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"Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there... but his wife has disappeared. A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby....
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Beautiful ugly volume 1
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Urban Christian
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Envy Wilson, Layla Hobbs, Kacie Mayweather, three thirty-year-old women, each with their own set of problems, situations, and secrets, share a friendship bound together by their need for each other. One by one, they each try to play with the deck life deals them. After all, the alternative to living is dying, and who wants to go down that pathway. There is too much zest in living for them, too many things to see, places to go and an endless list of...
3) True beauty
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Beautiful ugly volume 2
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His Pen Pub. LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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In True Beauty, the sequel to Beautiful Ugly, Layla, Kacie and Envy maintain their tight bond of friendship. They are determined to learn from the mistakes of their past so they can boldly step into their futures. Layla's drastic blessing through tragedy weight loss opens doors that she never thought possible. She's determined to live her life to the fullest, but as she moves forward with a new body and a new man, Layla forgets who used to be the...
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Flux
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"Gabe has always identified as a boy, but he was born with a girl's body. With his new public access radio show gaining in popularity, Gabe struggles with romance, friendships, and parents--all while trying to come out as transgendered. An audition for a station in Minneapolis looks like his ticket to a better life in the big city. But his entire future is threatened when several violent guys find out Gabe, the popular DJ, is also Elizabeth from school"--...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Katy Kelleher has spent much of her life chasing beauty. As a child, she uprooted handfuls of purple, fragrant little flowers from the earth, plucked iridescent seashells from the beach, and dug for turquoise stones in her backyard. As a teenager she applied glittery shimmer to her eyelids after religiously dabbing on her signature scent of orange blossoms and jasmine. And as an adult, she coveted gleaming marble countertops and delicate porcelain...
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Singing Hills Cycle novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find themselves far more entangled in the history of the riverlands than they ever expected to be. Accompanied by...
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"On the Shoulders of Giants collects previously unpublished essays from the last fifteen years of Umberto Eco's life. With humor and erudition, one of the great contemporary thinkers takes on the roots of Western culture, the origin of language, the nature of beauty and ugliness, the imperfections of art, and the lure of mysteries"--
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MGM Television Entertainment Inc. and CBS Studios Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Set one year after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, join Agent Clarice Starling in this new psychological thriller that takes a deep dive into her untold personal story. The series will bring you along as she returns to the field in pursuit of serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high-stakes political world of Washington, D.C.
11) The face thief
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Officer Dan France investigates who pushed the beautiful Margot down the stairs and discovers a number of people with motives, including a potential lover and a defrauded newlywed.
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For more than a decade parents have chosen Troll's Fairy Tale Classics for their beautiful illustrations and affordable editions. Now republished with contemporary new covers - but still competitively priced - these beloved fairy tales can be discovered by a new generation of children and their parents.
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"In this beautifully gross picture book, Anna Van Ogre’s lovely monster face turns into that of a sickeningly adorable, rosy-cheeked little girl—and it’s not switching back! Can she find a way to stop looking like an ugly human and regain her gorgeous monstrosity of a face? In this incredible story about beauty standards, owning your uniqueness, and developing self-esteem, nationally acclaimed comedian and perpetual bestselling author David...
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When Beauty's father is imprisoned by the Beast for picking a rose, she agrees to take her father's place and eventually grows to love her gruff captor.
"Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in appearance, she can perhaps make up for in courage. When her father comes home with a tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to...
16) Thumbelina
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English
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A tiny girl, no bigger than a thumb, is stolen by a great ugly toad and subsequently, has many adventures and makes many animal friends, before finding the perfect mate in a warm and beautiful southern land.
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The fantastic journey of Belle, a bright and independent young woman who takes her father's place as the prisoner of a beast in his castle. As Belle befriends the castle's enchanted staff, she and the Beast slowly begin to look beyond their initial reactions to each other and see who they truly are. But back in Belle's village, her father's fears for her safety drive him to rally the villagers to free Belle from the castle--a plan that goes awry,...
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For a young society woman seeking a favorable marriage in the late 1890s, debutante Clara Carter has been given one goal: secure the affections of the city's most eligible bachelor. But when a man appears who seems to love her simply for who she is, and gossip backlash turns ugly, Clara realizes it's not just her heart at stake-- the future of her family depends on how she plays the game.
20) Stepsister
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"Isabelle should be blissfully happy-she's about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn't the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince's heart. She's the ugly stepsister who cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella's shoe...which is now filling with blood. Isabelle tried to fit in. She cut away pieces of herself in order to become pretty. Sweet. More like Cinderella. But that only made her mean, jealous, and hollow....