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The ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart The ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart M. Glenn Taylor Meet Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teaches him to hun… OL12022550W
The promise The promise Danielle Steel Determined to get married despite parental disapproval, young architect Michael Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are separated just before their wedding by a cruel deception, and each pursues a n… OL14873597W
Notre-Dame de Paris Notre-Dame de Paris Victor Hugo In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy … OL15202030W
Sweet Tooth Sweet Tooth Jeff Lemire Learn the heartbreaking story of Jeppard and how he went from devoted husband to ruthless mercenary. Meanwhile, Gus is held captive with other hybrid creatures in a camp where he meets a scientist st… OL15594672W
Second nature Second nature Jacquelyn Mitchard Losing her father in a school fire that disfigures her face, Sicily is raised by a dynamic aunt who urges her to pursue a normal life, an effort that is influenced by her fiancé, a terrible drunken r… OL16189110W
A nightingale Christmas A nightingale Christmas Heather Holm A woman is disfigured in an airplane crash, and after witnessing a series of miracles, she is able to cope with her deformities and accept a new way of life. OL16414359W
Immortal lycanthropes Immortal lycanthropes Hal Johnson Horribly disfigured thirteen-year-old Myron Horowitz discovers that he is the first immortal lycanthrope, a were-mammal, born since time began, that can switch from a human to an animal. OL16451122W
Invisible monsters remix Invisible monsters remix Chuck Palahniuk According to Chuck Palahniuk's website this book is about the following: "*Originally released in paperback in 1999, the first hardcover edition of Invisible Monsters was published on June 11, 201… OL16558149W
Island of Doom Island of Doom Arthur G. Slade Modo, the shape-shifting, masked spy, and fellow spy Octavia Milkweed learn that Modo's biological parents are still alive but when the Clockwork Guild find Modo's parents first, Octavia and Modo cha… OL16571976W
The Ugly One The Ugly One Leanne Statland Ellis "At the height of the Incan empire, a girl called the Ugly One because of a disfiguring scar on her face, seeks to have the scar removed and instead finds a life path as a shaman" OL16671761W
Walking After Midnight Walking After Midnight Karen Robards WAS HE DEAD, OR... The nude male body an the embalming table, battered beyond recognition. Gingerly, Summer McAfee, chairwoman, CEO, and sole employee of Daisy Fresh cleaning service reached out t… OL167256W
Firelight Firelight Kristen Callihan Once the flames are ignited . . . Miranda Ellis is a woman tormented. Plagued since birth by a strange and powerful gift, she has spent her entire life struggling to control her exceptional abilit… OL17504579W
The rough-face girl The rough-face girl Rafe Martin In this Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story, the Rough-Face Girl and her two beautiful but heartless sisters compete for the affections of the Invisible Being. OL1810158W
Darkman Darkman Chuck Pfarrer,Sam Raimi,Liam Neeson,Ivan Raimi,Josh Goldin,Robert Tapert A scientist is horribly disfigured when gangsters break in and destroy his laboratory. After being burned beyond recognition and altered by an experimental medical procedure, he is reborn as Darkman … OL19742087W
Thirst Thirst Andreĭ Gelasimov Kostoya returns from the Chechen War with a face so maimed it looks like a piece of meat. He confines himself to his lonely apartment, with no company save the vodka in his refrigerator. The woman ne… OL19951264W
Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe Patricia Skinner Medieval Literature; Medieval Philosophy; History of Medieval Europe OL20714255W
Overcome Overcome Carmen Blandin Tarleton "On June 10, 2007, Carmen Blandin Tarleton's estranged husband broke into her rural Vermont home, beat her with a baseball bat, and doused her with industrial-strength lye ... Tarleton spent the next… OL23173437W
Firegirl Firegirl Tony Abbott "...there is..." Mrs. Tracy was saying quietly, "there is something we need to know about Jessica..."From this moment on, life is never quite the same for Tom and his seventh-grade classmates. They l… OL2589465W
Mask of Scars Mask of Scars Anne Mather Christina's brother and sister-in-law were running an hotel in the Algarve, that lovely unspoiled part of southern Portugal, and when the long university vacation began it struck her as a good idea t… OL3771281W
Playing with Matches Playing with Matches Brian Katcher SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD LEON SANDERS has a mug that looks like it should be hanging in a post office somewhere. If he didn't have his twisted sense of humor, he'd have nothing at all. So it's no wonder to… OL9334460W
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