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Nip Tuck - Plastic Surgery Stars

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Fiction and Nonfiction

Fiction

• Smile Now, Die Later
  Author: Armstrong, Vivien
  Publisher: Severn $ 25.99 ISBN: 0727858963 Date: 2003
  PW
  Believing that her boss did not committ suicide, Zoe Templeman decides to uncover the truth behind his death, as she also deals with mounting personal problems.
  Updated 3.17.03
• Coldheart Canyon
  Author: Barker, Clive
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 27.95 ISBN: 0060182970 Date: 2001
  PW
  Clive Barker returns with his most triumphant novel to date. Coldheart Canyon is a savage, poignant ghost story set in the glittering world of Hollywood where nothing is what it seems--even Death.
  Suggested Reading: Hollywood Film Stars | Ghosts
• Let Me Call You Sweetheart
  Author: Clark, Mary Higgins
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24 ISBN: 0684803968 Date: 1995
  America's "Queen of Suspense" serves up another spine-tingling tale of murder and obsession. When Kerry McGrath recognizes a young woman as the victim of the infamous "Sweetheart Murder" case, she realizes that a terrible miscarriage of justice is about to take place. For, the woman's husband--her accused murderer--awaits his fate on death row.
  
• Beauty
  Author: D'Amato, Brian
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 20 ISBN: 0385306768 Date: 1992
  Introducing one of the most original voices in fiction, this brilliant first novel, by turns cynical, horrifying, and darkly comic, is a contemporary Frankenstein--and also a biting analysis of our society and its obsessions. An artist and plastic surgeon extraordinaire creates the ultimate in beauty, but fierce obsessions and dark appetites lead to ghastly, postmodern consequences.
  
• Firefly
  Author: Deutermann, Peter T.
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312203772 Date: 2003
  Because of the strain on manpower, retired Secret Service agent Swamp Morgan is pressed into duty to investigate a "firefly"--a small but credible threat against the president. As inauguration day approaches, Swamp must operate alone as the clock ticks down to a breathtaking finale.
  
• Ghost Image
  Author: Gilder, Joshua
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 23 ISBN: 0743223128 Date: 2002
  This spine-tingling and suspenseful debut novel follows a gifted young plastic surgeon forced to confront his own dark history when he becomes implicated in his girlfriend's brutal assault.
  
• Over His Dead Body
  Author: Glass, Leslie
  Publisher: Ballantine $ 23.95 ISBN: 0345447964 Date: 2003
  In the tradition of Susan Isaacs and Olivia Goldsmith comes a devilishly funny novel about a soon to be divorced but determined woman tackling life's two great certainties: death and taxes.
  
• Vain Hope
  Author: Green, Christine
  Publisher: Severn $ 25.99 ISBN: 0727858483 Date: 2002
  Following their debut in Angel Fire acting DCI Thomas Rydell and his assistant, Sgt. Denni Caldicote, return in Christine Green's police procedural, Vain Hope. When someone bumps off Saul Ravenscroft, the leading cosmetic surgeon at the Harmony Clinic, the two investigators soon get enmeshed in a host of complications, not least the victim's having carried on an affair with the clinic's steely chief, Carla Robins. - PW review.
  
• Skin Tight
  Author: Hiaasen, Carl
  Publisher: Putnam $ 18.95 ISBN: 0399134891 Date: 1989
  Somebody wants Mick Stranahan dead. But who? Could it be the plastic surgeon with the shaky hands; the ambulance-chasing lawyer; the host of TV's "In Your Face?" The whole thing is downright harrowing. "A high-speed tale of murder cover-ups and gonzo revenge".--The Seattle Times.
  
• Murder Among the Angels
  Author: Matteson, Stefanie
  Publisher: Berkley $ 19.95 ISBN: 0425151492 Date: 1996
  The author of Murder at Tea Time, Murder at the Spa, and Murder on the Cliffpresents her newest addition to the popular Charlotte Graham mysteries. When Charlotte, a renowned actress and amateur sleuth, visits Zion Hill, a quiet community on the banks of the Hudson River, she gets more than she bargained for.
  
• Facemaker
  Author: Katz, William
  Publisher: McGraw-Hill $ 16.95 ISBN: 0070335532 Date: 1988
  After undergoing reconstructive plastic surgery, a journalist discovers a cache of photos of women whose faces eerily match her own beautiful new face and further investigation reveals a sinister side to Dr. Andre Loval's practice.
  
• To the Bone
  Author: McMahon, Neil
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 23.95 ISBN: 0060529164 Date: 2003
  PW
  The death of a young model in a San Francisco emergency room provides the first piece of a complex puzzle of cruelty and murder implicating a famous plastic surgeon.
  Suggested Reading: Nip/Tuck Plastic Surgery Stars
  Updated 8.11.03
• The Face-Changers: Jane Whitefield
  Author: Perry, Thomas
  Publisher: Random List Price: $ 24 ISBN: 0679453032 Date: 1998
  Booklist
  After more than a decade of helping people in trouble "disappear", Jane Whitefield has promised Carey, her husband, that she will never work again. But when his mentor, a famous plastic surgeon, shows up wounded and wanted for murder, Carey asks Jane to perform her magic one last time.
  
• The Man With the Getaway Face
  Author: Stark, Richard
  Publisher: Mysterious $ 12.95 (paper)ISBN: 0446674664 Date: 1998
  Master thief Parker comes to a plastic surgeon in Nebraska with a face that the Outfit--the New York syndicate--wants to decorate with a bullet. But nothing can keep Parker away from his old life of crime--and the major heist of an armored car somewhere in New Jersey.
  
• Identity
  Author: Vance, Steve
  Publisher: Five Star $ 23.95 ISBN: 0786230088 Date: 2001
  A private facial and cranial surgical clinic in Virginia is being used by the government to give new faces and identities to those in the witness protection program. But when the trail of a serial killer leads to the front door, protection is the last thing it has to offer.
  

Nonfiction

• Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery
  Author: Blum, Virginia L.
  Publisher: Univ of Cal $ 29.95 ISBN: 0520217233 Date: 2003
  Drawing on personal materials alongside interviews and readings of literature and culture, this book considers the ways in which the practice of cosmetic surgery captures the conditions of identity in contemporary culture.
  
• Beautiful Stranger: A Memoir of an Obsession with Perfection
  Author: Donahue, Hope
  Publisher: Gotham $ 25 ISBN: 1592400744 Date: 2004
  By the age of 27, Donahue had undergone seven plastic surgeries. In riveting, unflinching prose, she recounts her downward spiral that alienated her family and friends, and led her to theft, bankruptcy, and a sadistic relationship before she began her recovery.
  
• A Little Work: Behind the Doors of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon
  Author: Lorenc, Z.
  Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312315244 Date: 2004
  Beyond television's "Extreme Makeover" and "Nip/Tuck," this is a no-holds-barred account of what really goes on in the most private of plastic surgery practices.
  
• Daktari: A Surgeon's Adventures With the Flying Doctors of East Africa
  Author: Rees, Thomas D.
  Publisher: Sunstone $ 26.95 ISBN: 0865343667 Date: 2002
  Dr. Rees tells of the Flying Doctors of East Africa, the largest indigenous international health development and non-governmental organization in sub-Sahara Africa operating in nine African countries with a full-time staff of over 600, which was started in 1957 by three plastic surgeons.
  

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