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Set in the late fifties in Reno, Nevada, this classic of lesbian eroticism is Jane Rule's first novel. Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. Evelyn Hall has gone there to get a divorce from her husband; Ann Childs works there as a change girl in a gambling casino. The movie Desert Hearts is based on this novel by Jane Rule.
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English
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It’s 1938 and women seeking a quick, no-questions split from their husbands head to the “divorce capital of the world,” Reno, Nevada. There’s one catch: they have to wait six-weeks to become “residents.” Many of these wealthy, soon-to-be divorcees flock to the Flying Leap, a dude ranch that caters to their every need. Twenty-four-year-old Ward spent one year at Yale before his family lost everything in the Great Depression; now he’s...
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Series
Mortimer Angel mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Oceanview Pub
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
For nine long days, the mayor and district attorney of Reno, Nevada, have been missing--vanished without a trace. Did they fly somewhere together? Take off with a big pile of money? Were they murdered? Their disappearances have finally made the national news. Mortimer Angel, a private-eye-in-training, is on the case....
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Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"IRS agent-turned-PI Mortimer Angel is relaxing in a hole-in-the-wall bar in a Reno casino when an attractive young girl hires him to find out who left her a cryptic message demanding a million dollars. At the girl's house, Mort finds the body of missing rapper Jonnie Xenon--Jo-X to his legions of fans--hanging from the rafters with two bullet holes in him. Mort is shocked when he learns the identity of the girl's father--and even more shocked when...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An entrancing tale of female friendship and new beginnings inspired by the true stories of those who "took the Reno cure". In the 1940s and 50s, women who needed a fast divorce went to Nevada to live on a ranch with other women in the same boat. Francie Meeker and Vi Carothers were sold a bill of goods: find a man, marry him in a white wedding gown, and live happily ever after. These best friends never expected to be on the train to Reno, those "lies...
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