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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
256 pages ; cm
Description
"Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can?t die. Her recent troubles?widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son?are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of children. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, she?s tried everything to free herself, and only one other person in the world understands:...
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.
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...
Author
Series
Blood of Eden volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
504 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After Allison is forced to flee the city, she joins a band of humans who are seeking a legend -- a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the creatures threatening humans and vampires alike.
13) The returned
Author
Series
Returned volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 25 cm
Description
When their son Jacob, who died tragically at his 8th birthday party in 1966, arrives on their doorstep, still 8 years old, Harold and Lucille Hargrave must navigate a strange new reality as chaos erupts around the world as people's loved ones are returned from beyond.
Author
Series
Secret series volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
385 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Cass and Max-Ernest discover the Museum of Magic, unscramble more coded messages, and solve new mysteries in their attempt to thwart the Terces Society's ambitions of discovering immortality.
15) 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.
Author
Series
Secret series volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
347 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
When a mummy disappears from the local history museum while Cass and her friends Max-Ernest and Yo-Yoji are there, they try to solve the case in order to clear their names and, they hope, discover the Secret they have been seeking.
17) 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"--
Author
Series
Paper dragons volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Training as a Silhouette, an apprentice to the immortals, 12-year-old orphan Yeung Zhi Ging gets a chance to prove her worth when an evil spirit called Fui Gwai returns, giving her the opportunity to use her newfound powers to save her friends and the world beyond.
Author
Series
Secret series volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown & Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
394 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Cass's mom is kidnapped by the evil dessert chef, Señor Hugo, who requests the legendary tuning fork as ransom, leading Cass and Max-Ernest to try finding the magical instrument in time.
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