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  Ghost Boy

  by Iain Lawrence

  Harold Kline is an albino—an outcast. Folks stare and taunt, calling him Ghost Boy. It’s been that way for all of his 14 years. So when the circus comes to town, Harold runs off to join it. Full of colorful performers, the circus seems like the answer to Harold’s loneliness. He’s eager to meet the Cannibal King, a sideshow attraction who’s an albino, too. He’s touched that Princess Minikin and the Fossil Man,... (more)
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  My Forever Love

  by Marsha Canham

  Ciaran Timberlane is a dishonored knight, living in exile. Amie de Langois is a woman in hiding from her brutal husband, living on Timberlane's land. Timberlane has nothing to lose by defying the law to protect Amie-nothing except his heart...
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  Elric of Melnibone (Elric)

  by Michael Moorcock

  AVAILABLE AGAIN! It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From the tapering, beautiful head stare two slanting eyes, crimson and moody, and from the loose sleeves of his yellow gown emerge two slender hands, also the colour of bone. He is Elric, Emperor of Melniboné, cursed with a keen and cynical intelligence, schooled in the art... (more)
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  The Art of Seeing

  by Aldous Huxley

  Both a document and a handbook The Art of Seeing records Aldous Huxley's victory over near-blindness and details the simple exercises anyone can follow to improve eyesight. Using the method devised by Dr. W. H. Bates, "the pioneer of visual education," as Huxley called him, and heeding the advice of Dr. Bates' disciple, Margaret D. Corbett, Aldous Huxley conquered a vision problem that had plagued him for more... (more)
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  People of the Lightning (First North Americans)

  by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear

  People of the Lightning takes us to ancient Florida, to a village of fisher folk who must face their deepest fear: Pondwader, now a lanky boy of fifteen summers. He is the White Lightning Boy--the first of his kind to be born in tens of tens of summers. His white hair, pink eyes, and pale skin make him fearsome enough, but legends foretell that a Lightning Boy will make Sister Moon bury her face in the clouds and... (more)
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  The Midwich Cuckoos

  by John Wyndham

  Cuckoos lay eggs in other birds' nests. The clutch that was fathered on the quiet little village of Midwich, one night in September, proved to possess a monstrous will of its own. Imt promised to make the human race look as dated as the dinosaur.
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  A Sailor on the Seas of Fate

  by Michael Moorcock

  Forced to flee his city of Melnibone, Elric and his sorcerous blade Stormbringer journey through barren hills to the edge of a black sea. Elric finds a dark ship and begins a voyage that will bring him face-to-face with all the champions Time can summon--and more. Reissue.