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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
" On March 29, 1973, Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with a pair of wings molded to her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind. At fifteen years old, confused and unmoored, Prudence meets her long-estranged Lithuanian grandfather and discovers a miraculous lineage beating and pulsing with past Lithuanian bird-women, storytellers with wings dragging the dirt, survivors perched on radio...
22) Freaks
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat -- or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real." --
23) Innocence
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
171 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A philosophical novel that follows John Gegenuber, a former Episcopal priest who has given up his parish and vocation to become a real estate agent. After having corrective surgery for a cleft palate, John has been invited to go on a romantic weekend trip to a secluded country estate with Thalia, a young woman who has undergone the same cosmetic surgery. Their transformational weekend together is tested in the sudden and premature labor of a young...
24) The Wolverine
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, Wolverine becomes embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons.
27) Deadeye
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Ace mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"These stories are an extra peek at Auggie, a boy born with extreme facial abnormalities, before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie s oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie s new friend at school"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Moving through the world in a body that looks different than most, Jones learned on to factor "pain calculations" into every plan, every situation. She was born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis, which affects both the stature and gait, and so her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as "less than." the ways she has been seen--or not seen--has informed...
31) Dragon's keep
Author
Series
Wilde Island chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 5
Language
English
Description
"With his dying words, H---Jacob's final connection to his grandfather Abes's secret life--entrusts Jacob with a mission: Deliver newly contacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known as V"
34) Mortal suns
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
3 CDs (3 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Listen about life as a fifth grader at Beecher Prep through the eyes of Charlotte, the girl who had been chosen to be Auggie's 'welcome' buddy. Listeners will not only learn more about Charlotte and her budding friendship with fan-favorite, Summer (they solve a mystery together), but how the girls at Beecher Prep react to Auggie attending their school for the first time.
38) The elephant man
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the London surgeon Frederick Treves meets the freak-show performer John Merrick, who has severe skeletal and soft tissue deformities, he assumes that he must be intellectually disabled as well. As the two men spend more time together, though, Merrick reveals the intelligence, gentle nature, and profound sense of dignity that lie beneath his shocking appearance, and he and Treves develop a friendship.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While in heaven reviewing her short life with the help of the Assembler of Parts, 8-year-old Jess, who was born with a syndrome of birth defects, discovers the true meaning and purpose of her life after her death unleashes events beyond her control.
40) Centaur rising
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur's born, and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.
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