Michael Crichton
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The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William Johnson. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win...
3) Airframe
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An airliner porpoises over the Pacific--dives and rises--killing a number of passengers. Human or technical error? On the answer depend a big overseas sale to China and company jobs. Vice-president Casey Singleton battles TV hounds, intrigues and a hostile CEO as she tries to determine the cause.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo, this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
“[Michael] Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.”—Chicago Sun-Times
An...
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
“[Michael] Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.”—Chicago Sun-Times
An...
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In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanations. It is a spaceship.
7) Congo
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park and Timeline comes a gripping thriller about the shocking demise of eight American geologists in the darkest region of the Congo.
“Thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review
Deep in the African rainforest, near the ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, a field expedition is brutally killed. At the Houston-based Earth Resources...
“Thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review
Deep in the African rainforest, near the ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, a field expedition is brutally killed. At the Houston-based Earth Resources...
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Andromeda novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiv, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle--designated The Andromeda Strain--killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before a...
9) ER: Season 5
Pub. Date
[2006]
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6 videodiscs (977 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In its fifth season, third-year med student Lucy Knight joins the team in the ER and kindles a relationship with Dr. Carter. Dr. Green watches helplessly as his family is torn apart, and Dr. Ross leaves the ER for a new job.
10) Westworld
Pub. Date
[2010]
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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This story of a technological paradise suddenly turned nightmare is a genuine shocker. For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the "theme park" called Westworld where the gunhands and dance-hall girls are all robots programmed to serve the guests' violent and lustful fantasies--until something goes wrong with their circuitry.
11) ER: Season 7
Pub. Date
[2007]
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6 videodiscs (978 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Television series about the work and lives of a group of emergency room doctors in Chicago. The gurneys keep rolling in this season that includes: Abby's reunion with her mother, a turbulent woman suffering from bipolar disorder; Carter returns from detox; Abby goes back to square one in med training.
Pub. Date
c2012
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Another batch of hungry dinosaurs wreak havoc with humankind in this third installment. Dr. Alan Grant is persuaded to travel to the site of the second InGen lab and discovers that the velociraptors are more intelligent than anyone thought.
13) ER: season 2
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[2004], c1995-c1996
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4 videodiscs (ca. 985 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The lives, loves and losses of the doctors and nurses of Chicago's County General Hospital continue. A behind-the-scenes look at what happens when your life is put into the hands of emergency room doctors and nurses.
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2017.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 619 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. folded color insert
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A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin -- exploring a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. Exploring what it means to be human through the eyes of the lifelike AI "hosts" in the park, the series investigates the boundaries of an exotic world set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past. Meticulously crafted and artfully designed. Westworld...