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Arabella Beaumont, courtesan, adventuress, and sleuth, romps her way through Regency London into a dangerous affair of blackmail. Arabella Beaumont is the fortunate possessor of one of England's most celebrated bodies--with a formidable business brain to match. Her latest venture: transforming a London hotel into a social club for courtesans. To afford the lavish renovations, Arabella needs her featherbrained friend Constance Worthington to repay...
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Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 25 cm
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In prison, accused of murder, Tully Truegood begins to write her life story. A story that takes her from a young girl in the backstreets of 18th century London to her stepmother Queenie's Fairy House--a place where decadent excess is a must... Trained by Queenie to become a courtesan, and by Mr. Crease--a magician who sees that Tully holds similar special powers to his own--Tully soon becomes the talk of the town. But as Tully goes on a journey of...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
v, 487 pages ; 24 cm
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When one of his trading vessels returns to eighteenth-century London with the remarkable body of a mermaid, Jonah gains entry into high society and falls in love with a highly accomplished courtesan, with unexpected consequences.
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Series
Stealing thunder volume 1
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
368 pages cm
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"A charming dragon fantasy novel where a trans girl named Razia runs away from home, finds a community of trans women known as hijras, falls in love, and steals back her dragon. By night, Razia Khan is one of the most sought-after dancing girls in the desert city of Bikampur. Later in the night, she is its most elusive thief. When Razia finds herself dancing for the maharaja's son, the handsome prince Arjun, she knows that she's playing with fire....
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 24 cm.
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In 1527, when the city of Rome is sacked and burned by an invading army, the famed courtesan Fiammetta Bianchini and her dwarf companion, Bucino Teodoldi, escape to the wealthy and powerful city of Venice in order to rebuild their business.
9) Lola Montès
Series
Criterion collection volume 503
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[c2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] p. : ports. ; 19 cm.).
Description
The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit in. Charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing.
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
x, 294 pages ; 25 cm
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"In 1965, an impoverished elderly woman was found dead in Nice, France. Her death marked the end of an era; she was the last of the great courtesans. Known as La Belle Otero, she was a volcanic Spanish beauty whose patrons included Kaiser Wilhelm II,the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia. She accumulated an enormous fortune, but gambled it all away. Scarlet Women tells her story and many more, including:Marie...
11) Camille
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1921, 1931, 2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
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This is the rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's masterpiece "La Traviata," as well as one of the most scandalous and successful French novels of the nineteenth century, "La Dame aux Cam?lias," by Alexandre Dumas fils. The woman at the centre of the story, Marie Duplessis, escaped from her life as an abused teenage girl in provincial Normandy, rising in an amazingly short...
14) Our lady of pain
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Series
Edwardian murder mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Wayward Edwardian debutante Lady Rose Summer becomes the prime suspect in the killing of Dolores Duval, the seductive new client of her fiance?, Captain Harry Cathcart, after a fit of jealousy leads her to threaten the woman.
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Series
Girls of paper and fire series volume 2
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
402 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Description
"Lei and Wren have escaped their oppressive lives in the Hidden Palace, but soon learn that freedom comes with a terrible cost. Lei, the naive country girl who became a royal courtesan, is now known as the Moonchosen, the commoner who managed to do what no one else could. But slaying the cruel Demon King wasn't the end of the plan---it's just the beginning. Now Lei and her warrior love Wren must travel the kingdom to gain support from the far-flung...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an instant, their fates are connected, and from this encounter unfolds a saga that spans half a century. In the aftermath, a young girl named Jade is sold by her family to Miss Silver's courtesan school, an act of desperation that will cement her place in the lowest social status....
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
538 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
"Comtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamorous existence hid a dark secret: she was no Comtesse. She was born into abject poverty, raised on a squalid Paris backstreet; the lowest of the low. Yet she transformed...
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Series
Girls of paper and fire series volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
When Lei, seventeen, is stolen from her home to become one of nine Paper Girls, the Demon King's concubines, she proves to be more fire than paper.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xv, 396 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci team up to expose a serial killer when Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan to discern the truth about his beloved illegitimate son's murder, an investigation that reveals the secret history behind the controversial political work, "The Prince."
20) Chéri
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the love affair between a beautiful retired courtesan Lea, and Chéri, the son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux. After six years Madame Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmee, the daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Lea and Cheri begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.
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