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41) 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.
43) Chained for life
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Mabel and Rosenthal are the two stars of a pretentious art-horror film directed by an unhinged tyrant who may or may not be German (he goes by 'Herr Director'). Mabel is playing a blind woman while Rosenthal, who has facial tumors caused by neurofibromatosis, is essentially playing a version of himself. Both their characters are part of a mad doctor's plot to 'cure' disabilities. But while Mabel can distance herself from her character, Rosenthal's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2015, after an outwardly uneventful pregnancy, Megan Nix's second daughter, Anna, was born terribly small and failed her newborn hearing test. Megan and her husband learned that Anna is completely deaf and could have lifelong delays due to an infection in the womb with cytomegalovirus, or CMV, a disease Megan unknowingly contracted from her toddler during pregnancy. Remedies for Sorrow is lyrically written and a searing critique of the paternalistic...
45) The dark room
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
47) Freaks
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, a lonely band of misfits trapped in a sideshow decides to put their extraordinary talents to use to solve the mysteries that no one else cares about, starting with the stealing of poor children from the banks of the Thames.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
302 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Luc, a youth born with one ear and raised by a drunken father in fifteenth-century France, finds a better home with fisherman Pons, his sister Mattie, and their ward Beatrice, the daughter of a disgraced knight, and even after being kidnapped and sold into slavery in Africa, he remains remarkably fortunate.
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