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English
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Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island, a young doctor investigates and proves a theory that the tribe's considerable longevity is linked to a rare turtle, a finding that brings worldwide fame and unexpected consequence.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Journalist Adam Leith Gollner weaves together religion, science, and mythology in an exploration of the most universal of human obsessions: immortality. Raised without religion, Gollner was struck by mankind's tireless efforts to cheat aging and death. In a narrative that pivots between profundity and hilarity, he brings us into the world of those whose lives are shaped by a belief in immortality. Combining immersive reporting, rigorous research,...
3) The returned
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Series
Returned volume 1
Language
English
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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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.
6) The toll
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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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...
7) Evermore
Author
Series
Immortals volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009
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.
Author
Series
Secret volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
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.
Author
Series
Secret volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Two eleven-year-old misfits try to solve the mystery of a dead magician and stop the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais, who are searching for the secret of immortality. This is the story of a secret, and also a secret story. This is the story of Cass and Max-Ernest, two friendless 11-year olds who come together to solve the mystery surrounding a dead magician and the clues he left behind. When they find a mysterious case containing vials of liquid labeled...
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Series
Secret volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Cass's mom is kidnapped by the evil dessert chef, Señor Hugo, who requests the legendary tuning fork as ransom, leading Cass and Max-Ernest to try finding the magical instrument in time.
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Language
English
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"After the war that cost him so much, Kylar Stern is broken and alone. He's determined not to kill again, but an impending amnesty will pardon the one murderer he can't let walk free. He promises himself this is the last time. One last hit to tie up the loose ends of his old, lost life. But Kylar's best, and maybe only, friend, the High King Logan Gyre, needs him. To protect a fragile peace, Logan's new kingdom, and the king's twin sons, he needs...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city, until she too becomes an immortal vampire. Forced to flee into the unknown, outside her city walls, she joins a ragged band of humans who are seeking a legend -- a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike.
13) 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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
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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.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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...
16) Shadowland
Author
Series
Immortals volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Ever and Damen have traveled through countless past lives and fought off the world's darkest enemies to be together forever, but just as their long-awaited destiny is finally within reach, a powerful curse threatens them.
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Korean
Description
Min Ki-Hun, a former intelligence agent, is given secret orders to transport the first ever human clone, Seobok, from his life in a lab to a new safe location. Because the robotic clone holds the secret to immortality, evil organizations try to kidnap him and extract that secret. After the duo escapes, Ki-Hun will do everything in his power to shield and protect Seobok from those groups with hidden agendas and bad intentions.
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.
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