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Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away. Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him....
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"We all deserve to look our best, every day, and this lovely guide to skin care offers countless ideas, tips, and tricks for maintaining healthy, radiant skin. With more than 30 stressfree routines for every skin type--dry, oily, combination, aging--and for every moment in life--prepping for a big event, calming a breakout, traveling on a long flight, indulging on a night in--plus advice on how to care for your skin from the inside out, this freshly...
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Starting with the essential tools and basic techniques, Bobbi simplifies eye makeup and helps women identify what works best for their eye shape and color. She offers step-by-step tutorials for ten go-to eye makeup looks, from sparkly to smokey to retro glam and more. Famous for her own signature specs, Bobbi also explains how to choose the perfect pair of frames based on face shape, personal style, and skin tone, and shares her favorite makeup tricks...
8) Turtle boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Seventh-grader Will's Bar Mitzvah community service project, visiting an incurably ill older boy in the hospital, leads to a friendship that is life-changing for both them and those around them
10) The mind's eye
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Includes stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and faculties: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, and the sense of sight. This book is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation, and it provides a whole new perspective...
11) Bone Gap
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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An unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that give new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness. The author is face blind--that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing people's faces. Growing up, unaware of the reason for her perpetual confusion and anxiety, she took what cues she could from speech, hairstyle, and gait. But she sometimes kissed a stranger, thinking...
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"Jane Ellison is a 'super recognizer' able to identify strangers by the slightest facial details ... When she spies human rights activist and heiress Bella Valencia in a crowded Boston airport, Jane's convinced she's found the person responsible for her sister Kit's disappearance ... Jane is ready to risk everything for the chance to publicly expose Bella's crimes at her upcoming celebrity wedding. But the more she digs into what happened that night,...
15) Ugly
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"Robert Hoge was born with a tumor the size of a tennis ball in the middle of his face and short, twisted legs, but he refused to let what made him different stand in the way of leading a happy, successful life. This is the true story of how he embraced his circumstances and never let his "ugly" stop him from focusing on what truly mattered."--
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Kido
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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"Children are the future! Black or brown skinned, curly or straight haired, blind or hearing impaired, we want all kids to be confident and feel loved. Help your child identify what features make them special as they assemble our Beautiful Faces puzzle." --
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Face is a book of fictional vignettes that examines the fear and vestigial evolutionary habits that have caused women and men to cultivate the imagined reality that older women's faces are unattractive, undesirable, and something to be "fixed." Based on "older face" experiences of the author, Justine Bateman, and those of dozens of women and men she interviewed, the book presents the reader with the many root causes for society's often negative attitudes...
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LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"This is the second of two sets of suspect comparison questions designed to help you prepare for a police officer exam. In this second set, a suspect's side view profile is presented, and you will be asked to select the photo of the same suspect looking straight at you, which is often referred to as a headshot. Check with your municipality to determine the types of questions you may encounter on your police officer exam." --
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LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This is the first of two sets of suspect comparison questions designed to help you prepare for a police officer exam. In this first set, you are tasked with recognizing a suspect's face that has gone through appearance modifications, such as changes to hair length, hair style, head covering, eye or sunglasses, facial hair, jewelry, and piercings, etc. Check with your municipality to determine the types of questions you may encounter on your police...
20) Face/off
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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FBI Special Agent Sean Archer is trying to find a biological weapon that has been placed in Los Angeles by the sadistic terrorist-for-hire and criminal mastermind Castor Troy. Archer has been hunting Troy for the last 8 years and is consumed by revenge because Troy is responsible for the death of Archer's son. To do this, Archer must 'borrow' Troy's face using a surgical procedure to go undercover as Troy, but things go wrong when Troy assumes the...
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