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Sigler, Scott.FICAncestor : a novel / Scott Sigler. -- 1st ed. -- New York : CrownSIG Publishers, c2010.Summary: "The ancestors are out there, you have to believe me." From acclaimedauthor Scott Sigler-New York Times bestselling creator of Infected and Contagiouscomesa tale of genetic experimentation's worst nightmare come true. Every fiveminutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a heart, a liver, a kidney.Imagine a technology that could provide those life-saving transplant organs for anominal fee ... and imagine what a company would do to get a monopoly on thattechnology. On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group ofgeneticists who have discovered this holy grail of medicine. By reverse-engineeringthe genomes of thousands of mammals, Colding's team has dialed back theevolutionary clock to re-create humankind's common ancestor. The method? Illegal.The result? A computer-engineered living creature, an animal whose organs can beimplanted in any person, and with no chance of transplant rejection. There's just oneproblem: these ancestors are not the docile herd animals that Colding's teamenvisioned. Instead, Colding's work has given birth to something big, something evil.With these killer creatures on the prowl, Colding and the woman he loves must fight tosurvive - even as government agents close in to shut the project down, and the deeppocketedcompany backing this research proves to have its own cold-blooded agenda.As the creators become the prey in the ultimate battle for survival, Scott Sigler takesreaders on the ultimate thrill-ride-and offers a chilling cautionary account of what canhappen when hubris, greed, and madness drive scientific experimentation past thebrink of reason. “ (BooksInPrint Online)Singleton, Linda Joy.FICDead girl walking / Linda Joy Singleton. -- 1st ed. -- Woodbury, Minn.SIN : Flux, c2008.SUMMARY: When Amber, a smart, middle-class, high school student, is hit by atruck, she meets her deceased grandmother in a dreamlike place, then takes a wrongturn and awakens in the body of a wealthy, beautiful, popular classmate with seriousproblems.Sleator, William.FICRewind / William Sleator. -- New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Puffin Books,SLE 2001, c1999.SUMMARY: Not long after learning that he was adopted, eleven-year-old Peter is hit bya car and then given several chances to alter events that could lead to his death.Sleator, William.FICThe boy who couldn't die / William Sleator. -- New York : AmuletSLE Books, c2005.SUMMARY: “When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-oldKen has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learnsthat he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock hissoul away.”Sleator, William.FICThe duplicate / William Sleator. -- New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : PuffinSLE Books, 1999, c1988.SUMMARY: “Sixteen-year-old David, finding a strange machine that createsreplicas of living organisms, duplicates himself and suffers the horribleconsequences when the duplicate turns against him.”Page 38 of 433/10/2011