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1) Traffick
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five teenagers struggle to find their way out of prostitution. The way they face the aftermath of their decisions and experiences is the soul of a story that exposes the dark, ferocious underbelly of the child-trafficking trade. Takes the reader on five separate but intertwined journeys through the challenges of recovery, rehabilitation and renewal to firgiveness and love. All the way home.
Author
Language
English
Description
Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father pressed upon her. To survive, she will need all her resources--and one bold stroke of fortune. Unable...
Author
Series
Frontiers of the heart volume 3
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Having survived the Oregon Trail, Emma Palmer is ready for a fresh start, even if it costs her all the gold in California. Tom Slater is a taciturn cattleman at the tail end of a long, hard season on the trail. What he doesn't plan on is escorting a group of women on the run to safety south of the border.
4) Razor sharp
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 14
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Only Hap and Leonard would catch a cold case with hot cars, hot women, and ugly skinheads. The story starts simply enough when Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough black, gay Vietnam vet and Republican with an addiction to Dr. Pepper, are working a freelance surveillance job in East Texas. The uneventful stakeout is coming to an end when the pair witness a man abusing his dog. Leonard takes matters...
6) Family honor
Author
Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
7) The boss
Author
Series
Justice hustlers volume 2
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After enduring brutal treatment as a sex worker, Tyesha becomes the director of a woman's health clinic and takes on mob bosses and strip club owners to stop women from being pressured into sex work.
8) Little Peach
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Hospitalized in Brooklyn, New York, fourteen-year-old Michelle recalls being raised in Philadelphia by a loving grandfather and drug-addicted mother before running away and getting lured into prostitution.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unlike their younger brother Andre, whose star as a comedian is rising, neither Dwayne nor Brick Duquesne is having luck with his career--and they're unluckier still in love. Former child star Dwayne has just been fired from his latest acting role and barely has enough money to get by after paying child support to his spiteful former lover, while Brick struggles to return to his uninspiring, white-collar job after suffering the dual blows of a health...
Author
Series
Wifey volume 6
Publisher
K.S. Publications
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Kira gives up being "wifey" and heads down to South Beach, Florida to hustle and sell high-end cars at a luxury car dealership. Her clients are wealthy hedge fund investors and druggies. One druglord is her best and most lucrative customer. When it comes time to pay him back for keeping her pockets lined, she finds her debt comes at an expensive price and is forced to call in major reinforcements.
Author
Series
Richter novels volume 1
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Security agent Claire Kelly goes undercover with her former love, Cooper Lockman, at a California high school to root out the mastermind behind a prostitution ring targeting young girls. -- Adapted from page [4] cover.
12) Unseen: a novel
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 7
Language
English
Description
Unseen, pits detectives, lovers, and enemies against one another in an unforgettable standoff between righteous courage and deepest evil. Bill Black is a scary guy: a tall ex-con who rides to work on a Harley and trails an air of violence wherever he goes. In Macon, Georgia, Bill has caught the eye of a wiry little drug dealer and his cunning girlfriend. They think Bill might be a useful ally. They don't know that Bill is actually a Georgia Bureau...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sassy, streetwise Sammy is falling through the cracks. Neglected by an alcoholic mother, the problems she endures at school and home lead her to act out, seeking attention from unseemly adults when what she wants most is protection. Meanwhile, in a small Eastern European village, sweet Nico is about to turn 13. As her family falls upon desperate times, her father receives an offer of money to marry her off. But when she's shuttled across the border...
14) Dime
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Dime, a foster child in Newark, New Jersey, finds love and family as a prostitute, but when her pimp rejects her for a new girl, will Dime have the strength to leave?
15) Judgment calls
Author
Series
Samantha Kincaid novels volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
"In his dazzling #1 bestseller, Plum Island, Nelson DeMille introduced readers to NYPD Homicide Detective John Corey, who we first meet sitting on the back porch of his uncle's waterfront estate on Long Island, convalescing from wounds incurred in the line of duty. A visit from the local Chief of Police results in the legendary Detective Corey becoming involved in the investigation of the murders of a married couple who were scientists at the top-secret...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When you've got nothing left, you've got nothing left to lose. Cass County, Minnesota: A sheriff's deputy steps out of a diner on a rainy summer evening, and a few minutes later, he's lying dead in the mud. When BCA agent Kirk Stevens arrives on the scene, he discovers local authorities have taken into custody a single suspect: A hysterical young woman found sitting by the body, holding the deputy's own gun. She has no ID, speaks no English. A mystery...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When someone has the balls to burn Leshaun's hotel to the ground and pick off her whores one by one, Leshaun will have to fight this battle with every ounce of strength she has. She is the definition of a bad girl, and the next time someone see her, it will be in the dictionary next to get rich or die trying. Sometimes, the king of the streets isn't a king at all.
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In Hawaii, Jaya Mehta is a transgender outsider with depressive tendencies. The stunningly beautiful Rasa Santos thinks sex is her only power. Rasa meets Xander, who beats her, cuts her, and makes her prostitute herself. Will their love transcend and pull them forward or will they remain stuck, separate, in the chaos of their pasts?
20) Gareth
Author
Series
Lonely lords volume 6
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Gareth Alexander, Marquis of Heathgate, owes his life to a celebrated London madam who has left her thriving, high class brothel to distant cousin, Felicity Worthington. Gareth is to help Felicity, and he has 90 days to pass her off as a skilled madam.
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