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A dwarf searches for the cause of his affliction. He is Benedict Lambert, whom most people assume to be a circus artist. In fact, he is a famous geneticist, working to find the elusive DNA code that made him a dwarf. His girlfriend loves his heart but is repulsed by his body.
3) Going bovine
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In an attempt to find a cure after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen-year-old boy, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital.
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The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters-the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the "Marchioness";...
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One of the three 'Great Tales' of the Elder Days, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin takes place in Middle-earth thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
The Children of Húrin is the first complete book by Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The Silmarillion. Six thousand years before the One Ring is destroyed, Middle-earth lies under the shadow of the Dark Lord Morgoth.
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Born Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump in 1841, she was better known as Mrs. Tom Thumb. Only 32-inches high, she refused to let her stature cost her opportunity and used her limited height to limitless advantage with P.T. Barnum's circus. Now Benjamin shares the fictional autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb's public triumphs and personal tragedies.
7) Cat's cradle
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A young author, writing a book about the day the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, corresponds with the midget son of Doctor Felix Hoenikker, father of the bomb, a relationship that eventually leads him to the impoverished island republic of San Lorenzo, while various government agents search for the world's most important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature.
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