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Series
Tale of the outcasts volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Outcasts on the run Marbas, a powerful demon, and Wisteria, a young human girl, are on a journey to find their place in the world. They part with Wisteria's brother, the demon hunter, and encounter a young lady bound to another of Marbas' kind. This is the tale of the eternal nights in which such meetings and partings ease the loneliness of this uncanny pair."-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In The Passage and The Twelve, Justin Cronin brilliantly imagined the fall of civilization and humanity's desperate fight to survive. Now all is quiet on the horizon--but does silence promise the nightmare's end or the second coming of unspeakable darkness? At last, this bestselling epic races to its breathtaking finale. The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? The Twelve have been destroyed and the hundred-year reign of darkness...
Series
Tale of the outcasts volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of Wisteria, an orphaned girl lost in darkness, and Marbas, an immortal being who shares her loneliness. The unlikely companions met on a quiet, uneventful night, and they set off together in search of the light. What begins as a chance meeting on the edge of the late nineteenth-century British Empire soon became a full-fledged journey to find their place in the world."-- cover page 4.
Series
Brzrkr volume 2
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"WHAT PRICE WOULD YOU PAY FOR TRUE FREEDOM? Half-mortal and half-god, cursed and compelled to violence, the man known only as B. begins wandering the world anew. After enduring a series of experiments and missions, B.'s memories of his origins will be finally restored. But what does this revelation mean for his future? Has B. finally found true freedom? Perhaps, but when has the U.S. government ever let their best asset go? Keanu Reeves continues...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Ajin boys who show signs of special abilities are conscripted to serve in the imperial palace as beast-servants--status symbols and shields for their royal masters, to be kept or discarded on a whim. When they were children, Rangetsu's twin brother Sogetsu was ripped from her arms and sent to the palace to attend Prince Tenyou as a beast-servant, where he quickly fell victim to bloody dynastic intrigues. Now in a world that promises only bitterness,...
86) Tuck everlasting
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Her magical summer begins when she meets Jesse Tuck. Jesse is full of life and adventure and Winnie falls in love. The Tuck family has a powerful secret-- a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. Now Winnie must choose whether she wants to live life as she knows it or drink from the spring.
Author
Series
Ramses the damned volume 3
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A pharaoh made immortal by a mysterious and powerful elixir, Ramses the Great became counselor and lover to some of Egypt's greatest and most powerful rulers before he was awakened from centuries of slumber to the mystifying and dazzling world of Edwardian England. Having vanquished foes both human and supernatural, he's found love with the beautiful heiress Julie Stratford, daughter of Lawrence Stratford, the slain archeologist who discovered his...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her? Years before the end of the war against the Demon King, Macht, the most powerful of the Seven...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. With the great struggle over, they all go their separate ways to live a quiet life. But as an elf, Frieren, nearly immortal, will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to terms with the mortality of her friends?...
Author
Series
Secret series volume 2
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Cass and Max-Ernest discover the Museum of Magic, unscramble more coded messages, and solve new mysteries in their attempt to thwart the Terces Society's ambitions of discovering immortality.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old twins Oz and Lily are recruited by a talking cat to assist her and M16 in foiling the dastardly plans of their great-great-uncle, a chocolatier who used magic to make a candy that bestows immortality.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Wyatt Westlock has returned to her childhood home of Willow Heath, intending to burn it down--until she finds Peter hanging in the basement, a boy whom she considered a friend, semi-immortal and ritually sacrificed every year to keep the ancient forces inthe nearby forest at bay.
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her? At Eisen's urging, Frieren and her apprentice Fern head north seeking the land where heroes' souls are said to rest, which also happens to be the location of the Demon King's castle. Along the way, they...
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