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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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

"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.

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....

"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,...

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.