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"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 appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend...
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2012.
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Español
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El lugar sin límites, novela que llevó al cine el mexicano Arturo Ripstein, juega eficazmente con el engañoso espejo de los sexos--la Manuela--en un prostíbulo de pueblo, especie de infierno anodino donde confluyen no sólo las pasiones eróticas sino además los sórdidos juegos de poder y dominación que suelen marcar los territorios degradados.
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"Five hundred years from now, ex-corporate mercenary Koko Martstellar is swaggering through an easy early retirement as a brothel owner on The Sixty Islands, a manufactured tropical resort archipelago known for its simulated sex and violence. Surrounded by slang-drooling boywhores and synthetic komodo dragons, Koko finds the most challenging part of her day might be deciding on her next drink. That is, until her old comrade Portia Delacompte sends...
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Good luck girls volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Aster, the protector. Violet, the favorite. Tansy, the medic. Mallow, the fighter. Clementine, the catalyst. The country of Arketta calls them Good Luck Girls-they know their luck is anything but. Sold to a "welcome house" as children and branded with cursed markings. Trapped in a life they would never have chosen. When Clementine accidentally kills a man, the girls risk a dangerous escape and harrowing journey to find freedom, justice, and revenge...
5) Stone mad
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Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
©2018.
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English
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Readers met the irrepressible Karen Memory in Elizabeth Bear's 2015 novel KAREN MEMORY, and fell in love with her steampunk Victorian Pacific Northwest city, and her down-to-earth story-telling voice. Now Karen is back with a new story about spiritualists, magicians, con-men, and an angry lost tommy-knocker--a magical creature who generally lives in the deep gold mines of Alaska, but has been kidnapped and brought to Rapid City. Karen and Priya are...
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