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Cover art for BEAUTIFUL THING
NONFICTION
Released: March 6, 2012
Kirkus Star BEAUTIFUL THING: INSIDE THE SECRET WORLD OF BOMBAY'S DANCE BARS
by Sonia Faleiro
"Gritty, gripping and often heartbreaking--an impressive piece of narrative nonfiction."
A harsh, cinematic look at the international sex trade. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: June 1, 2011
WANTON WEST: MADAMS, MONEY, MURDER, AND THE WILD WOMEN OF MONTANA'S FRONTIER
by Lael Morgan
"A useful addition to Western Americana and women's studies."
There weren't many career opportunities open to women in the Wild West: schoolmarm, farm wife, perhaps stenographer. However, writes journalist and popular historian Morgan (Media Writing/Univ. of Texas, Arlington; Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, 1998, etc.) in this entertaining and instructive study, there was always a demand for prostitutes and brothel keepers, and many women naturally drifted into those ancient professions. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE WHISTLEBLOWER
NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 4, 2011
THE WHISTLEBLOWER: SEX TRAFFICKING, MILITARY CONTRACTORS, AND ONE WOMAN'S FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
by Kathryn Bolkovac, Cari Lynn
"Along with the film adaptation, this book will hopefully draw attention to an underreported tragedy."
An American policewoman uncovers evil in the aftermath of the Bosnian war and is punished for her efforts. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: April 27, 2010
SOME GIRLS: MY LIFE IN A HAREM
by Jillian Lauren
"A gritty, melancholy memoir leavened by the author's amiable, engrossing narrative tenor."
The journey of a teenaged theater-school dropout enticed into traveling to Southeast Asia to be a "harem girl." Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 9, 2008
THE ROAD OF LOST INNOCENCE: THE TRUE STORY OF A CAMBODIAN HEROINE
by Somaly Mam, Ruth Marshall
"An urgent, though depressing, document, worthy of a place alongside Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone, Rigoberto Menchú's autobiography and other accounts of overcoming Third World hardship."
Candid memoir of a woman trapped in the sex-slave trade, who is now an activist against it. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE WISDOM OF WHORES
NONFICTION
Released: June 1, 2008
THE WISDOM OF WHORES: BUREAUCRATS, BROTHELS, AND THE BUSINESS OF AIDS
by Elizabeth Pisani
"Delivers a strong, well-told and believable message--would that it makes a difference."
Savvy epidemiologist Pisani takes an eye-opening look at who gets AIDS how, when and where. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: July 5, 2005
Kirkus Star THE DANCING GIRLS OF LAHORE: SELLING LOVE AND SAVING DREAMS IN PAKISTAN’S ANCIENT PLEASURE DISTRICT
by Louise Brown
"Riveting and important. Even readers who don't think they're interested in Pakistani prostitution will find themselves engrossed."
British sociologist Brown documents the sex-trade in Lahore. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE NATASHAS
NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2004
THE NATASHAS: INSIDE THE NEW GLOBAL SEX TRADE
by Victor Malarek
"A scathing indictment."
Canadian broadcast journalist Malarek exposes the international traffic in sex slavery. Read full book review >
Cover art for CALLGIRL
NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2004
CALLGIRL
by Jeannette Angell
"While this reads like a memoir, a faint suspicion lingers that it could be fiction, like the author's previous work (The Illusionist, 2000, etc.). Either way, it provides a revelatory view of a life few women know much about."
Engrossing, no-holds-barred story of a college lecturer by day and a callgirl by night. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE FLOATING BROTHEL
NONFICTION
Released: March 6, 2002
THE FLOATING BROTHEL: THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SHIP AND ITS CARGO OF FEMALE CONVICTS
by Sian Rees
"Historical writing of the first rank, graphic and of real presence. "
Rees debuts with a cracking tale drawn from an unedifying episode in her native England's history: the "Transportation to Parts Beyond the Seas" of hundreds of British women, shipped on the Lady Julian in 1789 to penal life in Australia. Read full book review >