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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.
2) Traffick
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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.
3) 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?
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
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Cold and poverty define Hanna Renstrom's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white supremacy rule, where she is isolated within society by her...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
About to be homeless, Lola decides to hire a hitman to kill her so her family can reap the benefits of her million-dollar insurance policy, but when she turns to prostitution to pay for the hit, she finds love and a renewed will to live in the form of a "john" named Mannish Major.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The secret life of Madame Claude, the brilliant and complicated and utterly amoral woman behind the most glamorous and successful escort service in the world."--Dust jacket.
Traces the remarkable life of the head of post-World War II Paris' most exclusive finishing school, tracing her origins as an impoverished Jewish girl from the city of Angers and discussing the controversies that made her one of the world's most wanted women.
10) 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
12) 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.
13) 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
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning, unforgettable story of an ordinary woman in extraordinary circumstances who defies the odds. Timea Nagy was twenty years old when she answered a newspaper ad in Budapest, Hungary, calling for young women to work as housekeepers and babysitters in Canada. Interviewed and hired by what seemed like a bona fide recruitment agency, Timea left her home on the promise she would earn good money to send home to her family. She had no idea that...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice? In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, feminism, and resistance to white...
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.
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
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...
20) Judgment calls
Author
Series
Samantha Kincaid novels volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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