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"In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazú Falls, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret society called the Order that pursues eternal life through ghastly rituals....
2) The toll
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Arc of a scythe volume 3
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"In the highly anticipated finale to the New York Times bestselling 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...
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Star mother volume 2
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In a heavenly war, the moon is prevailing... It happens in an instant, filling Aija with dread: the Sun is suddenly cast from the sky, throwing the Earth into midday darkness. On the fourth day of endless night, Aija finds an unconscious man by the river. His skin is as hot as her lantern's glass and just as golden. To Aija, a farmhand with the soul of an artist, this beautiful stranger is an inspiration--and a mystery. He calls himself Saiyon. He...
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The award-winning, critically acclaimed author returns with an ingenious novel about what it would mean to live forever. Rachel has an unusual problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles, widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son, are only the latest. She's already put up with scores of marriages and hundreds of children, over 2,000 years, ever since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied...
6) The asphyx
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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...
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Bitten: Keeran's existence as a vampire has taught him to accept a life without love--until he saves Emily from certain death. And suddenly he discovers the soul-searing passion he thought he'd lost forever... / Heart of the mummy: The Egyptian legend of He Who Endures fascinates archaeologist Dr. Kalila Blake. But her enigmatic colleague Dr. Seth Dakarai knows more about the warrior king--and about immortal desire--than she ever dreamed... / The...
9) Heart of Ash
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After escaping the cult that killed her mother in Kansas, Ash starts to search for her missing twin brother Rhys, and she turns to her immortal mate Dane, who is possessed by the diabolical Coronado, for help.
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"Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she's just inherited--to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement--Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and left for dead. Unbeknownst to Wyatt, Peter has suffered hundreds of ritualistic deaths on her family's property. Semi-immortal, Peter never remains dead for long, but he can't...
12) Forever twelve
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Evers volume 1
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When twelve-year old Ivy attends West Archer Academy, she is determined to graduate in two years and eventually follow her hero Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court, but after her roommate introduces her to a group of students who are hundreds of years old, she is forced to reexamine her priorities.
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"Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she's from, only a fleeting sense that this isn't the first time she's found herself in similar circumstances. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She'll go on to become the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times,...
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After being assigned to her university's prestigious and controversial neo-anthropological studies program, eighteen-year-old deaf student Delaney Meyers-Petrov must learn to channel her ability to slip between worlds--and, along with her capricious TA Colton Price, who seems determined to despise her, must uncover buried institutional secrets.
15) BRZRKR: Volume 3
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Brzrkr volume 3
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In the final volume of the record-shattering series, uncover the ancient mysteries of our anti-hero's origins and his final fate!
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Twins imbued with incredible magic and near-immortality will do anything to keep their family safe-even if it tears the siblings apart-in the first book of a mythic epic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls. Rhea and her twin brother, Lexos, have spent an eternity helping their father rule their small, unstable country, using their control over the seasons, tides, and stars to keep the people in line. For a hundred years,...
19) Blood and salt
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"Seventeen-year-old Ash Larkin finds out her family is involved in a centuries-old saga of love and murder, alchemy and immortality when she follows her mother to an isolated settlement in the cornfields of Kansas"--Provided by publisher.
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