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223 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Pharmaceutical scientist and beauty writer Hannah English takes an unbiased, science-backed dive into everything you need to know about caring for your skin and what's really going on beneath the surface, as she destigmatizes skin conditions and asks us to stop blaming our diet and hygiene"--
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English
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"Skin Rules is a concise and practical instruction manual from a renowned Fifth Avenue dermatologist on how to attain beautiful skin, a taut and sculpted body, and a much younger appearance. Actors, models, and newscasters go to Dr. Jaliman for her cutting-edge technology and the latest in skin care, as well as for her reputation for being the "last stop" doctor, the one who fixes what others can't. Skin Rules has something for everyone, no matter...
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xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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From one of only two physicians in America board certified in dermatology and psychiatry, this one-of-a-kind book provides a unique perspective on people's skin troubles by linking them with life's stresses--and provides solutions.
7) Dark archives: a librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human skin
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English
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"A medical librarian presents a fascinating, terrifying look into history's rarest books-- those bound in human skin-- and the stories of their creation and collection"--
8) Skin hunger
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Resurrection of magic volume 1
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English
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In alternate chapters, Sadima travels from her farm home to the city and becomes assistant to a heartless man who is trying to restore knowledge of magic to the world, and a group of boys fights to survive in the academy that has resulted from his efforts.
10) Hollow city
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English
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Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London (circa 1940), the "peculiar" capital of the world.
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Under their skin volume 2
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307 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn and their robot stepsiblings, Jackson and Ava, try to save humanity from killer robots.
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viii, 200 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Anna Journey's lyrical and layered arrangement of essays dazzles with her reflections on our shifting selves -- the many 'skins' we inhabit in a life. An Arrangement of Skin is by turns beguiling, dark, carnal, and deeply personal. Journey revels in the flexibility and hybridity of the essay form, enriching her idiosyncratic anecdotes with literary and cultural meditations and electrifying the work with a poet's keen ear and canny eye. These essays...
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296 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town in the Pacific Northwest has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister.
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293 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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English
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Shares instructional guidelines for skin care, nutrition, and fashion based on the strategies of famous providers, in a reference that also features step-by-step photographs demonstrating the author's makeup techniques.
18) The life I'm in
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English
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Turned out of the only home she has known, Charlese Jones is lured into the dangerous web of human trafficking, and while she is frightened, she remains determined to bring herself and her fellow victims out of danger.
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viii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Cofounder of the international beauty company Caudalie shares the simple, natural, time-tested beauty secrets she learned growing up in France that any woman can use to look younger, healthier, and more radiant without harsh products or drastic procedures"--
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English
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Aerialists is a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world. A young misogynist finds a confidante in a cable-TV strongwoman. A realtor for the one percent invokes his inner murder clown. A skin-and-bones mathematician and his bearded wife plot revolution. A friendless peach farmer holds a funeral for a beloved elephant. And a model-train hobbyist prepares...
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