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Myers-Powell, Brenda

Summary: "What did Brenda Myers-Powell want? When she turned to prostitution at the age of fifteen, she wanted to support her two baby daughters and have a little money for herself. She was pretty and funny as hell, and although she called herself "Breezy," she was also tough--a survivor in every sense of the word. Over the next twenty-five years, she would move across the country, finding new pimps,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MYERS-POWELL, BRENDA MYE

Chateauvert, Melinda

Summary: A provocative history of sexual activism reveals the role of sex workers in social justice movements throughout the past half century to challenge contemporary ideas about labor, sexuality, feminism, and freedom.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.74 CHA

Donewald, Anny.

Summary: "An explosive memoir of transformation from a high-end stripper and escort who hit rock-bottom, turned to God, and left the sex trade to found Eve's Angels, a ministry reaching out to women in the sex industry "--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 DONEWALD, ANNY DON

Hollander, Xaviera.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.742 HOL

Smiley, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMI

Abbott, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7409 ABB

Kade, Rebecca.

Summary: Offers the author's accounts of her time as a highly paid prostitute, how she came to work for multimillion-dollar madam Anna Gristina, and how she became an informant against Gristina after being threatened with jail time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KADE, REBECCA KAD

Siler, Julia Flynn

Summary: "A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom From 1874, a house on the edge of San Francisco's Chinatown served as a gateway to freedom for thousands of enslaved and vulnerable young...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 SIL

Snyder, John K.

Summary: Matthew Scudder is dying, one bottle at a time. A young prostitute named Kim Dakkinen is dying too, her life measured out in tricks. She wanted out, had asked for Scudder's help, but suddenly she wasn't dying anymore, she was just dead. The former cop turned P.I. promised to protect her, but he failed. Now his atonement is to find her killer. But the secrets in the dead hooker's past are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC 2018

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SNY

Summary: While living in thered light district of Calcutta, documenting life in the brothels, New York-based photographer Zana Briski embarked on a project by which she gave cameras to the children of prostitutes and taught them photography, awakening within them hidden talent and creativity and giving them a means to transform their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lion's Gate Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOR

Baldacci, David

Summary: Amos Decker--the FBI consultant with a perfect memory--and Alex Jamison return to solve a gruesome murder of a young woman named Irene Cramer in a booming North Dakota oil fracking town. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall--bringing with them problems--including drugs, property crimes, prostitution and now a gruesome murder.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAL

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