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The Barnacle sisters--Bell, Bridget, Benita, Beryl, Belinda and Beth--have been raised in New York bytheir eccentric, self-made father in a fabulous, gigantic Fifth Avenue apartment that, encrusted with Barry Barnacle's scientific collections, feels like a little piece of the Museum of Natural History transplanted to the other side of Central Park. Now that most of the sisters have come of age, Barry Barnacle proposes a contest, a test of wits and...
2) In ascension
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English
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"An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage of a single human life. 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...
4) Fragment
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
356 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they've seen before--an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards.
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Series
Origin mystery volume 2
Publisher
Legion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
442 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"A pandemic 70,000 years in the making...will change humanity...forever"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Origin mystery volume 1
Publisher
Legion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
628 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"70,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how. Until now. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity may not survive this time"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
627 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"Four years ago, two girls went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor. Only one came back. Lee thought she'd lost Mal, but now she's miraculously returned. Mal's reappearance hasn't gone unnoticed by MI5 officers either. Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top physicist Kay Amal Khan. This leads Julian to clash with agents of an unknown power--and they may or may not be human"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Origin mystery volume 3
Publisher
Legion
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Edition 3.1.4.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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"Time has almost run out. In the aftermath of a global plague, the human race is shattered and in no state to face the new catastrophe that is now engulfing the planet. But then, from deep space, a signal, a coded message. Someone -- or something -- is out there, searchg."--Page 4 of cover.
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