Michael Crichton
1) Eruption
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A history-making volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the military is more terrifying than the volcano.
2) Next
Author
Publisher
Harper Torch
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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
Series
Jurassic Park volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A breakthrough in genetic engineering leads to the development of a technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA, a method that brings about the creation of Jurassic Park, a tourist attraction populated by creatures extinct for eons.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
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
Series
Jurassic Park volume 2
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo comes the sequel to the smash-hit Jurassic Park, a thriller that’s been millions of years in the making.
“Fast and gripping.”—The Washington Post Book World
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic...
“Fast and gripping.”—The Washington Post Book World
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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...
7) Prey: novel
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Deep in the remote Nevada desert, eight people are trapped inside of the Xymos Corporation by a rapidly evolving swarm of predatory molecules that have massed together to form a powerful and intelligent organism that is targeting its creators.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
English Captain Charles Hunter and his crew of ruffians sail from colonial Jamaica to infiltrate a Spanish-controlled island, commandeering the galleon El Trinidad and its fortune in gold after a bloody battle, but Hunter and his crew have plenty of danger and adventure ahead of them, in this 17th-century swashbuckling tale.
10) Timeline
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized — and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century
feudal France.
Imagine the risks of such a journey.
Not...
feudal France.
Imagine the risks of such a journey.
Not...
Series
Publisher
PI Kids, Phoenix International Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Jurassic World! Hop into a Gyrosphere and explore 8 amazing scenes featuring the breathtaking Mosasaurus, astonishing scientific breakthroughs, and other jaw-dropping Jurassic World and dinosaur attractions from the hit feature film series. When you finish the story, stomp to the back of the book for even more Look and Find adventures! This book is remarkable because Look and Find play encourages focus and discovery, engaging with Blue...
12) Disclosure
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1994
Language
English
Description
DigCom executive Tom Sanders rejects the erotic advances of his new boss and former lover Meredith, and she charges him with sexual harassment. Now Tom must scramble for his corporate life.
13) Jurassic Park
Series
Publisher
Universal
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 created from prehistoric DNA.
14) Twister
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures in a new era.