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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.
2) Razor sharp
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Kensington
Pub. Date
2009
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A Friend In Need…Needs The Sisterhood
When it comes to repaying a debt, the women of the Sisterhood-Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle-never forget. And now one of their allies needs help only they can give. A powerful attorney with a cut-throat reputation, Lizzie Fox has just taken on a high-profile new client-Lily Flowers, the Madam of a high-end bordello operating under the guise of a summer camp.
The chips-a.k.a. the prominent...
9) Dirty work
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Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2008
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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Two teenaged girls with little in common must find a way to work together if they are ever to escape their captors after being abducted into an international prostitution ring.
10) Violet Grenade
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Entangled Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
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When Madam Karina discovers Domino in an alleyway, she offers her a position inside her home for entertainers in secluded West Texas. Left with few alternatives and an agenda of her own, Domino accepts. It isn't long before she is fighting her way up the ranks to gain the madam's approval. But after suffering weeks of bullying and unearthing the madam's secrets, Domino decides to leave. It'll be harder than she thinks, though, because the madam doesn't...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
p2003
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Making his way through California with his faithful companion, Dog, Frank joins a family traveling south to start a new life. Everything changes when a vicious pack of outlaws raids their party, nearly killing Frank. It seems Val Dooley is up to his old tricks again, stealing women and selling them into prostitution. Frank has a settle to score to settle with that no accout scoundrel, and he's determined to clear things up with the business end of...
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Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father pressed upon her. To survive, she will need all her resources--and one bold stroke of fortune. Unable...
13) Out of the Easy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
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Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
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William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
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The late 1800s find fourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing with her family endless pogroms. Desperate, her father leaps at the opportunity to marry Batya to a worldly, wealthy stranger who can guarantee his daughter an easy life and passage to America. Feeling like a princess in a fairytale, Batya leaves her old life behind as she is whisked away to a new world. But soon she discovers that she's entered a waking nightmare. Her...
15) I kick and I fly
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©2023.
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"On the outskirts of the red-light area in Bihar, India, Heera is living on borrowed time until the day her father decides to sell her into the sex trade to repay his loans. It is, as she's been told, the fate of all women in Girls Bazaar to end up there. But what if she can learn to fight back against 'fate'? When a local hostel owner presents her with the opportunity to practice kung fu, Heera begins to learn that her body isn't an object to be...
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"The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn't exactly beautiful, but she'd tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead. Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn't know her name. Whoever she is, she didn't deserve to die. Jesse starts digging, only to find himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless pimps. And more blood will spill before it's over"--
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
1995
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"Viewed from above, Gotham City by night resembles nothing so much as a ribbon of diamonds on a pad of deep, rich, black velvet. But in the heart of Gotham's darkness glow the cold garish neon of the sex industry, the feverish eyes of desperate drug addicts, the streetlights creating shadows in which muggers patiently wait. This is where Batman's most personal--and most savage--battle begins. But the fire-zone will shift to thousands of miles and...
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