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Beautiful Skin Revealed
By Paul Friedman, MD, Joy Kunishige, MD
With so many skin care treatments available, and so many claims of miracle cures, it’s hard to know what works and what doesn’t. Beautiful Skin Revealed is the definitive source for readers looking to separate help from hype when it comes to wrinkles, age spots, acne, varicose veins, birthmarks, blo... More Info |
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every crooked pot
By Renee Rosen
In a debut novel that could easily have been published as an adult memoir, Rosen looks back at the life of Nina Goldman, whose growing up is tied to two pillars: a port-wine stain around her eye and her inimitable father, Artie. The birthmark, she hates; her father, she loves. Both shape her in ways... More Info |
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2005 PWS Conference Audio CDs and 2003 Port Wine Stain Conference Videos
By Vascular Birthmarks Foundation
2005 PWS Conference: A three-CD audio series is available for a donation of $49.99. Listen to the incredible presentations by world experts such as Stuart Nelson, MD; Martin Mihm, MD; Milton Waner, MD; and others in the field of PWS, Sturge-Weber Syndrome and Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome as they discu... More Info |
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Buddy Booby's Birthmark
By Evan Ducker and Donna Cardenia Ducker
Journey to the exotic Galapagos Islands, where the native animals just cannot stop talking about Buddy, a newly hatched, red-footed booby bird, born with a birthmark. Because Buddy is different, he and his mother Isabela, are not exactly welcomed with open arms. However, that does not stop Buddy fro... More Info |
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I Love You Bigger Than The Moon
By Wendy Lovekamp
A fiction picture book for young readers (Ages 4 - 8). It's a story about a mother's love, beaming bright as big as the moon, embracing bedtime as well as exploring the natural wonders and curiosities of the moon from the innocence of a child. More Info |
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Marked for Life: A Memoir
By Joie Davidow (Newsgroup member and Director of Makeup & Skincare at Birthmarks.com)
Attractive and successful, Joie Davidow presents a confident face to the world. But her carefully applied makeup conceals a secret she has kept for decades. She was born with a port-wine stain, a purple mark that covers most of the left side of her face, including her eye. Tormented as a child, shun... More Info |
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Kissed by the Angels
By Sophie Martin-Canning
Protagonist of Kissed By The Angels, Orlagh Emmet possesses a facial birthmark. She is informed by her father the angels came down the night of her birth kissed her face and left this mark so she could be identified by the angels. She is a chosen one and has a job to do, but the job is unknown. The ... More Info |
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The Unknown Star
By Elton Rokusek, Loretta Sorenson
Over the past 61 years Elton Rokusek of Tyndall, South Dakota, has often wondered what his life might have been like if he hadn't been born with a large hemangioma that covers much of the right side of his face and head. In spite of the fact that he's dealt with medical difficulties, ridicule and se... More Info |
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Vascular Birthmarks: Hemangiomas and Malformations
By John B. Mulliken and Anthony C. Young
The chart on A Comparison of Hemangiomas and Malformations comes from it. It's expensive ($199) but it's the one. More Info |
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Making Them Pay: How to Get the Most from Health Insurance and Managed Care
By Rhonda D. Orin
In this consumer guide to health insurance and managed care programs, lawyer Orin has assembled a compact reference that explains how to read and understand a health plan and how to go toe to toe with insurance companies to get the benefits to which we are entitled. The author outlines the component... More Info |
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The Enchanted Tree: An Original American Tale
By Flavia and Lisa Weedn
The tallest, pinkest giraffe in the village doesn't like being different, and more than anything she wishes that she could be like everyone else - until she meets the enchanted tree. His wise and gentle stories teach the young giraffe that she is perfect and beautiful, and that each of us is special... More Info |
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A Visit to the Sesame Street Hospital
It's actually about Grover who needs to have his tonsils out, but is scared of the hospital, so he and some friends go on a tour of the hospital beforehand. Talks about how hospitals smell funny, what is in an operating room, getting a hospital bracelet, why surgeons wear different clothes, etc. Not... More Info |
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Benjamin's Gift
By Michael Golding
From the acclaimed author of Simple Prayers, hailed by Thomas Keneally as "a work of magic [and] a journey of wonder," comes the rich and captivating tale of an extraordinary father and son. Jean Pierre Michel Chernovsky is a paragon of the Gilded Age, a product of both Old World and New, and a coll... More Info |
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BIRTHMARKS: A Guide to Hemangiomas and Vascular Malformations
By Linda Shannon, MS & Milton Waner, MD, Medical Editor, with Connie Marshall, RN, MSN
Of the four million children born each year in the U.S., four hundred thousand are born with a vascular birthmark. While 90 percent of these birthmarks disappear by 1 year of age, 40,000 babies are born with a significant vascular birthmark that requires the opinion of a specialist. The parents of t... More Info |
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Celebrate Me!
By Lynda Farrington Wilson
Understanding the confusion and self-confidence issues that face young children who are suffering from visible skin conditions and abnormalities, NeoStrata Company, Inc., a research-based dermatological company dedicated to improving lives through discovery, has launched an outreach program. Celebra... More Info |
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Children With Facial Difference: A Parents' Guide
By Hope Charkins
Woodbine House gives us another excellent volume in their "Special Needs Collection." Charkins, a social worker with the Vermont Division for Children with Special Health Care Needs and the parent of a child with facial difference, is a cofounder of the Treacher Collins Foundation. Covering medical,... More Info |
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Moondial
By Helen Creswell
A television programme was based on this wonderful book and was shown on BBC 1 in the UK in 1990. One of the main characters has a port wine stain on her face. Minty is staying with her maiden aunt and discovers that the moondial in the huge house nearby has the power to take her back in time. On he... More Info |
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More Alike Than Different: An Inspiring Message for Anyone Coping With Life's Difficulties
By Lee Bussard
How can disabled people achieve interdependence in today's world? How can people who are not disabled see disabled people as more alike than different? How do beliefs and expectations influence how we reach our potential? Are disabilities part of a person's God-given potential? Lee Bussard deals wit... More Info |
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Pediatric Dermatology
By Lawrence A. Schachner, Ronald C. Hansen
This classic masterwork offers comprehensive, encyclopedic guidance on all aspects of pediatric skin disorders. Its editors and contributors are a veritable "who's who" of the top authorities in the field worldwide. Now illustrated in full color throughout for the first time, the 3rd Edition is also... More Info |
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Puss Puss and the Magic Laser
About a cat with a PWS. Cost: 5 GB Pounds (about $8). More Info |
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Strength, Courage and Confidence; What Facial Difference Teaches Us
By Jennifer Wallace
Jennifer Wallace writes about living with the after effects of a large facial hemangioma tumor, 11 reconstructive operations she and her family endured, and growing up with a healthy sense of self esteem, despite looking different. Jennifer offers medical information about hemangiomas, plus psycho-s... More Info |
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The Birth Mark
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is about a scientist who was married to the "perfect" woman -- a woman of extraordinary beauty except for the crimson stain on her cheek. He labored, trying to find a way to make the birthmark disappear. He was obsessed with making her truly perfect. He finally found a way to make the birthmark d... More Info |
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The Mouse with Pink Ears
About a mouse with PWS on his ears. Cost 5 GB pounds (about $8). More Info |
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The Skin I'm In
By Sharon G. Flake
From School Library Journal. Grade 6-8-Seventh-grader Maleeka Madison is miserable when a new teacher comes to her depressed inner-city school. Miss Saunders evidently is rich, self-assured in spite of the white birthmark across her black skin, and prone to getting into kids' faces about both their ... More Info |
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The Sneetches and Other Stories
By Dr. Seuss
It teaches a good lesson on discrimination against those who look different. More Info |
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We Are All Alike... We Are All Different
By Cheltenham Elementary School Kindergarteners
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