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Teen makeup

looks to match your every mood

Playing with matches

Desperate to improve his standing with the girls at Zummer High, Leon Sanders--a junior--seems to be making headway with his long-time crush Amy Green, but when he starts to get to know a social pariah named Melody Sanders, Leon begins to see beyond Melody's disfigurement.

Backbeard and the birthday suit

Backbeard is a rough, tough, and very hairy pirate who decides to get a new suit for his birthday, only to find that pirate fashions are all out of style.
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Beyond soap

the real truth about what you are doing to your skin and how to fix it for a beautiful, healthy glow
2018
"[The author] offers an . . . informative and . . . practical book that reveals the harmful effects of our modern skincare habits and how you can eliminate common skin conditions"--OCLC.

Stepsister

Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off her toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self.

Hot comb

Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women's lives and coming-of-age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn.
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The everlasting rose:

The Belles, Book 2
Camille, Edel, and Remy, aided by The Iron Ladies and backed by alternative newspaper The Spider's Web, race to outwit Sophia, find Princess Charlotte, and return her to Orl?ans.
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Freak 'n' Gorgeous

Told from two viewpoints, average-looking Konrad Wolnik and pretty, popular Camilla Hadi, both sixteen, find their lives turned upside-down when he becomes handsome and she, ugly, overnight.
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Uglies

Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.

Pretties

Tally's perfect life as a Pretty is disrupted when she receives a letter from herself, written when she was an Ugly, reminding her of the promise she made to take a drug developed to cure the brain lesions that keep the Pretties shallow and happy--and when she takes the pills, she becomes a target of those determined to keep Pretty society carefree.

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