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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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"Fascinating and deeply disturbing. I love this book. - Simon Winchester (bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman)
David M. Friedman's The Immortalists reads like riveting historical fiction but raises provocative questions about the shape of the future. - Ron Rosenbaum, best-selling author of The Shakespeare Wars and Explaining Hitler
"Difficult to put down...this is the book to read." - New York Times
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It's a question microbiologist Richard Draman thought he'd answered when he walked away from his career to focus on curing a genetic defect this is causing his daughter to age at a wildly accelerated rate. But now he and his wife must face the fact that eight-year-old Susie's time is running out. Determined to either save her life or die trying, the Dramans plunge into a bloody conflict between two powerful factions vying for control of a discovery...
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The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin - Book Summary - Abbey Beathan
(Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book)
An astonishing novel that portrays the life of 4 adolescents after they find out when they are going to die.
If you knew the exact date of your death, would you do anything different? Or would you walk the same path as before? This novel portrays the story of 4 adolescents who are living that dilemma. The arrival of a mystical woman who...
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For fans of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton comes a medical thriller that melds cutting-edge science with ripped-from-the-headlines terror. What happens when a new immortality drug leads to an explosive outbreak of a deadly virus that, if not contained, could wipe out humanity once and for all? World-renowned virologist Dr. Cricket Rensselaer-Wright abruptly abandoned her research in Africa after watching her colleague die tragically from the Ebola...
7) Obsessed
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In OBSESSED, 16 year old Scarlet Paine races to save her true love, Sage, before he is killed at the hand of the Immortalists. Alienated from her friends and family-and with only one night left before Sage is wiped out-Scarlet is forced to choose whether to sacrifice it all for him. Caitlin and Caleb race desperately to save their daughter, still determined to find a way to cure Scarlet and to end vampirism for all time. Their quest leads them to...
8) Obsessed
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In “Obsessed”, 16-year-old Scarlet Paine races to save her true love, Sage, before he is killed at the hand of the Immortalists. Alienated from her friends and family-and with only one night left before Sage is wiped out-Scarlet is forced to choose whether to sacrifice it all for him.
Caitlin and Caleb race desperately to save their daughter, still determined to find a way to cure Scarlet and to end vampirism for all time. Their quest leads them...
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An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality
On Not Dying is an anthropological, historical, and philosophical exploration of immortality as a secular and scientific category. Based on an ethnography of immortalist communities-those who believe humans can extend their personal existence indefinitely through technological means-and an examination of other institutions involved at the end of life, Abou Farman argues that secular immortalism...
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"Following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever"--
"When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Cohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan. But when she...
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Summary Bundle: Memoir & Literary Fiction: Includes Summary of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks & Summary of The Immortalists
From the Description of "Summary of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"...
"But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad." - Rebecca Skloot
Despite being vital for the human...
12) Obsession
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OBSESSION est le douzième et dernier tome de la série à succès SOUVENIRS D'UNE VAMPIRE, qui commence par TRANSFORMÉE (Tome n°1), qui a reçu plus de 900 critiques à cinq étoiles et qui est disponible en téléchargement gratuit! Dans OBSESSION, Scarlet Paine, 16 ans, se démène pour sauver celui qu'elle aime vraiment, Sage, avant qu'il se fasse tuer par les Immortalistes. Coupée de ses amis et de sa famille et avec une seule nuit pour agir...
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"Margot Lee's mother isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown and finds her mother dead under suspicious circumstances. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the facts of Mina's life as a Korean War orphan and undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother"--Dust jacket flap.
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It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean?...
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An intense, surreal story of family and growing up, perfect for fans of Matt Bell and The Immortalists.
A mother clings to twin sons, desperate to keep them from becoming their father, a pirate forever sailing away. In this rain-soaked township, she will attempt to mummify them, piece by piece, to stop them from growing up, a hope founded in magic and immortality. Meanwhile, their father obsesses the seas with his own belief in ever-lasting life,...
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Within the Christian theological tradition there has always been a variety of perspectives on hell, usually distinguished according to their views about the duration of hell's torments for the damned. Traditionalists maintain that the suffering of the damned is everlasting. Universalists claim that eventually every person is redeemed and arrives in heaven. And conditional immortalists, also known as "conditionalists" or "annihilationists," reject...
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New York, 1993. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. At turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed, Lucy is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate Percy, scion to a prominent New York family who insists he wishes to resist upper crust fate. As she navigates this complex relationship with all its youthful heartache, Lucy is seduced by a different...
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"The Wang family is hiding a secret--they all have the ability to time travel. When parents Joshua and Lily depart for the past and never return, their children Tommy and Eva are forced to deal with their grief alone. Eva tries to find her place in the present, while Tommy is pulled further and further into a past that he hopes holds the truth. When he falls in love with a woman from 1930s London Chinatown, his inability to confront his own history...
19) The clairvoyants
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"Karen Brown's most hypnotic novel to date--gothic-inflected psychological suspense that unmasks the secret desires of a young woman with a mystical gift. On the family homestead by the sea where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman, she hopes to distance herself from those spirits by escaping to an inland college town. There, she is absorbed by a budding romance, relieved by separation from an unstable sister, and disinterested in...
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"One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat in the mountains and never returned. Yearning to make sense of his shocking departure and to escape her overbearing mother, a woman as grounded as her father is mercurial, Olivia runs away from home and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center. Once there, she enrolls in their summer program for troubled teens, which Olivia...