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The Waterworks

E.L. Doctorow · 264 pages

New York of 1870 is the background of this tale of a journalist who finds out that his father forged his own death so that he could be part of the experiment of a mad scientist to prolong his life.

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All Men Are Mortal

Simone de Beauvoir

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Blood And Gold

Anne Rice · 486 pages

The latest mesmerising and exotic Vampire Chronicle from the mistress of the genre - a must for all readers of The Vampire Armand.Here is the gorgeous and sinister story of Marius, patrician by birth, scholar by choice, one of the oldest vampires of them all, which sweeps from his genesis in ancient Rome, in the time of the Emperor Augustus, to his meeting in the present day with a creature of sno

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The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 1: At the Edge of Empire

Daniel Kraus · 642 pages

"The story follows Zebulon Finch, a teenager murdered in 1896 Chicago who inexplicably returns from the dead and searches for redemption through the ages"--

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How to Stop Time

Matt Haig · 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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Pilgrim

Timothy Findley · 496 pages

On April 15, 1912--ironically the very date on which more than a thousand people lost their lives as the Titanic sank--a figure known only as Pilgrim tries to commit suicide by hanging himself from a tree. When he is found five hours later, his heart miraculously begins beating again. This isn't his first attempt to end his life, and it is decided that steps must be taken to prevent Pilgrim from d

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The Gargoyle

Andrew Davidson · 474 pages

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The People in the Trees

Hanya Yanagihara · 384 pages

In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu'ivu in search of a rumored lost tribe. They succeed, finding not only that tribe but also a group of forest dwellers they dub "The Dreamers," who turn out to be fantastically long-lived but progressively more senile. Perina suspects the source of thei

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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Claire North · 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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Zero K

Don DeLillo · 288 pages

Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at t

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Forever

Pete Hamill · 613 pages

Moving from Ireland to New York City in 1741, Cormac O'Connor witnesses the city's transformation into a thriving metropolis while he explores the mysteries of time, loss, and love.

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In the Garden of Iden

Kage Baker · 320 pages

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The Possibility of an Island

Michel Houellebecq · 345 pages

I dialoger mellem den tarvelige stand-up-komiker Daniel og hans to kloninger 1000 år senere lykkes det den kontroversielle forfatter at komme rundt om alle sine misantropiske holdninger til kærlighed, sex, alderdommen kontra dyrkelsen af ungdommen og samfundet i almindelighed

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The Eternal Mercenary

Barry Sadler · 246 pages

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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Cory Doctorow · 62 pages

**From the Back Cover** "*He sparkles! He fizzes! He does backflips and breaks the furniture! Science fiction needs Cory Doctorow*." --Bruce Sterling, author of The Hacker Crackdown and Distraction **On The Skids In The Transhuman Future** Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose

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Hellenic Immortal

Gene Doucette · 236 pages

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Belgarath the Sorcerer

David Eddings, Leigh Eddings · 661 pages

Here is the full epic story of Belgarath, the great sorcerer learned in the Will and the Word on whom the fate of the world depends. Only Belgarath can tell of those near-forgotten times when Gods still walked the land: he is the Ancient One, the Old Wolf, his God Aldur's first and most-favoured disciple. Using powers learned over the centuries Belgarath himself records the story of conflict betwe

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A.D.: After Death

Scott Snyder

"What if we found a cure for death? Years after the discovery of a genetic cure for mortality, one man starts to questions everything, leading him on a mind-bending journey that will bring him face-to-face with his past and his own personal legacy." -- Page [4] of cover.

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The Reckoning

Alma Katsu · 346 pages

Follows the experiences of immortal woman Lanny, whose obsessive desires compel her to risk everything and influence the destinies of Luke, Adair, and Jonathan.

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She

H. Rider Haggard · 282 pages

An enduring adventure yarn set in pre colonial Africa, culminating in the discovery of a lost civilization ruled by a beautiful eternally youthful queen. "She is generally considered to be one of the classics of imaginative literature and with 83 million copies sold by 1965, it is one of the best-selling books of all time." See more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_(novel)

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Grimus

Salman Rushdie · 318 pages

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 224 pages

**The Picture of Dorian Gray** is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical *Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine*. The novel-length version was published in April 1891. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray))

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The Book of Skulls

Robert Silverberg · 222 pages

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