Michael Crichton
1) Prey: novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Michael Crichton's Prey is a terrifying page-turner that masterfully combines a heart–pounding thriller with cutting-edge technology.
Deep in the Nevada desert, the Xymos Corporation has built a state-of-the-art fabrication plant, surrounded by miles and miles of nothing but cactus and coyotes. Eight people are trapped. A self-replicating swarm of predatory molecules is rapidly evolving outside the plant. Massed together, the molecules form an...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers another action-packed techo-thriller in State of Fear.
When a group of eco-terrorists engage in a global conspiracy to generate weather-related natural disasters, its up to environmental lawyer Peter Evans and his team to uncover the subterfuge.
From Tokyo to Los Angeles, from Antarctica to the Solomon Islands, Michael Crichton mixes cutting edge science and action-packed adventure,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, comes an astounding, eye-opening look at the world of genetics as it's happening now, told as only Michael Crichton can tell it, with lightening fast pacing and thrilling chases.
Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control. This is not the world of the future-it's the world right now. Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct?...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The Caribbean, 1665. Pirate captain Charles Hunter, with backing from a powerful ally, assembles a crew of ruffians to take the Spanish galleon, "El Trinidad," guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.
6) Timeline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a group of scientists learns how to travel through time, they enter life in fourteenth-century feudal France and threaten the history of the world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Andromeda novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors; an elderly addict and a newborn infant. The U.S. government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top secret emergency response protocol. Four of the nation's most elite biophysicists...
11) Jurassic Park
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Author
Series
Andromeda novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name, the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is as terrifyingly realistic and resonant as the original"--