Summary: At a neon-drenched Toronto strip club, a coterie of lost and damaged souls-- including a man haunted by grief, a young woman with whom he shares an enigmatic bond, an obsessive emcee, and a smuggler of rare bird eggs-- search for redemption as they work through the traumas of their mysteriously interconnected histories in an obsessive cycle of sex, pain, jealousy, and catharsis. One of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GREMontanari, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Burdett, John.
Summary: Just when he believes he's seen everything Bangkok's thriving criminal world has to offer, Royal Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep receives an anonymous snuff film. A woman named Damrong who he onced loved is murdered in the film. Obsessed with Damrong's death, Sonchai braves street gangs, investigates a shady and exclusive men's club and staves off threats, seen and unseen, as he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURStern, Nikki.
Summary: The fascinating and extraordinary true story of how a young woman from a privileged background found herself drawn into a dark world of petty prostitution and pornography by the troubled man she loved. When Nikki Stern left suburban Melbourne for Europe in the early 1980s, little did she know that her life was about to change dramatically. Adopted into a well-connected family and educated at an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Allen & Unwin 2014
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Ringo, John
Summary: Former SEAL Michael Harmon ("Ghost") has settled down in the country of Georgia and built a commando-quality militia out of local tribesmen. The Keldara have an ancient history as mountain warriors and only needed modern weapons and training to bring them up to speed. Now, with the area safe from Chechen raiders and the various other terrorists that want Ghost's head, he can settle back and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINBurdett, John.
Summary: Sonchai Jitpleecheep, devout Buddhist and Royal Thai Police detective, has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok's District 8, but nothing like the video he's just been sent anonymously. It's a snuff film, and the person dying before his disbelieving eyes is Damron--a woman he once loved obsessively and, now it becomes clear, endlessly. And there is something more: something at the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURChateauvert, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.74 CHAConnelly, Michael
Summary: From the bestselling author of A Darkness More than Night comes a searing thriller about a simple wrong number that opens a line into terror. Henry Price has a whole new life-new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. He soon discovers that the messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in serious trouble that could cost him all he holds dear. Pierce is inexorably...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CONLee, Don
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEEDonewald, 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 "--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 DONEWALD, ANNY DONFaleiro, Sonia.
Summary: Offers first-hand insight into Bombay's sex industry and traces the author's experiences with a charismatic teenage exotic dancer whose independence was challenged by an ambitious politician's campaign of false morality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.709 FALSchlosser, Eric.
Summary: Reports on America's "shadow" economy of illegal drugs, pornography, and illegal migrant workers, arguing that these underground industries continue to grow with government intervention.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 SCHStern, Nikki.
Summary: The fascinating and extraordinary true story of how a young woman from a privileged background found herself drawn into the dark world of petty prostitution and pornography by the troubled man she loved. When Nikki Stern left suburban Melbourne for Europe in the early 1980s, little did she know that her life was about to change dramatically. Adopted into a well-connected family and educated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen & Unwin 2012