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1) 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.
2) East of Eden
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In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel 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.
5) Sabrina
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Big sky dreams volume 2
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From bestselling author Lori Wick comes the moving second book in the Big Sky Dreams series. Sabrina Matthews, a young prostitute in the rough frontier city of Denver, is befriended by a police officer and his wife. Because of their kindness, she listens to what they have to say about Jesus and believes in Him.
Sabrina stays with Danny and Callie until she's ready to make a fresh start in a new town. She boards the train for the long trip to Token...
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Cold and poverty define Hanna Renstrom'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 supremacy rule, where she is isolated within society by her...
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Amos Decker novels volume 6
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"Amos Decker, the FBI consultant with a perfect memory, and Alex Jamison, FBI 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."--Publisher description
9) Free fall
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Sisterhood series volume 7
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Yoko Akia had been hungering for revenge all her life. Now, she was about to get it. Yoko's mother, who had been bought by a rich American when she was 15, had died at 17 after giving birth to Yoko. It was perhaps a merciful escape from a tortured life that included slavery, degradation, and prostitution. Now that Yoko was a movie star, she was in a position to get her long overdue justice and punish her cruel father, with the help of the Sisterhood....
10) Midnight cowboy
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Naive Texan Joe Buck, after twenty-seven years of dependency upon his grandmother, decides to sell what he considers his dashing cowboy charms in New York.
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" Defense attorney Mickey Haller returns with a haunting case in the gripping new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former...
12) Bone factory
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A collection of lonely souls look for one last shot at happiness. Instead they're trapped in the never-ending cycle of false hope and true despair-and deadly violence-that is Booth City.
Homicide cops Ike Horner and Eliza Ochoa are on the scene of a body dump in a riverfront park, crouching over the freezing corpse of yet another working girl-cut up in all the most delicate places. Soon Ike and Eliza find themselves on a fatal mission as they unravel...
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"When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She brings their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards...
14) Revealed
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Fountain Creek chronicles volume 2
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Annabelle Grayson travels to Idaho after her husband dies with the help of trail guide Matthew Taylor, who harbors a dark secret that could cost Annabelle her life.
15) The maze
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John Corey novels volume 8
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"A visit from the local Chief of Police results in the legendary Detective Corey becoming involved in the investigation of the murders of a married couple who were scientists at the top-secret biological research facility on Plum Island. Fast forward through six more John Corey novels and The Maze opens with Corey on the same porch, but now in forced retirement from his last job as a Federal Agent with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Corey is restless...
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Pitt investigates the murder of a maid at Buckingham Palace, narrowing his group of suspects down to several house guests who are meeting with the Prince of Wales to discuss the funding of a huge project: the Cape to Cairo railway. While the Prince might overlook the unfortunate loss of a maid, the Queen, who is due back soon, will likely veto any Royal support in the scheme if she finds out.
17) Discretion
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Anna Curtis novels volume 2
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Investigating the falling death of a high-paid escort at the U.S. Capitol building, Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Curtis teams up with brash FBI Special Agent Samantha Randazzo to examine clues implicating a powerful elected official.
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Magdalene la Batarde mysteries volume 3
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Magdalene la Bâtarde knew trouble was brewing in medieval Oxford, but she never expected it would involve murder. She teams up with old friends and cohorts, including the whores and barmaids of Oxford, to clear up the mess and untangle a murder.
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Daughters of the promised land volume 1
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"The breathtaking story of the prostitute who risked everything to protect two Israelite spies before the battle of Jericho"--Publisher.
20) Dead girl moon
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Grace, a scheming runaway, JJ, her fostercare sister, and Mick, the son of a petty thief, become entangled in the investigation of a teen prostitute's murder in a small, corrupt Montana town.
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