Tally lives in a world where your sixteenth birthday brings aesthetic perfection: an operation which erases your flaws, transforming you from an 'Ugly' into a 'Pretty'. She is on the eve of this event, and cannot wait for her life to change. As well as guaranteeing supermodel looks, life as a Pretty seems to revolve around having a good time.

Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect. Perfectly wrong.

The good, the bad, the pretty, and the ugly. Tally's seen it all. This is the gripping conclusion to Scott Westerfeld's riveting, highly acclaimed trilogy.

A fashion model with everything is disfigured in a road accident and goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being a monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. She then has to learn that reinventing herself means erasing her past and making up something better.

Sara Carter wants to be famous. Fame is her obsession. So when legendary rock star Jonathon Heat offers her star training and the cosmetic surgery she thinks she wants, Sara can't believe her dream will come true. But Jonathon Heat doesn't want Sara's talent. Jonathon Heat wants Sara's face.

The New York Times bestselling trilogy is now... a quartet. 3+1 = continued strong sales!

In his attempt to lead a quiet life, ex-investigator Mick Stranaham doesn't expect to have a Mafia hit-man come knocking on his door. He disposes of him promptly with a stuffed marlin head. On closer inspection he notices that the man has recently undergone plastic surgery.

Sara is walking in Central Park, when she is suddenly overcome by the smell of dead sea creatures, blackness and memories of excruciating pain, severed bodies and dismembered limbs. When she awakes she finds that she is no longer in her own body. She has become a Restoree.

Notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn books into a private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring facial scar. She was never to leave there alive. Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder, and later a second death, which are to raise even more complicated problems than the question of innocence or guilt.

The spine-tingling thriller from the bestselling author of I'VE HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE

For Michael, handsome heir to a business empire, and Nancy, beautiful young orphan, the carefree days of innocence were drawing to an end. That fateful day after graduation, they sealed a bond for the years to come - a vow of love that would have to prove itself in the face of terrible tragedy.

In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The author citing examples confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession.

A new edition of the bestselling classic tale of a woman scorned, from a much-loved British author.

The present volume documents and analyzes facial features in preparation for aesthetic surgery and orthodontic treatment. It takes a multidisciplinary approach, emphasizing the relationships between different parts of the face. At the end of each of the central chapters, the reader will find a multiple-choice checklist that will help him perform a step-by-step regional facial analysis. The ...

On a sprawling country estate, a young woman mourns her husband, fallen on a distant battlefield. The isolated and eerie stillness in which she grieves will soon be shattered as her home is transformed into a bustling military hospital. The increasingly frustrated widow finds unexpected solace in the company of a wounded officer.

In a work that combines an ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and feminism, Virginia L. Blum searches out the social conditions and imperatives that have made ours a culture of cosmetic surgery.

Through a series of never-before-seen interviews and rare photos, documentary-maker Rich Koslowski reveals the horrifying true story behind the Cartoon industry--the story that Hollywood doesn't want you to see. Told in the same style as a Ken Burns documentary, with interviews of toon stars today as well as historical file footage of the early years, this work of fiction will forever change the .

The Wrinkle Cure meets Making Faces in PLASTIC SURGERY WITHOUT THE SURGERY, a practical guide that uses proven makeup techniques to easily correct the problems you would otherwise need surgery to overcome-without the knife