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THE FALL is a memoir like no other. Its 424 short passages match the number of steps taken by Diogo Mainardi's son Tito as he walks, with great difficulty, alongside his father through the streets of Venice, the city where a medical mishap during Tito's birth left him with Cerebral Palsy. As they make their way toward the hospital where both their lives changed forever, Mainairdi begins to draw on his knowledge of art and history, seeking to better...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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In this poignant and deeply intimate memoir, Sarah Ruhl chronicles her experience with Bell's palsy after giving birth to twins. Happily married and in the flush of hard-earned professional success, with her first play opening on Broadway, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high risk pregnancy and given birth to twins when she discovers the left side of her face entirely paralyzed. Bell's palsy. Ninety percent of Bell's palsy sufferers see spontaneous...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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The author's American debut. An insomniac with various stages of a sleepwalking disorder discovers he visits an alternate reality while in his altered states of consciousness. He also finds that he takes on a different identity and the things he does while in this form of consciousness ... is beyond his imagination!
5) Medusa
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Myth of monsters volume 1
Pub. Date
[2024]
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"Ava Baldwin has always tried to keep her anger in check, just like her mom taught her. But when know-it-all classmate Owen King tries to speak over her yet again, Ava explodes . . . and Owen freezes, becoming totally unresponsive. Although Owen recovers, Ava's parents whisk her off to her mother’s alma mater, the Accademia del Forte, a mysterious international boarding school in Venice. There, Ava and her brother, Jax, discover that the Olympian...
6) Blink once
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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West, a high school senior with everything going for him until an accident leaves him paralyzed, connects with Olivia, a patient in the hospital room next to his, who seems to understand his dreams and nightmares but who has a secret.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"Three years ago, Toni's five-year-old daughter Evie disappeared after leaving school. The police have never been able to find her. There were no witnesses, no CCTV, no trace. But Toni believes her daughter is alive. And as she begins to silently piece together her memories, the full story of the past begins to reveal itself, and a devastating truth. Toni's mind is trapped in a world of silence, her only chance to save herself is to manage the impossible....
9) Harry Sue
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Pub. Date
c2005
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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Although tough-talking Harry Sue would like to start a life of crime in order to be "sent up" and find her incarcerated mother, she must first protect the children at her neglectful grandmother's home day care center and befriend a paralyzed boy.
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Series
MindWar trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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"Rick emerged victorious from The Realm twice. Is his luck about to run out?"--
12) Kids of Appetite
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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Teens Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco sit in separate police interrogation rooms telling about the misfits who brought them together and their journey sparked by a message in an urn.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"Jordan's days as star player for her school's basketball team ended when an accident left her paralyzed from the waist down. Now, she's still the team captain, but her competition days seem to be behind her...until an encounter with a mysterious elephant, who she names Marshmallow, helps Jordan discover a brand new sport. Will water polo be the way for Jordan to continue her athletic dreams--or will it just come between Jordan and her best friends...