A propulsive and dazzling debut novel set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, about a Chinese girl fighting to claim her place in the 1880s American West. Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was...
Human trafficking
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Author:Zhang, Jenny TinghuiSummary: - Author:Laidlaw, S. J.Summary:
Noor has lived all of her fourteen years in the fifteen lanes of Mumbai's red light district. Born into a brothel, she is destined for the same fate as her mother: a desperate life trapped in the city's sex trade. She must act...
- Author:Mendis, LisaSummary:
In the post-punk, global economy of the 1980's, four young women from very different backgrounds are united by a common goal: justice. Curb Angels features fearless female characters on a mission that crosses borders and challenges...
- Author:Harvey, JohnSummary:
This novel finds Charlie on the verge of retirement when a manpower shortage thrusts him back onto the mean streets of Nottingham to solve a pair of baffling murders.
- Author:Reichs, KathySummary:
Tempe Brennan investigats the connections between a long-dead business man, the smuggling of mummified dogs from Peru, and the death of a teenage girl killed in a hit and run. When she discovers a human trafficking enterprise at the...
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Author:Macpherson, MargaretSummary:Body Trade weaves together two stories of survival. The main narrative follows Rosie and Tanya, two young Canadian women who decide to leave the Northwest Territories and head south on an ill-conceived road trip through California,...
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Author:Delany, VickiSummary:RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson is in the Turks and Caicos Islands, enjoying two weeks of leave from his job training police in Haiti with the UN. On an early-morning jog along famed Grace Bay Beach he discovers a dead man in the surf. Ray...
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Author:Atkinson, KateSummary:Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his teenage son and an aging Labrador. It's picturesque, but there's something darker lurking behind the scenes.
- Author:Foster, LoriSummary:
After taking down a ruthless human trafficker, Alice Appleton fears retaliation and tries to hide her past from her neighbor, Detective Reese Bareden, but they are soon drawn into a deadly maze of corruption, intrigue, and desire.
- Author:Rose, KarenSummary:
Former army ranger Marcus O'Bannion's investigation into the murder of a young girl lures him and homicide detective Scarlett Bishop down a dark, dark road--and straight into the crosshairs of a dangerous underground ring that deals in...
- Author:Addison, CorbanSummary:
Orphaned and homeless after a tsunami decimates their coastal India town, teenage sisters Ahalya and Sita Ghai are abducted and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner before they are helped by an American attorney fighting human trafficking....
- Author:Kingsbury, KarenSummary:
"Inspirational fiction superstar" (Publishers Weekly) and #1 New York Times bestselling author of life-changing fiction returns with this high-stakes love story of danger, passion, and faith. She was a child caught in a...
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Author:Dash, Ava, Roy, RachelSummary:When her beloved grandmother dies, Raya jumps at the chance to spend her last free summer before college at the ashram in India where her grandmother met and fell in love with her grandfather. Raya hopes to find her center and her true...
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