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How to Stop Time

Matt Haig Β· 336 pages

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--th

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Asterios Polyp

David Mazzucchelli Β· 344 pages

Asterios Polyp, its arrogant, prickly protagonist, is an award-winning architect who's never built an actual building, and a pedant in the midst of a spiritual crisis. After the structure of his own life falls apart, he runs away to try to rebuild it into something new.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot Β· 381 pages

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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Claire North Β· 416 pages

Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. 'I nearly missed you, Doctor August, ' she says. 'I

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The Gargoyle

Andrew Davidson Β· 474 pages

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My Name Is Memory

Ann Brashares Β· 324 pages

Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing name and form) have been drawn together-and he remembers it all. Daniel has "the memory", the ability to recall past lives and recognize souls of those he's previously known. It is a gift and a curse. For all the times that he and Sophia have been d

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Tinkers

Paul Harding Β· 192 pages

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The Girl You Left Behind

Jojo Moyes Β· 537 pages

In 1916, French artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his wife Sophie to fight at the Front. When her town falls into German hands, his portrait of Sophie stirs the heart of the local Kommandant and causes her to risk everything - her family, reputation and life - in the hope of seeing her true love one last time. Nearly a century later and Sophie's portrait is given to Liv by her young husband shortly

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The Longest Ride

Nicholas Sparks Β· 477 pages

After being trapped in an isolated car crash, the life of an elderly widower becomes entwined with that of a young college student and the cowboy she loves.

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The Tiger's Wife

Tea Obreht Β· 360 pages

Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the ti

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Madame Xanadu, Volume 1: Disenchanted

Matt Wagner Β· 225 pages

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The Goddess Test

Aimee Carter Β· 298 pages

Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.

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The Saint-Germain Chronicles

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Β· 256 pages

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The Book of Elsewhere

Keanu Reeves Β· 352 pages

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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin Β· 279 pages

A.J. Fikry's life is not what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is failing, and his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. He is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island and from Amelia, the Knightley Press sales rep who refuses to be deterred by A.J.'s bad attitude. And then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore that gives A.J

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It Wasn't Always Like This

Joy Preble Β· 245 pages

In love and possessing eternal youth, after sampling an experimental polio vaccine in 1916, seventeen-year-olds Emma and Charlie have the perfect life until Charlie disappears and Emma is hunted through the years by the Church of Light, a group of religious fanatics.

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Sam's Letters to Jennifer

James Patterson Β· 264 pages

Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? Sam's Letters to Jennifer is a novel about that kind of drama. In it, a woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story that will upend completely the world she thought she knew - a

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Transcendent

Stephen Baxter Β· 496 pages

Stephen Baxter's gripping page-turners are feats of bold speculation and big ideas that, for all their time-and-space-spanning grandeur, remain firmly rooted in scientific fact and cutting-edge theory. Now Baxter is back with the final volume in his monumental Destiny's Children trilogy, a tour de force in which parallel stories unfold--and then meet as humanity stands poised on the brink of divin

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The Queen of the Damned

Anne Rice Β· 491 pages

Akasha, the most powerful living vampire and queen of the undead, is awoken from her statue like existence by the vampire lestat playing his rock music. She immediately sets out on the hunt for both mortal and vampire victims alike. Her ultimate goal to create an earth completely dominated by vampires.

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The City of Mirrors

Justin Cronin Β· 624 pages

"In The Passage and The Twelve, Justin Cronin brilliantly imagined the fall of civilization and humanity desperate fight to survive. Now all is quiet on the horizon--but does silence promise the nightmare end or the second coming of unspeakable darkness? At last, this bestselling epic races to its breathtaking finale"--

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The Sea

John Banville Β· 233 pages

Following the death of his wife, Max Morden retreats to the seaside town of his childhood summers, where his own life becomes inextricably entwined with the members of the vacationing Grace family.

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Millennium Snow, Vol. 2

Bisco Hatori Β· 200 pages

Chiyuki Matsuoka, 17, has a serious heart condition. Toya, 18, is a vampire who hates blood and refuses to enter into the traditional partnership with a human, whose blood would keep them both alive for a thousand years. Chiyuki has formed a bond with Toya and wants to live her life to the fullest, but she doesn't realize that Toya refuses to enter into the full partnership with her, being unwilli

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All-Star Superman, Vol. 1

Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely Β· 160 pages

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