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Pub. Date
2015.
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Description
Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take Carpenter and Quincannon from the heights above San Francisco Bay to the depths of Chinatown. John Quincannon is searching a Chinatown opium den for his client's husband, missing in a brewing tong war set to ignite over the stolen corpse of Bing Ah Kee. Meanwhile, his partner, Sabina Carpenter, unsure of the dark secrets her suitor might be concealing, searches for the corpse of a millionaire,...
3) The invasion
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A space shuttle burns up upon reentry causing debris to land across a wide area of the United States. Tucker Kaufman, a member of the CDC, visits one of the crash sites and gets a cut on his hand. Dr. Carol Bennell begins to notice that people are starting to act strange. She turns to her best friend, Dr. Ben Driscoll. He takes a small sample of the material to Dr. Stephen Galeano and they soon learn the substance is not from Earth. Carol's son, Oliver...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this graphic retelling of a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, a young medical student in nineteenth century Edinburgh accepts corpses for dissection that were stolen from fresh graves--until one day he recognizes the corpse as a friend who was murdered.
8) The invasion
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A doctor unearths the origin of an alien bacterial epidemic and discovers that her son may hold the key to stopping it.