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Kilee Brookbank was a typical sixteen-year-old girl, thinking about school, soccer, her friends and her boyfriend. But her last ordinary day erupted in an explosion that consumed her house, burning 45 percent of her body and sending her to the very brink of death. After 38 days of surgeries, skin grafts, perpetual physical therapy and excruciating pain, she had to discover how to live again. In each moment of her long journey back to everyday life,...
25) Joel
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Joel Sonnenberg was only two years old when an 18-wheeler smashed into his family's car. In the inferno that followed, he was burned on over 85 percent of his body. This is his story as only he can tell it. Experience the world from Joel's perspective as he takes you on a personal journey with more twists and turns than a Hollywood movie. It's been a life of both great struggles and of tremendous achievement and honor. Yet Joel asserts, "I am just...
26) Darkness visible
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Hideously scarred and orphaned during the bombing of London, Matty sees himself as set apart from others, and his wanderings bring him into contact with Mr. Pedigree, a respected teacher and obsessed pederast, and Sophy and Toni, angelic-looking terrorist twins.
27) Cuts and burns
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"The In Case of Emergency series will help children understand what is going on and how they should respond during emergency situations they are likely to encounter"--
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Have your readers ever touched a hot pan by accident? They may have even gotten slightly burned when they did. Authors Alvin and Virginia Silverstien and Laura Silverstein Nunn explore the different types of burns we can get, and how to best prevent burns, blisters, and sunburns.
29) The edge
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Relics (Tim Lebbon) volume 3
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"In France, a woman is struck by lightning and survives, a bizarre pattern of burns on her body. Days later, against all odds, she is struck again and vanishes without a trace. The search for her leads to a place folded away from reality, ruled by the immortal fairy who had been held prisoner by Mary Rock. Hugely powerful, he has been driven mad, stealing people who have vanished. A power struggle ensues among the creatures of myth who seek to launch...
30) Faceless
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Maisie is a normal sixteen-year-old, until an electrical fire caused by a lightning strike leaves her with severe burns, her face partially destroyed--she is lucky enough to get a full face transplant but she soon discovers how much her looks shaped her own identity and her relationship with those around her, including her boyfriend.
31) A face first
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Twelve-year-old Kelley decides to cut off contact with her friends and classmates after suffering third-degree burns to her face and body in a car accident near her home on Maryland's Kent Island.
32) Face of fire
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Polite, well-groomed and exceedingly charming, Monk Johnson is the most popular man in town. Employed as a handyman by Dr. Ned Trescott, Monk is respected by everyone who knows him. When the physician's home catches on fire and Monk heroically rescues the doctor's young son, he's dragged from the flames with his face horribly disfigured and his mind reduced to a child's. Shunned by those who once loved him, Monk soon finds the townsfolk have all turned...
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Okuyama, after being burned and disfigured in an industrial accident and estranged from his family and friends, agrees to his psychiatrist's radical experiment: a face transplant, created from the mold of a stranger. As Okuyama is thus further alienated from the world around him, he finds himself giving in to his darker temptations.
36) Heaven is here
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A poignant and inspirational memoir that chronicles Stephanie Nielson's life before and after the horrific plane crash that changed her path forever.