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Unpretty: A Novel of Suspense
By Sharon Carter Rogers (Howard Books / Simon and Schuster)
Release date: September 9, 2008
The city of Lehigh, West Virginia, faces the insidious threat of a sadistic cult bent on eliminating all “unpretty” things in the world. A bomb goes off at the Conklin Art Gallery, killing eight people associated with a unique Michelangelo exhibit being shown there. The only person who may have seen the bomber is Hummingbird Collins, an aspiring artist who works down the street from the gallery. But she soon starts receiving ominous cassette recordings of a rambling madman who reveals his plan to rid the world of “unpretty” things. This madman — known only as Number 26 — leads a cult known as the Michelangelus Movement, which has kidnapped and tortured people for use in their bizarre artistic experiments over the past dozen years.
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