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221) Dishonored
Series
Criterion collection volume 930 (set)
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A widowed streetwalker is recruited to spy for Austria during World War I
222) Half Moon Street
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Dr. Lauren Slaughter, on a fellowship for Middle Eastern Studies, joins an escort agency to supplement her income. Her clientele includes a British diplomat working on a top secret, volatile Arab peace settlement.
223) Irma LaDouce
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A French policeman single-handedly raids a brothel and loses his job because he discovers the chief of police is one of the customers. He soon falls in love with one of the "Ladies".
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
London, 18th century. Casanova, famous for his taste of pleasure and gambling, arrives from Paris, forced into exile. In this city he knows nothing about, the libertine meets on several occasions a young prostitute, Marianne de Charpillon. She attracts him to the point he starts disregarding all other women. The legendary seducer is ready to do anything to get her, but La Charpillon always escapes under various excuses. She challenges Casanova: "You...
225) Sweetwater
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In the late 1800s, a beautiful former prostitute (January Jones) is trying to build an honest life with her husband in the rugged plains of New Mexico. When she catches the eye of a sadistic and powerful religious leader (Jason Isaacs), her life is violently turned upside down.
Author
Pub. Date
c1952
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Description
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, 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.
227) Beloved
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In 1964 Paris, Madeleine works as a shoe salesgirl and a part-time prostitute. She falls in love with Jaromil, a Czech doctor she picks up, and the two continue to see each other for years despite Madeleine's marriage to another man. Meanwhile, Madeleine's daughter Vera has romantic trouble of her own: she is torn between her longtime boyfriend and an unobtainable American musician.
228) Taxi Driver
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A disturbed New York City cab driver turns to vigilante violence when he fails to connect with society.
229) Leaving Las Vegas
Pub. Date
c1998, p1995
Description
Two people meet in Las Vegas and form a bond based on unconditional acceptance and mutual respect that will change each of them forever.
230) Belle toujours
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Thirty-eight years later, a housewife who moonlighted as a prostitute and a former client meet again, instigating past resentments.
232) Malice in Wonderland
Pub. Date
2010
Description
When beautiful American law student Alice (Maggie Grace) is knocked down by a cab, it's just the start of her problems. Miles from home and relentlessly pursued by a shadowy group intent on taking her captive, she begins a dark and dangerous journey through a violent underworld full of gangsters, pimps and prostitutes. With only cab driver Whitey to guide her, she soon finds that the only way out is to fight for her freedom.
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
High school basketball coach Ray Drecker lives in a Detroit devastated by the decline of the auto industry. After an electrical fire destroys his home, he loses custody of his kids to ex-wife Jessica; joins forces with poet-turned-pimp Tanya, with whom he once had a fling; and becomes a male escort.
234) Born into brothels
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Description
While living in the red 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.
235) Marked Woman
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
A young assistant District Attorney uses a prostitute to indict a gang of racketeers, its czar, and his underlings.
236) Madea goes to jail
Pub. Date
2009
Description
After a high-speed freeway chase puts Madea in front of the judge, her reprieve is short-lived as anger management issues get the best of her and land her in jail. A gleeful Joe couldn't be happier at Madea's misfortune. But her eccentric family members, the Browns, rally behind her, lending their special 'country' brand of support. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Joshua Hardaway is on the fast track to career success. But Hardaway lands a...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
After a high-speed freeway chase puts Madea in front of the judge, her reprieve is short-lived as anger management issues get the best of her and lands her in jail. A gleeful Joe couldn't be happier at Madea's misfortune. But her eccentric family members, the Browns, rally behind her, lending their special 'country' brand of support. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Joshua Hardaway is on the fast track to career success. But Hardaway lands a...
238) Elizabeth Taylor
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Cat on a hot tin roof: A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its' members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy."
Father of the bride: Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry. What follows is a warmly humorous story, with wedding preparations, ruffled egos and the unavoidable meeting with the prospective in-laws.
Butterfield 8: A high-class call girl...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
10 books, 1 discussion guide, 6 week checkout. SUMMARY : On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born -- a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam -- and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation....