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Pandava volume 5
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English
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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
The Story Plant
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In order to help her impoverished sister, Dr. Caroline Soames-Watkins agrees to help on a mysterious project aiming to go beyond curing the human body of disease to develop a technology capable of solving the riddle of mortality of the soul.
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English
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For Rose Marshall, death has long since become the only life she really knows. She's been sweet sixteen for more than sixty years, hitchhiking her way along the highways and byways of America, sometimes seen as an avenging angel, sometimes seen as a killer in her own right, but always Rose, the Phantom Prom Date, the Girl in the Green Silk Gown. The man who killed her is still out there, thanks to a crossroads bargain that won't let him die, and he's...
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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
Ramses the damned volume 3
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
10) The returned
Author
Series
Returned volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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.
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English
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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.
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
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.
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Publisher
Underland Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First hardback Underland Press edition.
Language
English
Description
While a wizard prepares to operate on her to extend his life, Pomp, an immortal fairy, joined by Heraclix, a stitched-together monster, escapes and travels through a turbulent eighteenth century on a quest to find out who and what she is.
15) Forever twelve
Author
Series
Evers volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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.
16) How to stop time
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English
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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...
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English
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"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:...
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"In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazú Falls, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret society called the Order that pursues eternal life through ghastly rituals....
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
In time, Tatijana and Fenris will discover all that unites them: their secrets and pasts, their predators, and the hot flush of passion that stirs their souls. Yet just as surely, seduced into the silvery darkness of a full-moon night, they'll also discover everything ancient and evil that exists to destroy them.
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Series
Dodge novels volume 2
Language
English
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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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