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"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 city. As the only female resurrectionist in New York, she's carved out a niche procuring bodies afflicted with the strangest of anomalies. Anatomists will pay exorbitant sums for such specimens--dissecting and displaying them for the eager public. Cora's...
45) Evergreen: 3
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Yoshimatsu Hotaka has a dark past, although you'd never know it. As a second year high school student and president of the school's manga club, Yoshimatsu seems like your average, well-acclimated teenager, but a past surgery and a present handicap haunt him. Lacking the confidence to approach the radiant female ace of the swim club, Niki Awaya, Yoshimitsu can only admire her dazzling beauty from afar.So when a chance opportunity allows for a meeting...
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A father shares his autistic son's story and offers inspiration and advice for families facing similar challenges. Like any other teen boy, Austin loves pizza, movies, dancing, and girls. But unlike most other eighteen-year olds, he has a rare brittle-bone disease, was locked in a mental ward as a child, and is autistic. Yet Austin doesn't let any of that stop him.
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"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 [sixteen] years old ... Prudence meets her long-estranged Lithuanian grandfather and discovers a miraculous lineage beating and pulsing with past Lithuanian bird-women, storytellers with wings dragging the dirt, survivors perched on radio towers, lovers...
51) King of nowhere
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"In the parched wastelands of California, a lovable drunken lowlife named Denis awakens on the outskirts of an odd little village called Nowhere, home to a friendly populace of deformed, mutated, and just-left-of-normal citizens. Not knowing where he is or how he got there (or if the town is even real), Denis is given quarter in a flophouse above a bar and acquaints himself with the townsfolk - but just when he starts to regain his memories, his past...
53) Evergreen: 1
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"Born with a congenital heart disease, and thus unable to join in activities that are too physical, Manga Club captain Yoshimatsu Hotaka can only watch through the club room's window whenever the school swim team practices. Hotaka is enamored with beautiful swimming ace, Awaya Niki. But Hotaka is sickly and shy, and feels that the best he can do is pine for her from afar. When the gym teacher asks Hotaka to attend a special, after-school swim class...
55) Evergreen: 2
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"Born with a congenital heart disease, and thus unable to join in activities that are too physical, Manga Club captain Yoshimatsu Hotaka can only watch through the club room's window whenever the school swim team practices. Hotaka is enamored with beautiful swimming ace, Awaya Niki. But Hotaka is sickly and shy, and feels that the best he can do is pine for her from afar. When the gym teacher asks Hotaka to attend a special, after-school swim class...
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Kuroe realizes her happiness is slowly dwindling as the secrets she and Minami are keeping are also keeping them apart. He doesn't want to reveal their relationship in public, due to his popularity, and she doesn't want him to discover she can transform into a kaiju. This distance makes a small tiff turn into an all-out argument, and Minami refuses to listen, making Kuroe think perhaps they're not truly meant for each other.
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"The author's daughter was born with a very rare genetic syndrome and faced a daunting prognosis: she would be a fraction of normal size, have innumerable physical and mental difficulties and likely a shortened lifespan. Now, at age eight she is attending standard public school classes. This is the story of her family's journey"--