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1) The look
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When she is spotted by a modeling agency and her beautiful sister falls seriously ill, gangly fifteen-year-old Edwina "Ted" Trout must choose between fame and family.
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Fox Chapel Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
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142 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 20 cm.
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Build cool, fast dragsters powered by the energy of a wound mousetrap spring, all the while discovering the fun of physics and engineering. Includes plans for seven different mousetrap racers, revealing speed and distance tricks, trouble-shooting tips and techniques and more.
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2012
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228 p. ; 22 cm.
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In order to get the listing for Ian Forbes, realtor Amanda Thorn must appear on a bizarre reality dating show he's filming and discovers that there is a killer among the catty cast of characters when two of his prospective lovers turn up dead.
6) Scared stiff
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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328 p. ; 22 cm.
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After discovering the dead body of Shannon Tolliver on Halloween night, Deputy Coroner Mattie Winston and her boss, Izzy, use their razor sharp medical skills to catch a clever killer who is trying to frame Shannon's ex-husband for the crime.
7) The best man
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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232 pages ; 22 cm
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"Archer has four important role models in his life--his dad, his grandfather, his uncle Paul, and his favorite teacher, Mr. McLeod. When Uncle Paul and Mr. McLeod get married, Archer's sixth-grade year becomes one he'll never forget"--
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Haley Randolph mysteries volume 2
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When Haley arrives at Holt's employee luncheon and fashion show, she spots a sick server and helps out by putting on a uniform and waiting tables. The luncheon is a hit, with catered food from Edible Elegance--her mother's latest business--until top fashion model Claudia Gray is found dead in the ladies room. Too bad for Haley that Claudia, ex-girlfriend of Haley's current sort-of boyfriend, was poisoned and the police are looking for a missing server....
9) Role models
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
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304 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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"Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich--and happily horrify readers everywhere. This book is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities--some famous, some unknown, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, the owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to playwright Tennessee Williams; from atheist leader Madalyn...
10) The Rana look
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
256 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
11) Breaking news
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Godmothers novels volume 5
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Though the Charleston air is drenched with azalea and honeysuckle, and there's always a pitcher of sweet tea close to hand, the ladies have little time for relaxing. Ida's new line of cosmetics is about to launch, and Toots, Mavis, and Sophie are relishing new careers as models. And Abby, Toots's daughter, is getting hitched. In the middle of so much change, Toots is almost too busy to notice her own unexpected romance. After eight husbands, she's...
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2016]
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x, 259 pages ; 22 cm
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"We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance--are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated. But as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models...
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A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted eternal youth, Dorian Gray lives a wild, dissipated life while his portrait grows old and haggard. Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works... full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm
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A tale inspired by the life of the woman depicted in Édouard Manet's "Olympia" follows the life of a passionate girl in mid-nineteenth-century Paris who after accepting dinner from a handsome stranger is indoctrinated into cultural society.
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
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"Athlete after athlete in this book found discipline, hope, and inspiration on the playing field, rising above their circumstances. Filled with first-hand accounts from stars who exemplify the idea of enduring at all costs, Rising Above will serve as a must-read source of inspiration for kids and sports fans of all ages"--
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Delilah Dickinson, who runs a literary travel agency in Atlanta, finds her new business getting some bad press when an overnight stay at a plantation modeled after Tara from "Gone with the Wind" results in murder when the actor playing the role of Rhett Butler turns up dead.
17) Unraveling Anne
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Publisher
AmazonEncore
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
vi, 225 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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They called her Crazy Annie, the alcoholic street person whose life ended abruptly in a burnt-out building in West Hollywood. Such an ignoble final act gave no hint of the woman she had once been: Anne Ford, a successful beauty queen, model, and fashion designer who shone in the golden glow of 1950s Los Angeles.
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Publisher
The Open Field/Penguin Life
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiv, 220 pages ; 22 cm
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Born in Cold War Czechoslovakia, Paulina Porizkova rose to prominence as a model, appearing on her first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover in 1984. As the face of Estée Lauder in 1989, she was one of the highest-paid models in the world. When she was cast in the music video for the song “Drive” by The Cars, it was love at first sight for her and frontman Ric Ocasek. He was forty at the time, and Porizkova was nineteen. The decades to come...
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Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
v, 152 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Using a business model, the author proposes five steps that can be taken to maximize potential and achieve a more satisfying and fulfilling life, based on identifying unique strengths and implementing well-defined goals.
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