Steel, Danielle
Summary: 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. At eighteen she is her father's closest, most trusted child, schooled in managing their grand estate. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Steel 2017Smiley, Jane
Summary: "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)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", courtesans live confined to opulent splendor but are forced to work to buy back their freedom, and romantic intrigue, jealousies and tensions roil around their assignations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FLOSmiley, Jane
Summary: 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: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SMISummary: An enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN MCCBaker, Kage.
Summary: Lady Beatrice was the proper British daughter of a proper British soldier, until tragedy struck and sent her home to walk the streets of early-Victorian London. But Lady Beatrice is no ordinary whore, and is soon recruited to join an underground establishment known as Nell Gwynne's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKMankell, Henning
Summary: "Cold and poverty define Hanna Renström'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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MANMcIntosh, Pat.
Summary: Offered the Drygate brothel and its neighboring property by a forceful Dame Isabella, Gil Cunningham becomes enmeshed in a dual mystery involving Isabella's murder and a counterfeit coin operation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Constable 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCISmiley, Jane
Summary: Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMISteel, Danielle
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2017Summary: In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex works in a brothel, where he falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a rural cop and his seemingly content wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF REVCharyn, Jerome.
Summary: This comic masterpiece reimagines the American Revolution with a one-eyed spy, a heroic whorehouse madam, and a cunning George Washington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHASmiley, Jane
Summary: "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)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SMIBear, Elizabeth
Summary: "Karen Memory is back with a tale about spiritualists, magicians, con-men, and an angry lost borglum, or tommy-knocker--a magical creature who generally lives in the deep gold mines of Alaska, but has been kidnapped and brought to Rapid City. Karen and Priya are out for a night on the town, celebrating the purchase of their own little ranch and Karen's retirement from Madame Damnable's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEACravens, Claudia
Summary: "'Some years ago, in Dodge, I was a sporting woman. I didn't mind whoring-it can be good work in the right house-but it demands a great deal of keeping still, and I'm one of those itchy, fidgety sorts who's always looking out the window or glancing toward the door, so it was only a matter of time until I had to move on.' In the Spring of 1877, Bridget-sixteen years old and already disillusioned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAKeith, Ellen
Summary: "Amsterdam, May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labor camp or--for a chance at survival--to join the camp brothel. On the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEIMichaels, Fern.
Summary: When it comes to repaying a debt, the women of the Sisterhood, Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle, never forget. And now one of their allies needs help only they can give. A powerful attorney with a cutthroat reputation, Lizzie Fox has just taken on a high-profile new client, Lily Flowers, the madam of a high-end bordello operating under the guise of a summer camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICAbbott, Karen
Summary: A vivid snapshot of America's journey from Victorian-era propriety to 20th-century modernity. Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history--and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago at the dawn of the 20th century, the Club welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7409 ABBCurry, Alexandra Gambrill
Summary: "The year is 1881. Seven-year-old Jinhua is left an orphan, alone and unprotected after her mandarin father's summary execution for the crime of speaking the truth. For seven silver coins, she is sold to a brothel-keeper and subjected to the worst of human nature. Will the private ritual that is her father's legacy and the wise friendship of the crippled brothel maid be enough to sustain her?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CURFord, Jamie
Summary: "Inspired by a true story, this is the unforgettable story of a young boy named Ernest, set during the 1909 Seattle world's fair called the Alaska Yukon Pacific Expo. It is a time when the magical wonders of technology on display at the expo future seemslimitless. But for Ernest, a half-Chinese orphan who found his way to America through a last desperate act of his beloved mother, every door is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FORJones, Nigel H.
Summary: Revealing the sensational true story behind a forgotten part of espionage history, this book takes readers behind the doors of "Salon Kitty," a high-class Berlin brothel that, when the Nazis took power, became a dangerous spy center, staffed by female agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Kent, Kathleen
Summary: "A taut, thrilling adventure story about buried treasure, a manhunt, and a woman determined to make a new life for herself in the old west. It's the 19th century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she'd been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her lover, who has a plan to make them both rich, chasing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kent 2013Ford, Jamie
Summary: A half-Chinese orphan whose mother sacrificed everything to give him a better chance is raffled off as a prize at Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, only to land in the ownership of the madam of a notorious brothel where he finds friendship and opportunities, in a story based on true events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FORMartin, Valerie
Summary: "It's 1954 on far-flung Verona Island, a tropical paradise with a fragile economy and a rising crime rate. Prostitution is legal and Lila Gulliver is proud of her business, a high-end brothel where her clients are guaranteed privacy and discretion. When Carità Bercy, a young, destitute, and beautiful blind woman arrives at her door seeking employment, Lila decides to give her a chance. Carità...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024