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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.
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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. She travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.
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
Series
Publisher
Splinter
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kelsey returns home to Oregon, where Mr. Kadam has enrolled her in college, but danger sends her back to India to begin another quest, this time with Kishan, to try to break the curse that forces Kisham and his brother Ren to live as tigers.
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
Series
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (ca. 412 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old twins Oz and Lily are recruited by a talking cat to assist her and M16 in foiling the dastardly plans of their great-great-uncle, a chocolatier who used magic to make a candy that bestows immortality.
9) 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...
10) Tiger's destiny
Author
Series
Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
447 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan race against time and the evil sorcerer Lokesh on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal as they seek Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire, that will finally break the tiger's curse.
11) Tiger's voyage
Author
Series
Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
543 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After battling the villanous Lokesh, Kelsey and the Indian princes Ren and Kishan return to India, where Kelsey learns that Ren has amnesia, and five cunning dragons try to keep the trio from breaking the curse that binds them.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"By night, the Ankou is the most fearsome sword for hire in all the Five Lands - a legendary, permanently young mercenary, and its most abiding mystery. But when the sun rises, a dark magic leaves him no more than bones. Trapped in a cycle of death and resurrection, the Ankou wants only to find the final rest that has been prophesied for him, not matter the cost. When the kingdom of Kaer-Ise is sacked, Flora, a royal handmaiden, is assaulted and left...
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...
14) The toll
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
625 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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) Whispers at dusk
Author
Series
Blackbird trilogy (Heather Graham) volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
317 pages 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When darkness falls, there's nowhere to hide. Four bodies have been discovered along Europe's riverbanks, placed with care-and completely drained of blood. Pinpricks on their throats indicate a slender murder weapon, but DNA found in the wounds suggests something far more sinister. Tasked with investigating, the FBI recruits Agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter to Blackbird, an international offshoot of the Krewe of Hunters. If you want to catch...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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,...
17) Your utopia
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author and translator of Cursed Bunny, a fresh, uncanny, and utterly profound collection of stories set in near and distant futures that reflect our deepest fears -- and deepest desires. Bora Chung's inimitable blend of horror, absurdity, and dark humor reaches its peak in these tales of loss and discovery, dystopia and idealism, death and immortality. In a thrilling translation by the acclaimed Anton Hur, readers will experience...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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,...
19) 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.
20) Wild magic
Author
Series
Language
English
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.
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