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The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Julia Suits
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-01 - Publisher: Penguin

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"This stuff is more than just fancy pranks. It's Americana. Never has nonsense been taken so seriously...This book is a fascinating, appetite- whetting glimpse
The Peculiars
Language: en
Pages: 311
Authors: Maureen Doyle McQuerry
Categories: Young Adult Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-18 - Publisher: ABRAMS

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A young girl sets off on a journey of self-discovery in this “richly atmospheric” tale blending steampunk, adventure, and gothic romance (Kirkus Reviews). W
The Book of Origins
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Trevor Homer
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-05-29 - Publisher: Penguin

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Everything—from the mundane (the pencil) to the catastrophic (the atom bomb)—has an origin, but often it’s not what we expect. A few things you may not ha
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Brian Selznick
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-03 - Publisher: Scholastic

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An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his wo
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Alice Domurat Dreger
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites--people born with "ambiguous" sexual anatomy--and th
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