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Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545388716
Size: 51.91 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2011-05-24
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Beauty Queens eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island. Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to emall. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.

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Book Detail:
Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 174269439X
Size: 76.19 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2011-06-01
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Beauty Queens eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What do you get when you cross America's Next Top Model with Lost? A brilliantly funny novel by the queen of teen satire, Libba Bray.

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Book Detail:
Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9780439895989
Size: 38.14 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2012
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Beauty Queens eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.

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Book Detail:
Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606267410
Size: 72.64 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2012-06
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Language: en
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Download PDF Beauty Queens eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. When the 50 contestants of the Miss Teen Dream Pageant crash on a desert island, the young beauty queens struggle between survival efforts and denial while hoping for rescue and encountering a band of handsome pirates. By the Printz Award-winning aut

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Book Detail:
Author: Colleen Ballerion Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113665819X
Size: 32.23 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2013-09-13
Category: Education
Language: en
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Download PDF Beauty Queens On The Global Stage eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Modern beauty contests were invented by P.T. Barnum in the United States, but in the 20th century pageants and contests have spread across the entire world from Nepal to Tierra Del Fuego. Why are women (and sometimes men in drag) parading on stage such a universally appealing spectacle, attracting an audience in the billions? This book is the first global comparison of pageants from different parts of the world, at the ways each contest is both intensely local and unique, and simultaneously global and remarkable repetitious. The authors use the latest tools of feminist, ethnographic, and literary scholarship to unpack and interpret one of the greatest and most universal spectacles of modern times.

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Book Detail:
Author: Candace Savage
Publisher: Greystone Books
ISBN: 9781550546187
Size: 28.86 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1998-08
Category:
Language: en
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Download PDF Beauty Queens eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Love them or loathe them, beauty pageants are still a part of our cultural history. In this book Candace Savage explores this neglected aspect of our recent past to provide a fascinating narrative history of the beauty pageant.'

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Book Detail:
Author: Marcia Ochoa
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822376997
Size: 62.22 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2014-04-28
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Queen For A Day eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 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.

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Book Detail:
Author: Rhian E. Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912905478
Size: 51.17 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2021-10-14
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Language: en
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Download PDF Painting The Beauty Queens Orange eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In Painting the Beauty Queens Orange, the women who livedthe decade reveal what it meant to push boundaries, claimyour identity, and carve out your place amidst the winter ofdiscontent, the scorching summer of '76 and the rise ofThatcherism.

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Book Detail:
Author: Maxine Leeds Craig
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019515262X
Size: 35.35 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2002
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Ain T I A Beauty Queen eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The meanings and practices of racial identity are continually reshaped as a result of the interplay of actions taken at the individual and institutional levels. This text is a study of African American women as symbols, and as participants, in the reshaping of the meaning of African American racial identity.

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Book Detail:
Author: Linda Glovach
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006205161X
Size: 35.82 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1998-09-19
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Beauty Queen eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. I felt the prick of the needle, but only for a second, because this great rush of warmth quickly followed, encompassing my whole body from my toes right up to the top hair on my head. I couldn't move for a minute as she guided the needle in and out of my vein. When she was done, I felt like I had entered heaven. I looked in the mirror and felt beautiful and confident. I felt this great peace, at last, a warmth, and I knew that everything was going to be okay--and really always had been. Like time had stopped and I was floating on a cloud. "Writing the book, I saw my old dope dealer and bought $1,500 worth of pure heroin--Brown Gold--and started shooting up ten times a day to get the feel of the book. Well, I did, all right. I ended up in Glen Cove General, almost dead. In truth, you make a deal with the Devil. He takes away your pain, but he owns you. You live for the next fix. After a while, it's totally physical; your body has to have it. But I'm off it for good." -- Linda Glovach Young Adults' Choices for 2000 (IRA)

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Book Detail:
Author: Jamie Maslin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 162914066X
Size: 34.70 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2014-03-04
Category: Travel
Language: en
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Download PDF Socialist Dreams And Beauty Queens eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Couchsurfer, hitchhiker, and rogue wanderer Jamie Maslin embarks on a couchsurfing adventure to the homeland of “firebrand,” “populist,” “anti-American” president Hugo Chavez: the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Alone in the crime capital of the world Maslin immediately finds himself in trouble—arrested by knife-wielding police officers and inoculated with an unwanted vaccination. After a terrifying start in Caracas, he soon leaves the teeming city and travels to the places tourists never see, staying on the couches of people he befriended online just days earlier, and meeting everyone from fervent social revolutionaries to the country’s wealthy elite. He sets off in search of mile-high waterfalls, flat topped jungle plateaus, rolling deserts, and the famous lightning that appears suddenly in the sky with no rain or thunder. Visiting sprawling slums and opulent mansions, Maslin offers a fascinating and timely social, cultural, and historical introduction to a country increasingly in the headlines. Often irreverent, frequently informative, and habitually funny, this is the remarkable account of a young adventurer’s journey through a breathtakingly beautiful and dynamic country where the politics of oil and social revolution are never far from the surface.

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Book Detail:
Author: Barbara Kimenye
Publisher: East African Educ Press
ISBN:
Size: 10.42 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1997
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Beauty Queen eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The well-known Kenyan woman writer here tells an exciting story for young readers. The title is one in a series developed to meet the supplementary reading needs of secondary level pupils, and to encourage reading for pleasure. Reminiscent of the proverb that the serpent hisses where sweet birds sing, the story starts when Adela and Keti jokingly enter a village beauty contest - the start of excitement and adventure, fraught with danger and tragedy.

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Book Detail:
Author: Teri Wilson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501197614
Size: 38.95 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2018-12-04
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Accidental Beauty Queen eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this charming romantic comedy perfect for fans of Meg Cabot and Sophie Kinsella, critically acclaimed author Teri Wilson 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.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jennifer de de Guzman
Publisher: Charmz
ISBN: 9781545801697
Size: 40.83 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2018-12-18
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Beauty Queen 1 eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Mamalarang! Witch!" These are words that have followed young Renata for most of her life. Living in the squalor of Manila's Smokey Mountain - a slum within a garbage dump - Renata uses her power to communicate with insects to help her with collecting recyclable rubbish. As her family ekes out a living, the flip side of Manila is one where glamorous Beauty Queens reign supreme. When a flamboyant talent coach spots Renata in the market, he gives her the chance to be plucked from poverty into the heady world of Filipino pageants. But even as she is groomed in poise and beauty, her past and the plight of the poor in Manila haunts her. And her secret power just keeps strengthening. Will the love of a fellow pageant girl help Renata find the strength to set her power free?

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Book Detail:
Author: Sally-Ann Fawcett
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291906363
Size: 13.69 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2014-06-04
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF Misdemeanours Beauty Queen Scandals eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Beauty contests: as much as the feminists, the detractors and the TV executives tried, they never quite went away. Nor did the scandals that accompanied them, which became as much a tradition as the contests themselves. Misdemeanours celebrates the beauty queens that made the headlines: the sex, the drugs, the rock 'n' roll stars, as well as the tragedies and heartaches that lay behind those glittering prizes.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sabrina Billings
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1783090774
Size: 27.30 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2013-11-29
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Language: en
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Download PDF Language Globalization And The Making Of A Tanzanian Beauty Queen eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Through micro-analysis of language use, this book chronicles young women's pathways to becoming a Tanzanian beauty queen, offering an original perspective on the intersection of language with globalization, nationalism, and inequality in urban East Africa. This compelling linguistic ethnography considers the real-life effects, both on- and off-stage, of language policy, education, and gender dynamics for the women competing in the pageants. While highlighting many contestants' struggles for escape from poverty and patriarchy, the book also emphasizes their creative strategies – linguistic and otherwise – for bettering their lives and shows how people living in a global economic periphery take part in, and sometimes feel left out of, the wider world.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jamie Maslin
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616082216
Size: 41.44 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2011-06
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Socialist Dreams And Beauty Queens eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Intrepid, observant, funny, and charming."---Booklist --

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Book Detail:
Author: Karen W. Tice
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199842809
Size: 66.50 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2012-04-17
Category: Education
Language: en
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Download PDF Queens Of Academe eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Higher education is an unlikely venue for showcasing ideals of femininity, yet campus beauty pageants have increased in popularity in a cultural marketplace conjoining personal empowerment with beauty and style. Karen Tice examines the desires and racial and political agendas that propel students onto collegiate catwalks.

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Book Detail:
Author: L. E. Blair
Publisher: Golden Press
ISBN: 9780307220264
Size: 22.23 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 1993-05
Category: Beauty contests
Language: en
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Download PDF Beauty Queens eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Allison and Sabrina enter the Miss Acorn Falls beauty contest in the hope that winning will help them achieve their goals, but they both get more than they bargained for

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Book Detail:
Author: Sarit Yishai-Levi
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466890509
Size: 62.43 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2016-04-05
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Beauty Queen Of Jerusalem eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Finalist for the Book Club category of the 2016 National Jewish Book Awards. The #1 International Best Seller, The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a dazzling novel of mothers and daughters, stories told and untold, and the ties that bind four generations of women. Gabriela's mother Luna is the most beautiful woman in all of Jerusalem, though her famed beauty and charm seem to be reserved for everyone but her daughter. Ever since Gabriela can remember, she and Luna have struggled to connect. But when tragedy strikes, Gabriela senses there's more to her mother than painted nails and lips. Desperate to understand their relationship, Gabriela pieces together the stories of her family's previous generations—from Great-Grandmother Mercada the renowned healer, to Grandma Rosa who cleaned houses for the English, to Luna who had the nicest legs in Jerusalem. But as she uncovers shocking secrets, forbidden romances, and the family curse that links the women together, Gabriela must face a past and present far more complex than she ever imagined. Set against the Golden Age of Hollywood, the dark days of World War II, and the swinging '70s, The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem follows generations of unforgettable women as they forge their own paths through times of dramatic change. With great humor and heart, Sarit Yishai-Levi has given us a powerful story of love and forgiveness—and the unexpected and enchanting places we find each.

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