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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
House immortal volume 2
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
To protect the people she loves, Matilda Case, one of the immortal galvanized, must stop the reoccurrence of an ancient time experiment, which gifted her and the other galvanized with immortality, in order to save the world from utter destruction.
43) Darkness falls
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
While living at River's Edge where she is learning to cope with her darker impulses, immortal Nastasya's ties to dark magick get in her way once again and she is pulled back into her former destructive lifestyle.
44) Red harvest
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Unlike those other Jedi sidelined to the Agricultural Corps, Hestizo Trace possesses one extraordinary Force talent: a gift with plants. Suddenly her quiet existence among greenhouse and garden specimens is violently destroyed by the arrival of an emissary from Darth Scabrous who seeks the final ingredient in an ancient Sith formula that promises to grant Darth Scabrous his greatest desire: immortality. But at the heart of the formula is a never-before-seen...
45) Tiger's quest
Author
Series
Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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
Series
Lords of the Underworld volume 5
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
For weeks, the immortal warrior Aeron has sensed an invisible female presence. An angel--demon-assassin--has been sent to kill him. Or has she? Olivia claims she fell from the heavens, giving up immortality because she couldn't bear to harm him. But trusting--and falling for--Olivia will endanger them all. So how has this mortal with the huge blue eyes already unleashed Aeron's darkest passion?
Author
Series
Secret series volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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
Publisher
Evil Eye Concepts
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"For centuries Galen the Treacherous has been the most hated immortal in the Underworld. With good reason! This bad boy of bad boys has lied, stolen, cheated and killed with abandon. Possessed by the demons of Jealousy and False Hope, he has always lived for a single purpose: destroy everything. Then he met her." -- back cover.
Author
Series
Immortals after dark series volume 11
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"He vowed he'd come for her...Murdered before he could wed Regin the Radiant, warlord Aidan the Fierce seeks his beloved through eternity, reborn again and again into new identities, yet with no memory of his past lives. When Regin encounters Declan Chase, a brutal Celtic soldier, she recognizes her proud warlord reincarnated. But Declan takes her captive, intending retribution against all immortals--unaware that he belongs to their world..."--P....
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The complete collection of short stories written for the Dark-Hunter series includes "Phantom Lover" and "Love Bytes" as well as a new, previously unreleased title and tales that have only been published exclusively on the author's website.
Author
Series
Tut (P.J. Hoover) volume 2
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Granted the gift of immortality by the gods, King Tut, living as an eighth-grader in Washington, D.C., has been stuck in middle school for ages and to make things worse, evil General Horemheb, in league with the Cult of Set, is seeking revenge for his 3,000-year imprisonment at Tut's hands.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
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,...
54) Tomorrow
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A wise old dog travels through the courts and battlefields of Europe and through the centuries in search of the master who granted him immortality"--
Tomorrow, a 217-year-old dog, is searching for his lost master. He has traveled through the courts and battlefields of Europe-- and through the centuries-- in search of the man who granted him immortality. Befriending both animals and humans, Tomorrow falls in love only once, and gains insight into...
55) Re-coil
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Carter Langston is murdered whilst salvaging a derelict vessel--a major inconvenience as he's downloaded into a brand-new body on the space station where he backed up, several weeks' journey away. But events quickly slip out of control when an assassin breaks into the medbay and tries to finish the job. Death no longer holds sway over a humanity that has spread across the solar system: consciousness can be placed in a new body, or coil, straight after...
Author
Series
Dark warrior novels volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For centuries, Malcolm has struggled against the forces of darkness and he bears the scars to prove it. Hardened by a lifetime of fighting, he is more warrior than man, incapable of feeling love or compassion. But one stormy night, he pulls a beautiful woman from a car wreck and experiences a rush of fiery emotion that could melt even the hardest of hearts. Since childhood, Evangeline Walker has felt the magic growing inside her. Descended from Druids,...
Author
Series
Incrementalists volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The Incrementalists--a secret society of two hundred people with an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They cheat death, share lives and memories, and communicate with one another across nations, races, and time. They have an epic history, an almost magical memory, and a very modest mission: to make the world better, just a little bit at a time. Their ongoing argument about how to do this is older than most of their individual memories....
Author
Series
Delta Devlin novels volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"After a near-fatal car crash, Royce Lowell-Vandeweghe wakes up to find he's one of the first patients to undergo a radical new procedure: a full-body transplant. Convalescing years later and suffering from waking nightmares, he answers the door at his Long Island home and meets Delta Devlin, a New York detective. She sees things nobody else can--visions created by a mutation to her eyes--and meeting Royce sets off an unraveling chain of events ......
59) The might
Author
Series
Publisher
Arctis
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Hirka has been sent to the world of the blind, a powerful and immortal people whom she has been taught to fear since infancy--and who now see her as their only chance to reignite a thousand-year-old war. The blind will use Hirka's ability to travel between worlds to return to Ym, the land where Hirka grew up and where the blind were betrayed all those years ago. And this time, they will prevail"--Amazon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Todo comienza a mediados de los años cincuenta cuando Norton Perina, un joven médico, se une a una expedición a la Micronesia en busca de una tribu perdida, sin saber que la jungla atrapa y te cambia, porque ahí, donde nadie nos ve, podemos por fin mirarnos en nuestro peor espejo. En 1995 ese mismo hombre ingresa en prisión después de haber sido acusado de abuso sexual por uno de sus cincuenta hijos adoptivos. Los lazos con su familia se rompen,...
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