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21) Fallen Women
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It is the spring of 1885 and wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen has been estranged from her younger sister, Lillie, for a year when she gets word from her aunt and uncle that Lillie has died suddenly in Denver. What they do not tell her is that Lillie had become a prostitute and was brutally murdered in the brothel where she had been living. When Beret discovers the sordid truth of Lillie's death, she makes her way to Denver, determined to...
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c2012
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A peek between the glossy surface of sophisticated 21st-century society reveals a chilling revelation--the enslavement of more than 27 million people worldwide. Look deeper still and you will uncover an industry that brutalizes and debases these individuals, many of them young girls, through sex slavery. Finally, you come face to face with the manifold atrocities surrounding the industry, from the deceptive recruitment and kidnapping of the victims...
23) Tricks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
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Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
24) Charmed
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c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Izzy, left alone with her mother's boyfriend while her mom goes to work in a logging camp, falls in with Cody Dillon, a great looking school dropout who lures Izzy into love with him and then sells her into prostitution.
25) The Maze
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"The Maze takes you on a dangerous hunt for an apparent serial killer who has murdered nine and maybe more, prostitutes and hidden their bodies in the thick undergrowth on a lonely stretch of beach. As Corey digs deeper into this case, which has made national news, he comes to suspect that the failure of the local police to solve this sensational case may not be a result of their inexperience and incompetence, it may be something else. Something more...
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c2015.
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The year is 1936. Charles "Lucky" Luciano is the most powerful gangster in America. Thomas E. Dewey is an ambitious young prosecutor hired to bring him down, and Cokey Flo Brown--grifter, heroin addict, and sometimes prostitute--is the witness who claims she can do it. Only a wily defense attorney named George Morton Levy stands between Lucky and a life behind bars, between Dewey and the New York governor's mansion. As the Roaring Twenties give way...
27) Broken Trail
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This novel traces the intertwined fates of a pair of honest horse wranglers and a group of kidnapped Chinese women during the late 1880s. Print Ritter and his nephew decide to do one last drive across the West, and end up risking their lives to rescue 5 kidnapped chinese girls from prostitution.
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2019.
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The Centennial State had its share of working girls and madams like Mattie Silks and Jennie Rogers who remain notorious celebrities in the annals of history, but Jan MacKell Collins also includes the stories of lesser-known women whose roles in this illicit trade help shape our understanding of the American West.
30) The silent cry
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Detective William Monk and nurse/sleuth Hester Latterly team up when it becomes clear that his investigation of a series of brutal rapes in the St. Giles area of Victorian London is somehow related to the brutal beating of her latest patient Rhys Duff, the son of a respected solicitor.
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Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who's run away from her home in the suburbs. Iit's easy for Strange and Quinn to learn that the girl is now working as a prostitute in one of D.C.'s most brutal neighborhoods. Getting her to leave is harder. The two ex-cops think they know this world- but nothing in their experience has prepared them for the vengeance of Worldwide Wilson, the ruthless operator whose territory...
34) Night shift
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Ever sinco enterprising young men turned the City Morgue into a swinging business, people have been dying to get in.
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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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2016.
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"Sexual trafficking is a pressing issueand one that doesnt receive enough attention or discussion. In this groundbreaking title, readers will come face-to-face with the realities of sexual trafficking and modern-day slavery. Myths such as the belief that slavery is a practice of the past are debunked with statistics and facts regarding the global slave trade and sexual trafficking in North America. Most important, readers will learn the warning signs...
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Soiled Doves tells of the grey world of prostitution and the women who participated in the oldest profession. Colorful, if not socially acceptable, these ladies of easy virtue were a definite part of the early West -- Wearing ruffled petticoats with fancy bows, they were glamorous and plain, good and bad and many were as wild as the land they came to tame.
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Set on the streets of Lower Manhattan in 1871, "The Virgin Cure" is the story of Moth, a girl abandoned by her father and raised by a mother telling fortunes to the city's desperate women. One summer night, twelve-year-old Moth is pulled from her bed and sold as a servant to a finely dressed woman. It is this betrayal suffered at the hands of her own mother that changes her life forever. Knowing that her mother is so close while she is locked away...
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