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Author
Series
Pandava volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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.
2) The returned
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the death of his favorite teacher--and secret lover--a young misfit with a deep interest in chemistry is launched into a search for an elixir of life started by his professor"--
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Ever since she made a deal to save her son's life in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, Rachel has been doomed to live eternally, but as her descendants develop new technologies for immortality, she realizes that, for them to live fully, she must die.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.
France, 1714. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-- and cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Addie LaRue's life will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art. After nearly 300 years,...
Author
Series
Secret series volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
423 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cass finds herself alone and disoriented in a dream-like world, while back at home she is in the hospital in a coma with Max-Ernest desperately searching for a way to awaken her.
8) Edgedancer
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 2.5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older - a wish she believed was granted. Now...the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows only as Darkness, court life is suffocating the free-spirited Lift, who can't help heading to Yeddaw when she hears the relentless Darkness is there hunting people like her...
9) Wild magic
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The mage Numair, the knight Alanna, and Queen Thayet enlist thirteen-year-old Daine's help to battle the dreadful immortal creatures that have recently begun to attack the kingdom of Tortall.
10) Drought
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ruby's blood holds the secret to the Water that keeps her and her fellow Congregants alive and enriches Darwin West, who has enslaved them for two centuries, but when her romance with an Overseer, Ford, brings her freedom in the modern world, she faces a terrible choice.
11) The familiar
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
Author
Series
Secret series volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown & Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
394 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Blood of Eden volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city, until she too becomes an immortal vampire. Forced to flee into the unknown, outside her city walls, she joins a ragged band of humans who are seeking a legend -- a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike.
14) The toll
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him? The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder"--
15) The goddess test
Author
Series
Goddess test novels volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.
16) Defy the worlds
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sophisticated robot Abel must save teenaged soldier Noemi from capture on a hidden planet, while outwitting armies of deranged service robots and securing medical aid for a plague on Noemi's home world"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she's from, only a fleeting sense that this isn't the first time she's found herself in similar circumstances. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She'll go on to become the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times,...
18) Tuck everlasting
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Her magical summer begins when she meets Jesse Tuck. Jesse is full of life and adventure and Winnie falls in love. The Tuck family has a powerful secret-- a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. Now Winnie must choose whether she wants to live life as she knows it or drink from the spring.
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross--a man who had sold his soul to live forever, and intended to use her death to pay the price of his immortality. Trouble was, he didn't ask Rose what she thought of the idea. It's been more than sixty years since that night, and she's still sixteen, and she's still running. They have names for her all over the country: the Girl in the Diner. The Phantom...
Author
Series
Secret series volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
385 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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.
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