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101) Reluctant immortals
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
102) Immortal hounds: 5
Author
Series
Immortal hounds volume 5
Publisher
Vertical Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The investigation into Marie's suspicious death has been stymied, and Kenzaki, tired of playing by the book, suggests a highly risky ploy to try and get answers about RDS from the very people his unit has worked against. Meanwhile, the Escape Artist organization is showing strain now that their show-stopping hound is in captivity..."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The 18th century. In a monastery in the North of Spain hides the sacred temple of the Knights of Heliopolis: an assembly of immortal alchemists cut off from the world. As disciple Seventeen prepares to complete his training and integrate order, his master Fulcanelli reveals to the other knights the terrible secret of his origins - Seventeen is actually the hidden son of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette! Will the young heir claim the throne or...
104) Immortal hounds: 3
Author
Series
Immortal hounds volume 3
Publisher
Vertical Comics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The authorities catch up to the deadly Snow White, who was whisked to this world while on a late-night trip to the corner store. To wrest her back, the leader of the Escape Artists calls in Karigane, a ruthless swordswoman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants ..."--Page [4] of cover.
106) My soul to keep
Author
Series
African Immortals series volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1998, ©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Jessica, a black reporter in Miami, discovers her husband, Seth, is not 30, but 500 years old, a member of an Ethiopian order of immortals. Recalled by the order for leaking the secret, Seth vows to give his wife and daughter immortality. But do they really want it? A look at the pros and cons of living forever. By the author of The Between.
107) Your utopia
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"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 a variety of possible fates for humanity, from total demise via a disease whose only symptom is casual cannibalism to a world in which even dreams can be monitored and used to convict people of crimes. ...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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 to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's...
109) Unbound
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Rozlyn Ó Conchúir is used to waiting--waiting for the king, her father, to relent and allow her to leave the solitude of her tower; waiting for the dreaded and mysterious beast of Connacht to at last be defeated; waiting for the arrival of the man destined to win her heart and break the terrible curse placed on her and her land. So when she meets Jamie--a charming and compelling suitor--she allows herself to hope that her days of solitude and patience...
Author
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Its the agony and the ecstasy as the day of Yucas rebirth has finally arrived! When this harbinger of Armageddon busts forth from the womb of Trida, its a tearful reunion for Rain and Yuca. But the moment is bittersweet, as the one-time friends have made an ancient and macabre pact. One that can only end in death.
Author
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Rain and Machika find themselves in a frigid wasteland of Angel's Graveyard, where they stumble upon a frozen woman who is strangely familiar to Rain. She forces him to confront the chilling secrets that have been buried deep within him.
Author
Series
Wicked + the divine volume 8
Publisher
Image Comics Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Every ninety years twelve gods return as young people. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are all dead. It's happening now. It's happening again."-- cover page 4.
Modernist poets trapped in an Agatha Christie Murder Mystery. The Romantics gathering in Lake Geneva to resurrect the dead. What really happened during the fall of Rome. The Lucifer who was a nun, hearing Ananke's Black Death confession. As we approach the end, we start...
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