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2) Everlasting
Author
Series
Immortals (Alyson Noel) volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Ever and Damen have spent centuries facing down bitter rivals, jealous friends, and their own worst fears in the hope of being together forever, but something threatens to tear them apart.
3) The returned
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harold and Lucille Hargave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their only son, Jacob, died tragically at his eighth birthday party in 1966. In their old age they've settled comfortably into life without him, their wounds tempered through the grace of time .... Until one day Jacob mysteriously appears on their doorstep -- flesh and blood, their sweet, precocious child, still eight years old. All over the world people's...
Author
Language
English
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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....
5) Blood magic
Author
Series
Blood journals volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In Yaleylah, Missouri, teens Silla and Nick, drawn together by loss and a shared family history of blood magic practitioners, are plunged into a world of dark magic as they try to unravel the mystery of Silla's parents' apparent murder suicide.
6) The toll
Author
Series
Arc of a scythe volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the highly anticipated finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy, dictators, prophets, and tensions rise. In a world that's conquered death, will humanity finally be torn asunder by the immortal beings it created? 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...
Author
Series
Mistborn novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history-- or religion.Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy...
Author
Series
Dark sword novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fallon MacLeod has gifts any warrior would covet--fierce strength, unmatched skill, even immortality. But those gifts come at a price that puts everyone he loves at risk.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever, and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across...
Author
Series
New tales of the vampires volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Pandora tells of her life as a woman of privilege in the Rome of Augustus Caesar.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Twins imbued with incredible magic and near-immortality will do anything to keep their family safe-even if it tears the siblings apart-in the first book of a mythic epic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls. Rhea and her twin brother, Lexos, have spent an eternity helping their father rule their small, unstable country, using their control over the seasons, tides, and stars to keep the people in line. For a hundred years,...
14) Night star
Author
Series
Immortals (Alyson Noel) volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Psychic teenagers Ever and Damen face down bitter rivals, jealous friends and their own worst fears--all in the hope of being together forever.
15) Ever
Author
Series
Ella enchanted volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her immortal.
16) Draekora
Author
Series
Medoran chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Pantera Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
17) Evermore
Author
Series
Immortals (Alyson Noel) volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.
18) The Declaration
Author
Series
Declaration trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.
19) Lothaire
Author
Series
Immortals after dark series volume 12
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of ruthless vampire Lothaire, following his determined pursuit of the Horde's crown before his efforts are thwarted by Elizabeth Peirce, a mortal who harbors a secret power that will kill her if Lothaire uses it to achieve his goals.
20) Dark flame
Author
Series
Immortals (Alyson Noel) volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As her friendship with Haven becomes strained after Haven abuses her new powers as an immortal, Ever delves into the dangerous world of dark magick to free her beloved Damen from Roman's power.
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