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1) In ascension
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"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...
2) Pandemonium
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A ruthless Russian tycoon lures biologists Nell and Geoffrey to his underground metropolis, where they are confronted by a vicious menagerie of biological horrors that are rising up to consume the world.
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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. But what happened that day on the moors? And where has she been all this time? Mal's reappearance hasn't gone unnoticed by MI5 officers either, and Lee isn't the only one with questions. Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top physicist Kay Amal Khan. This leads Julian to clash with agents...
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"Galapagos Regained centers on the fictional Chloe Bathurst, an unemployed Victorian actress who finds work on Charles Darwin's estate, nurturing the strange birds, exotic lizards, and giant tortoises he brought back from his trip around the world. When Chloe gets wind of the Great God Contest, sponsored by the Percy Bysshe Shelley Society--£10,000 to the first petitioner who can prove or disprove the existence of a Supreme Being--she decides that...
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"Maja to zarówno autentyczna historia, jak i literacka fikcja, lecz właściwie trudno stwierdzić, który wątek jest bardziej fantastyczny. To lektura, w której musimy odnaleźć siebie, nasze lęki, tęsknoty i nieograniczoną potęgę wyobraźni. To książka o miłości, przyjaźni, przemijaniu i odkrywaniu sensu istnienia. Równolegle, jak we wszystkich książkach autora "Świata Zofii”, zaproszeni zostajemy do udziału w fascynującej...
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Origin mystery volume 1
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Dr. Kate Warner left California for Jakarta, Indonesia to escape her past. She has yet to put her life back together, but she has made a remarkable discovery: a cure for autism. But when two children in her research study are abducted, Kate is plunged into a world of intrigue and conspiracies. She quickly learns that her work is not what it seems. Her research could rewrite everything we know about human evolution and hold the key unleashing a global...
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Origin mystery volume 2
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"A pandemic 70,000 years in the making ... will change humanity ... forever"--Page 4 of cover.
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Clan of the claw volume 1
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Presents four linked novellas set in a heroic, bronze-age world, where mammalian courage against reptile cunning will determine who inherits the Earth.
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"When the icy shards of a rogue comet fall to Earth, they bring an unknown virus that accelerates evolution to extremes. Suddenly, infected plants grow stronger, choking out those uninfected. Animals turn aggressive and deadly. The eyes of loved ones go cold, and infected neighbors begin exhibiting signs of brutal domination. Dr. Susan Perry, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, uncovers the frightening scope of the...
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