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"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) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have:...
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Oceano exprés
Pub. Date
2015
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Español
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"Dos hombres coinciden en un burdel clandestino del que se cuentan historias espantosas. Mientras intentan resolver los misterios del edificio, descubren que nada es lo que parece: una presencia extraña acecha en las escaleras, una bella mujer avanza con una misión secreta, hay un turbio negocio de juegos eróticos con animales, puertas que se abren a sitios y tiempos insospechados. Y en el último piso está el jardín, el más grande enigma de...
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"Inspired by a true story, this is the unforgettable story of a young boy named Ernest, set during the 1909 Seattle world's fair called the Alaska Yukon Pacific Expo. It is a time when the magical wonders of technology on display at the expo future seems limitless. But for Ernest, a half-Chinese orphan who found his way to America through a last desperate act of his beloved mother, every door is closed. A charity student at a boarding school, he has...
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2016
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He flew with World War I's Lafayette Escadrille. Later, he made his Hollywood introduction by landing a plane on Douglas Fairbanks' property and went on to a remarkable 40-year career that includes these snappy, pre-Code works. Stepping out of the shadows are Ruth Chatterton as brothel madam Frisco Jenny and Loretta Young as a desperate moll in the dazzlingly stylistic Midnight Mary (made at Metro but very much in the Warner mode)--Container.
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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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The story of a poor scrappy girl from rural New Zealand who grows reluctantly into a sex icon, the face of a movement, and a mother, all at the same time. Kate Burns grows up wanting attention from her Ma, but her Ma wants only money and Kate learns how to get both. She and her childhood friend, Lacey, run kissing lessons for cash in the janitor's closet of Fenbrook High, and just like that, they find themselves in the sex work industry. From there,...
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"Cuenta la vida de este anciano solitario, un apasionado de la música clásica, nada aficionado de las mascotas y lleno de manías. Por él sabremos cómo en todas sus aventuras sexuales (que no fueron pocas) siempre dio a cambio algo de dinero, pero nunca imaginó que de ese modo encontraría el verdadero amor."-- P. 4 of cover.
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Princes trilogy volume 1
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In eighteenth-century Georgian London, a widowed Anna Wren takes a job as a secretary to the Earl of Swartingham, only to find herself falling in love with her employer, but when the Earl heads to a brothel for a little "entertainment," Anna comes up with a plan to make him her unwitting lover.
9) Love ranch
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MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Grace and Charlie make a fine couple as the proprietors of Nevada's first legalized brothel. She provides the mind behind their schemes, while his work as a gangster allows the swindles to be carried out. But a new scam involving a handsome boxer threatens both their plan and their two-decade marriage. Inspired by a true story.
10) The pale door
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Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The Dalton gang finds shelter in a seemingly uninhabited ghost town after a train robbery goes south. Seeking help for their wounded leader, they are surprised to stumble upon a welcoming brothel in the town's square. But the beautiful women who greet them are a coven of witches with very sinister plans for the unsuspecting outlaws, and the battle between good and evil is just beginning.
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The History Press
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"Once the largest silver producer in the world, Wallace became notorious for labor uprisings, hard drinking, gambling and prostitution. As late as 1991, illegal brothels openly flourished because locals believed that sex work prevented rape and bolstered the economy, so long as it was regulated and confined to a particular area of town. The madams enjoyed unprecedented status as influential businesswomen, community leaders and philanthropists, while...
12) The Dutch wife
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"Amsterdam, May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labor camp or--for a chance at survival--to join the camp brothel. On the other side of the barbed wire, SS officer Karl Müller arrives...
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Night and its moon volume 1
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Farleigh is just an orphanage. At least, that's what the church would have the people believe, but beautiful orphans Nox and fae-touched Amaris know better. They are commodities for sale, available for purchase by the highest bidder. So when the madame of a notorious brothel in a far-off city offers a king's ransom to purchase Amaris, Nox ends up taking her place -- while Amaris is drawn away to the mountains, home of mysterious assassins. Even as...
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Criterion collection volume 827
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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An enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans.
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"It's the 19th century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she'd been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her lover, who has a plan to make them both rich, chasing rumors of a pirate's buried treasure. Meanwhile Nate Cannon, a young Texas policeman with a pure heart and a strong sense of justice, is on the hunt for a ruthless killer named McGill who has claimed...
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Arcane Shot volume 2
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Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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When a rogue incubus shows up on the doorstep of her old-fashioned bordello begging for asylum, witch and part succubus Raina finds her business jeopardized by this intrusion as well as by the arrival of Underworld Dark Guardian Mikhael who wants something the incubus has.
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"Veronica Speedwell navigates a dark world of scandal and murder in this new adventure from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian colleague Stoker are asked by Lady Wellingtonia Beauclerk to help with a potential scandal so explosive it threatens to rock the monarchy. Prince Albert Victor is a regular visitor to the most exclusive private club in London, known as the...
18) Muñequita
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Next Chapter
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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Traspasada al duęo de un burdel como pago por una deuda de juego, la vida de Dolly Stroud en Arizona cambia para siempre. Forzada a un mundo de exhibici̤n y peligro, Dolly se ve obligada a valerse por s̕ misma, hasta que el bien intencionado vecino Trace Anderson interfiere y presenta la oportunidad de cambio. Navegando por la posibilidad de una nueva vida y las complejidades de un romance en ciernes con Trace, ¿podr̀ Dolly encontrar la fuerza...
19) Risky business
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Joel's wealthy suburban Chicago parents are going on vacation and leaving him in charge of the house. They trust their college-bound 17-year-old son but they shouldn't. Every kid's dream is every parent's nightmare. No sooner do Joel's parents step on the plane than he raids the liquor cabinet, has a joyride in Dad's Porsche, and has a night of passion with a young call girl named Lana.
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