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Spies: A Novel Michael Frayn When a long-forgotten scent forces Stephen Wheatley to confront his past, he starts toremember a troubling childhood summer in wartime London where he and his ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

In the Little World: A True Story of Dwarfs, Love, and Trouble John H. Richardson Through these stories and musings, ranging from classic theories of beauty to the history of the disability movement, to postmodern theories of difference, Richardson presents a world that is a skewed reflection of our own -- and offers us ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Two Foot Fred: How My Life Has Come Full Circle Fred Gill, Lisa Wysocky Two Foot Fred, country music celebrity, shares the story of his life, overcoming dwarfism to achieve success. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Tonguecat: A Novel Peter Verhelst, Sherry Marx A new novel by the internationally acclaimed writer follows a city's decline into chaos with the arrival of Prometheus, the titan who stole fire from the gods and tried to give it to humankind as a gift. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

A Spot of Bother: A Novel Mark Haddon From the Hardcover edition. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess " This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the firstedition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked." Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry The outlandish and often controversial verse of bohemians, beatniks, hippies, punks,slackers, and other social malcontents is collected in this unique primer ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

This Present Darkness Frank E. Peretti We owe him a huge debt." Jerry B. Jenkins, Author, The Left Behind Series Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

War and Peace (Everyman's Library classics) L.N. Tolstoy Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Battlefield Earth L. Ron Hubbard It's the year 3000 A.D. and Man has become an endangered species under the ruthless rule of an alien race. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Tom Thumb: The Remarkable True Story of a Man in Miniature George Sullivan Shares the life of Charles Sherwood Stratton, describing his career, his travels around the world, his specially designed home, and his longtime friendship with the flamboyant P. T. Barnum. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Dead as a Doornail (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 5) Charlaine Harris Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse turns sleuth to investigate a mysterious sniper who has set his sights on the local changeling population, especially when ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

NIV Study Bible Zondervan Presents a full translation of the Bible, with explanatory introductions to each book and color illustrations. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Ulysses: A Facsimile of the First Edition Published in Paris in 1922 James Joyce Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Short Stature: From Folklore to Fact (First Book) Elaine Landau Explores the portrayal of dwarfs in folklore, the causes and treatment of dwarfism, andthe challenges of living in a society where bigger is thought to be ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Short: Walking Tall When You're Not Tall At All John Schwartz A New York Times reporter takes a look at the marketing, psychology and mythology behindthe obsession with height and, with a reassuring message, reveals that ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Prey Michael Crichton They have been programmed as predators and mankind is the prey. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Little People: Learning to See the World Through My Daughter's Eyes Dan Kennedy "So much for us to consider as we go through this extraordinary book-- how fate and chance determine the circumstances of our lives-- all told in wonderfully affecting and summoning language by a thoughtful and introspectively energetic ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Music from the Motion Pictures Arranged for Big Note Piano Adorned with gorgeous color stills from the motion pictures, this is the ultimatemusical tour of Middle-earth for Late Elementary pianists. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Music and Gender Make that Margaret Atwood Murders in the Dark soundtrack. ... through the City," "Whisper Study," "Street Music"; 3: "Cordillera," "Zone of Silence Story"; ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Seduced by Moonlight (Meredith Gentry, Book 3) Laurell K. Hamilton When her aunt, the sadistic Queen of Air and Darkness, becomes obsessed with securing the birth of an heir to the throne of Fairie, Meredith, who hides among ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Timeline Michael Crichton A new thriller by the best-selling author combines suspense with the latest in scientific knowledge Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski A family relocates to a small house on Ash Tree Lane and discovers that the inside of their new home seems to be without boundaries. A first novel. Original. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

And the Trucks Quit Running Earl Conlon Truckers across the country are being overwhelmed with regulations, outrageous fuelprices, abusive cops and unreasonable laws. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Midget Tim Bowler Midget is fifteen and three foot tall. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

King James Bible: 400th Anniversary Edition (Bible Kjv) Gordon Campbell This is the most authoritative edition of the King James Bible available. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

The Sword of Shannara Terry Brooks The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness is the Sword of Shannara, which can be used only by a true heir of Shannara. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment Nauseating aren't they? I want to become one of those. I want to find out how tolive life completely, abundantly, joyfully, stupidly. This is my quest. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Time to Say Hello . . .: The Autobiography Katherine Jenkins Packed with laughter, adventure, heartbreak and music, it is the tale of a dream comingtrue and one that will keep you gripped to the last note . Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE Audrey Niffenegger Praise for THE TIME TRAVELER' S WIFE "Niffenegger's storytelling is bold confident ... Niffenegger has written a soaring love story illuminated by dozens of ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe: A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust

Yehuda Koren, Eilat Negev

A moving, powerful tale of survival under the most extreme circumstances recalls the experiences of the Ovitz family, a troupe of performing dwarves, all relatives, who were deported to Auschwitz, but managed to stay alive, despite special ...

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Dwarf: A Memoir Tiffanie DiDonato, Rennie Dyball The author, born with diastrophic dysplasia, shares her quest to lead a normal life during which she underwent a series of surgeries that, after years of rehabilitation, allowed her to gain fourteen inches. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Piercing the Darkness Frank E. Peretti In the tiny farming community of Bacon's Corner, an attempted murder, a case of mistaken identity, and a lawsuit against a struggling Christian school all lead ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) But to place that story in terms of victory and defeat is to reduce The Old Man and the Sea to a simple story of action rather than a rumination on the ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

In the Labyrinth Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

The Mozart Conspiracy: A Novel Scott Mariani When Leigh and Ben receive a video documenting a ritual sacrifice performed by hoodedmen, they realize that the sect is still in existence today and will stop ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Starseeker Tim Bowler A wonderfully rich novel fromCarnegie Medal winner, Tim Bowler, written with lyricism,drama, and power, andfilled with the sense of a universe bursting with ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

The Person Behind the Syndrome Peter Beighton, Greta Beighton This book comes a decade after the publication of "The Man behind the Syndrome" and continues the presentation of people who have given their names to disorders or syndromes which are thought to have a significant genetic or chromosomal ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Blood Price (BLOOD SERIES) Tanya Huff Former Toronto homicide detective Vicki Nelson witnesses the first in a wave ofsupernatural killings in the city, and becomes deeply involved in the ensuing ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest toManipulate Height

Susan Cohen, Christine Cosgrove

two. girls,. two. continents. A NEW PATIENT The Australian newspaper articles that failed to mention the physical exams and the negative side effects the girls endured brought a deluge of new patients. One was Janet Cregan-Wood, slender ...

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Little Man, Thinking Big: Little Jimmy's Autobiography James Mastrangelo James Mastrangelo, Aka Little Jimmy is a little person who achieved great heights. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Predator (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries) Patricia Cornwell Kay Scarpetta and her colleague Pete Marino investigate the case of a man killed by a shotgun blast to the chest, while a woman is trapped in an abandoned house ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Current Indications for Growth Hormone Therapy (Endocrine Development) It was concluded that therapy can increase short-term growth and improve (near) adult height but increases are such that treated individuals remain ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Against Tall Odds: Being a David in a Goliath World Matt Roloff In Matt's biography Against Tall Odds, readers view a world of fast-walking giants, where common obstacles for most are mountains for little people, and stares from strangers are the norm. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

More Than a Carpenter Josh D. McDowell, Sean McDowell Audio edition read by Sean McDowell. The story that could change your life. Skeptic JoshMcDowell thought Christians were out of their minds. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

The Tin Drum Gunter Grass To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of this classic, a new translation ofthe Nobel Prize winner's story is offered, which includes a huge cast of ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Holy Bible Text Edition NLT This text Bible offers readers the clear and accurate New Living Translation along with features such as a topical verse finder, full-color maps, and a full-color presentation page at an affordable price. Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7) J. K. Rowling Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

Find Me Carol O'Connell When a children's gravesite is found along Adams Street, dozens of parents come seeking their missing children, some gone a decade or more, and Kathy Mallory, a ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library	Who lists this book

The Time Machine H. G. Wells The book contains a wealth of fascinating ideas and theories, many of which are still discussed today. *** This edition includes an afterward by Dr. Paul Cook ... Add this book into your Favorite Books Library**	Who lists this book