immortality

Jonathan Weiner explores scientific theories on the potential for human immortality, examining the ideas of scientists and thinkers who believe that aging is a curable disease such as Aubrey de Grey, and discussing the history of the search for human longevity with examples from art, science, and literature.

Justin Sterling, a killer who has lived for centuries in service to an ancient entity known as the Dragon, and Sandra McCormick, a dedicated Chicago cop who has been assigned to find the person who murdered a fellow officer, soon discover they are stalking one another and that they are falling in love.

Presents an English version of the epic poem which dates from the third millenium B.C., telling of the adventures of Gilgamesh, the great king of Uruk, and his search for immortality.

Nathan Ward is whisked away as a child to live in the forested land of Thornyhill under the guidance of a man named Bartlemy. As he grows up, Nathan senses he is being watched from the surrounding Darkwood, and his visions start to come true. A jeweled, green stone cup from his visions resembles one lost by the Thorn family hundreds of years earlier. When Nathan learns the cup is from another world, he and his friend Hazel travel into dreams, lands, and legends that hold the answers.

When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. Now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on.

Seventeen-year-old twins Thais and Clio Allard finally discover one another after the tragic death of their father only to learn that the astonishing powers they possess will force them to complete a rite that will transform their lives forever.

The mage Numair, the knight Alanna, and Queen Thayet enlist thirteen-year-old Daine's help to battle the dreadful immortal creatures that have begun to attack the kingdom of Tortall.

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.

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.

Cassandra and Max find a missing magician's notebook and start to investigate the fire which burnt down his house and his mysterious "symphony of smells.".