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When Donaldina Cameron arrives at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in 1895, she intends to stay for only one year to teach sewing skills to young Chinese women. Within days, she discovers that the job is much more complicated than perfect stitches and even hems. San Francisco has a dark side, one where a powerful underground organization--the criminal tong--buys and sells Chinese girls like common goods. With the help of Chinese interpreters...
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English
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Tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer ..." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Instead, she ends up working as a prostitute.
3) East of Eden
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
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English
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The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900s in Northern California.
4) Tangerine
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
After being released from prison, a transwoman sex worker searches for the pimp who broke her heart.
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English
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"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...
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 25
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English
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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...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage, NPR, Washington Post, and The Economist
A moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times, from internationally renowned writer and speaker Elif Shafak.
In the pulsating moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul, Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness....
Named a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage, NPR, Washington Post, and The Economist
A moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times, from internationally renowned writer and speaker Elif Shafak.
In the pulsating moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul, Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness....
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Jack Till volume 2
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English
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Jack Till, who has retired from the LAPD after a respected career as a homicide detective, now works as a private investigator, comfortable chasing down routine cases while visiting his 24-year-old daughter, Holly, who has Down Syndrome. But when the parents of a recently murdered young girl, about Holly's age, ask for his help when the police come up empty, Till reluctantly takes the case. It was discovered after her death that the victim had been...
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Rat volume 4
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
393 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls, plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic, and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything...
10) Taxi driver
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A New York cab driver is driven to obsession when he attempts to save a teenage prostitute and embarks on a violent rampage against a world of filth and corruption.
12) Red light
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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.
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Amos Decker novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2020.
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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.
14) Paradise valley
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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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,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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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:...
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Español
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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.
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John Corey novels volume 8
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English
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"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...
18) Say goodbye
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Series
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English
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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...
19) A call girl
Series
Film movement volume year 8, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 video disc (91, 19 min.) : sd., col. : 4 3/4 in.
Language
Slovenian
Description
A Call Girl: A small town Slovene girl moves to the big city to be a student by day and call girl by night. Her life becomes complicated when one of her customers, a politician, dies while visiting her.
Honored: Centers on a young woman visited by a soldier carrying letters from husband, who died in Iraq.
20) La novia oscura
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Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
464 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Tal una exótica mariposa, enigmática y arrogante, Sayonara trabaja bajo las luces de La Catunga, el burdel del pueblo. Cada mes, Sayonara embruja a los trabajadores de la Tropical Oil Company que bajan de las montañas en busca de un poco de dicha terrenal. Pero estos no son los únicos en sucumbir a los encantos de Sayonara. Sayonara es la novia oscura, y su historia revela un universo personal y político que quedará para siempre marcado por...
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