Smiley, 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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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
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Summary: Autumn 1913. New Orleans detective Valentin St. Cyr has been absent from his Storyville stomping grounds for some months, trying to make it in the straight detective world and make a go of it with his longtime love, Justine. But then a man is found dead in a Storyville brothel. The madam immediately turns to the Creole detective for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FULSmiley, 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 SMICooney, Ellen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: 1902. Addie Bryant's beau, Isaac Hanson, left the Yukon, and she made a vow to wait for him. When her father dies, Addie is sold to a brothel owner, and forced to marry him. She manages to escape with the hope that she can hid her past-- and the belief that she will never have the future she's dreamed of. Years later Addie is a photographer, training Camera Girls to operate and sell the Brownie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETDallas, Sandra.
Summary: 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 gets 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 murder in the brothel where she was living. When Beret discovers the sordid truth of Lillie's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of True Sisters and Prayers for Sale is at her best with a novel about a woman's search for information surrounding the death of her estranged sister It's the spring of 1885 when wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen first sets foot in a Denver police station. Just days before, she received the terrible news of the death of her estranged younger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Dallas 2013Faber, Michel.
Summary: Yearning to escape her life of prostitution in 1870s London, Sugar finds her fate entangled in the complicated family life of patron William, an egotistical perfume magnate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FABMargulies, Phillip
Summary: A sweeping historical tale based on the life and times of the daughter of a New York merchant finds the orphaned Belle suffering at the hands of a rival cousin before working as a prostitute and transforming herself repeatedly to win the love and life she desires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSteinbeck, John
Summary: This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002
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Summary: In 1901 Vienna, lawyer Karl Werthen takes on two cases that draw him into a conspiracy of espionage and affairs of the state, the murder of a nineteen-year-old prostitute and the assault of a controversial playwright.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: Set in 17th century rural England, the story details the friendship of two women. The younger of the two is lead by circumstances to solve the mystery of the death of the other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOBDe Giovanni, Maurizio
Summary: Springtime proffers fragrant temptations to the men and women of Naples. But evil also lurks in the sweet-smelling spring air. It is one week before Easter, Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead. Suffocated with a pillow. Her last client swears that when he left her she was alive and well. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa 2015
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Summary: London, 1812. The brutal slaughter of eight young prostitutes in a house of refuge near Covent Garden leaves only one survivor -- and one witness: Hero Jarvis, reform-minded daughter of the Prince Regent's cousin, Lord Jarvis. When the Machiavellian power broker quashes any official inquiry that might reveal his daughter's unorthodox presence, Hero launches an investigation of her own and turns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: "A fictionalized account of the early years of Donaldina Cameron's work with the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in San Francisco, California, which worked to rescue Chinese girls and women from slavery conditions in the late 1800s through the early 1900s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOOSmiley, 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 SMISmiley, 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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Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021