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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

by Dinaw Mengestu

Published: 2007-03-01

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution after witnessing soldiers beat his father to the point of certain death, selling off his parents' jewelry to pay for passage to the United States. Now he finds himself running a grocery store in a poor African-American neig...

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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (unabridged)

by Dinaw Mengestu

Published: 2008

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Beautiful, Dirty, Rich: A Novel

by J. D. Mason

Published: 2012-07-03

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A gripping new novel from bestselling author J.D. Mason about a wealthy Texas family and the one woman who holds? and will reveal?all their dirty secrets  Desdimona Green has been the name on everyone's lips in Blink, Texas. Twenty-five years ago, at the age of eighteen, she shot and kil...

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Beauty (Spectra special editions)

by Sheri S. Tepper

Published: 1992-03-01

Paperback: 480 pages

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With the  critically acclaimed novels The Gate To  Women's Country, Raising The Stones, and the  Hugo-nominated Grass, Sheri  Tepper has established herself as one of the major  science fiction writers of out Time. In  Beauty, she broadens her territory even  further, with a ...

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The Beauty Cookbook: 200 Recipes to Make Your Kitchen Your Spa -- for Your Face, Your Body and Your Hair

by Kym Douglas and Cindy Pearlman

Published: 2010-02-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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Looking good is in. Spending a lot of money on beauty treatments is out. Forget about $200 facial creams and break-the-bank treatments at your local spa. You can achieve the same results in your own home by just looking in your pantry, your fridge and your medicine cabinet. From the best-selling authors...

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Beauty for Ashes (A Hickory Ridge Romance)

by Dorothy Love

Published: 2012-02-28

Paperback: 336 pages

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She's a beautiful young widow. He's a Southern gentleman with a thirst for adventure. Both need a place to call home. After losing her husband in the Civil War, Carrie Daly is scared she will never have the family she longs for. Eligible bachelors are scarce in Hickory Ridge, Tennessee, b...

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Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgery

by Alex Kuczynski

Published: 2006-10-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A star writer for the New York Times Styles section captures the follies, frauds, and fanaticism that fuel the American pursuit of youth and beauty in a wickedly revealing excursion into the burgeoning business of cosmetic enhancement.Americans are aging faster and getting fatter than any ...

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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

by Naomi Wolf

Published: 2002-09-24

Paperback: 368 pages

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The bestselling classic that redefined our view od the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journal...

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Beauty of Humanity Movement

Paperback: 304 pages

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The Beauty of Humanity Movement

by Camilla Gibb

Published: 2011-07-26

Paperback: 352 pages

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Tu' is a young tour guide working in Hanoi for a company called New Dawn. While he leads tourists through the city, including American vets on "war tours," he starts to wonder what it is they are seeing of Vietnam--and what they missentirely. Maggie, who is Vietnamese by birth but has live...