The Declaration
In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, has her world view challenged when she meets Peter and discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
The Picture Of Dorian Gray
In Victorian England, young aristocrat Dorian Gray meets Sir Harry Wotton and is introduced to London's society circuit and a decadent world of self-indulgience.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 62
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: conduct of life, supernatural, portraits, great britain, london (england), future life, soul, appearance (philosophy), personal appearance, didactic fiction, youthfulness, ross, tony, ill, dvds, horror, english literature, beauty, personal, england [X], wilde, oscar, didactic fiction, fables, gray, dorian (fictional character), paranormal fiction, aging, immortality [X], elderly, gothic fiction, gray, dorian
The Grave
Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: time travel, foster home care, ireland, liverpool (england), england [X], immortalism, death, apparent, immortality [X], near-death experiences, horror fiction
The Resistance
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.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop
Eleven-year-old twins Oz and Lily are recruited by a talking cat to assist her and MI6 in foiling the dastardly plans of their great-great-uncle, a chocolatier who used magic to make a candy that bestows immortality.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: magic, immortality [X], cats, brothers and sisters, twins, london (england), england [X], siblings, adventure stories, adventure fiction, adventure fiction, action and adventure fiction
The Legacy
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.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Greenstone Grail
Nathan Ward is whisked away as a child to live in the forested land of Thornyhill under the guidance of a man named Bartlemy.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: albinos and albinism, gifted children, homeless women, immortalism, villages, england [X], grail, immortality [X], homeless persons
The Declaration
Anna, the child of parents who refused to sign the Declaration, which forbids people to have children, must chose between cheating the law or facing certain death.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930