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Author
Series
Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Iconoclastic scientist Isabella, Lady Trent of Scirland, embarks on a two-year global voyage, hoping to determine the relationships among the endless varieties of dragon.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didn't exist before--and one night, it opens to reveal an exact physical copy of her. This doppelgänger is sweet and biddable where Tamsin is calculating...
64) Forever peace
Author
Series
Forever series (Joe W. Haldeman) volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Language
English
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Description
The Ngumi War of 2043 is taking its toll on Julian Class, a soldier who operates an indestructible, remote controlled war machine known as a soldierboy, so when he and his lover make a startling scientific discovery that could set the universe back to the beginning of time, he is very tempted to try it out.
65) Hex
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in Biological Science, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote. Her mentor, Dr. Joan Kallas, preoccupies her thoughts. Nell frequently finds herself standing in the doorway to Joan's office despite herself. Surrounded by an ex, a best friend, a boyfriend, and a husband, the two scientists are tangled together at the center of a web of illicit relationships, grudges, and obsessions. The six are...
Author
Series
Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Attentive readers of Lady Trent's earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar with how a bookish and determined young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic course that would one day lead her to becoming the world's premier dragon naturalist. Now, in this remarkably candid second volume, Lady Trent looks back at the next stage of her illustrious (and occasionally scandalous) career. Three years after her fateful...
Author
Series
Claire Sharples mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Botanist Claire Sharples turns sleuth to find a killer in a dispute between tree loggers and environmentalists in California. The setting is the Joacquin Valley where loggers want to cut the redwoods.
Author
Publisher
Nightstand Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Astrophysicist Ainsley Grace has teamed up with her mother's former colleague at MIT to finish Project Cosmic Company, which her mother had been working on when she died. She gets an opportunity to pay off her mountain of college debt by writing stock-trading codes for a high-frequency trading firm, writing algorithms to make sure her firm's supercomputers are faster than any others on Wall Street. The difference between making a billion and losing...
72) Kill decision
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Linda McKinney is a myrmecologist, a scientist who studies the social structure of ants. Her academic career has left her entirely unprepared for the day her sophisticated research is conscripted by unknown forces to help run an unmanned and automated drone army. Odin is the secretive Special Ops soldier with a unique insight into the faceless enemy who has begun to attack the American homeland with drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A past kiss with adorably bookish Miss Olivia Norley should be barely a memory for Marlowe Drake, the Duke of Thornstock. After all, there are countless debutantes for a handsome rakehell to charm beyond a young lady whose singular passion is chemistry--of the laboratory type. But Thorn has not forgotten--or forgiven--the shocking blackmail scheme sparked by that single kiss, or the damage caused to both their names. Now Thorn's half-brother, Grey,...
Author
Series
Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Even those who take no interest in the field of dragon naturalism have heard of Lady Trent's expedition to the inhospitable deserts of Akhia. Her discoveries there are the stuff of romantic legend, catapulting her from scholarly obscurity to worldwide fame. The details of her personal life during that time are hardly less private, having provided fodder for gossips in several countries. As is so often the case in the career of this illustrious woman,...
Author
Series
Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Within the Sanctuary of Wings is the conclusion to Marie Brennan's thrilling Lady Trent Memoirs After nearly five decades (and, indeed, the same number of volumes), one might think they were well-acquainted with the Lady Isabella Trent--dragon naturalist, scandalous explorer, and perhaps as infamous for her company and feats of daring as she is famous for her discoveries and additions to the scientific field. And yet--after her initial adventure in...
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