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Author
Series
Secret volume 1
Language
English
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. This is the story of a secret, and also a secret story. This is the story of Cass and Max-Ernest, two friendless 11-year olds who come together to solve the mystery surrounding a dead magician and the clues he left behind. When they find a mysterious case containing vials of liquid labeled...
5) Night star
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Psychic teenagers Ever and Damen face down bitter rivals, jealous friends and their own worst fears--all in the hope of being together forever.
Author
Language
English
Description
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back his to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
480 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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...
9) The returned
Author
Series
Returned volume 1
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.
Author
Series
Secret volume 3
Physical Desc
394 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cass's mom has been kidnapped by the sinister chocolatier Señor Hugo! Can Cass and Max-Ernest discover the evil ingredient before it's too late?"--Cover [p. 4].
11) Defy the worlds
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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"--
14) Iron wolf
Author
Series
Vardari volume part 1
Publisher
Arctis
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First English-language edition.
Physical Desc
478 pages : color maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Born to blood readers who prey on people's fears, Juva vows never to become one of them until her family is threatened by vardari, the eerie lasting ones who never age, drawing her into a desperate hunt for her legacy--one that could change the world"--
15) Whispers at dusk
Author
Series
Blackbird trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When darkness falls, there's nowhere to hide. Four bodies have been discovered along Europe's riverbanks, placed with care-and completely drained of blood. Pinpricks on their throats indicate a slender murder weapon, but DNA found in the wounds suggests something far more sinister. Tasked with investigating, the FBI recruits Agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter to Blackbird, an international offshoot of the Krewe of Hunters. If you want to catch...
17) Blood and salt
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Series
Secret volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
347 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a mummy disappears from the local history museum while Cass and her friends Max-Ernest and Yo-Yoji are there, they try to solve the case in order to clear their names and, they hope, discover the Secret they have been seeking.
19) Dark flame
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
As her friendship with Haven becomes strained after Haven abuses her new powers as an immortal, Ever delves into the dangerous world of dark magick to free her beloved Damen from Roman's power.
20) The familiar
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
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