tribes--human ancestors who had gone extinct. When Kraus compared the DNA samples of the lost tribes with our own, he found a pattern of changes: a code. At the time, the technology didn't exist to unravel what...
64) Emmet's Storm
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Emmet Roche is an odd ball, a whippersnapper, a genius. His failed science experiments caused such a ruckus he's being shipped out to the country school. Nobody there likes or understands him. When the blizzard of 1888 hits, snowing sideways, will anyone listen to his ideas about the flame color in the stove? And the headaches and dizziness? Will they take his advice before it's too late?
65) X-Club
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In the wake of Schism, the X-Men's science team takes it upon themselves to make a gesture of goodwill on behalf of Mutantkind and better the world -- using sciene. But just as construction of the X-Club's state-of-the-art space elevator nears completion, chaos erupts -- and it appears to the world mutants are to blame!
66) Locus solus
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The wealthy scientist Martial Canterel guides a group of visitors through his expansive estate, Locus Solus, where he displays his various deranged inventions, each more spectacular than the last. First, he introduces a machine propelled by the weather, which constructs a mosaic out of varying hues of human teeth, then shows a hairless cat charged with a powerful electric battery, and next a bizarre theater in which corpses are reanimated with a special...
68) The King's pawn
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In his new Science Fiction mystery novel, high school junior, blogger and first-time novelist Aaron Hanania takes us into a world in which the norms of human dignity and life are taken to the extreme. A scientist creates a revolutionary experiment, The King's Pawn, in which the participants are unaware of the roles that they play in what is expected to be a literally perfect world. The scientist soon discovers her "methodically controlled society"...
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War of the Worlds: At first, the far future looks like an enchanting place to the Time Traveller. The graceful Eloi appear to embody contentment, beauty and peace, and the Eden they live in seems to be free of suffering. But he soon comes to understand that the Eloi are fragile creatures, desperately afraid of the dark, and with good reason. For the Morlocks live in the dark, and the Morlocks are to be feared. And the Time Traveller must venture in...
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"Todos los exnovios de Sandra creían en el azar, a pesar de que ella, psicóloga, tiene una mentalidad científica. El último la dejó el día siguiente a San Valentín, el año pasado. De modo que cuando esa fecha fatídica regresa, Sandra se pregunta si existe la fórmula exacta para dar con el hombre ideal. Inspirada por la paradoja de Fermi y por las obras de Isaac Asimov, tiene una revelación: utilizar los datos estadísticos de su trabajo...
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