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"When Dorian Gray sees his stunning painted portrait,, he is transfixed by its reflection of his own beauty. He is also troubled by the knowledge that the image in the painting will remain forever handsome while he himself grows older and less desirable. He professes that he would give his soul if only the painting would suffer the ravages of time and he were to remain forever young. As the old adage goes: Be careful what you wish for."--Front inside...
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2022.
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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.
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Thirteen-year-old Maya, in Paris with her family for a year, lands in the middle of the mysterious La Societé's quest for immortality when the magical Cabinet of Earths chooses her as its next Keeper, promising to restore her mother's health. Includes historical notes.
5) The legacy
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Bloomsbury
Publication Date
2011, c2010
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268 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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When a Pincent Pharma truck is ambushed by the Underground, revealing not the expected supply of drugs but corpses, it becomes clear that the Longevity prescription for eternal youth is failing to live up to its promises, and when the Underground is blamed for releasing a deadly virus, the truth finally comes out.
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Hyperion
Publication Date
c2010
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456 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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After her parents die under mysterious circumstances, sixteen-year-old Renee Winters is sent from California to an old-fashioned boarding school in Maine, where she meets a fellow student to whom she seems strangely connected.
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Random House Children's Books
Publication Date
[2023]
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356 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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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...
9) Frozen: #1
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Publication Date
c2013
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325 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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More than a century after a catastrophic disaster wiped out most of humanity and covered much of the earth with ice, fifteen-year-old Cass yields to the voice in her head urging her to embark on a dangerous journey across a poisoned sea to the mythical land, Blue.
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarpersCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2024]
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493 pages : map ; 22 cm
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English
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After making her impossible choice, Reed is not just an Aristene, but a Glorious Death responsible for guiding only heroes whose price for glory is their lives. Distracting herself from her broken heart by working at an incredible pace, Reed finally decides to take a break and go on a mission guide a princess to a glorious marriage-- not knowing that one of the suitors is Hestion, the man she gave up in order to be an Aristene, and who may love her...
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Hyperion
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c2012
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393 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Renée Winters must transfer to a Montréal school exclusively for those training to kill the Undead, while unraveling a long-buried secret that may be the key to saving Dante Berlin, her Undead soulmate.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2023]
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360 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Two brothers who rule the School for Good and Evil in exchange for power and immortality find their loyalty corrupted, bringing them to the brink of war and a shocking conclusion that will change the course of the school forever.
13) Wind daughter
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Page Street Publishing Co
Publication Date
2022.
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348 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"To save the North after her father exchanges his power for mortality because of his love for her mother, Sanu embarks on a dangerous quest to reclaim her father's magic, pitting her against the Winter Lord who wants the North Wind's destructive powers for himself"--BTCat.
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Scholastic Press
Publication Date
2024.
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356 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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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 in the nearby forest at bay.
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Bloomsbury YA
Publication Date
2023.
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471 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Farrow hatches a dangerous plan to seek revenge on Queen Magrit and regain her magic, but when Farrow finds herself falling for the one person who could ruin everything, she must decide whether it is more important to live in the past or forge a new future.
For centuries the members of the Entente have worked in tandem with the Three Fates-- the Present, the Past, and the Future-- to maintain destiny across the Thirteen Queendoms....
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Scholastic Press
Publication Date
2022.
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386 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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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.
17) River of spirits
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Aladdin
Publication Date
2025.
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416 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Senka lives between the realm of the Living and the realm of the Dead. As ward to Charon, the Ferryer of the Underworld, Senka assists in ferrying recently departed souls across the river and into their afterlife. Although Charon has taught her many Rules about life in the Underworld, there is much he avoids telling her. Though she doesn't understand why the Rules are so important, she listens--she must heed them in order to become an official Ferryer,...
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Little Brown & Co
Publication Date
2009, c2008
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385 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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English
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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.
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Little, Brown
Publication Date
2011, c2010
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423 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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English
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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.








