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Plastic surgeon Paul Henreid molds the face of a woman who rejected him onto the mug of a horribly scarred prison inmate, and proceeds to wed the parolee despite her social-misfit status. Now, of course, the original gal reappears, and Henreid has one Scott too many, the 'new' one dangerously psychotic!

"Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law is a Hollywood icon. Radiant at sixty-two, she is the epitome of glamour and a highly respected artist. But her success has come at a price: She has a strained relationship with her daughter, Morgan, who at thirty-eight still blames Ardith for putting her career before being a mother. Morgan is a successful plastic surgeon in New York City--and the distance from Ardith's Bel Air mansion is not lost on either of them....

Sean and Christian have relocated their practice from Miami to Los Angeles. While waiting for business to take off, the two stumble into playing parts on a TV medical drama. They had to contend with its egotistic star while Sean romances its female lead. There's some inventive twists that are abound, including the downward spiral that Matt and Kimber are on, and Julia's surprising new relationship.

A big-city doctor on the way to a job interview in L.A. gets stranded in a small town in forced to do community service in the way of medical work. Although eager to leave, a local beauty might persuade him to stay.

Roberta is a teenager with a strange facial malformation that prevents her from fending for herself, or at least what her father has led her to believe; a retired and quite conservative surgeon who takes care of her, he builds her a false world inside her old house, depriving her of the outside world by inventing that there is nothing worthwhile outside. His daughter's grotesque appearance causes him so much conflict that it makes him believe that...

L.A. continues to be the land of plenty for the relocated plastic surgons of McNamara/Troy.

During a tough economy, beautiful people elect not to have plastic surgery. So don't expect McNamara/Troy to reject any cash-flow opportunities, no matter how dicey. Maybe the docs will need to think about the state's request to lipo a morbidly obese Death Row inmate so he can be executed. Matt sets out to earn coin at the beach as a mime; Kimber laments the decline of her line of sex toys.

"In Robert Pobi's thriller Do No Harm, a series of suicides and accidental deaths in the medical community are actually well-disguised murders and only Lucas Page can see the pattern and discern the truth that no one else believes. Lucas Page is a polymath, astrophysicist, professor, husband, father of five adopted children, bestselling author, and ex-FBI agent-emphasis on "ex." Severely wounded after being caught in an explosion, Page left the FBI...

Sex, seduction, liposuction, and the debate about what cosmetic surgery can and cannot bring to a patient's life. The South Beach plastic surgeons have a revolving door. Including an organ-harvest ring and human foibles, including a ventriloquist wants to look like his dummy.

"A filthy, uproarious, outrageous novel from the brilliant and twisted mind of John Waters"-- Marsha Sprinkle: Suitcase thief. Scammer. Master of disguise. Dogs and children hate her. Her own family wants her dead. She’s smart, she’s desperate, she’s disturbed, and she’s on the run with a big chip on her shoulder. They call her "Liarmouth"―until one insane man makes her tell the truth - book jacket.