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Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder, with devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead...under very suspicious circumstances. Phryne (pronounced Fry-Knee) Fisher's friends, Bert and Cec (sometimes cabbies and sometimes men for hire), appeal to her for help. They were part of this group of soldiers in 1918, and they fear for their lives and for those of the other three men. It's only as Phryne...
2) Sold
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
7) Dime
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315 pages ; 22 cm
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Fourteen-year-old Dime, a foster child in Newark, New Jersey, finds love and family as a prostitute, but when her pimp rejects her for a new girl, will Dime have the strength to leave?
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206 pages ; 22 cm
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Batuk, an Indian girl, is taken to Mumbai from the countryside and sold into prostitution by her father; the blue notebook is her diary, in which she recalls her early childhood, records her life on the Common Street, and makes up beautiful and fantastic tales about a silver-eyed leopard and a poor boy who fells a giant with a single gold coin.--From publisher description.
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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 her resources--and one bold stroke of fortune. Unable...
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319, 14 pages ; 24 cm
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Set on the streets of Lower Manhattan in 1871, The Virgin Cure is the story of Moth, a girl abandoned by her father and raised by a mother telling fortunes to the city's desperate women. One summer night, twelve-year-old Moth is pulled from her bed and sold as a servant to a finely dressed woman. It is this betrayal suffered at the hands of her own mother that changes her life forever.
11) Out of the Easy
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346 pages ; 22 cm
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Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
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478 pages ; 23 cm.
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"La belleza de Milena también fue su perdición. Convertida en esclava sexual desde la adolescencia, intenta huir cuando muere su protector, un magnate de la comunicación que sufre un fallo cardiaco mientras hace el amor con ella. En su angustiosa fuga, se cruza con los Azules, un trío de justicieros formado por el periodista Tomás Arizmendi, la política Amelia Navarro y el especialista en alta seguridad Jaime Lemus. Ellos desean liberarla, pero...
15) Mirror mirror
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366 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm
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Red, Ledo, Rose y Naomi son unos inadaptados. Red vive con su madre alcohólica y un padre casi siempre ausente. El hermano de Leo lo está arrastrando por un camino oscuro y violento. Rose alterna chicos y alcohol para anestesiar el dolor que siente por su pasado. Naomi escapa de casa para encontrar la libertad que necesita. Están solos frente al mundo, hasta que forman su propia familia con su banda Mirror, Mirror: el único lugar en el que pueden...
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387 pages ; 24 cm
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"Unlike their younger brother Andre, whose star as a comedian is rising, neither Dwayne nor Brick Duquesne is having luck with his career - and they're unluckier still in love. Former child star Dwayne has just been fired from his latest acting role and barely has enough money to get by after paying child support to his spiteful former lover, while Brick struggles to return to his uninspiring, white-collar job after suffering the dual blows of a health...
17) Traffick
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505 pages ; 19 cm
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Five teenagers struggle to find their way out of prostitution.
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