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Series
(David Eric),Reincarnationist Papers volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Evan Michaels is in a new life as a Syrian refugee. When memories of his former lives lead him back to Zurich, headquarters of his fellow reincarnationists, the Cognomina, he must reacquire their trust.
42) Darkness rises
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Krysta is used to getting the drop on vampires. Her "special abilities" aren't much, but the plan is simple -- she plays helpless pretty young thing to lure them in. Then her shoto swords come out and it's bye-bye, bloodsucker. Until one night she finds herself with an unexpected ally. He's a vampire, all right, but different. Mysterious. Handsome. And more interested in saving her skin than draining it. Étienne has been an Immortal Guardian for...
Author
Series
Lords of the Underworld volume 7
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When he meets Haidee, a fellow prisoner and a demon assassin, Amun, the keeper of the demon of Secrets, finds himself drawn to this enemy whose very touch sets his body on fire.
44) The stitchers
Author
Series
Fright watch volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-olds Quinn Parker and Mike Warren uncover the awful truth about their strange neighbors and the gruesome secret of how they stay young.
Author
Series
Souls of fire volume 1
Publisher
Signet Select
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A phoenix capable of taking on human form and cursed with the ability to foresee death, Emberly Pearson finds everything she has worked so hard for going up in flames when she tries to save a man she once loved from meeting his prophesied fate.
Author
Series
Argeneau series volume 36
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Alasdair MacKenzie has never once considered himself unlucky in all the centuries he's been an immortal rogue enforcer. Not until he meets Sophie. Finding the beautiful, smart, and funny woman who is his life mate is great luck, actually. But meeting her at a wedding full of Argeneaus, not to mention his own busybody uncles determined to "help him claim his woman," is bad luck. And the fact that Sophie is someone else's date? Well that's just the...
Author
Series
Fever novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dani "Mega" O'Malley plays by her own set of rules -- and in a world overrun by Dark Fae, her biggest rule is: Do what it takes to survive. Possessing rare talents and the all-powerful Sword of Light, Dani is more than equipped for the task. In fact, she's one of the few humans who can defend themselves against the Unseelie. But now, amid the pandemonium, her greatest gifts have turned into serious liabilities.
Author
Series
Lords of the Underworld volume 4
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Bound by the demon of Doubt, Sabin unintentionally destroys even the most confident of lovers. So the immortal warrior spends his time on the battlefield instead of the bedroom, victory his only concern...until he meets Gwendolyn the Timid. One taste of the beautiful redhead, and he craves more. Gwen, an immortal herself, always thought she'd fall for a kind human who wouldn't rouse her darker side. But when Sabin frees her from prison, battling...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Tired of inadvertently killing people with her special ability Unluck, Fuuko Izumo sets out to end it all. But when she meets Andy, a man who longs for death but can't die, she finds a reason to live and he finds someone capable of giving him the death he's been longing for. Sick of being targeted, Fuuko and Andy decide they would rather be the hunters than the hunted. So they set their sights on joining the ten-member Union. But to snag the second...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A Chinese Lord of the Rings and one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--now in a thrilling new one-volume translation A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped staff that...
51) Parakeet
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English
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"The week of her wedding, the bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious expression, and the way she asks: What is the Internet? Her grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother. In the days that follow, the bride's march to the altar becomes a wild and increasingly fragmented, unstable journey that bends toward the...
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can't go out, but the dead can come in--and they come in all forms, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the 'companionship' program choose to upload their consciousness before dying, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
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
Publisher
Vesuvian Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jake Wood has it made. He is a tough homicide detective with a partner who's like a brother, and he's about to marry the girl of his dreams. Then Jake learns a close friend is missing and travels to South America in search of him. After a freak accident in the Amazon Rainforest, Jake wakes up in the hospital--eighteen months later. Long presumed dead, he discovers his fiancée is married and pregnant, his house was sold, his job is gone, and his partner...
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
A dark comedy about greed, vanity, sex, immortality, life--and death. Madeline and Helen, rivals for the affections of Ernest, are both desperate to restore their youthful beauty, believing it is the only way to attract him. But while the potion each one purchases from a mysterious woman has the power to keep them beautiful, they find there is a down side to being immortal.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet-saving the politically polarized, rapidly warming world from itself-in this slyly funny contemporary take on Arthurian legend. Being reborn as an immortal defender of the realm gets awfully damn tiring over the years-or at least that's what Sir Kay's thinking as he claws his way up from beneath the earth, yet again. Kay fought at Hastings, and at Waterloo, and in both World Wars....
Author
Series
Dark sword novels volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Druid-born and magic-blessed, Isla is one of the deadliest she-devils ever to serve the forces of darkness. As an immortal Highland warrior, it's up to Hayden Campbell to destroy her and her kind. But for Hayden, Isla is more than a sworn enemy. She is temptation... Taking Isla captive, Hayden hopes to avenge his kinsmen who died by Druid magic. But when he looks into Isla's eyes, he sees the secrets of her past. When he touches her skin, he feels...
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