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The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.

"Sisters Aly and Brooke love spending time at their mom's popular and successful nail salon--it's their "home away from home." At the end of another incredibly busy day, Mom complains she is completely overwhelmed at work, even more so by all the kids who come to have manis and pedis. That's when the sisters have a brilliant idea: Why don't they open up a mini nail salon just for kids within Mom's store? Their plan needs a bit of polish, but all signs...

When Mr. Pavlov and Ms. Rubinstein look beyond one another's strange characteristics, they discover beauty and grace that no one else has ever noticed.

""I was bored with my husband," says Anne-Marie, the irrepressible voice of Anne-Marie la Beautae, "but you know, boredom is part of love." Mostly she is speaking here of her more famous friend and colleague, the French actress Giselle Fayolle, in whose shadow she has spent her career. "My life was a near miss," she adds, before explaining that she enunciated well because "I loved to say the words." A very short novel with the power and resonance...

At Aly and Brooke's new nail salon, anything goes. Well, almost anything. One of their mother's regular clients doesn't go anywhere without her beloved dog Sadie, who's a canine star. One paw leads to another, and the girls not only polish Sadie's nails, but also hatch a scheme to do doggy makeovers for the Annual Pup Adoption Day at the local shelter. But dogs aren't exactly ideal mani-pedi customers, are they? The girls are finding out the ruff...

"When a mysterious portrait artist named Dharma offers to sketch Molly's picture at the town fair, Molly wakes up to find that her zits and frizzy hair have vanished. She's drastically different. She's mesmerizing. She's an overnight celebrity, and life's never been better. Best of all, Hudson -- the guy she's had a crush on for what feels like forever -- finally falls for her. But Molly soon discovers that perfect beauty comes with a price. Can she...

A white rabbit discovers why Nina Bonita is dark and pretty.

Long ago, when a young woman's beauty made other girls jealous, they cursed her with ugliness but on New Year's Eve, she comes out of hiding to reward good children with treats. Includes glossary of Cajun words and information about the legend.

A few months shy of her sixteenth birthday, when she will be transformed into a "pretty" whose only job is to have a great time, Shay befriends the Crims, a group of teens who refuse to take anything in society at face value.

Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.