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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants...
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On an island off Costa Rica there exists a hush-hush colony of giant animals which attracts the attention of two expeditions. The first one, including children, is led by a paleontologist, the other is made up of evil scientists who want to do experiments. The animals rout both without much concern for their motives.
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Jurassic Park volume 1
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A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening the attraction to the public, he invites some scientists to experience the park and help calm anxious investors; but, during the visit, the security system breaks down and prehistoric creatures break out.
4) Replica
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From Lauren Oliver, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy, comes an epic, masterful novel that explores issues of individuality, identity, and humanity.
Lyra's story begins in the Haven Institute, a building tucked away on a private island off the coast of Florida that from a distance looks serene and even beautiful. But up close the locked doors, military guards, and biohazard suits
...5) False sight
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False memory volume 2
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English
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"After discovering the truth about her origins--she is a clone, created to be a weapon--Miranda must fight to protect those she loves from an unthinkable future"--
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Jack is a walking fossil. The only human among a sea of clones. It s been hundreds of years since humanity died off in the slow plague, leaving the clones behind to carry on human existence. Over time they ve perfected their genes, moving further away from the imperfections of humanity. But if they really are perfect, why did they create Jack? While Jack longs for acceptance, Althea-310 struggles with the feeling that she's different from her sisters....
8) The similars
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Similars volume 1
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"When six clones join Emmaline's prestigious boarding school, she must confront the heartbreak of seeing her dead best friend's face each day in class"--
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Similars volume 2
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English
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Still reeling from the events of last year, Emma isolates herself from her friends and Ollie, but when Gravelle's plot is revealed, Emma realizes she must stop him before he destroys everyone she loves.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2017]
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English
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"In the world outside of the Haven Institute, Lyra and Caelum are finding it hard to be human--and Lyra, infected at Haven with a terrible disease, finds her symptoms are growing worse. When Caelum leaves without warning, Lyra follows him, seeking a pioneering organization in Philadelphia that might have a cure. But what they uncover there is a shocking connection to their past, even as their future seems in danger of collapsing. Though Gemma just...
11) The never weres
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Annick Press
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c2011
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English
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Late in the next century, the human race faces extinction. An incurable virus has left the world with no new births. But three of the last surviving teens are determined to carry on. When they stumble upon the decades-old mystery of a missing girl, they may find a way to save the world.
12) Sharp north
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Sharp north volume 1
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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In a futuristic world, Great Families rule Britain through a caste system where reproduction is seriously restricted, while the families keep illegal clones or "spares" of themselves.
13) Beta
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Annex novels volume 1
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Hyperion
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2012
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English
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"On a futuristic island paradise where humans are served by enslaved clones, a sixteen-year-old clone named Elysia seeks her own freedom"--
14) The selected
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Sharp north volume 2
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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2010
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English
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Adeline, a flawed clone, learns from a set of diaries written in 2023 by Dominic, one of her forebears, that she may be the savior the people have awaited, if only she has the courage and ingenuity to outwit the forces ranked against her.
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Isla del tiempo volume 3
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Ediciones Destino
Pub. Date
2003
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Español
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In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
16) Falls the shadow
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Falls the shadow volume 1
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Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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When her sister Violet dies, Cate's wealthy family brings home Violet's clone, who fits in perfectly until Cate uncovers something sinister about the cloning movement.
17) Star split
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Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
1999
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English
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In 3038, thirteen-year-old Darci uncovers an underground movement to save the human race from genetic enhancement technology.
19) The Originals
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Little, Brown & Co
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2013
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English
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Seventeen-year-olds Lizzie, Ella, and Betsy Best are clones, raised as identical triplets by their surrogate mother but living as her one daughter, Elizabeth, until their separate abilities and a romantic relationship force a change.
20) False future
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False memory volume 3
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Rhys, Noble, Sophia, and Peter cannot face their enemy, True Earth, without Miranda but when they revive her, she is horrified to find her world in flames and must use her grief to fuel her spirit as she helps to seek Mr. East, who must be turned in for the brutal enemy occupation of Manhattan to end.
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