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Miss Wyoming Miss Wyoming Douglas Coupland Waking up in an L.A. hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not an overdose of five different drugs mixed with cognac that nearly killed him. As a producer of high-adrenaline action… OL14854123W
Heather Whitestone Heather Whitestone Jill C. Wheeler Traces the life of the hearing-impaired woman who became the first Miss America with a disability. OL1830737W
A tiara under the tree A tiara under the tree Carolyn Hector "Former beauty queen Waverly Leverve can barely show her face in public after an embarrassing meme goes viral. But now fate and a misdelivered pizza have brought her dreams back to life. Gorgeous bad… OL19720552W
Miss Wyoming Miss Wyoming Douglas Coupland On surviving a plane crash, a beauty queen disappears to live a meaningful life and meets a film producer with similar goals. But their romance is threatened by her mother, who wants her back in the … OL19888397W
La pasarela de mi vida La pasarela de mi vida Jacqueline Bracamontes 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm OL20057507W
A bat in the belfry A bat in the belfry Sarah Graves It is nearly midnight when the enormous bell in the belfry of All Faith Chapel -- silent for decades -- peals, startling awake the entire town of Eastport. Upon inspection of the steeple, the police … OL21182613W
The Amber Effect The Amber Effect Richard S. Prather Just when surefire shamus Shell Scott was thinking that unannounced naked women don't show up on his doorstep frequently enough, a Ms. Naked USA contestant and next-door neighbor comes knocking with … OL2374710W
A dilly of a death A dilly of a death Susan Wittig Albert 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 … OL461845W
The death of innocence The death of innocence John Ramsey,John Ramsey The parents of JonBent Ramsey, murdered in her Boulder, Colorado, home on Christmas night, 1996, answer their accusers by sharing their hearts, emotions, and reflections, and they reveal their own th… OL5617327W
Dirty little lies Dirty little lies Connie Lane Lacie Jo Baxter was born and bred to dazzle: with the perfect smile, the perfect figure, and the perfect look of pure midwestern wholesomeness. But within the determined small-town beauty queen are u… OL5690556W
The Miss America family The Miss America family Julianna Baggott "It's 1987 in Greenville, Delaware. Ezra Stocker is the son of an insomniac ex-Miss New Jersey named Pixie and a gay, absentee father; the stepson of an ex-quarterback dentist with a taste for turtle… OL5755391W
Perfect murder, perfect town Perfect murder, perfect town Lawrence Schiller In Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Lawrence Schiller thoroughly recreates every aspect of the complex case of the death of JonBenet Ramsey. A brilliant portrait of an inscrutable family thrust under th… OL773995W