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Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Due to horrible physical deformities, he spent much of his life as a fair-ground freak. He was hounded, persecuted, and starving, until his fortune changed and he was rescued, housed, and fed by the distinguished surgeon, Frederick Treves. The subject of several books, a Broadway hit, and a film, Joseph Merrick has become part of popular mythology. Here, in this fully revised edition containing much fresh information, are the true and unromanticized...
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
From displays of the human form--both beautiful and grotesque--to tricks of illusion, and wonders from the far-off world, the sideshow has captivated audiences since its popularity arose in the Victorian Era. It was those featured on the side stages of circuses, fairground midways, and halls of exhibition that still captivate our curiosities today. Ripley's Believe It or Not! Presents Sideshow and Other Carnival Curiosities brings those performers...
63) X2: X-men united
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version (2.40:first).
Language
English
Description
An assassination attempt is made on the life of the president by a teleporting mutant. This act upsets the entire world and entices the president to begin the mutant-human war as predicted by Charles Xavier earlier. In an effort to get to the bottom of the attack and prevent world-wide war, Xavier sends out Storm and Dr. Jean Grey to search for the teleporting mutant and discover the truth behind the assassination attempt.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Esta tercera entrega de la saga arroja una nueva luz sobre ese primer año desde la perspectiva de Charlotte, la chica elegida para acompañarlo los primeros días del curso. Una chica inteligente y amable que también lucha por encontrar su lugar y ser aceptada en los círculos más populares del colegio."--
65) Hubert's freaks: the rare-book dealer, the Times Square talker, and the lost photos of Diane Arbus
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
67) Birth defects
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"For over 25 years, the Greenhaven Press Opposing Viewpoints Series has developed and set the standard for current-issue studies. With more than 90 volumes covering nearly every controversial contemporary topic, Opposing Viewpoints is the leading source for libraries and classrooms in need of current-issue materials. Each title explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format. The viewpoints are selected from a wide...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates.
"Su cara lo hace distinto y él solo quiere ser uno más. Camina siempre mirando al suelo, la cabeza gacha y el flequillo tratando en vano de esconder su rostro, pero, aun así, es objeto de miradas furtivas, susurros ahogados...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Brought together to form one extraordinary team of "Alphas" - people whose unique brain anomalies imbue them with superhuman mental and physical abilities - five seemingly ordinary citizens must take the law into their own hands while working within the government to investigate a new brand of baffling crime.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The incredible story of Trishna and Krishna, twin girls born joined at the head. Abandoned shortly after birth at an orphanage in Bangladesh, they had little chance of survival until they were saved and taken to Australia by an aid worker. After two years battling for life, the twins were ready for a series of delicate operations which would prepare them for the ultimate challenge: a marathon separation surgery that will allow them to live truly separate...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Brought together to form one extraordinary team of "Alphas" -- people whose unique brain anomalies imbue them with superhuman mental and physical abilities -- five seemingly ordinary citizens must take the law into their own hands while working within the government to investigate a new brand of baffling crime.
73) True blue
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Molly's life was turned upside down by the car accident that injured her and crippled her father, but at her new middle school she teams up with a weird misfit for a science competition and makes a true blue friend.
74) The Wolverine
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
[Blu-ray + DVD Combo pack].
Language
English
Description
Summoned to Japan by an old friend, Wolverine becomes involved in a conflict that will force him to confront his own demons. There, adamantium claws will clash with samurai steel as Logan confronts a mysterious figure from his past in an epic battle that will change him forever.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
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.
76) The elephant man
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The story of John Merrick, the Elephant Man, and of his triumph over his terrible affliction is a story of life and the affirmation of life; timeless, tragic, uplifting, and heroic; an exultation of the humanity of a man trapped inside the twisted, lesion-ridden grip of a terminally disfiguring disease. John Merrick is a man with many admirers, beginning with the witty and beautiful actress, Mrs. Kendal, who, so taken with Merrick, brought a who's...
77) I can
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A couple's adulterous affair leads to an unexpected pregnancy. They leave their spouses to begin a new life together, but their daughter, Katelyn, is born with a birth defect. While her dad believes Katelyn's condition is God's punishment for the affair, Katelyn, with only one fully developed arm, defies all odds with an incredible gift for softball"--
78) X2: X-Men united
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Second-disc Blu-ray edition.
Language
English
Description
As the X-Men try to find a mutant that has attempted to assassinate the President, the Academy is attacked by military forces. In the aftermath they join forces with Magneto and uncover a plot to murder all mutants on Earth.
79) Freaks
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First American edition.
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
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring memoir and work of fierce advocacy by a mother whose child is born deaf, leading her to investigate and expose a preventable virus that causes more childhood disabilities than any other--but is kept quiet by the medical community. One virus causes more birth defects and disabilities in children than any other infectious disease, yet 93% of Americans don't know it exists. In 2015, after an outwardly uneventful pregnancy, Megan Nix's second...
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