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Freaks of nature
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Mark S. Blumberg |
"In Freaks of Nature, Mark Blumberg turns a scientist's eye on the oddities of nature, showing how a subject once relegated to the sideshow can help explain some of the deepest complexities of biolog… |
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The horrific sufferings of the mind-reading monster Hercules Barefoot
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Carl-Johan Vallgren |
Vallgren paints a cast of grotesques in a magical and atmospheric tour of nineteenth-century Europe in this story of social oppression and religious persecution with a marvellous love story. |
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Woman at the window
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Nelia Gardner White |
Beautiful but selfish crippled girl demands the presence of her sister in New York, who comes unwillingly. |
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The unfortunate son
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Constance Leeds |
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 disgr… |
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Freaks
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Kieran Larwood |
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 o… |
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Understanding birth defects
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Karen Gravelle |
Examines the causes of birth defects, the hardships faced by children born with them, and ways of preventing them. |
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A club in Montmartre
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Mike Resnick |
After a beggar girl rescues the drunken, severely deformed French painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, he introduces her to his studio, the nightlife of Montmartre, and the cancan dancers at the Moulin Ro… |
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Centaur Rising
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Jane Yolen |
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 is born and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's s… |
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The impossible girl
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Lydia Kang,Saskia Maarleveld |
"Manhattan, 1850. Born out of wedlock to a wealthy socialite and a nameless immigrant, Cora Lee can mingle with the rich just as easily as she can slip unnoticed into the slums and graveyards of the … |
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The developing human
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Keith L. Moore,T. V. N. Persaud |
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Jay's journal of anomolies
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Ricky Jay |
"The multitalented Ricky Jay (sleight-of-hand artist, actor, author, and scholar of the unusual) wrote and published a unique and beautifully designed quarterly called Jay's Journal of Anomalies. Alr… |
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Letters to Gabriel
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Karen Garver Santorum |
A collection of letters by the author to her unborn child with an abnormality known as "posterior urethral valve", a defect in which a valve in the urinary system does not open. As a result, the bab… |
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Abnormal
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Michel Foucault |
El curso sobre *Los anormales*, dictado en el Collége de France entre enero y marzo de 1975, prolonga los análisis que Michel Foucault consagró desde 1970 a la cuestión del saber y el poder: poder di… |
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One of Us
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Alice Domurat Dreger |
Must children born with socially challenging anatomies have their bodies changed because others cannot be expected to change their minds? One of Us views conjoined twinning and other "abnormalities" … |
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The true history of the Elephant Man
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Howell, Michael.,Peter Ford |
The touching story of Joseph Merrick, a ninteenth-century cripple, who became the most famous "professional freak" in history. |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of Fitzgerald's most memor… |
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The encyclopedia of phobias, fears, and anxieties
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Christine Adamec,Ronald M. Doctor,Ada P., Ph.D. Kahn |
Explains the meaning of terms and concepts related to specific phobias, forms of therapy, and medicines, and identifies key researchers. |
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The dark room
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Rachel Seiffert |
"Helmut: A boy born with a physical deformity finds work as a photographer's assistant during the 1930s and captures on film the changing temper of Berlin, the city he loves. But his acute photograph… |
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The pink house
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Nelia Gardner White |
"El viaje duro horas y horas a través de la campiña cubierta de nieve. Asi fue como llegué a esta casa. donde empezó mi verdadera vida... Estaba exitada. pero no atemorizada, pues nada hasta aquel mo… |
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The other within
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Daniel Deardorff |
"Explains how innovations generated within societal and psychic margins ironically benefit the very ones who deny and exclude the so-called misfit and delineates the creation of 'otherness'"--Provide… |
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