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1) Sabrina
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Big sky dreams volume 2
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Sabrina Matthews, a young prostitute, is befriended by a police officer and his wife, and comes to believe in Jesus, but when she arrives in Token Creek, Montana Territory, ready to make a fresh start, Sabrina finds herself falling for Pastor Rylan Jarvik and worries if he will accept her despite her past.
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When Richard Chapman hosts his brother's bachelor party, his wife Kristin takes their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening. What she does not expect is bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards before driving off into the night. As their life rapidly spirals into nightmare, their home now a crime scene, Richard's investment banking...
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Pub. Date
2004
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483 p. ; 25 cm.
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Gavin Blake, desperate to escape his world of prostitution, violence, and pornography, seeks refuge at St. Benet's, a church in the heart of London, where he becomes involved with Carla Graham, a church fund-raiser struggling with her own demons.
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"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have:...
5) Remember me
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Pictures of the heart volume 1
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"Haunted by heartbreak and betrayal, Addie Bryant escapes her terrible circumstances with the hope she can forever hide her past and with the belief she will never have the future she's always dreamed of. When she's reunited with her lost love, Addie must decide whether to run or to face her wounds to embrace her life, her future, and her hope in God"--
1902. Addie Bryant's beau, Isaac Hanson, left the Yukon, and she made a vow to wait for him. When...
6) 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 gers 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...
7) Angel Face
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An exciting contemporary hard-boiled thriller set in New York - Angel Tamanaka is a beautiful young prostitute working for an escort agency in Manhattan. Leonard Carter is ex Special Forces and has been living off the grid ever since he returned from overseas to work as a hit man. Their two worlds collide when Angel witnesses Leonard executing one of her clients, a high-profile gangster, and they form an unusual alliance. For Angel's client spoke...
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Capital crimes series volume 24
Pub. Date
c2008
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324 p. ; 25 cm.
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As detectives Walt "Hatch" Hatcher, Mary Hall, and Matthew Jackson investigate the killing of a call girl, they discover that the victim may have used a digital video camera to tape her clients and that her death may be tied to a hotly contested political campaign.
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2019.
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311 pages : map ; 25 cm.
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"'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away...' Our brains stay active for ten minutes after our heart stops beating. For Tequila Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory - growing up with her father and his two wives in...
10) Redeeming love
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[2022]
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1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A young woman who was sold into prostitution as a child and knows nothing but betrayal must overcome her troubled past in order to form a romantic relationship.
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 5
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Tormented by the slaying of the hooker who turned to him for help just before her death, cop-turned-private eye Matthew Scudder begins an investigation into the woman's past that reveals secrets that could be deadly for him.
12) Deadman standing
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[2018]
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An incredible true tale that reveals a lawless time, a bloody vendetta, and a most unlikely hero. When lawman Mike McCluskie slays a crooked colleague, a gang of angry cattlemen rise up to seek revenge. Hoping to save their small Kansas town, a clever, kindhearted madam and a brave, dying teenager come to McCluskie's side, resulting in a shoot-out so bloody it made Wild West history.
13) East of Eden
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2002
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
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601 p. ; 22 cm.
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The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California.
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Pitt investigates the murder of a maid at Buckingham Palace, narrowing his group of suspects down to several house guests who are meeting with the Prince of Wales to discuss the funding of a huge project: the Cape to Cairo railway. While the Prince might overlook the unfortunate loss of a maid, the Queen, who is due back soon, will likely veto any Royal support in the scheme if she finds out.
15) The linnet bird
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c2005
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422 p. ; 24 cm.
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Born into poverty and sold into prostitution at the age of eleven, Linny Gow uses her wits to reinvent herself as a proper Victorian lady and joins the 'fishing fleet' of poor young women of good birth who sail for India to find husbands.
16) Lethal beauty
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Mia Quinn mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
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"After a young Chinese prostitute is stabbed to death by her rich American client, the tabloids dub Dandan Yee 'Lethal Beauty'--despite the fact that she was the one who ended up dead. Yet even with double standards and naked prejudice working against her, Seattle prosecutor Mia Quinn is determined to get justice for Dandan Yee"--Dust jacket flap.
17) The last coyote
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 4
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Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered, and no one has ever been accused of the crime. With the spare time a suspension brings, Harry opens up the thirty-year-old file on the case and is irresistibly...
19) The last sinner
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Appears on list
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"Father John, the notorious serial killer, is back for revenge, as well an all new killing spree. He hires prostitutes and then strangles them with rosary beads, leaving behind a hundred dollar bill with Ben Franklin's eyes burned out. Also in his cross-hairs is Bentz's daughter, Kristi, a true crime writer, who survives an attack when the novel opens but it ends with her husband Jay's death. Was the attack the work of Father John? Or is there another...
20) The night calls
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2003
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360 p. ; 22 cm.
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Young Arthur Conan Doyle, working under criminal investigation pioneer Dr. Joseph Bell, tackles the most disturbing case of his fledgling career when a serial murderer begins assaulting women in Edinburgh brothels.
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