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Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen and fullscreen edition.
Language
English
Description
The Sarah Rose Princess America Pageant is a beauty contest to die for. And that's exactly what the contestants in Mount Rose, Minnesota are doing. Ever since the vivacious but vicious former beauty queen, Gladys, has been pushing her charm-challenged daughter, Rebecca, to win at all costs, the competition has been dropping like flies.
43) What we buried
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Siblings Liv and Jory Brewer have grown up resenting each another. Liv ; former pageant queen and reality TV star ;was groomed for a life in the spotlight, while her older brother, Jory, born with a partial facial paralysis, was left in the shadows. The only thing they have in common is contempt for their parents. Now Liv is suing her mom and dad for emancipation, and Jory views the whole thing as yet another attention-getting spectacle. But on the...
44) The fog
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Hindi
Description
Death threats and facial disfigurement threaten to derail a beauty pageant, along with a corpse that keeps popping up at the most inopportune moments. Soon, two women must fight for their lives, using their wits to outwit the faceless horror.
46) Smile
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
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.
48) Miss Firecracker
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Carnelle, a hellraiser, enters the Miss Firecracker contest in the old-fashioned town where she was raised. Carnelle's not the usual contestant, but her cousin is a famous winner, and Carnelle's determined to equal her, no matter what.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"As a young femme growing up in Manila in the 1990s, Geena Rocero endured shouts of bakla, bakla!, a Filipino taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the little universe of her eskinita. Eventually she found her place in trans pageants, events as widely attended and culturally significant as a national sport, going to high school by day and competing by night. When her competitors denigrated her with the nickname "horse barbie," due to...
51) The Fairest
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When the school has a Princess of the Fair contest for a student embodying the qualities of Harriet Tubman, Jasmine Benson will stop at nothing to win.
Author
Series
Clique summer collection volume 3
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Alicia goes back to Spain, she finds that Europe's latest pop sensation is looking for a true Spanish beauty to star in his new video. Can she beat her cousins to win the role?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town in the Pacific Northwest has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister.
56) Miss Bala
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength. Contains French descriptive video.
57) Miss Bala
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
"An aspiring beauty queen finds herself in the wrong place at the worst possible time in this explosive crime thriller set amid Mexico's increasingly violent drug war. After witnessing a shooting in a nightclub, the young woman is kidnapped and forced to work for ruthless gangsters in order to keep her dreams, and her family, alive"--Container.
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