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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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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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Above Us Only Sky
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Michele Young-Stone |
"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 [… |
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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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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 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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Melonhead
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Michael De Guzman |
Tired of living with his uncaring, divorced parents, Sidney, a twelve-year-old boy with an unusually large head, takes a bus trip across the United States which becomes a journey of self-discovery. |
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