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Author
Publisher
ECCO
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Weiner explores scientific theories on the potential for human immortality, examining the ideas of scientists and thinkers who believe that aging is a curable disease such as Aubrey de Grey, and discussing the history of the search for human longevity with examples from art, science, and literature.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. Now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Tilo, a young woman born in a faraway place and time, must choose between the supernatural life of an immortal and the hardships of life on Earth when she travels through time to modern-day California and falls in love with a mortal man.
6) Lost city
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An enzyme that prolongs life has been discovered in the North Atlantic, in an area known as Lost City. But why are all those connected with it getting killed? including the people attempting to harvest it, the scientists stationed in a remote Greek laboratory who have been disappearing one by one and what does the body found frozen in the Alps have to do with this? To Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team, and his colleague Joe Zavala,...
7) The asphyx
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Blending elements of Gothic horror with the more contemporary ingredients of steampunk, The asphyx has emerged from obscurity to become a cult favorite of the sci-fi/fantasy genre. Utilizing an experimental photographic device, a scientist (Robert Stephens) captures what appears to be the image of the Asphyx, the ancient Greek spirit of the dead. With the help of his adopted son (Robert Powell), he conducts further experiments and conceives of a way...
8) The returned
Author
Series
Returned volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When their son Jacob, who died tragically at his 8th birthday party in 1966, arrives on their doorstep, still 8 years old, Harold and Lucille Hargrave must navigate a strange new reality as chaos erupts around the world as people's loved ones are returned from beyond.
9) The Meq
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2005, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Zianno Zezen learns that he is a member of a race know as the Meq and possess amazing powers which he endeavors to use against a sinister villain, the Flower of Evil.
10) Evermore
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.
11) Everlasting
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Ever and Damen have spent centuries facing down bitter rivals, jealous friends, and their own worst fears in the hope of being together forever, but something threatens to tear them apart.
Author
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
See how the Lords of the Underworld saga began with the first four sizzling stories by New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter. They dared to open Pandora's Box, and now must carry an eternal curse. The saga begins in a remote fortress in Budapest, where six immortal warriors, each more dangerously seductive than the last, are bound by an ancient curse none has been able to break. Journey through this dark and sensual world, where the line...
13) The toll
Author
Series
Arc of a Scythe volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the finale to the Arc of a Scythe trilogy, dictators, prophets, and tensions rise. In a world that's conquered death, will humanity finally be torn asunder by the immortal beings it created? Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to...
14) Blue moon
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Eager to learn everything she can about her new abilities as an Immortal, Ever turns to her beloved Damen to show her the way, but just as her powers are increasing, his are in decline, and as she searches for a way to save him, she finds herself with a wrenching choice to make.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
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.
16) Dark flame
Author
Series
Immortals volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As her friendship with Haven becomes strained after Haven abuses her new powers as an immortal, Ever delves into the dangerous world of dark magick to free her beloved Damen from Roman's power.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
Bess Hawksmith, an immortal witch who watched her own mother hang for witchcraft in 1628, is made immortal by a warlock and teaches teenage Tegan the ways of the Hedge Witch, but the process awakens long forgotten memories--and demons--and Bess is forced to face the warlock, who has traveled through the centuries to make Bess pay for her life.
Author
Series
Secret volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When a mummy disappears from the local history museum while Cass and her friends Max-Ernest and Yo-Yoji are there, they try to solve the case in order to clear their names and, they hope, discover the Secret they have been seeking.
Author
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter's sizzling Lords of the Underworld series continues with three stories featuring dangerously seductive immortal warriors and the women who change them forever. Journey through this dark and sensual world, where the line between good and evil blurs and true love is put to the ultimate test. Bundle includes: The Darkest Prison, The Darkest Whisper, The Darkest Passion and The Darkest Lie . BONUS: The...
Author
Publisher
Night Shade Books[Start]
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
For four thousand years, the Guardships have ruled Canon Space immortal ships with an immortal crew, dealing swiftly and harshly with any mercantile houses or alien races that threaten the status quo. But now the House Tregesser has an edge: a force from outside Canon Space offers them the resources to throw off Guardship rule. This precipitates an avalanche of unexpected outcomes, including the emergence of Kez Maefele, one of the few remaining generals...
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