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1) Aesthetica
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"At 19, she was an Instagram celebrity. Now, at 35, she works behind the cosmetic counter at the "black and white store," peddling anti-aging products to women seeking physical and spiritual transformation. She too is seeking rebirth. She's about to undergo the high-risk, elective surgery Aesthetica, a procedure that will reverse all her past plastic surgery procedures, returning her, she hopes, to a truer self. Provided she survives the knife. But...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"After undergoing plastic surgery and opening a shop with a friend, Lauren Stevenson was looking forward to starting afresh. Then some peculiar things began to happen. She was nearly run down by an out-of-control car. A few days later she was attacked by a wild dog. Several items in her home had somehow moved. Matt Kruger showed up soon after. He's handsome, passionate, and says he's a close friend of her brother's. But why has Matt appeared now?...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a delightful compendium of very short fiction and comics that celebrate the joy and absurdity of the human experience. It is often said that the best things in life come in small packages--anyone in search of proof need look no further than the stories in this collection: brief, utterly engaging tales that offer lasting surprise and delight. From the original Greek financial...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"What if you were a stranger, even to yourself? In this riveting novel of suspense, bestselling author Lisa Jackson keeps readers guessing through every twist and turn when a shocking accident leaves one woman wondering who she is, what she has done -- and why she could be the next to die... It begins on a dark stretch of highway in northern California. Caught in a blinding glare of headlights, two vehicles swerve and crash -- leaving one woman dead,...
Author
Publisher
Acre Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"PILGRIM, Canterbury Cruise Line's flagship, promises its passengers not just a luxurious fortnight away but the opportunity for reinvention. This extraordinary journey is made possible by the captain and visionary plastic surgeon Dr. Walter Heston, by the vessel's self-learning artificial intelligence called BECCA, and an all-male crew of room stewards, deck hands, technicians, and cosmetic practitioners. Pilgrims 2.0 begins on the eve of Cruise...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a near-future Southern city, everyone is talking about a new experimental medical procedure that boasts unprecedented success rates. In a society plagued by racism, segregation, and private prisons, this operation saves lives with a controversial method--by turning people white. Like any father, our unnamed narrator just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. But in order to afford...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this highly original and highly researched book, Zara Stone draws on the intersectionality of socioeconomic success, racial bias, the prison industry complex, and the fallacy of attractiveness to get to the heart of how appearance and societal approval creates self-worth, and uncovers deeper truths of beauty bias, inherited racism, effective recidivism programs, and inequality"--
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Sean McNamara and Christian Troy are two plastic surgeons running a partnership in Miami, Florida with different views on life. Sean is a weak family man who distances himself with work to avoid a dysfunctional home life that includes his wife Julie, and his rebelious teenage son Matt. Christian is an arrogant, narcissistc, unethical, ladies man who worships wine, women, and the all mighty dollar. He is just slick enough to do just about anything...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Sex, seduction, liposuction, and the debate about what cosmetic surgery can and cannot bring to a patient's life. The South Beach plastic surgeons have a revolving door. Including an organ-harvest ring and human foibles, including a ventriloquist wants to look like his dummy.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
During a tough economy, beautiful people elect not to have plastic surgery. So don't expect McNamara/Troy to reject any cash-flow opportunities, no matter how dicey. Maybe the docs will need to think about the state's request to lipo a morbidly obese Death Row inmate so he can be executed. Matt sets out to earn coin at the beach as a mime; Kimber laments the decline of her line of sex toys.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan's family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan's mother was their savvy, charismatic North Star, setting...
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