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1) Livid
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 26
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta testifies in a case, fumbled by the initial pathologist, concerning a drowned beauty queen whose fiancé is charged with her death. Then the judge's sister is murdered.
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fiancé, who...
2) Smile
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Barbed, merciless send-up of small-town America focusing on a group of naive California girls who compete for the 'Young American Miss' crown amid rampant commercialism.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For all of its pomp and kitsch, the Miss America pageant is indelibly written into the American story of the past century. From its origins as a summer's-end tourist draw, it blossomed into a televised extravaganza and was once considered the highest honor that a young woman could achieve. Argetsinger spotlights how the pageant survived decades of social and cultural change, collided with a women's liberation movement that sought to abolish it, and...
4) Smile
Publisher
Fun City Editions
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 unnumbered pages : color photographs ; 15 cm)
Language
English
Description
"The town of Santa Rosa is abuzz. That's because it's time again for the yearly Young American Miss Pageant. Talented 'misses' from up and down California have gathered for the annual event where they will be choreographed by prickly song and dance man Tommy, produced by businesslike ex-pageant winner Brenda DiCarlo and judged by blustery RV salesman and town booster Big Bob Freelander. Meanwhile, Bob's young son Little Bob and his pals get into some...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvi, 312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A reluctant Miss Delaware gets swept up in the glamour of the 1950 Miss America pageant, where she finds friendship and love-with unexpected, tragic results. Betty Jane Welch reluctantly enters the Miss Delaware contest to make her mother happy, only to surprisingly find herself the judges' choice. Just like that, she's catapulted into the big time, the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. Luckily, her pageant-approved escort for the week is the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
China Bayles is in a pickle. The daughter of her best friend, Ruby, has turned up on her doorstep, pregnant and in need of a place to live. And her otherwise sensible husband has announced that he's bored with teaching and ready for a career change." "Say "hello" to P.I. Mike McQuaid and Associates. There aren't actually any "associates" - unless you count Ruby and China, of course. But the title does have a nice, official ring to it. His first client...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 236 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Being Miss America, Kate Shindle interweaves an engrossing, witty memoir of her year as Miss America 1998 with a fascinating and insightful history of the pageant. She explores what it means to take on the mantle of America's "ideal, " especially considering the evolution of the American female identity since the pageant's inception. Shindle profiles winners and organization leaders and recounts important moments in the pageant's story, with a...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 CD (8 hr., 45 min.) : digital audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The 1960s: news of riots, war, unheard-of behavior, and rampant crime crowds the papers and the airwaves. Spurned by his wife at home and by superiors at work, Earl Summerfield hunkers down in his cramped San Francisco apartment and keeps a diary that is a scratched record of a world going to pieces. The words he overhears, the words he wants to say, swim in his head, turning into fantasies of ambition, love, and retribution. He is sorry for himself....
11) Miss Arizona
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rose Raynes was crowned Miss Arizona fifteen years ago. Now a bored housewife trapped in a less-than-ideal marriage, Rose accepts an invitation to teach a life skills class at a women's shelter. Digging out the relics of her pageant queen past, Rose attempts to share her platform speech with a room of four disinterested women dodging abusive exes. But when trouble shows up at the shelter, what the women really need is for Rose's shiny SUV to get them...
12) Miss Juneteenth
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the "Miss Juneteenth" pageant.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a local teen beauty-pageant winner from a troubled family is found murdered in the beloved 200-year-old Seaman's Church steeple, Jacobia Tiptree, while preparing for an epic nor-nor'easter, must wade through the rising waters of gossip and suspicion to find the truth.
Author
Series
Bobbie Faye novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Kate Shackleton mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Description
"North Yorkshire, 1930. It's the season for warm and spirited countryside celebrations. Ever since the war, pubs have been in the doldrums, and in an attempt to promote and breathe new life back into the business, brewers select a charismatic employee as local queen--to be the face of their industry. And this year's queen, wages clerk Ruth Parnaby, has invited the ever intrepid Kate Shackleton and her niece Harriet to accompany her on public engagements...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student....
Author
Series
Bath and body mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
400 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
19) Prix de beauté
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
While André indeed loves Lucienne, he has conventional expectations for their life together. When the Miss Europe beauty contest comes to town, he warns her to "not even dream" of entering it but she ignores his advice and tries out for the contest.
20) The tiara Club
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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