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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 402 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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
Author
Series
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.
4) Immortal
Author
Publisher
Touchstone Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
399 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the body of a gunshot victim rolls into the Santa Fe morgue, it should be a day like any other for medical investigator Lillian Cruz. Yet upon examination, the corpse appears to be over a hundred years old with smallpox scars, and an odd wound protrudes from the victim's leg. Lodged in the femur is a bullet shaped like a musket ball, which looks like it was fired during the Civil War and had remained in the victim's leg ever since. Rattled by...
Publisher
Crunchyroll
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (325 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being suddenly transported to another world, Natsuki Subaru discovers a terrible truth, he can't die. Or rather, he can't remain dead. With this terrifying new ability, he experiences reset after reset and it begins to take its toll on his mental state. But, determined to protect his new friends and the woman heb2ss fallen in love with, Subaru suffers to save.
6) Everneath
Author
Series
Everneath novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
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.
Author
Series
Secret series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
Publisher
Crunchyroll
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (694 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Includes episodes 26-50 of the anime series directed by Masaharu Watanabe. Rem's in a coma, and Subaru is the only person who remembers her. But this time, his power can₂t bring her back. Desperate for solutions, Subaru follows a lead to the Sanctuary, where he meets the Witch of Greed and begins a trilogy of harrowing trials.
Author
Language
English
Description
"By turns suspenseful and enchanting, this breathtaking first novel weaves a story of love, family, history, and myth as seen through the eyes of one immortal woman. Collette LeSange is a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache in the wake of her grandfather's long-ago decision to make her immortal like...
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-ray videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Being Natsuki Subaru is suffering. After being suddenly transported to another world, he discovers a terrible truth-he can't die. Or rather, he can't remain dead. Instead Subaru experiences the pain of death and the reality that he must start life over from a predetermined 'save point.' At first this ability seems like a gift, a way to make things right and save the girl he loves. But the more he dies, the more tragedy he experiences, and the more...
11) The asphyx
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 98 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (452 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two immortal Scots meet in modern New York after 400 years for a final confrontation which will leave only one alive; MacLeod and Ramirez return to save the Earth from its deteriorating ozone layer; John MacLeod, aka Connor MacLeod, battles the last of the immortals, Kane, in an effort to rid the world of his evil; Duncan MacLeod and Connor MacLeod team together to combat a fearsome band of Immortals; a band of immortals, led by the Highlander, set...
Author
Series
Blood of Eden volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Allison is forced to flee the city, she joins a band of humans who are seeking a legend -- a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the creatures threatening humans and vampires alike.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
My name is Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith, and my age is three hundred and eighty-four years. Each new settlement asks for a new journal, and so this Book of Shadows begins...
In the spring of 1628, the Witchfinder of Wessex finds himself a true Witch. As Bess Hawksmith watches her mother swing from the Hanging Tree she knows that only one man can save her from the same fate at the hands of the panicked mob: the Warlock Gideon Masters, and his Book of...
Author
Series
Secret series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provocative, gripping, startling: 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 see a blasphemous attempt to play God. Suddenly, the possibility of immortality exists. Two brothers, both doctors, stand on opposite sides of the controversy. To Dr. Arthur Marshak, his work is a momentous...
17) 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...
Author
Series
Immortals (Alyson Noel) volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 21 cm.
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
Series
The immortal beings volume 1
Publisher
Edith Pawlicki
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
446 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Desperation drives them. But can four lonely immortals stop a war between gods - or will blood rain from the Heavens? Literally as old as dirt, Bai was the first immortal. So it fell upon him to check the Sun Emperor's excesses. But he was no match for the ruler of the gods and hid away with the key to the Underworld. The Goddess of Beauty needs that key. Her father, the Sun Emperor, is fatally cursed, and her siblings do naught but squabble over...
Author
Series
The immortal beings volume 2
Publisher
Edith Pawlicki
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
431 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Are the worst demons within or without? Finally in the Underworld, Jin must find the black peony - and survive the immortal creatures that hunger for her. Xiao would prefer ravenous immortal creatures to his parents. Imprisoned and continuously drained of power, Xiao is spiralling into addiction and despair... Nanami doesn't know Xiao is drinking again. She just knows she needs to save the man she loves, even if it means getting help from an old...
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