books about: immortality

books about: immortality

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Goddess Interrupted (Harlequin Teen)

Harlequin Teen, 2012

Kate Winters has won immortality. But if she wants a life with Henry in the Underworld, she'll have to fight for it. Becoming immortal wasn't supposed to be the easy part. Though Kate is about to be crowned Queen of the Underworld, she's as isolated as ever. And despite her growing love for Henry, ruler of the Underworld, he's becoming ever more ...

Evermore: The Immortals

St. Martin's Griffin, 2010

Since a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras, hear people?s thoughts, and know a person?s life story by touch. Going out of her way to shield herself from human contact to suppress her abilities has branded her as a freak at her new high school?but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste ...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Crown, 2010

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells?taken without her knowledge?became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first ?immortal? human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead ...

BEASTS-The Eyes Of Constance (Beasts Of Forever)

Wicked Muse Publishing, 2011

DISCOVER THE BEASTS These hungry beasts will take you to another world, a world full of beastly pleasures? EXCERPT: Breaking the breathless, sensual plundering of her mouth, Jack flipped her around, moving her up against the dresser 'I always wanted him?to want me like this. To look at me, really look at me with passion in his eyes, like he was ...

Immortal (Immortal Trilogy), 2010

The wound inflicted only a few minutes before was nearly healed. A small cut was the only sign that anything had occurred. I watched in disbelief as it finished closing and eventually disappeared. ?What are you?? * * * Gods, demons, and vampires? Eighteen-year-old Alina Taylor doesn?t believe in any of them. Then, she meets Samuel Grant and ...

The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden)

Harlequin Teen, 2012

In a future world, vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity. Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten. Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them. The ...

The Last Death of Tev Chrisini, 2012

Tev Chrisini is a soldier who can't die, caught in the middle of a war that won't end. Unable to discover the cause of his unique and puzzling condition, Tev has spent the last five hundred years living in the shadows, trying to avoid the notice of the two rival powers that dominate the bitterly divided political landscape, which would do anything ...

Medusa the Mean (Goddess Girls)

Aladdin, 2012

Medusa wants to be more like her two sisters and the other kids at Mount Olympus Academy -- immortal. Is that too much to ask? As one of the few mortals at MOA, it's hard not to get jealous when you're surrounded by beautiful, powerful goddessgirl and godboy classmates. And it isn't easy making friends either, especially when you have snakes ...

The Goddess Test (Harlequin Teen)

Harlequin Teen, 2011

It's always been just Kate and her mom?and her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. So Kate's going to start at a new school with no friends, no other family and the fear her mother won't live past the fall. Then she meets Henry. Dark. Tortured. And mesmerizing. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld?and if she ...

Tuck Everlasting

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2010

Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications ...

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Michael Scott

Ember, 2008

He holds the secret that can end the world. The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life. The records show that he died in 1418. But his tomb is empty. The legend: Nicholas Flamel ...

Blue Moon: The Immortals

St. Martin's Griffin, 2010

Alyson?s Noël?s bestsselling Immortals series has been hailed as ?addictive? ?beautiful? ?haunting? and ?mesmerizing.? In the second installment, Ever can bring her family back from the dead?but only if she?s willing to sacrifice the guy she loves more than life itself. Just as Ever is learning everything she can about her new abilities as an ...

Into The Hourglass (The Hourglass Trilogy), 2012

Straddling the fence between ?childish? and ?brilliant,? physics prodigy Franny White is a heartbeat away from earning her Master?s Degree from Cornell University. Straight-laced and methodical, she has plotted her life?s course down to the last predictable detail. On her 19th birthday, however, she discovers, by chance, that her blood type is the ...

Immortality

CPrompt, 2007

"Speaking as an evolved Transhuman, I applaud this very entertaining, intelligent, and thought provoking journey to the edges of humanity." - Danny Rubin, author and screenwriter of Groundhog Day.... "Immortality is a fine, tense, scientific mystery adventure that puts mankind in a challenge of survival with a short time limit. This is the way ...

Everlasting (Immortals)

St. Martin's Griffin, 2011

Their epic love story has captured the hearts of millions and enchanted readers across the world. In this beautiful finale, their journey draws to a spectacular conclusion?where all will be revealed. Their darkest enemies now defeated, Damen and Ever are free to embark upon their final quest?to free Damen from the poison lingering in his body. ...