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Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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...
3) In ascension
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"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...
4) Fragment
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scientists have found a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they'e seen before. A group of young scientists from the TV show Sealife travel to the island and discover a life form that must be saved at any cost.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. print edition.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Based on a real scientific event and inspired by a beloved real human in the author's life, this is a story about science and the poetry of existence; about time and chance, genetics and gender, love and death, evolution and infinity - concepts often too abstract for the human mind to fathom, but more accessible to the young imagination; concepts made fathomable here through the concrete, finite life of one tiny, unusual creature dwelling in a pile...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"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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