immortality

Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest and is genetically engineered to be immortal and be the future of the human race, but on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life.

In this volume of The Dark Is Rising sequence, Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers.

"In his youth, Richard 'Dodge' Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life . . . One . . . day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support, leaving his stunned family and close friends with difficult decisions. Long ago, when . . . Dodge drew up his will, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company . . . Legally bound to follow the directive despite their misgivings, Dodge's family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud, until it can eventually be revived. In the coming years, technology allows Dodge's brain to be turned back on . . . An eternal afterlife--the Bitworld--is created, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls. But this brave new immortal world is not the utopia it might first seem . . ."--Jacket flap.

"Sophisticated robot Abel must save teenaged soldier Noemi from capture on a hidden planet, while outwitting armies of deranged service robots and securing medical aid for a plague on Noemi's home world"--Provided by publisher.

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.

Damen and Ever's final quest involves finding an antidote that will remove the poison from Damen's body, allowing them to feel each other's touch and discover their relationship's hidden origins.

Ever and Damen are determined to remain together, but first they must each face rivals, jealous friends, and even their own worst fears.

Krysta, a vampire slayer, finds herself unexpectedly paired up with E tienne, an Immortal Gaurdian, when he discovers that the vampires she is killing have friends in high places who want her dead.

Presents the first two novels in Alyson Noe?l's The Immortals series, in which sixteen-year-old Ever Bloom learns she has the power to hear people's thoughts and read their auras, an ability that links her to the mysterious Damen Auguste.

"This epic is the story of literature's first hero, the king of Uruk in what is present-day Iraq, and his journey of self-discovery"--OCLC.