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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
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old witch Selestra Somniatis, bound to steal souls for an immortal king, discovers her fate is tied to Nox Laederic, a reckless doomed boy who is trying to bring down her kingdom.
For sixteen years, Selestra has been trapped in her tower on the Floating Mountain, preparing to take her mother's place as the King's Witch, who foretells deaths in the Festival of Predictions. Outrunning your fate earns a wish and the chance to steal the...
63) Unraveling
Author
Series
DAW Book collectors volume no. 1824
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Miranda Ecouvo, forensic therapist of the City, just helped put a serial killer behind bars. But she soon discovers that her investigation into seven unusual murders is not yet complete. A near-death experience throws her out of time and into a realm of labyrinths and spirits. There, she encounters brothers Chance and the Trickster, who have an otherworldly interest in the seemingly mundane crimes from her files. It appears the true mastermind...
64) Forever twelve
Author
Series
Evers volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year old Ivy attends West Archer Academy, she is determined to graduate in two years and eventually follow her hero Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court, but after her roommate introduces her to a group of students who are hundreds of years old, she is forced to reexamine her priorities.
At the elite West Archer Academy, all the students are gifted, but four are exceptional. Though the Evers look twelve, they're actually centuries...
Author
Series
Lords of the Underworld volume 3
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Reyes, a possessed man bound by the demon of pain and forbidden all pleasure, is drawn to Danika Ford, a mortal woman on the run who has eluded the Lords of Underworld for months but who cannot forget Reyes's searing touch.
67) Tiger's voyage
Author
Series
Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
After battling the villanous Lokesh, Kelsey and the Indian princes Ren and Kishan return to India, where Kelsey learns that Ren has amnesia, and five cunning dragons try to keep the trio from breaking the curse that binds them.
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 ......
69) 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...
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?
Series
Brzrkr volume 1
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A WAR WITH NO END. The man known only as B. is half-mortal and half-God, cursed and compelled to violence...even at the sacrifice of his sanity. But after wandering the world for centuries, the B. may have finally found a refuge - working for the U.S. government to fight the battles too violent and too dangerous for anyone else. In exchange, B. will be granted the one thing he desires - the truth about his endless blood-soaked existence...and how...
Author
Series
Wind-up garden volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Argyros siblings have lost everything. With their father dead and their family home captured, they're no longer the rulers of their fractured kingdom--and no longer bound to each other. In the frozen north, Rhea struggles to wield her newly inherited command over death and to find her place in an increasingly distrustful rebel group. Chrysanthi travels to a distant, war-torn land in search of her elusive brother Nitsos, certain that he is there...
Author
Series
Vampire chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
En este segundo volumen de las Crónicas vampíricas descubrimos la vida del enigmático Lestat de Lioncourt, a quien conocimos por primera vez en Entrevista con el vampiro. Inmortal y sediento de sangre humana, Lestat ansía descubrir el secreto de su inmortalidad. Eso le llevará a recorrer un variado espectro de lugares y entornos sociales que hace de la suya una apasionante biografía: desde el lascivo París del siglo XVIII donde vivió los primeros...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"By night, the Ankou is the most fearsome sword for hire in all the Five Lands - a legendary, permanently young mercenary, and its most abiding mystery. But when the sun rises, a dark magic leaves him no more than bones. Trapped in a cycle of death and resurrection, the Ankou wants only to find the final rest that has been prophesied for him, not matter the cost. When the kingdom of Kaer-Ise is sacked, Flora, a royal handmaiden, is assaulted and left...
75) Defy the worlds
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Sophisticated robot Abel must save teenaged soldier Noemi from capture on a hidden planet, while outwitting armies of deranged service robots and securing medical aid for a plague on Noemi's home world"--
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
Publisher
Zondervan on Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The here and now is simply not able to bear the weight of our expectations. We've lost an eternal perspective, and it hurts us every day. Job disappointment, relationship struggles, and quiet feelings of disillusionment all signal that something is not quite right. Life only makes sense when you realize that all of the situations, locations, and relationships of your life were not designed to be a final resting place for your hopes and dreams, but...
78) Draekora
Author
Series
Medoran chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Pantera Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
79) Death
Author
Series
Four horsemen (Laura Thalassa) volume 4
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The day Death comes to Lazarus Gaumond's town and kills everyone in one fell swoop, the last thing he expects to see is one woman left alive and standing. But Lazarus has an extraordinary gift: she cannot be killed. Not by humans, not by the elements, not by Death himself. She is the one soul Death doesn't recognize. The one soul he cannot pry free from her flesh. Nor can he ignore the unsettling desire he has for her. And the longer she tries to...
Series
Tale of the outcasts volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"As the demon Marbas and his companion Wisteria continue on their journey, they meet Diana Blackbell, a highborn girl who has more in common with Wisteria than their youth. But what has Diana sacrificed in her pride?"--Back cover.
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