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  On Ugliness

  by Umberto Eco

  In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty , renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco’s On Ugliness is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts. What is the voyeuristic impulse behind our attraction to the gruesome and the horrible? Where does the magnetic appeal of the sordid and the scandalous come from? Is ugliness also in the eye of the beholder? Eco’s encyclopedic... (more)
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  Fairy Tales (Alex Flinn): Book 1

  Beastly

  by Alex Flinn

  I am a beast. A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright—a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster. You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever—ruined—unless I can break the spell. ... (more)
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  Man nennt mich Ameisenbär...

  by Christine Nöstlinger

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  The Advent of Lena: A tale of Beauty and the Beast

  by Neil M Campbell

  Can Beauty rescue Beast from the tyranny of image and his flawed perceptions of reality . . . Beauty: Chloe Lambert is used to men looking at her twice, but for all the wrong reasons - they cannot believe how ugly she is. Her first encounter with Park Delafield leaves her with no grounds to suspect he is any different; his first words in her presence constitute a slur on her appearance. Beast: For Park,... (more)
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  Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister

  by Gregory Maguire

  Is this new land a place where magic really happens? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.... We... (more)
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  Uglies: Book 1

  Uglies

  by Scott Westerfeld

  Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure... (more)