Kundera, Milan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Weidenfeld 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUNPollack, Eileen
Summary: "Professor Maxine Sayers once found her personal and professional life so fulfilling that she founded the Institute of Future Studies, a program dedicated to studying the effects of technology on our culture and finding ways to prolong human life. But when her beloved husband dies, she is so devastated she can barely get out of bed. To make matters worse, her son, Zach, has abruptly quit his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delphinium Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POLSummary: Like most living things, humans are programmed to die. Can science change that? This film examines mechanisms within our bodies that eventually wind down and stop, and shows how medicine may one day find a method for reversing the biological effects of time. Host Michio Kaku interviews Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Sir Paul Nurse, who has spent a lifetime analyzing cellular division and other...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Gleichmann, Gabi
Summary: The epic saga of the Spinoza family that spans a thousand years of European and Jewish history and revolves around a secret manuscript containing the recipe for immortality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLESchwartz, Dana
Summary: Hazel Sinnett is alone and half-convinced the events of the year before--the immortality, Beechams vial--were a figment of her imagination. She doesnt even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can really do now is treat patients and maintain Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her. When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot in prison until a message...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SCHGlitch Mob (Musical group)
Contents: Mind of a beast -- Our demons (featuring Aja Volkman) -- Skullclub -- Becoming harmonious (featuring Metal Mother) -- Can't kill us -- I need my memory back (featuring Aja Volkman) -- Skytoucher -- Fly by night only (featuring Yaarrohs) -- Carry the sun -- Beauty of the hidden heart (featuring Sister Crayon).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Orchard 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC GLISchwartz, Dana
Summary: When Hazel becomes the personal physician to Princess Charlotte, the sickly granddaughter of King George III, she is dragged into the glamor and romance of the British court, but she soon realizes malicious forces are at work in the monarchy, and she may be the only one capable of setting things right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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Summary: The Pandavas call on old friends, make new allies, and face fearsome trials as they embark on a mission to stop the Sleeper from accessing the nectar of immortality, but ultimately Aru must decide who deserves immortality--the devas or the asuras--and an unexpected answer comes from an unexpected place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHOFiresign Theatre (Performing group)
Contents: Unconscious village : wake up -- Eyeballs in the sky -- Us plus : pork -- The celebrity stalker -- Sports in your shorts -- Ralph Spoilsport's going out of body sale -- The news drought continues -- Goddess air presents "Hullo, don't worry!" -- A developing chase situation -- Pull my string -- Princess Goddess escapes the celebrazzis -- Chump takes some hits -- Polar pro : Texas trots -- Miss...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN FIRPollack, Eileen
Summary: "Professor Maxine Sayers once found her personal and professional life so fulfilling that she founded the Institute of Future Studies, a program dedicated to studying the effects of technology on our culture and finding ways to prolong human life. But when her beloved husband dies, she is so devastated she can barely get out of bed. To make matters worse, her son, Zach, has abruptly quit his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC POLSummary: The documentary takes viewers on an eye-opening journey through the life and work of the great Salvador Dali and his longtime muse and collaborator, Gala. The film begins in 1929, a crucial year in Dali's life and career, as he joined the surrealist group and met Gala, and ends in 1989, the year of his passing. Using archival footage, images, and documents (many of them never before used in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SALBirmingham, Maria
Summary: Takes readers on a tour of wacky and folkloric methods that humans have used to try prolonging their lives, from ancient immortality elixirs and quests for a fountain of youth to modern-day research into cryogenics and robotics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 129 BIRWalter, Chip
Summary: Explores today's scientific pursuit of immortality, with exclusive visits inside Silicon Valley labs and interviews with the visionaries who believe we will soon crack into the aging process and cure death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 WALSielski, Mike
Summary: "The inside look at one of the most captivating and consequential figures in our culture with never-before-seen material. Kobe Bryant's death in January 2020 did more than rattle the worlds of sports and celebrity. The tragedy of that helicopter crash unveiled the full breadth and depth of his influence on our culture, and by tracing and telling the oft-forgotten and lesser-known story of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRYANT, KOBE SIEAnthony, Piers
Summary: Orb had a rare gift--the magic which manifested whenever she sang or played her harp. No one could resist her music. But she knew that greater magic lay in the Llano, the mystic music that controlled all things. The quest for the Llano occupied Orb's life. Until she met Natasha, handsome and charming, and an even finer musician. But her mother Niobe came as an Aspect of Fire, with the news that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANTAnthony, Piers.
Summary: When life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past. The other seemingly all-powerful incantations of Immortality--Death, Fate, War, and Nature--made him welcome. Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps and he had become enmeshed in a complex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANTAnthony, Piers.
Summary: The lines between good and evil could scarcely be more clearly drawn, involving such well-established features as Satan, Hell, and the Damned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANTKaku, Michio
Summary: "Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility--and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 KAKV, Ram
Summary: Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. The avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Studios 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAndrew, Kelly
Summary: After being assigned to her university's prestigious and controversial neo-anthropological studies program, eighteen-year-old deaf student Delaney Meyers-Petrov must learn to channel her ability to slip between worlds--and, along with her capricious TA Colton Price, who seems determined to despise her, must uncover buried institutional secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANDKaku, Michio
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 629 KAKEpstein, Gerald
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.852 EPSBabbitt, Natalie
Summary: The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing older.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Contents: Beginning the chase -- Living to 100 -- The supplement boom -- Run for your life -- Memories R us -- Taming the beast -- A growing problem -- Sunny-side up -- The future is coming -- Chasing life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Wellness 2007