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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
Description
"In the spring of 1877, Bridget--sixteen years old and already disillusioned after caring for her alcoholic father--is orphaned while crossing the Kansas prairie. She arrives penniless in Dodge City, and, thanks to the allure of her bright red hair and country-girl beauty, is soon recruited to work at the Buffalo Queen, the only brothel in town run by women. Bridget takes to brothel life instantly, appreciating the good food, good pay, and good friendships...
22) The shark
Author
Series
Forgotten files volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"At the grisly murder scene of a teen prostitute, Virginia state trooper Riley Tatum's past roars back to haunt her: when she was a teenage runaway, she was kidnapped, drugged, and left unconscious on the streets. She has no memories of what happened, only strange recurring dreams of two men playing cards. Former FBI agent Clay Bowman, Riley's old flame, is Shield Security's newest member. He's plagued by the unsolved case of a serial killer nicknamed...
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"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have:...
24) The immigrant
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ewa Cybulski and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, Ewa quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces...
25) The assailant
Author
Series
Lieutenant George Hastings novels volume 3
Language
English
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Co-ed slain. That's the call that brings St. Louis Police Lieutenant George Hastings to the downtown banks of the Mississippi river, where Reesa Woods has been strangled and dumped. The hard-charging Hastings is no stranger to murder, but he's stuck without any leads until a second body--also strangled--turns up across town and he knows he's chasing a monster.--From publisher's description.
26) The wild life
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Series
Joe the bouncer volume 4
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Expulsed Harvard student and ex-Special Forces operative suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome so severe that it turned him to drug and alcohol abuse, Joe Brody is getting his life back together, living with his grandmother in Queens and taking what should be a simple job as a bouncer at a strip club where he can spend most of his night reading the classics. The only catch is that his childhood friend Gio Caprisi, now head of New York's Italian...
Author
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
Español
Description
Once minutos cuenta la historia de María, una chica joven de un pueblo de Brazil, cuyo primer inocente encuentro con el amor la deja con el corazón roto. A temprana edad se convence de que nunca encontrará el amor verdadero y, en cambio, cree que “el amor es una cosa terrible que la hará sufrir”. Un encuentro fortuito en Río la lleva a Ginebra, donde sueña con encontrar fama y fortuna, pero termina trabajando como prostituta. En Ginebra,...
28) East of Eden
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Language
English
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This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected...
29) Heart of a dove
Author
Series
Dove novels (Abbie Williams) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
The Civil War has ended, leaving the country with a gaping wound. Lorie Blake, a southern orphan sold into prostitution at fifteen, has carefully guarded her aching soul from the disgrace forced upon her every evening. Two years have passed, leaving her with little hope of anything more. Meanwhile, three men - longtime friends - and a young boy with a heart of gold are traveling northward, planning to rebuild their lives in the north and leave behind...
30) Bone factory
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English
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Eliza Ochoa and Ike Horner are homicide detectives in Booth City, a deteriorating Rust Belt city in which hope is a forgotten concept. The latest victim is a hooker mutilated so badly that the usually savvy pair initially misses the obvious: the vic is a male. The investigation leads to Booth City's most influential family and its twisted, dilettante son, and it also forces Eliza to confront her father, a bent cop now serving time in the penitentiary....
32) Hotelles
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Paris, a hotel room, the middle of the afternoon ... so begins the story of Annabelle, a young escort in Paris who has accepted her final proposition before marrying the powerful and generous man of her dreams, media mogul David Barlet. But the mysterious handwritten notes she has been receiving-- notes that detail personal fantasies no one could possibly know-- don't prepare her for the fact that her new client is her fiancé's brother, Louie. Through...
33) Sugar, baby
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Sugar, Baby follows Agnes, a mixed-race 21-year-old whose life seems to be heading nowhere. Still living at home, she works as a cleaner and spends all her money in clubs on the weekends searching for distractions from her mundane life. That is until she meets Emily, daughter of one of her cleaning clients, who lives in London and works as a model . . . and a sugar baby, dating rich older men for money. Emily's life is the escape Agnes has been longing...
34) Cold hearts
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
Description
On a frosty January day in Bergen, Norway, private investigator Varg Veum is visited by a prostitute. Her friend Margrethe has disappeared and hasn't been seen for days. Before her disappearance, something had unsettled her: she'd turned away a customer and returned to the neighbourhood in terror. Shortly after taking the case, Veum is confronted with a brutal, uneasy reality. He soon finds the first body--and it won't be the last. His investigation...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Driven by survival to a life at a house of ill repute, Birdie Clarkson now longs only for escape. So when Reverend Isaiah Overly and his son, Ephraim, appear and offer a better life, she jumps at the chance. Ignoring the furious raging of the madam, Birdie climbs into the back of the preacher’s wagon. The men take her to Hope Hill, the haven the reverend and his wife, Ophelia, founded so women like Birdie can be taught skills to help them rise above...
36) Dying light
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Series
Logan McRae mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae has been bumped to the "Screw-up Squad," a team made up of the most worthless or inexperienced members of the homicide department, and Logan will do anything to prove he doesn't belong there. Including working overtime on two baffling cases: the murder by arson of six people, and the beating to death of a prostitute down by the docks, not a high priority compared to the fire. At least not until another prostitute ends...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
London courtesan or professional sleuth? London, 1863: Prostitutes in Waterloo are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim.The police are at a loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the truth....
38) Bleak street
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Bleak Street is the latest provocation from Mexican master Arturo Ripstein, a surreally entertaining neo-noir based on a true crime that shocked Mexico. This tracks the nocturnal adventures and ill fated encounter between two desperate old prostitutes and twin mini luchadores.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"This unique directory sheds light on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Waco when men and women could openly own and operate their own saloons and bawdy houses. After finding more than 1,200 names of people involved in the business of prostitution between 1869 and 1918 while researching for the book--The Oldest Profession in Texas, Waco's Legal Red Light District--the authors decided to keep a database of those characters they came...
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