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The surreal life and bizarre times of a college-educated career call girl. A brave new look at the oldest profession, A Roaring Girl is, without a doubt, the most unusual book of its kind ever written. Part edgy, X-rated memoir; part sex-positive, pro-prostitution polemic, H. A. Carson's 400-plus page interview with an anonymous "escort" known as "The Thinking Man's Hooker," is an unflinchingly honest presentation of one woman's professional life...
2) Metro girl
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When her wild and womanizing younger brother goes missing in southern Florida, Alexandra Barnaby endures humidity, sunburn, and bugs in her search for him alongside Sam Hooker, who believes Barnaby's brother has stolen his boat.
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Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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A young girl, observing that life with her family is not easy, imagines the quintet as a pod of pelicans, a swarm of bees, or a herd of buffalo. Includes note about, and list of, collective nouns for animals.
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
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292 p. ; 22 cm.
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The Tarzana Hookers learn that the entertainment biz can be deadly. The crochet group's informal leader, actress CeeCee Collins, has a movie out, and thanks to the Oscar buzz, she's scheduled to appear on the famous Barbara Olive Overton Show. Molly and the girls tag along, but when CeeCee's niece Nell- a production assistant on the show- is accused of poisoning one of the producers, Molly and the Hookers must set aside their crochet projects to clear...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
285 pages : map ; 24 cm
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"Until May 1987, fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons are spent with his buddies, watching copious amounts of television, gorging on Pop-Tarts, debating who would win in a brawl (Rocky Balboa or Freddy Krueger? Bruce Springsteen or Billy Joel? Magnum P.I. Or T.J. Hooker?), and programming video games on his Commodore 64 late into the night. Then Playboy magazine publishes photos...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xi, 397 pages ; 24 cm
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Describes the experiences of three women soldiers deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq to reveal how their military service has affected their friendship, personal lives and families, detailing the realities of their work on bases and in war zones and how their choices and losses shaped their perspectives.
9) The hop
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
516 pages ; 23 cm.
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The story of a poor scrappy girl from rural New Zealand who grows reluctantly into a sex icon, the face of a movement, and a mother, all at the same time. Kate Burns grows up wanting attention from her Ma, but her Ma wants only money and Kate learns how to get both. She and her childhood friend, Lacey, run kissing lessons for cash in the janitor's closet of Fenbrook High, and just like that, they find themselves in the sex work industry. From there,...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Since the dawn of cinema, sex workers have served as muses to movie-makers. From turn of the century white slavery pictures (The Girl who went Astray, 1900), to iconic rom-coms (Pretty Woman, 1990), to indie hits (Tangerine, 2015), hookers, hustlers, call girls, street walkers, strippers and dommes have been staples of the silver screen. Cinematic sex workers are punchlines, cautionary tales or fantasy figures. They are brutalized, killed off, sometimes...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (481 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Physicists Leonard and Sheldon understand everything from the inescapable gravitational pull of a black hole to the intricate structure of the atom. But take those atoms and assemble them into a woman, and their comprehension comes to a grinding halt. This season, Leonard gets a girl. So does Sheldon. (Sheldon?!), Howard drives the Mars Rover into a ditch, Raj woos a terminator, gorgeous girl-next-door Penny falls under the spell of Age of Conan,...
12) Motor mouth
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Series
Alexandra Barnaby novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby returns to take on a whole new set of bad guys, Florida heat, colorful and dangerous characters, and high-stakes adventure, all the while romancing gorgeous race car driver Sam Hooker.
13) A Perfect Ending
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
She’s elegant, wealthy and proper — an upstanding wife and mother with three grown children, a swanky estate and a horrible husband. And tragically, she’s never had an orgasm. Determined to solve the problem, Rebecca’s lesbian friends set her up with an exceptionally talented high-class call girl named Paris — and, needless to say, the lives of both Rebecca and Paris are changed forever. Filled to the brink with aching desire, the sexual...
14) Eve's Hollywood
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 296 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Description
"Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been all of these things. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing Duchamp over a chessboard and as one of Ed Ruscha's Five 1965 Girlfriends, it turns out that Babitz was a writer with stories of her own. In Eve's Hollywood she gives us indelible snapshots of southern California's haute bohemians, of surpassingly lovely high school ingenues ("people with brains...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter who often runs into trouble on the job, but she has family, friends, and several men to help her out of sticky situations. There's Lula, a plus-sized former hooker turned bounty hunter, and Grandma Mazur, Stephanie's outrageous grandmother who packs a gun and sometimes tags along on cases."--
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Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
x, 276 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A lighthearted account by the producer and director of such productions as "Laverne & Shirley" and "Pretty Woman." Marshall traces his Bronx childhood, role in shaping A-list celebrity careers, and personal philosophies about life and entertainment.
17) The blues
Publisher
Smithsonian Collection of Recordings
Pub. Date
p1993
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (ca 70 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (94 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.)
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