An unattractive seventeen-year-old who has a beautiful singing voice undergoes a physical transformation before performing in a singing competition with her choir in Switzerland, where she meets a boy with troubling secrets, and they fall in love.

"When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to the front parlour of her home in Washington Square to whisper soft words of love to her. But in New York in the 1840s young ladies are not free to marry where they please. Catherine must have her father's permission, and Dr. Sloper is a rich man. One...

Keith worries about his separated parents and wants to improve their appearance so they will find new partners, but he realizes that he cannot change them into different people.

A princess made extraordinarily ugly through sorcery learns the true meaning of beauty when it comes time for her to marry.

Dr. Harrison's bizarre, clandestine experiment in age reversal goes horribly wrong, leaving behind the results of the scientific research, women whose beauty masks an insatiable hunger and who will do anything to preserve their youth.

It's 1869, and chaos rules Silver City. As Rebekah Weaver recovers from an accident that has left her badly burned, she worries that her father's handsome new assistant won't see past her scarred exterior. Deputy Marshal Nathaniel Kirkland is working undercover to investigate a series of explosions in the mines and businesses of Silver City. When ominous notes begin appearing on townspeople's doors, Nate needs Rebekah's help to uncover the identity...

When plain-looking Princess Rose longs for the beauty to snare handsome Prince Parsley, and the wise fool Jasper longs to restore wisdom to the kingdom, they end up working together and find they must face the magical Godmother Board of Trustees.

A sardonic portrayal of one white, middle-class Midwestern girl's coming-of-age, this novel takes a wry and prescient look at a range of experiences treated at the time as taboo or trivial.

"Julita przeżyła pierwszą wielką miłość i pierwsze wielkie rozczarowanie… Zraniona dziewczyna postanawia, że już nigdy się nie zakocha. W domu też czuje się gorsza. Żyje w cieniu młodszej siostry, którą rodzice uważają za chodzący ideał. Aby zamaskować złamane serce i zasłużyć na zainteresowanie, którego tak jej brakuje, Julita zaczyna obsesyjnie dbać o swój wygląd. Czy skupiając się na tym, co zewnętrzne, nie zgubi...