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Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Español
Description
In this steamy, intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. Cesar tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, Cesar's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious mind where the answer to ending his living nightmare lies...
Author
Series
Publisher
AmazonEncore
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Since he was disfigured in a fire sixteen years ago, recluse Louis Malone has remained hidden from the prying eyes of his neighbors in the small town of Waverly. Across town, Iris Shula, a lonely and unlovely nurse, knows at thirty-seven it is unlikely that her Prince Charming will ever appear. But Iris is about to learn how wrong she is. When Louis accidentally falls out of his second-story window, these two kindred souls are brought together....
3) Darkman
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl, and Edward Gorey, a beguiling and disarming debut novel from an award-winning British author about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor--and the startling revelations their behavior evokes. In a sprawling estate, willfully secluded, lives Morgan Fletcher, the disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins. Morgan spends his days in quiet...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Publishers Weekly: This audio edition of Trumbo's classic 1939 novel of war's insanity begins as a bit of a slog because of the lengthy padding at its start. With two introductions, from Cindy Sheehan and Ron Kovic, that attempt to place the novel in the context of more recent armed conflicts in both Iraq and Vietnam, it is the better part of a disc before the book properly begins. Once it does, though, the slog ceases. Trumbo's novel is spine-tingling...
Author
Series
Midnight meetings volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In desperate need of an heir, Lord Edward Sandford, Earl of Greenwich, makes an agreement with Lydia Montgomery who insinuates herself into his scientific work and into his heart due to their undeniable chemistry.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1916, disfigured after an avalanche, Sven Ormson leads a solitary life, testing himself against the elements in Svalbard, until an unlikely visitor salves his loneliness, drawing him into a family of fellow castoffs that determines the rest of his life.
10) Lost in the sun
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on"--
11) Scars like wings
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
One year after the fire that claimed her parents' and cousin's lives and left her severely disfigured, sixteen-year-old Ava faces the return to high school.
12) Beholding Bee
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1942, when life turns sour at the carnival that has always been her home, eleven-year-old Bee takes her dog, Peabody, and piglet, Cordelia, and sets out to find a real home, aided by two women only Bee and her pets can see.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
There are trolls, goblins, and witches. Which kind of monster is Sophie? Sophie is a monster expert. Thanks to her Big Book of Monsters and her vivid imagination, Sophie can identify the monsters in her school and neighborhood. Clearly, the bullies are trolls and goblins. Her nice neighbor must be a good witch, and Sophies new best friend is obviously a fairy. But what about Sophie? Shes convinced she is definitely a monster because of the “monster...
14) The hunted
Author
Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 6
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ella is out in the country, alone now except for her silent rescuer, Scarface, about whom she knows nothing, while Ed leaves London on a dangerous quest, determined to find Ella and keep his promise to Small Sam that he will reunite sister and brother.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
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 revelation, and an opportunity for a risky full-face transplant.
Author
Series
Legendary lovers volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
To save her sister from falling for rake Quinn Wilde, Venetia Stratham, after publicly jilting her libertine fiancee at the altar and fleeing society, finds herself married to the arrogant yet irresistible lord who is intent on winning her heart.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Luna, who is recovering from a disfiguring car accident, is inspired to heal by two magical neighbors who take her up to the heavens to sweep the moon and stars.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A biography of the plastic surgeon Harold Gillies with an emphasis on the development of plastic surgery during WWI. Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world’s first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of practitioners whose...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Struggling with fragmented memories, accusations and overwhelming survivor's guilt a year after the scarring accident that killed her older sister, 15-year-old Mia spends a summer in New York City with the grandmother she never met, where a café job leads to new friendships and healing.
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