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Presents Natalie Babbitt's novel in which a family that has stumbled upon the fountain of youth and found that its powers are not necessarily a blessing is alarmed when a young girl and a fortune-seeking man learn their secret; and includes ten myths, legends, short stories, and poems that share the work's themes.
4) Faerie Lord
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When a terrible plague takes over the faerie realm and causes its inhabitants to age unnaturally quickly, Henry and Blue must find a cure in order to save the realm.
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Now with a new preface: The “furious, fiercely funny, provocative” novel about female rebellion written decades before the #MeToo movement (Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance).
Sasha Davis, smart and pretty, was once an all-American teenage beauty queen. Full of potential, she was the only student at her Midwestern high school to attend college on the East Coast.
But soon her promise...
Sasha Davis, smart and pretty, was once an all-American teenage beauty queen. Full of potential, she was the only student at her Midwestern high school to attend college on the East Coast.
But soon her promise...
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In a future England where young people, or "Surpluses," are heavily regulated and everyone takes a drug called Longevity, a member of the Underground infiltrates the Pincent Pharma manufacturing plant and uncovers horrific acts being committed in an attempt to create eternal youth.
9) The legacy
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When a Pincent Pharma truck is ambushed by the Underground, revealing not the expected supply of drugs but corpses, it becomes clear that the Longevity prescription for eternal youth is failing to live up to its promises, and when the Underground is blamed for releasing a deadly virus, the truth finally comes out.
12) Turnabout
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"It isn't natural for you to be younger than your great-grandchildren. We messed around with nature, and we shouldn't have. Melly and Anny Beth both lived normal lives throughout the 20th century. But in 2000, when they are old and ready to die, they are selected to participate in Project Turnabout and are given an injection to make them grow younger..."
13) The immortalists
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It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children--four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness--sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas...
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"After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale Loretha Curry's life is full. A little crowded sometimes, but full indeed. On the eve of her sixty-eighth birthday, she has a booming beauty supply empire, a gaggle of lifelong friends, and a husband...
18) The forever war
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Private William Mandella is a hero in spite of himself -- a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, and propelled through space and time to fight in a distant thousand-year conflict. He never wanted to go to war, but the leaders on Earth have drawn a line in the interstellar sand -- despite the fact that their fierce alien enemy is unknowable, unconquerable, and very far away. So Mandella will perform his duties without rancor and...
19) The longest year
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Spanning three centuries and set against the backdrop of the Appalachians, from Quebec to Tennessee, this is a story about family history, fateful dates, fragile destinies, and lives brutally ended and mysteriously extended.
20) Air miles
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Miles the dog is growing older, but adventure still awaits when he takes to the skies.
Based on an idea by incomparable picture-book creator John Burningham, the text for Air Miles was completed by his longtime friend Bill Salaman and lovingly illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, John Burningham's wife.
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