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1) Ever
Author
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her immortal.
Author
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
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 his to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's...
Author
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near IguazĆŗ Falls, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret society called the Order that pursues eternal life through ghastly rituals....
Author
Publication Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"I'm struggling to survive in a Titan infested world where Spartans, immortals from twelve royal families who have god-like powers and obscene wealth, rule over all. A shy-stammering foster child with nothing, I keep my head down, cover my scars, and focus on excelling in school. At least, I try to. Then it happens. My blood test reveals I'm part of the powerful elite. I'm one of them. A Spartan. Forced to attend the Spartan War Academy, I undergo...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
297 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"What if you were made before death? Adam, the first man, still walks the Earth -- exhausted by the endless destruction, he is a shadow of his former self. And he is not the only one. The first animals are scattered across the world, hiding in plain sight from mankind. But now pieces of the Garden are turning up on Earth and Adam is determined to save the pieces of his long-last home. With the help of Eden's undying exiles, he must stop Eden becoming...
Author
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Harold and Lucille Hargrave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their only son, Jacob, died tragically at his eighth birthday party in 1966. In their old age they've settled comfortably into life without him, their wounds tempered through the grace of time ... Until one day Jacob mysteriously appears on their doorstep -- flesh and blood, their sweet, precocious child, still eight years old. All over the world people's...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Publication Date
2014.
Physical Desc
476 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island, a young doctor investigates and proves a theory that the tribe's considerable longevity is linked to a rare turtle, a finding that brings worldwide fame and unexpected consequence.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Publication Date
c2008
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a future England where young people, or "Surpluses," are heavily regulated and everyone takes a drug called Longevity+, a member of the Underground infiltrates the Pincent Pharma manufacturing plant, and uncovers horrific acts being committed in an attempt to create eternal youth.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Publication Date
2011
Physical Desc
vii, 305 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Witnessing the death of her witch mother in the spring of 1628, Bess Hawksmith turns to secluded warlock Gideon Masters for protection and learns formidable powers, including immortality, skills she begins teaching to a new apprentice centuries later.
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The ancient kingdom of Alcedon, the sun-blessed realm which has known only peace for generation, now beset by bloody rebellion sparked by the emergence of an ancient evil... Into this troubled land comes Guyime, legendary ravager king of the north made immortal by the demonic sword he carries. Leading his band of sword bearers, Guyime must prevent the arch-demon Kalthraxis claiming the Warlord's Tulwar, the last of the seven demon cursed blades....
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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
Publisher
Page Street YA
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Centuries after a miracle vanquished Tresttato's monsters and turned the soldiers fighting them to stone, Milo lovingly tends to the statues of those who protected the city. Raised with devout templars and scholars, autistic temple ward Milo wants nothing more than to be accepted into their ranks. When his prayers admiring her heroic sacrifice accidentally free Gia from stone, she wakes with a fury to kill the man Milo owes his life to, Primo Sanct...
Author
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Pandavas call on old friends, make new allies, and face fearsome trials as they embark on a mission to stop the Sleeper from accessing the nectar of immortality, but ultimately Aru must decide who deserves immortality--the devas or the asuras--and an unexpected answer comes from an unexpected place.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Publication Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
" From J.R. Ward, the #1 New York Times bestselling author who has kept readers on the edge of their seats with her phenomenal Fallen Angels novels, comes one of the most heart-stirring and eagerly anticipated events in that acclaimed series. This is a world where sin and salvation collide. This is a world where a cynical fallen angel struggles with the seven deadly sins and seven chosen souls. With the spellbinding Immortal, the riveting series that...
16) Dead first
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Publication Date
[2026]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Bram Stoker award-nominated author of The Spite House comes a bone-chilling new novel about a private investigator hired by a mysterious billionaire to discover why he can't die. When private investigator Shyla Sinclair is invited to the looming mansion of mysterious Texan tycoon Saxton Braith, she's more than a little suspicious. The last thing she expects to see that night is Braith's assistant driving an iron rod straight through the...
17) Eternal life
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2018.
Physical Desc
369 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ever since she made a deal to save her son's life in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, Rachel has been doomed to live eternally, but as her descendants develop new technologies for immortality, she realizes that, for them to live fully, she must die.
At the heart of Horn's funny and compassionate novel is a 2,000-year-old Jewish mother seeking reasons for living, some way of dying, and help for her 56-year-old son who lives in her basement. Rachel's story...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An epic from Keanu Reeves and China MiƩville, inspired by the world of the BRZRKR comic books"-- Provided by publisher.
She said, We needed a tool. So I asked the gods. There have always been whispers. Legends. The warrior who cannot be killed. Who's seen a thousand civilizations rise and fall. He has had many names: Unute, Child of Lightning, Death himself. These days, he's known simply as "B." And he wants to be able to die. In the present day,...
19) White peak
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Greg Rask, a dying tech billionaire, has invested millions chasing miracle cures. None of them are worth a damn, but he refuses to give up. Now, he's gathering a team willing to go to the ends of the earth chasing life. Each of Rask's crew has beaten incredible odds to rise from the ashes of their old lives to where they are now. Together, their next task is to retrieve a painting that is believed to hide a map which, if genuine, marks it as a treasure...
Author
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Description
France, 1714. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever--and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across...









