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Series
Girls of paper and fire series volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"When Lei, seventeen, is stolen from her home to become one of nine Paper Girls, the Demon King's concubines, she proves to be more fire than paper." --
Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for... and the most cruel. But this year, there's a ninth girl... and she's made of fire. Lei is a member of the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. She's forced to go with...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Long ago, the world was destroyed by gods. Only nine cities were spared. Separated by vast wilderness teeming with monsters and unimaginable dangers, each city is now ruled by a guardian. Born with an intuition that never fails, Calista knows her talents are of great value, so she lives hidden as a courtesan of the Baron of Archwood. When her intuition leads her to a prince, the voice inside her blazes with warning--and promise. When the prince takes...
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Language
English
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Description
My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment.
Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s epic novel of life in Renaissance Italy. Escaping the sack of Rome...
Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s epic novel of life in Renaissance Italy. Escaping the sack of Rome...
Author
Series
Lonely lords volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Letty Banks is a reluctant courtesan, keeping a terrible secret that brought her, a vicar's daughter, to a life of vice. While becoming madam of Viscount Fairly's high-class brothel is an absolute financial necessity, Letty refuses to become David's mistress--though their attraction becomes harder to resist the more she learns about the man. David is smitten not only with Letty's beauty, but also with her calm, her kindness, her quiet. David is determined...
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Language
English
Description
In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an instant, their fates are connected, and from this encounter unfolds a saga that spans half a century. In the aftermath, a young girl named Jade is sold by her family to Miss Silver's courtesan school, an act of desperation that will cement her place in the lowest social status....
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Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, Benedict Frost had the respect of every man on board--and the adoration of the women in every port. When injury ends his naval career, the silver-tongued libertine can hardly stomach the boredom. Not after everything--and everyone--he's experienced. Good thing a new adventure has just fallen into his lap... When courtesan Charlotte Perry learns the Royal Mint is offering a reward for finding a cache of stolen gold...
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A woman in prison describes her life story growing up on the backstreets of 18th-century London where she was trained to be a courtesan at her stepmother{u2019}s Fairy House before a magician discovers she has powers similar to his own.
8) Silk fire
Author
Publisher
Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Koré, a courtesan to the wealthy and powerful, knows many secrets. He also knows meddling in politics is dangerous. Nevertheless, he seeks political influence, and in the process, he meets a dying god who gives him the powers of a sacred dragon. Suddenly Koré is a hunted man, for whoever finds him first and discovers his secret can claim the powers and use him as a deadly tool.
Author
Series
Chimera novels (Cate Glass) volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Romy escapes her hardscrabble upbringing when she becomes courtesan to the Shadow Lord, a revolutionary noble who brings laws and comforts once reserved for the wealthy to all. When her brother, Neri, is caught thieving with the aid of magic, Romy's aristocratic influence is the only thing that can spare his life--and the price is her banishment. Now back in Beggar's Ring, she has just her wits and her own long-hidden sorcery to help her and Neri...
11) Courtesan's kiss
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of a broken engagement and shunned by the ton, Mia Castellano does not retire to the country, as a proper young lady might, but sees her chance to escape society's restraints--by becoming a courtesan. In her mind, no unmarried young woman is as free as a courtesan. She alone controls her destiny: managing her own money, having her own house, choosing her lovers. There's only one obstacle in Mia's path--Lord David Pennistan. As a favor...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
One of Venice's famous courtesans, Valentina, beautiful, cultured, deadly, seduces and kills men the Council of Ten orders her to, but when she's ordered to kill a fellow assassin -- and the man she loves, she must uncover the Council of Ten's dark agenda, with the help of her fellow courtesans, to save him.
Author
Publisher
Neon Hemlock
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed tells the story of Jewel, established courtesan in a luxurious House. Jewel's world is shaken when her friend is murdered by a client, but somehow comes back to life. To get revenge, they will both have to confront the limits of loyalty, guilt, and justice.
Author
Series
League of second sons volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The first title in the League of Secret Sons series. London's most sensual former courtesan, Viola Whedon, is incapable of being seduced--she does the seducing. Until she meets Leonidas Vaughn.
Author
Series
Boscastle family volume 13
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Courtesan Georgette Lawson entrusts governess Kate Walcott with the care of her unruly children and the writing of her shocking memoirs, but when Colin Boscastle, Georgette's first lover, comes back to restore his honor and avenge his father's murder, Kate's finds her heart at risk"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci team up to expose a serial killer when Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan to discern the truth about his beloved illegitimate son's murder, an investigation that reveals the secret history behind the controversial political work, "The Prince.".
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The scandalous women of the USA Today bestselling author Scarlett Peckham’s Society of Sirens are back with the final stage in their fight for female rights—and this time the battle is to be waged in bed… She’s the most infamous harlot in London…and she’s up for auction. Thaïs Magadalene is a legend. The nation’s most notorious courtesan, she sells herself once a week, for one night only, and never to the same patron twice. Until...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Cleo Davenport has heard the whispers: the murmured conversations that end abruptly the second she walks into a room. Told she was an orphan, she knows the rumor-that her father is none other than the Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne. And at her childhood home at Cairo's Shepheard's Hotel, where royals, rulers, and the wealthy live, they even called her "The Princess." But her life is turned upside down when she turns seventeen. Sent to...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Irish Times In 1780s London, a prosperous merchant finds his quiet life upended when he unexpectedly receives a most unusual creature--and meets an extraordinary woman-in this much-lauded, atmospheric debut that examines our capacity for wonder, obsession, and desire with all the magnetism, originality, and literary magic of The Essex Serpent.One September evening in 1785, Jonah Hancock hears an urgent knocking on his front door near the docks of...
20) House of shadows
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1662, Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen, is on her deathbed. She entrusts an ancient pearl, rumored to have magic power, to her faithful cavalier William Craven for safekeeping. In his grief, William orders the construction of Ashdown Estate in her memory and places the pearl at its center. One hundred and fifty years later, notorious courtesan Lavinia Flyte hears the maids at Ashdown House whisper of a hidden treasure, and bears...
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