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Book Synopsis Bookended by Beauty Queens by : Victoria Marshal
Download or read book Bookended by Beauty Queens written by Victoria Marshal and published by Before the Fall Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angie Palmer likes her life just the way it is-private. She has no desire to entangle herself in complex friendships, and her relationship with her two beauty queen sisters is safely distant. When disaster strikes Angie takes her Grandmother into her home. Life with Grandma comes with a world of changes, and new friends, including Val, a drag queen with hopes of being the next US-Gay Beauty Queen. Angie is determined to keep Val at a distance but Val has an instinct for knowing Angie's heart. Just as Angie gets comfortable with Grandma living with her, a budding friendship with Val, and a new romantic interest, everything takes an unexpected turn. Val is the victim of a violent crime and ends up in a coma. Angie begins a struggle against Val's family who wants to remove their son from life support. Suddenly Angie's private life becomes very public, and her world becomes a media circus. She is caught in a clash between religious beliefs and gay rights. Through many twists and turns, Angie discovers a new appreciation for family, friends, and love. In the end, Angie learns that a life filled with people to care about is never too crowded.
Book Synopsis Tempting the Beauty Queen by : Carolyn Hector
Download or read book Tempting the Beauty Queen written by Carolyn Hector and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From beauty queen…to bride? A Once Upon a Tiara story If Kenzie Swayne didn’t require a date for a string of upcoming weddings, she’d turn Ramon Torres’s offer down flat. The gorgeous entrepreneur stood her up once, unwilling to let emotion interfere with his ambition. Ramon needs Kenzie’s expertise for a new business venture, so he agrees to escort her. But when secrets from their pasts are revealed, can Ramon make Kenzie his—forever?
Download or read book Queen for a Day written by Marcia Ochoa and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of both transformistas and beauty pageant contestants (misses). Placing transformistas and misses in the same analytic frame enables Ochoa to delve deeply into complex questions of media and spectacle, gender and sexuality, race and class, and self-fashioning and identity in Venezuela. Beauty pageants play an outsized role in Venezuela. The country has won more international beauty contests than any other. The femininity performed by Venezuelan women in high-profile, widely viewed pageants defines a kind of national femininity. Ochoa argues that as transformistas and misses work to achieve the bodies, clothing and makeup styles, and postures and gestures of this national femininity, they come to embody Venezuelan modernity.
Download or read book Beauty Queens written by Libba Bray and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teen beauty queens. A lost island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to email. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives deep in the heart of every girl. Oh, the horror, the horror Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count. Join Libba Bray in this wicked satire of beauty pageants, reality TV and teen pop culture.
Book Synopsis The Beauty Queen by : Susan Beth Pfeffer
Download or read book The Beauty Queen written by Susan Beth Pfeffer and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After winning two beauty contests, Kit decides to try her luck at being an actress.
Book Synopsis The Bachelor and the Beauty Queen by : Carolyn Hector
Download or read book The Bachelor and the Beauty Queen written by Carolyn Hector and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spotlight on temptation The tall, sexy stranger who just barged into Lexi Pendergrass's shop looks like a perfect ten to her. But not only does Stephen Reyes accuse the former beauty queen of selling his young niece a scandalous dress, he then prevents Lexi from buying her dream property next door. Not exactly Mr. Congeniality. Even still, beneath their bickering simmers an inconvenient chemistry that's shaking Lexi's legendary poise to the core. Real estate mogul Stephen has had his world rocked twice in recent months. First, he became guardian to his late brother's children. Now he's falling for a feisty Southern beauty who, when she isn't coaching his pageant-crazy niece, is schooling him in desire. He misjudged her once. Now he's using all his seductive talents to win Lexi for now and forever…
Book Synopsis The Accidental Beauty Queen by : Teri Wilson
Download or read book The Accidental Beauty Queen written by Teri Wilson and published by Center Point. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She drags Charlotte to the pageant as a good luck charm, but the winning plan quickly goes awry when Ginny has a terrible, face-altering allergic reaction the night before the pageant, and Charlotte suddenly finds herself in a switcheroo the twins havent successfully pulled off in decades.
Book Synopsis Here She Is by : Hilary Levey Friedman
Download or read book Here She Is written by Hilary Levey Friedman and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh exploration of American feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world. Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America’s most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement’s signature achievements, including bringing women into the public sphere, helping them become leaders in business and politics, providing increased educational opportunities, and giving them a voice in the age of #MeToo. Using her unique perspective as a NOW state president, daughter to Miss America 1970, sometimes pageant judge, and scholar, Friedman explores how pageants became so deeply embedded in American life from their origins as a P.T. Barnum spectacle at the birth of the suffrage movement, through Miss Universe’s bathing beauties to the talent- and achievement-based competitions of today. She looks at how pageantry has morphed into culture everywhere from The Bachelor and RuPaul’s Drag Race to cheer and specialized contests like those for children, Indigenous women, and contestants with disabilities. Friedman also acknowledges the damaging and unrealistic expectations pageants place on women in society and discusses the controversies, including Miss America’s ableist and racist history, Trump’s ownership of the Miss Universe Organization, and the death of child pageant-winner JonBenét Ramsey. Presenting a more complex narrative than what’s been previously portrayed, Here She Is shows that as American women continue to evolve, so too will beauty pageants.
Book Synopsis Beauty Queen Blowout by : Lilla Zuckerman
Download or read book Beauty Queen Blowout written by Lilla Zuckerman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirror, mirror, on the wall, are you the hottest of them all? The next book in the sexy, sassy interactive Miss Adventure series -- following Tangle in Tijuana -- invites you to Reno, Nevada, as a contestant in the Miss Liberty Pageant. There you'll dodge back-stabbing competitors and a lecherous host in a race for the crown on a nationally televised competition. With a Miss Adventure, it's only natural that the choices will be way more fun than selecting an evening gown.... Will you be forced to room with a neurotic pageant lifer -- and her domineering stage mom? Will you team up with the troublemaking Miss Texas to dose the other girls with Ecstasy? Or will you walk away with the crown on your head -- and the hottie son of the wealthy pageant sponsor on your arm? The good news is that you can have as many "do-overs" as it takes to win in Beauty Queen Blowout: simply flip back to the start and make new choices the next time around. So tape up those boobs and get your best elbow-elbow wrist-wrist wave ready -- you're going to the Miss Liberty Pageant!
Book Synopsis Last Chance Beauty Queen by : Hope Ramsay
Download or read book Last Chance Beauty Queen written by Hope Ramsay and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her daughter Rocky returns home with her employer Hugh, an English royal who wants to buy some of the townfolk's land, in tow, Ruby Rhodes, the owner of the Cut 'n' Curl, decides to play matchmaker.
Book Synopsis The Beauty Queen's Makeover by : Teresa Southwick
Download or read book The Beauty Queen's Makeover written by Teresa Southwick and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis "What Would You Do to Save the World?" by : Ira Trivedi
Download or read book "What Would You Do to Save the World?" written by Ira Trivedi and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Riya has always had a secret ambition-winning the coveted Miss Indian Beauty crown. It's Riya's chance to turn fantasy into reality. The Miss Indian Beauty contest could well be her ticket to instant fame and success. After all, she's good-looking, intelligent, confident and, most importantly, tall-how difficult could it be? But Riya is in for a dose of reality, as she soon finds herself in the company of twenty-two gorgeous girls, under house arrest in a five-star hotel in Mumbai for a rigorous training session that will test them all to their limits. With each girl's eyes set on the crown, the mood is emotionally charged and the atmosphere intense, exhilarating, vicious and explosive all at once. What Would You Do to Save the World?is a delightfully entertaining first novel which reveals the dust behind the diamonds, the tears behind the plastic smiles, and dishes the dirt on what really goes on behind the scenes of a beauty pageant."
Book Synopsis The Beauty Queen's Makeover (Mills & Boon Vintage Cherish) by : Teresa Southwick
Download or read book The Beauty Queen's Makeover (Mills & Boon Vintage Cherish) written by Teresa Southwick and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nate Wiliams It's the quiet ones you have to watch out for! The awkward geek who sat in the last row of every class has become the top defense attorney in town! He's fierce–even unbeatable–in front of a jury. We hear he's even represented a few notorious alumni...
Book Synopsis Wilma Jean the Worry Machine by : Julia Cook
Download or read book Wilma Jean the Worry Machine written by Julia Cook and published by National Center for Youth Issues. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My stomach feels like it's tied up in a knot. My knees lock up, and my face feels hot. You know what I mean? I'm Wilma Jean, The Worry Machine." Anxiety is a subjective sense of worry, apprehension, and/or fear. It is considered to be the number one health problem in America. Although quite common, anxiety disorders in children are often misdiagnosed and overlooked. Everyone feels fear, worry and apprehension from time to time, but when these feelings prevent a person from doing what he/she wants and/or needs to do, anxiety becomes a disability. This fun and humorous book addresses the problem of anxiety in a way that relates to children of all ages. It offers creative strategies for parents and teachers to use that can lessen the severity of anxiety. The goal of the book is to give children the tools needed to feel more in control of their anxiety. For those worries that are not in anyone's control (i.e. the weather) a worry hat is introduced. A fun read for Wilmas of all ages! Includes a note to parents and educators with tips on dealing with an anxious child.
Book Synopsis Forever Mine & Falling for the Beauty Queen by : Donna Hill
Download or read book Forever Mine & Falling for the Beauty Queen written by Donna Hill and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PASSIONATE PROMISE Celebrity chef Alonzo Grant is no stranger to gold diggers. But his beautiful new maid doesn’t fit the mold. Mikayla Harris is smart, determined and utterly irresistible. She’s in Hollywood to pursue her acting dreams and care for her sick mom, not to embark on a passionate affair with her sexy side-job employer. But when she finally lands a film role—and an unwanted proposition from the director—will Alonzo trust her love is real? FALLING FOR THE BEAUTY QUEEN Runway and pageant coach Charlotte Pendergrass has swapped her ex-husband’s lavish lifestyle for her family’s quiet Georgia cabin. Her charismatic next-door neighbor is a distraction she’s starting to enjoy. Successful pecan farmer Richard Swayne feels the chemistry between them, but the wary single dad guards his heart. As she helps Richard’s daughter fulfill her pageant ambitions, can Charlotte make her own dreams come true?
Book Synopsis Accidental Beauty Queen B by : Teri Wilson
Download or read book Accidental Beauty Queen B written by Teri Wilson and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Teri Wilson is the Queen of Romantic Comedy!' Sarah Morgan 'The Accidental Beauty Queen effortlessly delivers on all of the charm and emotion you hope for in a romantic comedy. Utterly enchanting' Lauren Layne, New York Times bestselling author In this charming romantic comedy, perfect for fans of Meg Cabot and Sophie Kinsella, critically acclaimed author Teri Wilson (creator of Hallmark movies Unleashing Mr Darcy and Marrying Mr Darcy) shows us that sometimes being pushed out of your comfort zone leads you to the ultimate prize . . . Charlotte Gorman loves her job as an elementary school librarian, and is content to experience life through the pages of her books. Which couldn't be more opposite from her identical twin sister. Ginny, an Instagram-famous beauty pageant contestant, has been chasing a crown since she was old enough to enunciate the words world peace, and she's not giving up until she gets the title of Miss American Treasure. And Ginny's refusing to do it alone this time. She drags Charlotte to the pageant as a good luck charm, but the winning plan quickly goes awry when Ginny has a terrible, face-altering allergic reaction the night before the pageant, and Charlotte suddenly finds herself in a switcheroo the twins haven't successfully pulled off in decades. Woefully unprepared for the glittery world of hair extensions, false eyelashes, and push-up bras, Charlotte is mortified at every unstable step in her sky-high stilettos. But as she discovers there's more to her fellow contestants than just wanting a sparkly crown, Charlotte realizes she has a whole new motivation for winning. 'The perfect recipe for a feel-good read: Mix one part Mr. Darcy, one part sisterhood, one bulldog named Buttercup and add a hefty sprinkle of glitter. I laughed, cried, and swooned and even felt better in a bikini after reading it!' Lindsay Emory, critically acclaimed author of The Royal Runaway
Author :Candace Sherk Savage Publisher :New York : Abbeville Press Publishers ISBN 13 :9780789204929 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (49 download)
Book Synopsis Beauty Queens by : Candace Sherk Savage
Download or read book Beauty Queens written by Candace Sherk Savage and published by New York : Abbeville Press Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty pageants have been a distinctive aspect of pop culture throughout the twentieth century. This affectionate and witty chronicle of beauty contests over the decades offers the combined pleasures of an engaging text and a wealth of photographs depicting beauty queens past and present in all their glittering glamour. Candace Savage traces the evolution of the beauty pageant from its early days as a slightly scandalous display of feminine self-confidence to a much mocked sexist spectacle to its recent international popularity, particularly in the Third World. In 1996 the annual Miss Universe telecast was seen by an estimated 600 million people in sixty countries around the world. How did this quirky custom manage to become such a major cultural institution? When and where did the idea originate? (P.T. Barnum seems at least partly responsible). And why have so many women eagerly participated as both spectators and contestants? Emphasizing the glory years between 1920 and 1970, Beauty Queens offers entertaining - and sometimes startling - answers to these and other questions while exploring every aspect of the beauty contest's curious history. Anyone who has ever sniffled as the winner wept tears of joy will savour this lighthearted tribute. AUTHOR: Candace Savage is the author of numerous internationally acclaimed books, including Wolves, Cowgirls, Mother Nature, Aurora, and Bird Brains. Her work has been honoured by both the American and Canadian Library Associations as well as by the Canadian Science Writers Association and the Rachel Carson Institute. 100 illustrations, 20 in color, 90 in quadtone.
