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1) Pretties
Author
Series
Uglies volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tally's transformation to perfect and popular including her totally hot boyfriend is everything she always wanted. But beneath the fun and freedom something is wrong and now Tally has to fight for her life because what she knows has put her in danger with the authorities.
2) Beastly
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
Author
Series
Rainbow Fish (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
North-South Books
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
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Description
The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.
Author
Publisher
Regan Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 368 p. ill. 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty ... and what curses accompanied Cinderella's...
7) The Belles
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 1
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"In a world where Beauty is a commodity only a few control, one Belle will learn the dark secrets behind her powers, and rise up to change the world"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume [unpaged] ; color illustrations / 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When Big Anthony borrows Strega Nona's magic ring to turn himself into a handsome man, he gets more trouble than fun.
9) Mustache!
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
When extremely good-looking King Duncan builds more and more tributes to his handsome face, neglecting kingdom projects and repairs, his loyal subjects find a mustachioed solution.
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
410 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her flawless skin becomes infected with a debilitating disease, causing her to lose her ability to shimmer, Lileala, the Rare Indigo of a color-rich utopia in the center of the galaxy, discovers her destiny goes far beyond her beauty as a new power awakens inside her.
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 2
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 Orléans.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the genteel New York of James’s early childhood, it is a tale of cruelty laced with comedy. Dr. Austin Sloper is a wealthy and domineering father who is disappointed in the unremarkable daughter he has produced; he dismisses her as both plain and simpleminded. The gentle and dutiful Catherine Sloper has always been in awe of her father, but when she falls in love with Morris Townsend, a penniless charmer whom Dr. Sloper accuses of being a...
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The erratic former queen, Sophia, has been imprisoned. Peace has returned to Orléans. Her sister, Charlotte, sits on the throne and invokes the ancient tradition of the Beauty Trials: a series of tests meant to find the new ruler of Orléans. Edel Beauregard decides to enter, and promises to bind her arcana to keep from having an unnatural advantage. But the trials are far more dangerous than any of the dozen hopefuls bargained for. Some perish--...
14) Stepsister
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their 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.
15) Hunted
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of an aristocrat's daughter, Yeva, who tracks a mysterious woodland creature her father has become obsessed with and that stands at the center of his failing sanity.
Yeva knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering them. Out in the wilderness there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas, or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. When...
Author
Series
Uglies volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After befriending the Crims, a group of fellow teens who refuse to take anything in society at face value, Shay starts to question the whole concept of being transformed from an ordinary "Ugly" into a paragon of beauty. And as the Crims explore beyond the monitored borders of Uglyville into the forbidden, Shay must choose between the perks of being Pretty and the rewards of being real.
17) Specials
Author
Series
Uglies volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being captured and surgically transformed into a "special," teenaged Tally Youngblood, now a government agent programmed to protect society from outside threats, is ordered to eliminate the rebel colony New Smoke, Tally's former home. "Special Circumstances": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator is the youngest student at the Conservatory. She produces a sound from the piano no one else does, employing a special technique she learned from her parents--also stunningly talented musicians--who fled China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. But...
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