A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
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Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South...
Book series crime thriller mystery
Sarah
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Cherry Vanilla, twelve years old with a penchant for short leather skirts and make-up, has one...
Prostitution pedophilia literary scandals
My Beautiful Shadow
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Kayo is a young Tokyo housewife and mother. Outwardly, she is no different from other young mothers,...
Fanny Hill: Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Keith Carabine and John Cleland
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is one of the most notorious texts in...
Dean (6926 KP) rated The Deuce - Season 3 in TV
Sep 8, 2020
Maybe slightly weaker than the first 2 series and overall not as dramatic in terms of storylines, but still with some big surprises. If you have invested in the first 2 series it's worth watching this to see how it turns out for the characters.
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Wicked Cometh in Books
Jan 1, 2018
Following closely in Sarah Waters' footsteps, this is a Victorian pastiche that returns to those perennials of murder, identity, prostitution and female survival. Carlin writes with fluency and conjures up a grim, dank, seedy London where the only sanctuary for our heroine is in female friendship
While this is an enjoyable read, it does feel more generic than original, and there are some clumsy tricks such as the extended death-bed confession/life-story at the end. Great for fans of Victoriana.
The Pictures
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World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio...
Geek Love
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Lil Binewski, born a Boston aristocrat, was in her time the most stylish of geeks. That is to say...
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World
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Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today,...
The world Bishop created in this series is intricate, deadly, wonderful, and beautiful. The books handle some pretty intense subjects, like child abuse, rape, and prostitution, which sounds bad as I write this, but Bishop handles it beautifully. They aren't extra things thrown into the story for attention--each horror is a catalyst for the characters to grow into their destinies. If you read these books, you will love them forever, I promise. These have a special place on the shelf.