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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...

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The Beauty of Humanity Movement: A Novel

by Camilla Gibb

Published: 2011-03-17

Hardcover: 320 pages

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This deeply observed novel of contemporary Vietnam interweaves stories of a venerable soup seller, a young Vietnamese American curator, and an enterprising tour guide in ways that will mark all of their lives forever. Maggie, an art curator who is Vietnamese by birth but who has lived mo...

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Beauty Queens

by Libba Bray

Published: 2012-06-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, a desert island classic.Survival. Of the fittest.The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in f...

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Beauty Sleep

by Cameron Dokey

Published: 2002-12-01

Mass Market Paperback: 208 pages

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"LITTLE PRINCESS, LOVELY AS THE DAWN, WELL-NAMED AURORE..." With these seemingly innocent words, the fate of a newborn princess is sealed. For years the king and queen despaired of ever having a child. When Aurore arrives, though the entire kingdom celebrates, not all are overjoyed. They...

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Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of "Sleeping Beauty" (Once upon a Time)

by Cameron Dokey

Published: 2006-10-24

Mass Market Paperback: 208 pages

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"ONCE UPON A TIME" IS TIMELESS The Princess Aurore has had an unusual childhood. Cursed at birth, Aurore is fated to prick her finger at the age of sixteen and sleep for one hundred years -- until a prince awakens her with a kiss. So, to protect her, Aurore's loving parents forbid any ta...

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Beauty's Punishment (Sleeping Beauty)

by A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice

Published: 1999-05-01

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An erotic novel of discipline, love, and surrender for the enjoyment of men and women. This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice's elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Now Beauty, h...

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Beauty's Release: The Conclusion of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty

by A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice

Published: 1999-05-01

Paperback: 238 pages

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In the final volume of Anne Rice's deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty's adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all...