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61) Frozen
Author
Series
Heart of dread volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Description
"Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she's from, only a fleeting sense that this isn't the first time she's found herself in similar circumstances. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She'll go on to become the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times,...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she's from, only a fleeting sense that this isn't the first time she's found herself in similar circumstances. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She'll go on to become the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times,...
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 Berzerker 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 to end it." --...
65) Eternals
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Eternals, a super-race, are now scattered and forgetful of their powers and immortality, living mortal human lives of supreme normalcy. Meanwhile their age-old enemies, the Deviants, stalk the earth with nefarious intentions, and at least one of the super-duper-race Celestials (who created both Deviants and Eternals eons ago) may be returning to Earth. The source of all this forgetfulness and strife appears to be the eternally 11-year-old Sprite,...
66) Seasons of chaos
Author
Series
Seasons of the storm volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
455 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As immortal Seasons, Jack and Fleur wield magic. They risked everything for their love, for the freedom to live their lives together. But that choice came with a price: Jack had to sacrifice his Winter magic--and his immortality. Professor Lyon is the new Chronos, but not everyone is happy with the change in leadership. Thrust into the middle of a new war, Jack and Fleur must once again choose between their freedom, and saving the world from the storm....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All. No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 25 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross--a man who had sold his soul to live forever, and intended to use her death to pay the price of his immortality. Trouble was, he didn't ask Rose what she thought of the idea. It's been more than sixty years since that night, and she's still sixteen, and she's still running. They have names for her all over the country: the Girl in the Diner. The...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
467 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
One cold, crisp night, Jack Sommers was faced with a choice--live forever according to the ancient, magical rules of Gaia, or die. Jack chose to live, and in exchange, he became a Winter. Like the other Seasons, each year Jack must hunt and kill the one before him. Gaia's rules are pretty straightforward. Winter kills Autumn. Autumn kills Summer. Summer kills Spring. And Spring kills Winter. Which means that Jack kills Amber. Amber kills Julio. Julio...
Author
Series
Lords of the underworld volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reyes is a man possessed. Bound by the demon of pain, he is forbidden to know pleasure. Yet he craves a mortal woman, Danika Ford, more than breath and will do anything to claim her-even defy the gods.
Danika is on the run. For months she's eluded the Lords of the Underworld, immortal warriors who won't rest until she and her family have been destroyed. But her dreams are haunted by Reyes, the warrior whose searing touch she can't forget. Yet a...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTorch, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
642 pages : illustrations, map ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
The second volume of the Sovereign Stone opens some two centuries after Well of Darkness ended. Prince Dagnarus--immortal, thanks to his mastery of Void magic--strives to keep the various races from uniting their portions of the Sovereign Stone, and the human knight, Gustav, sacrifices his life to pass the human portion on.
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Creator invented the game, and the stakes are nothing less than the fate of both the quick and the dead: seven souls, seven crossroads--each an opportunity for salvation or damnation. Coming into this sixth round, reluctant savior Jim Heron has compromised himself, his body and his soul, and even still, he's on the verge of losing everything.... And that includes Sissy, the innocent he freed from Hell. Jim's determined to protect her--but this...
74) Mortality Bridge
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed., signed limited ed.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Decades ago a young rock and blues guitarist and junkie named Niko signed in blood on the dotted line and in return became the stuff of music legend. But when the love of his damned life grows mortally and mysteriously ill he realizes he's lost more than he bargained for--and that wasn t part of the Deal. So Niko sets out on a harrowing journey from the streets of Los Angeles through the downtown subway tunnels and across the redlit plain of the...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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, they've been each other's only ally, defending each other and their younger siblings against their father's increasingly unpredictable anger. Now, with an independence movement gaining ground and their father's rule weakening, the twins...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this debut set in near future NYC--where lives last 300 years and the pursuit of immortality is all-consuming--Lea must choose between her estranged father and her chance to live forever. Lea Kirino is a 'Lifer,' which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential to live forever--if she does everything right. And Lea is an overachiever. She's a successful trader on the New York exchange--where instead of stocks, human organs...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
480 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this provocative, gripping, and startling novel, bestselling author Ben Bova delivers a knockout read with his trademark blend of cutting-edge science and unrelenting suspense. Some see stem-cell research as mankind's greatest scientific breakthrough; others, a blasphemous attempt to play God. Suddenly, the possibility of immortality exists. Two brothers, both doctors, stand on opposite sides of the controversy. To Arthur Marshak, his work is...
79) Drought
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ruby's blood holds the secret to the Water that keeps her and her fellow Congregants alive and enriches Darwin West, who has enslaved them for two centuries, but when her romance with an Overseer, Ford, brings her freedom in the modern world, she faces a terrible choice.
Author
Series
Goddess test novel volume 2
Description
About to be crowned Queen of the Underworld, the immortal Kate Winters must save Henry from the depths of Tartarus. But in order to navigate the endless caverns of the Underworld, Kate must enlist the help of the one person who is the greatest threat to her future: Henry's first wife, Persephone.