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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim. Determined to catch the culprit, Cross joins forces with his lover, Detective Brianna Stone, and persues the case all the way to the seediest section's of...
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"When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She brings their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards...
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Amos Decker volume 6
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"Amos Decker, the FBI consultant with a perfect memory, and Alex Jamison FBI. Return to solve a gruesome murder of a young woman named Irene Cramer, in a booming North Dakota oil fracking town. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall, bringing with them problems, including drugs, property crimes, prostitution and now a gruesome murder."--Publisher description.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
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Deuce Bigalow, whose gift to the world is the amazing ability to please women in his role as the consumate gigolo. Deuce is still relatively green to the profession, but he is going to go and help out a friend. Deuce is introduced to a whole new gaggle of eager clientele. The fun all leads up to a big finale at the 73rd Annual Man Whore Awards.
5) Sweetwater
Pub. Date
2013
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In the late 1800's, a beautiful former prostitute (January Jones) is trying to build an honest life with her husband in the rugged plains of New Mexico. When she catches the eye of a sadistic and powerful religious leader (Jason Isaacs), her life is violently turned upside down.
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A novel on the hardship of the Industrial Revolution through the eyes of an Englishwoman forced to be a prostitute to make ends meet. A potter's assistant during the day, she changes at night into a gown, rented by her pimp to walk the narrow streets. It is cold and business is slow. By the author of A Stolen Tongue.
7) Defendor
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Arthur is just an ordinary guy by day, who turns into Defendor, a self-made superhero, by night. His quest is to track down his archenemy, Captain Industry, the person he believes is responsible for killing his mother. But before he can do this, he must convince a court-appointed psychiatrist that he is sane enough to be on the streets, and befriending a teenaged prostitute doesn't help.
8) The American
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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After a job ends more violently than expected, Jack retreats to the Italian countryside and accepts one last assignment to construct a deadly weapon for a mysterious contact. But when he pursues a relationship with a beautiful local woman, he may be tempting fate by stepping out of the shadows. Jack soon finds himself in an escalating battle to escape from his secretive past.
9) Pretty woman
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A corporate raider pays a gorgeous hooker to be his escort for a business week in Beverly Hills...and then falls for her. Fifteenth anniversary special edition packed with all-new, never-before-seen bonus features.
10) The maze
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"In his dazzling #1 bestseller, Plum Island, Nelson DeMille introduced readers to NYPD Homicide Detective John Corey, who we first meet sitting on the back porch of his uncle's waterfront estate on Long Island, convalescing from wounds incurred in the line of duty. A visit from the local Chief of Police results in the legendary Detective Corey becoming involved in the investigation of the murders of a married couple who were scientists at the top-secret...
11) Risky business
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Joel's parents are going on vacation and leaving him in charge of the house. They trust their college-bound 17-year-old son but they shouldn't. Every kid's dream is every parent's nightmare. No sooner do Joel's parents step on the plane when he raids the liquor cabinet, has a joyride in Dad's Porsche, and has a night of passion with a young call girl named Lana.
13) Jonah Hex
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Having survived death, Jonah's violent history is steeped in myth and legend and has left him with one foot in the natural world and one on the 'other side.' His one human connection is with Lilah, whose life in a brothel has left her with scars of her own. But Jonah's past catches up with him when the U.S. military makes him an offer he can't refuse: to wipe out the warrants on his head, he must hunt and stop dangerous terrorist Quentin Turnbul.
14) Midnight cowboy
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Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time huslter Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.
15) Paradise Valley
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Cassie Dewell volume 3
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For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as The Lizard King. He works as a long haul trucker. His prey are the "lot lizard" prostitutes who frequent truck stops. Working for the Bakken County, North Dakota, sheriff's department, Cassie has set what she believes is the perfect trap and she has lured him and his truck to a depot. Standing by ready to close the net are half a dozen undercover officers,...
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Pub. Date
2005
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A poor-boy college football hero turned successful partner at a prominent Dallas firm, who long ago checked his conscience at the door, catches a case that forces him to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing in this masterful debut legal thriller. Scott Fenney is assigned to provide pro bono defense for the woman accused of murdering the son of a presidential hopeful. As the case unfolds, pressure is exerted on Scott to deter...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007].
Description
Bordello of blood: the seductive antics of heartless hookers are suddenly threatened when Rafe Guttman is hired by Bible-toting Katherine Verdoux to go in search of her rebellious brother Caleb, who has fallen prey to the lecherous lot. Demon knight: An intense stranger arrives at a run-down boarding house in flight from the Collector. The Collector is after an item in the stranger's possession, which turns out to be a holy relic, and when his efforts...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Description
The dangerous streets of Nanjing throw together a group of opposites, a flock of shell-shocked schoolchildren, a dozen seductive courtesans, and a renegade American posing as a priest to save his own skin, or so he thinks, all seeking safety behind a walled cathedral. Trapped by marauding soldiers, over the next few days the prejudices and divides between them will fall away as they unite around a last ditch plan to protect the children from impending...
20) The last sinner
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Father John, the notorious serial killer, is back for revenge, as well an all new killing spree. He hires prostitutes and then strangles them with rosary beads, leaving behind a hundred dollar bill with Ben Franklin's eyes burned out. Also in his cross-hairs is Bentz's daughter, Kristi, a true crime writer, who survives an attack when the novel opens but it ends with her husband Jay's death. Was the attack the work of Father John? Or is there another...
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