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Author
Series
Mistborn novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
A thousand years ago, the prophesied hero from lore rose up to overthrow a great and terrible evil. Only, he lost, and the Dark Lord took over and has been ruling with an iron fist for a thousand years. Ash falls from the sky in this barren land, and mists come every night, deep and mysterious. In this setting, a gang of thieves decides that the prophecies were all lies and that they can't trust in some fabled hero to save them. They decide to take...
Author
Series
Secret series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
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
Series
Immortal guardians volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Once, Sarah Bingham's biggest challenge was making her students pay attention in class. Now, after rescuing a wounded stranger, she's landed in the middle of a battle between corrupt vampires and powerful immortals who also need blood to survive. Roland warbrook is the most compelling man Sarah has ever laid hands on. But his desire for her is mingled with a hunger he can barely control. In his nine centuries of immortal existence, no woman has tempted...
4) Cold storage
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2025.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An expansive new thriller in Michael C. Grumley's Revival series, exploring humanity's thirst for immortality at any cost Technology never works well the first time. Or even the second. Army veteran John Reiff is living proof. This time he is revived in the back of a dilapidated ambulance, on the run from a shadowy organization that is desperate to take him back. He is the first one, their archetype, and they need to know what happened after his...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.
France, 1714. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-- and cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Addie LaRue's life will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art. After nearly 300 years,...
Author
Series
Evers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
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.
7) Immortal
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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...
8) The returned
Author
Series
Returned volume 1
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Secret series volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
385 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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.
10) Everneath
Author
Series
Everneath novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Regretting her decision to forfeit her life on Earth to become an immortal on Everneath, a world between Earth and Hell, teenaged Nikki is given the chance to return to the Surface for six months, in this story loosely based on the "Hades and Persephone" myth.
11) The rot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
482 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Separated and struggling to survive in two different worlds, Hirka and Rime vow to defeat the ancient evil that offers immortality at a dangerous price.
12) Silver throat
Author
Series
Vardari (English) volume part 2
Pub. Date
2025.
Physical Desc
408 pages : color maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After Juva lets Grif out into the world and he escapes Naklav, it seems the Vardari should no longer be able to live, without their source of eternal life, and the city should finally be free of wolf disease. But Juva's plan has failed and the epidemic is now spreading. Caught between an idle city council and the immortals desperate fight for the last drops of life-giving blood, Juva must team up with a fanatic priest to save Naklav from destruction....
13) Tuck everlasting
Author
Pub. Date
[1975]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
152 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
588 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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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 Iguazu 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
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
For Rose Marshall, death has long since become the only life she really knows. She|s been sweet sixteen for more than sixty years, hitchhiking her way along the highways and byways of America, sometimes seen as an avenging angel, sometimes seen as a killer in her own right, but always Rose, the Phantom Prom Date, the Girl in the Green Silk Gown. The man who killed her is still out there, thanks to a crossroads bargain that won|t let him die, and...
16) Edgedancer
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older - a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows only as Darkness, court life is suffocating the free-spirited Lift, who can't help heading to Yeddaw when she hears the relentless Darkness is there hunting...
17) Evermore
Author
Series
Immortals (Alyson Noel) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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
Series
Secret series volume 4
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
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.
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