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Author
Series
Pandava volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
The Pandavas call on old friends, make new allies, and face fearsome trials as they embark on a mission to stop the Sleeper from accessing the nectar of immortality, but ultimately Aru must decide who deserves immortality--the devas or the asuras--and an unexpected answer comes from an unexpected place.
Author
Publisher
[Tim Tigner]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
338 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm
Description
What kind of person would you become if you had all the money in the world? And all the time? Would you become a better person? Or worse? A secret--a discovery, an invention--bedded in Silicon Valley needs to be kept at any price. When folks are disappearing and strange murders occur, former CIA agent Zachery Chase and Skylar Fawkes investigate to figure out if finding the Fountain of Youth would really be a blessing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
When twelve-year old Ivy attends West Archer Academy, she is determined to graduate in two years and eventually follow her hero Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court, but after her roommate introduces her to a group of students who are hundreds of years old, she is forced to reexamine her priorities.
6) Mr. Nobody
Publisher
Entertainment One Films Canada Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife Elise and their three children until the day when reality skids and he wakes up as an old man in the year 2092. At 120, Mr. Nobody is both the oldest man in the world and the last mortal of a new mankind where nobody dies anymore.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
368 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Description
Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island, a young doctor investigates and proves a theory that the tribe's considerable longevity is linked to a rare turtle, a finding that brings worldwide fame and unexpected consequence.
8) Iron wolf
Author
Series
Vardari volume 1
Publisher
Arctis
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
478 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
"Born by blood readers who prey on people's fears, Juva vows never to become one of them until her family is threatened by vardari, the eerie lasting ones who never age, drawing her into a desperate hunt for her legacy--one that could change the world"--
9) Doctor Sleep
Author
Description
On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless -- mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the "steam" that children with the "shining" produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent...
11) Tuck everlasting
Author
Description
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
12) The might
Author
Series
Publisher
Arctis
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
477 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Hirka has been sent to the world of the blind, a powerful and immortal people whom she has been taught to fear since infancy---and who now see her as their only chance to reignite a thousand-year-old war. The blind will use Hirka's ability to travel between worlds to return to Ym, the land where Hirka grew up and where the blind were betrayed all those years ago. And this time, they will prevail"--
13) The rot
Author
Series
Publisher
Arctis
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
491 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Separated and struggling to survive in two different worlds, Hirka and Rime vow to defeat the ancient evil that offers immortality at a dangerous price.
14) Wings of desire
Series
Criterion collection volume 490
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An angel falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist and is willing to give up his immortal life to be with her.
Author
Series
Dodge novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, a imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
883 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia. One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain...
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Formats
Description
"In Immortality, Inc., veteran science journalist Chip Walter gains exclusive access to the champions of this radical cause, delivering a book that brings together for the first time the visions of molecular biologist and Apple chairman Arthur Levinson, genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter, futurist Ray Kurzweil, rejuvenation trailblazer Aubrey de Grey, and stem cell expert Robert Hariri. Along the way, Walter weaves in fascinating conversations about...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Though only fifteen, Maquia knows she will live for centuries without aging past adolescence. She belongs to the Iorph, a clan of ageless beings just like her. Maquia's elders warn her not to fall in love with anyone outside their realm, lest she wish to encounter true loneliness in the end. But fate pushes Maquia out into the mortal world one night, when an invading territory separates her from the clan. There she discovers an orphaned baby, Erial,...
18) How to stop time
Author
Appears on list
Description
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back his to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After being assigned to her university's prestigious and controversial neo-anthropological studies program, eighteen-year-old deaf student Delaney Meyers-Petrov must learn to channel her ability to slip between worlds--and, along with her capricious TA Colton Price, who seems determined to despise her, must uncover buried institutional secrets.
20) Tiger's curse
Author
Series
Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who's actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.
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