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1) The outside
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The outside volume 1
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Humanity's super-intelligent AI gods brutally punish breaches in reality, as one young scientist discovers, in this intense and brilliant space opera. Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard. The AI gods who rule the galaxy declare her work heretical, and Yasira is abducted by their agents....
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"Refreshing.... Asks urgent questions about female ambition. Fans of Lab Girl have found a worthy successor."-Real Simple
A powerful debut novel-a wonderfully engaging infusion of Lab Girl, The Assistants, and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine-that pits the ambition of scientific discovery against the siren call of love.
Emily Apell arrives in Justin McKinnon's renowned research lab with the single-minded goal of making a breakthrough...
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When Bec Shepherd, a scientist on the verge of finding a vaccine for malaria, refuses to marry her newspaper editor boyfriend, Val Oatman, she doesn't anticipate the consequences that her decision will have for her family. Oatman runs the Moral Foundation, a website that publishes allegations against well-known figures, and it isn't long before they come after her brother, Ritchie, an aging pop star turned reality TV show producer, threatening to...
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Dr. Francine Burk is offered a placement at a prestigious research institute where she can put to good use her award money. With advanced technological resources and a group of fascinating bonobos, Francine can begin to verify her subversive scientific discovery. Frankie comes to know the bonobos and further develops her groundbreaking theory with the help of her research partner, a man with a complicated past and perhaps a place in her future. And...
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Mad Morelands volume 7
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The long-awaited prequel to the Mad Morelands series—the story of Thisbe, the oldest Moreland daughter.
Thisbe Moreland is used to men not taking her seriously. As a scientist, she’s accustomed to being the only woman at lectures and meetings, her presence met with scorn and derision. So it comes as a pleasant surprise when she sits next to a handsome young man who is actually interested in having a conversation about science.
Desmond Harrison...
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"Etta Sparks's cozy dress shop, tucked away at the end of a winding Cambridge road, is a magical place - anyone who steps inside the little blue door to glimpse the glorious silks and jewel-hued velvets can see they are someplace special. But only Etta knows the dresses she sells are actually magic - a few stitches from her needle and each gown imbues the wearer with the confidence to achieve whatever they set their mind too. The only two people the...
7) Sadie X
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"Having followed the brilliant virologist Régnier from Montreal to Marseille many years ago, Sadie now works as a researcher in a lab, spending most of her time among microscopic creatures who teach her about life as a parasite. By day, she pushes the limits of her understanding alongside Régnier, who taught her that to study viruses, she must think infectiously, allow herself to be contaminated by dangerous ideas. By night, Sadie loses herself...
8) In ascension
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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...
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