Michael Crichton
21) Drug of choice
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Two patients in comas, not expected to live: when they both recover, sharing the same bizarre symptom of blue urine, it's a medical miracle that Dr. Roger Clark cannot explain. One of the patients happens to be Sharon Wilder, a beautiful Hollywood starlet. When she offers Dr. Clark the chance to accompany her to the private Caribbean island called Eden, he has to accept -- if only to learn more about the bioengineering company Advance, Inc., and...
22) Scratch one
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Playboy Roger Carr is handsome, wealthy, and connected. As an occasional lawyer, he's the right man to send to the French Riviera to secure a villa for an important client. It's the perfect assignment, complete with fast cars and fast women, until strange things begin to happen and Roger realizes that someone is trying to kill him. A ruthless terrorist organization called the Associates is carrying out assassinations from Egypt to Denmark. To stop...
Author
Pub. Date
℗1999
Language
English
Description
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.--
24) Congo
Author
Language
English
Description
Bibliography: p. [345]-348. Three adventurers trek into the Congo in search of the diamonds of the Lost City of Zinj. Adult
26) Sphere: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
A team of four top scientists assembled by the Navy is sent to investigate a spaceship that has been on the ocean floor for at least 300 years and they discover a dangerous secret.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs - the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness...their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
As an expert handler of venomous snakes, Charles Raynaud is accustomed to danger, so the job of bodyguarding an old acquaintance shouldn't make him break a sweat. But when an attempts on the man's life nearly get Raynaud killed, he suspects he himself is the real target.
29) Easy go
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Egyptologist Harold Barnaby has just made the discovery of the century. While retranslating some old hieroglyphs, he has found clues to the location of a pharaoh's lost tomb. But this discovery leads him to make the ultimate choice: rather than share his find with the rest of the world, Professor Barnaby is determined to locate the tomb and keep whatever treasure he finds inside for himself. But to pull off the greatest heist in the archaeological...
30) Rising Sun
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a novel set within the arena of volatile Japanese-American relations, business moguls compete for control of the international electronics industry.
34) Jurassic Park
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs cloned from prehistoric DNA.
35) Grave descend
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Leagues below the sparkling blue water of the Caribbean Sea lies the mysterious wreckage of the Grave Descend. Protected by a wall of coral reef and blood-thirsty sharks, the corpse of the sunken yacht has been deemed unrecoverable by every diver in the world. Until James McGregor is offered a shot at it. For McGregor, a thirty-nine-year-old diver with a long history of unsavory salvage jobs, it's his last chance at a big payday. But the more he...
36) Twister
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton play scientists pursuing the most destructive weather front to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley in 50 years.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A compelling account of the earth's first biological crisis. After an errant satellite crashes to earth near a remote New Mexico village, the recovery team discovers that everyone in the town are victims of a horrible death, with the mysterious exception of an infant and an old homeless man. The survivors are brought to a state-of-the-art underground laboratory, where the puzzled scientist's race against time to determine the nature of the deadly...
38) Rising sun
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A Los Angeles cop is called in to investigate the murder of a prostitute in the boardroom of a Japanese-owned company, only to discover a "shadow world" of futuristic technology, ancient ways and confusing loyalties.
39) Westworld
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
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.
40) Timeline
Language
English
Description
A group of present-day archeology students are stunned to discover a handwritten plea for help dated April 2, 1357...from their own professor. He's been blasted back in time to the 14th century. To rescue him, they must travel back and survive one of the most violent battles in world history--and make it back to the 21st century alive.