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Series
Criterion collection volume 664
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013], c1952.
Language
日本語
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Description
In 17th-century Japan, a samurai's daughter, Oharu, falls in love with a servant. Caught together, the man is beheaded and Oharu and her family are exiled. After enduring further misfortunes as a concubine, a courtesan, wife, and prostitute, Oharu becomes a mendicant nun in her old age. A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout...
Author
Publisher
CFI, an imprint of Cedar Fort, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It follows the difficult journey of my life as a heroin and meth-addicted prostitute and my path to God and recovery. Between Monsters and Mercy gives a unique insight on the inner-workings of the confusing, and often misunderstood, disease of addiction. It illuminates the power of surrender, the reality of divine intervention, and the possibility for real change. When it appears all is lost, the miraculous power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ can...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
"Det. Lieut. Virgil Tibbs of the San Francisco homicide squad receives an anonymous phone call accusing his close friend, community activist Rev. Logan Sharpe, of murdering a prostitute. The detective questions the clergyman, who admits having visited the victim to bestow pastoral counsel. Other suspects include Rice Weedon, a landlord and narcotics dealer whom Tibbs shoots in self-defense; black janitor Mealie; and Woody Garfield, the victim's protector....
84) Tangerine
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet Classics
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Published in 1893, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets shocked a world unprepared for its grim and starkly realistic exploration of a pretty young girl's fall on New York's Bowery, and its critical depiction of the irresponsibility of men toward women. The five other stories in this collection are tales of quiet tension and raw intensity. From the local color of small-town life to the bustle of the city to war stories imbued with an ironic view of heroism,...
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
In the not-too-distant future, a recluse who communicates with the outside world by means of a visiophone joins an online dating service at the behest of his therapist. At the same time, Thomas seeks out the services of a government-approved prostitute. Suddenly, he must confront his fears as real-life emotions begin to challenge Thomas's erotic fantasies.
Series
Criterion collection volume 183
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Realizing that her lover Jean is losing interest in her, a society lady Helene gets revenge by tricking him into marrying a former prostitute Agnes. After the wedding Helene tells a stunned Jean about his wife's secret past.
88) Akasen chitai
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
日本語
Description
The final film of director Kenji Mizoguchi follows the lives of five prostitutes in the Yoshiwara region of Tokyo. Each has a different story and different plans, but they all share an uncertain future as they face the outlawing of their profession.
89) Lot: stories
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston's myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
日本語
Description
Two geisha sisters - one modern-minded, the other staunchly traditional - disagree over how to deal with the men controlling their lives and livelihoods. An early work by Kenji Mizoguchi featuring his favored theme of women struggling against societal boundaries.
94) Le plaisir
Series
Criterion collection volume 444
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2008.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
An aging man hides behind a mask to meet ladies, a madame takes her girls to a communion, and a painter falls for his model in these stories of life, love, pleasure, and death.
95) Dead boogie
Author
Series
Loon Lake fishing mystery volume 7
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Just as the summer in Loon Lake is heating up, the town is turned upside downby a bizarre triple homicide. Police Chief Lew Ferris must root the skeletons out of a family's closet before a killer gets away.
96) Bangkok tattoo
Author
Series
Bangkok novel volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Books: A Division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2006].
Language
English
Description
When the mutilated body of a CIA agent is discovered in District 8 and the killer appears to be a local working girl, Sonchai searches for the truth amid a cover-up orchestrated by his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn.
97) The wages of sin
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Sarah Gilchrist fled London and a troubled past to join the University of Edinburgh's medical school in 1892, the first year it admitted women. Determined to become a doctor despite the misgivings of her family and society, Sarah quickly finds plenty of barriers at school itself; professors who refuse to teach their new pupils, male students determined to force out their female counterparts, and-- perhaps worst of all-- female peers who will do anything...
98) The dress lodger
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In a novel set in London during the Industrial Revolution, a prostitute borrows a blue dress to attract a higher class of client and is shadowed through the streets by an evil old woman hired by the dress' owner to keep an eye on her.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start...
100) Wet grave
Author
Series
Benjamin January volume 6
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
It's 1835 and the relentless glare of the late July sun has slowed New Orleans to a standstill. When Hesione LeGros--once a corsair's jeweled mistress, now a raddled hag--is found slashed to death in a shanty on the fringe of New Orleans's most lawless quarter, there are few to care. But one of them is Benjamin January, musician and teacher. He well recalls her blazing ebony beauty when she appeared, exquisitely gowned and handy with a stiletto, at...
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