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Maximum Ride volume 2
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After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny--to save the world, whether she wants to or not.
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"A towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society-and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs...
3) Double helix
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Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
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The six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity, and a frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by an overpowering fear that the kids are about to face a danger greater than any they've ever known.
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Years after armed men loot the city zoo in Baghdad, Lorna Polk, a Louisiana state veterinarian, discovers strangely deformed animals with a heightened intelligence in the cargo of a shipwrecked fishing trawler and must track down the one that got free, but she will need help from a man from her past, U.S. Border Patrol agent Jack Menard.
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Animosity between the genetically engineered Elites and their human subjects is fierce, and many rebels fight back against Elite rule. Hays Baker is a high-ranking agent in the Elite forces and at the forefront of keeping the humans under control. However, Hays is unknowingly hiding a secret that will make him the greatest threat to the Elite regime, and their number one target.
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Firefly code volume 1
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Mori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in Old Harmonie, a utopian community where every kid knows he or she is genetically engineered to be better and smarter, but when a strangely perfect new girl named Ilana moves in, the friends begin to question the only world they have ever known.
10) Wither
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Chemical Garden trilogy volume 1
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After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
11) The sky inside
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Martin, a genetically-engineered boy living in the perfectly ordered world of HM1, finds himself questioning the citizens' acceptance of the world around them when children begin to disappear, including Martin's little sister, and no one is willing to search for them, forcing Martin to set out on a dangerous mission to escape the suburb and explore the world outside, looking for answers.
12) Babylon babies
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Toorop is assigned to escort a young woman named Marie Zorn from Russia to Canada, but when another organization offers Toorop a higher fee to turn the woman over, he realizes Marie is no ordinary young woman, and vows to protect her and the child she is carrying, a mutant embryo created by an American cult to be the next Messiah.
13) The hunt
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Project paper doll volume 2
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"Sixteen-year-old Ariane Tucker has finally escaped GTX, the research facility that created her from human and extraterrestrial DNA. But life on the run is complicated"--
14) Prized
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Birthmarked trilogy volume 2
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Sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is in the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her when she is captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where she must follow a strict social code or never see her sister again.
15) Body, Inc
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Tipping point trilogy volume 2
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New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has always been on the cutting-edge of science fiction. In Body, Inc., he creates a tomorrow where genetic manipulation has become ubiquitous, and the very meaning of what it is to be human is undergoing drastic transformation.
In a world deeply wounded by centuries of environmental damage, two unlikely souls join forces: Dr. Ingrid Seastrom has stumbled into a mystery involving quantum-entangled...
16) Bunker 10
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Something is going terribly wrong at the top secret Pinewood Military Installation, and the teenage geniuses who study and work there are about to discover a horrible truth as they lead a small military force trying to retrieve data and escape before the compound self-destructs.
17) Adaptation
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Adaptation (Malinda Lo) volume 1
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In the aftermath of a series of plane crashes caused by birds, seventeen-year-old Reese and her debate-team partner, David, receive medical treatment at a secret government facility and become tangled in a conspiracy that is, according to Reese's friend, Julian, connected with aliens and UFOs.
18) Idols
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Icons series (Margaret Stohl) volume 2
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In the near future, four teenagers discover that their emotions have been weaponized and that they have been genetically bred to end the alien occupation of Earth.
19) The rules
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Project paper doll volume 1
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At sixteen, Ariane Tucker has been careful to elude those seeking her since her escape from a genetics lab ten years earlier, but the attention of classmate Zane, both frightening and intoxicating, tempts her to risk violating at least one of her adoptive father's five simple rules.
20) Runaway heart
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An environmental attorney devoted to lost causes, his daughter, and a disabled former cop join forces when an investigator is murdered by someone, or something, with superhuman strength. Appealing characters, truly villainous bad guys, and a fast moving plot make this a winner.
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