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Angelique 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. At eighteen she is her father's closest, most trusted child, schooled in managing their grand estate. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angelique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father pressed...
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"Applegate's tour de force about Jazz Age icon Polly Adler will seize you by the lapels, buy you a drink, and keep you reading until the very last page.... A treat for fiction and nonfiction fans alike." --Abbott Kahler, New York Times bestselling author (as Karen Abbott) of The Ghosts of Eden Park Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became...
3) Razor sharp
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The Sisterhood will stamp out injustice—wherever they find it. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Radar.
When it comes to repaying a debt, the women of the Sisterhood—Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle—never forget. And now one of their allies needs help only they can give. A powerful attorney with a cut-throat reputation, Lizzie Fox has just taken on a high-profile...
When it comes to repaying a debt, the women of the Sisterhood—Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle—never forget. And now one of their allies needs help only they can give. A powerful attorney with a cut-throat reputation, Lizzie Fox has just taken on a high-profile...
4) Księżna
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Angélique dorasta we wspaniałej wiejskiej posiadłości w Anglii pod opieką ojca, księcia Westerfield. Po jego śmierci przyrodni bracia wyrzekają się dziewczyny i wypędzają ją z domu. Osiemnastoletnia Angélique jest piękna, ma głowę do interesów i pieniądze, które w tajemnicy zdążył przekazać jej zmarły ojciec. Nie mogąc znaleźć bezpiecznej posady, podejmuje desperacką próbę ułożenia sobie życia w Paryżu. Będzie do...
5) La Celestina
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En la prehistoria del realismo novelesco, ningún libro ocupa un lugar tan excepcional como La Celestina, cuyo mero título de tragicomedia apunta ya que en ella están violándose las reglas más sagradas en el establishment de las letras. Porque nunca antes, y nunca durante muchos años después, intentó nadie en Europa plasmar un orbe de ficción con tantos visos de integrarse en el ámbito de la experiencia diaria, ni menos mediante una presentación...
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Chicago, 1988. Rose was Chicago's reigning madam, providing $400 an hour call girls to addresses all over Chicago's downtown and Gold Coast. She got into the business to save her kids from a brutal orphanage. But she enjoyed the work, and was good at it. She stayed in the business until 2002 when the FBI busted her, and she served 17 months in federal prison. Now she takes you back to her days of juggling three sugar daddies, living and breathing...
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Revealing the sensational true story behind a forgotten part of espionage history, this book takes readers behind the doors of "Salon Kitty," a high-class Berlin brothel that, when the Nazis took power, became a dangerous spy center, staffed by female agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients.