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Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Publisher
Exodus Cry
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A peek between the glossy surface of sophisticated 21st-century society reveals a chilling revelation--the enslavement of more than 27 million people worldwide. Look deeper still and you will uncover an industry that brutalizes and debases these individuals, many of them young girls, through sex slavery. Finally, you come face to face with the manifold atrocities surrounding the industry, from the deceptive recruitment and kidnapping of the victims...
3) The life
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An anthropology graduate student, guided by her prostituting neighbor, delves into the complexities of the world's oldest profession.
4) Chloe Doe
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As former teen prostitute Chloe Doe reveals her family history to a psychiatrist, the battle of wits she wages with him turns into a life-changing experience for her.
Author
Publisher
TFCB, Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Takes a hard look at human trafficking, identifying perpetrators and telling the stories of victims through their own words. You'll discover why some people become vulnerable to trafficking and you'll read about what their lives are like on a daily basis. You'll also meet some of the courageous individuals and organizations working to free people from lives in bondage so that, in the words of US president Barack Obama, each person can "forge a life...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Swedish
Description
Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and violent behavior makes her an official danger to society. Digging deeper, Blomkvist unearths evidence implicating highly placed members of Swedish society, as well as shocking details about Salander's past.
8) Sold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
10) Risky business
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
An enterprising teenage boy turns his parents' house into a temporary brothel when they go on vacation, and learns some lessons about real life.
11) Belle de jour
Series
The Criterion collection volume 593
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
The porcelain perfection of Catherine Deneuve hides a cracked interior in the actress's most iconic role: Severine, a chilly Paris housewife by night, a bordello prostitute by day.
14) Dime
Author
Publisher
Antheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
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?
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Experience the guiltiest of pleasures with an extremely rare and uncensored look into the personal and professional lives of five of the hardest-working men in Las Vegas as they put the "Sin" in Sin City. A reality series like no other, Gigolos: the first season is not only provocative, but also surprisingly truthful and hearfelt. It's a wild ride for these real-life escorts who never miss a trick"--Container.
Author
Series
Fallen ladies volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Lily Chadwick has spent her life playing the respectable debutante. But when an unscrupulous moneylender snatches her off the street and puts her up for auction at a pleasure house, she finds herself in the possession of a man who fills her with breathless terror and impossible yearning. Though the Earl of Harte claimed Lily with the highest bid, he hides a painful secret―one that has kept him from knowing the pleasure of a lover's touch. Even...
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Kelly, a desperate prostitute, is bullied by her pimp into finding an underage girl for a sadistic mobster. She discovers Joanne, an 11-year-old runaway, who naively complies. But when the pedophile turns violent, Kelly intervenes. Now the two girls are on the run with nowhere to hide"--Container.
19) Brokentrail
Author
Publisher
Fulcrum Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of his sister, cowboy Print Ritter and his young nephew find adventure while driving horses to Wyoming, and attempt to rescue five young Chinese girls from being forced into prostitution.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In this book is a story of triumph and a fierce determination to give back. The author was a runner. By twelve, she had run away from home, dropped out of school, and fled blindly into the arms of a brutal pimp, who made her walk the hard streets of central California. But even when she escaped him, she could not outrun the crushing inner pain of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. With little to hope for, she expected to end up in prison, or worse....
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