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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"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...
Author
Series
Girls of paper and fire series volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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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...
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English
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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
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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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English
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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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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.
7) 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.
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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...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Documents the lesser-known story of the famous courtesan who was a muse and mistress to such figures as Alexandre Dumas and Franz Liszt, tracing her upbringing in early Normandy and her reinvention in Paris before becoming one the most adored women in 1840's France and inspiring such works as Dumas's "The Lady of the Camellias" and Verdi's "La Traviata.".
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...
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Ichi Aoi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school lessons, her writing instructor, Tetsuko, encourages Ichi...
13) The Lotus Palace
Author
Series
Lotus Palace volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"Maidservant Yue-ying is not one of those beauties. Street-smart and practical, she's content to live in the shadow of her infamous mistress -- until she meets the aristocratic playboy Bai Huang. Bai Huang lives in a privileged world Yue-Yuing can barely imagine, let alone share, but as they are thrown together in an attempt to solve a deadly mystery, they both start to dream of a different life. Yet Bai Huang's position means that all she could ever...
14) 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...
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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.
17) Our lady of pain
Author
Series
Edwardian murder mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When Boston museum curator Piper Chase-Pierpont unearths the steamy memoirs of Regency London's most celebrated courtesan, the Blackbird, she's aroused and challenged by what she finds. Could the courtesan's diaries be used as a modern girl's guide to finding love and empowerment?
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Madrid, siglo XVIII, Julia es una de las muchas cortesanas que habitan en el Palacio Real. Su vida ha sido diseñada al milímetro: le han enseñado cómo sentarse, qué decir, cómo vestirse y a quién amar. Pero la corte de Los Monteros es un lugar lleno de secretos y Julia está a punto de descubrirlos."--Amazon.com.
"Madrid, 18th century, Julia is one of the many courtesans who live in the Royal Palace. Her life has been planned and groomed...
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.
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