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1) East of Eden
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900s in Northern California.
Author
Series
Amos Decker novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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 grusome murder.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
With the help of a charitable lady of means, midwife Sarah Brandt rescues a young woman and her newborn from the brothel where the mother was forced to prostitute herself. But their success comes at a high price when their benefactor is found murdered. Though the brothel's madam is immediately considered a suspect, Sarah and Sergeant Frank Malloy investigate, uncovering some unpleasant truths about the victim and her charity -- and the woman and child...
Author
Language
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...
6) Player piano
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines.
7) Red light
Author
Series
Merci Rayborn volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Officer Merci Rayborn's world is shaken when the cases of two murdered prostitutes make her suspect her lover, fellow officer Mike McNally, of murder and cause her to fear even worse possibilities.
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa años a lo grande, dándose un regalo que le hará sentir que todavía está vivo: una jovencita. En el prostíbulo de un pintoresco pueblo, ve a la jovencita de espaldas, completamente desnuda, y su vida cambia radicalmente. Ahora que la conoce se encuentra a punto de morir, pero no por viejo, sino de amor.
Author
Series
Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police investigates the brutal murder of a CIA agent. The investigation becomes complicated when he learns that the suspect is Chanya a tough, sweet working girl who is employed at the gentleman's club owned by Sonchai's mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn.
Author
Series
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 25
Language
English
Description
The Prince of Wales has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to the palace to discuss a fantastic idea: the construction of a six-thousand-mile railroad that would stretch the full length of Africa. But, alas, the princeś gathering proves disastrous when the mutilated body of a prostitute hired for a late-night frolic (after the wives have retired to bed) turns up among the queenś monogrammed sheets in a palace linen closet. With great...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003, c2001
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Eiji Miyake's 20th birthday nears, he sets out for the seething metropolis of Tokyo to find the father he has never met. There, he begins a thrilling journey where dreams, memories and reality collide as Eiji is caught up in a feverish succession of encounters by turn bizarre, hilarious, and shockingly dangerous. But until Eiji has fallen in love and exorcised his childhood demons, the belonging he craves will remain just beyond his grasp.
12) Paradise valley
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as the Lizard King whose hunting grounds are the highways and truck stops where runaways and prostitutes are most likely to vanish. Cassie almost caught him...once. 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. But the plan goes horribly wrong,...
13) Babysitter
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the waning days of the 1970s, the lives of several residents of Detroit and its affluent white suburbs are drawn together following the disappearance of yet another child. Hannah, a wife and mother, begins an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger; Mikey, a young street hustler, finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice; and then there's the child serial killer known as Babysitter, an enigmatic and elusive figure at the periphery...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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:...
15) Say goodbye
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For Kimberly Quincy, FBI Special Agent, it all starts with a pregnant hooker. The story Delilah Rose tells Kimberly about her johns is too horrifying to be true--but prostitutes are disappearing, one by one, with no explanation, and no one but Kimberly seems to care. As a member of the Evidence Response Team, dead hookers arent́ exactly Kimberlyś specialty. The young agent is five months pregnant--she has other things to worry about than an alleged...
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
"The Maze opens with Corey ... in forced retirement from his last job as a Federal Agent with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Corey is restless and looking for action, so when his former lover, Detective Beth Penrose, appears with a job offer, Corey has to once again make some decisions about his career-and about reuniting with Beth Penrose. Inspired by, and based on the actual and still unsolved Gilgo Beach murders, The Maze takes the reader...
Author
Series
Lucy Kincaid volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lucy Kincaid is back -- with a vengeance. It has been seven years since Lucy was attacked -- and almost killed -- by an online predator. Today, she is well on her way toward a new life. A trainee at the FBI Academy, Lucy is devoted to the fight against cyber sex crimes. Her current mission: To take down a prostitution ring through a joint task force in the White House. A number of known prostitutes -- with scores of high-profile clients -- are turning...
Author
Series
Lucy Kincaid thrillers volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
554 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Newly minted FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid is settling into her job in San Antonio, Texas, when the corpse of Harper Worthington, the husband of a sitting congresswoman, is found naked in a motel on the wrong side of town. It's up to Lucy to locate the last person to see him alive: a teenage prostitute who seems to have vanished into thin air. When forensics determines that Harper was poisoned, Lucy and her new by-the-book partner dig deep into his life...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar Chilena
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
206 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
En los años 20, existió un pueblo llamado Pampa Unión en pleno desierto en el norte chileno, que ostentaba la mayor concentración de prostíbulos y bares de la zona. En esta novela se rescatan las memorias de las minas de salitre, sus fatigas y sus descansos en la tiniebla prostibularia. Los trabajadores venían del sur para labrarse un "futuro mejor", abandonando a sus esposas y marchaban para poder crear algún capital y regresar a sus tierras....
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