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1) Once minutos
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Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets...
2) Dime
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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[2015]
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Fourteen-year-old Dime, a foster child in Newark, New Jersey, finds love and family as a prostitute, but when her pimp rejects her for a new girl, will Dime have the strength to leave?
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Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history-and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago's notorious Levee district at the dawn of the twentieth century, the club's proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons, into their stately double mansion, where...
6) Sold
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, though poor, enjoys her life until the Himalayan monsoons wash away her family's crops and she is sold to a brothel in India by her stepfather. She remembers her mother's wisdom, "Simply to endure is to triumph," until the day comes that she can reclaim her life.
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Viking
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c2012
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In this book is a story of triumph and a fierce determination to give back. The author was a runner. By twelve, she had run away from home, dropped out of school, and fled blindly into the arms of a brutal pimp, who made her walk the hard streets of central California. But even when she escaped him, she could not outrun the crushing inner pain of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. With little to hope for, she expected to end up in prison, or worse....
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The haunting, unforgettable memoir that took the UK by storm, Trafficked is a gripping first-hand account of a young woman who survived the horrors of human trafficking. Sophie Hayes, a young, educated English woman, was spending an idyllic weekend in Italy with her seemingly charming boyfriend. But the day of her return home, he made it clear she wasn't going anywhere. Punching and shouting at her, he threatened to kill her adored younger brothers...
10) Black girl lost
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Sandra took to the streets when she was eight years old and tried to fight off the hunger pangs by shoplifting and moving into the profits of drug pushing. Then she met Chink, and with him she discovered love and affection, along with rape and murder.
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En el año 1927 Albert Londres viajó de incógnito a la Argentina para llevar adelante una investigación sobre la trata de blancas. El camino de Buenos Aires, fruto de esa investigación, es mucho más que una crónica ocurrente o el relato de un viaje por el "paraíso de los rufianes": constituye un testimonio polémico sobre la Argentina y un precioso documento sobre el circuito internacional del hampa.
Albert Londres nació en 1884, en Vichy,...
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The life of a prostitute is full of abuse, addiction, and depression. While most ladies of the night accept the life they have chosen, some rise up and fight back. The women profiled in this book accepted their faith...and murdered. Their crimes were horrible, but for some, it almost seemed excusable.
Next time you see a girl working the street, you might be a little more frightened about the killer who could be inside her.
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Según el Banco Mundial (2020), América Latina es la región más afectada por el Covid 19 y la que va a tener mayores consecuencias a largo plazo, en términos de endeudamiento, crisis económica y exclusión social (Blake, Wadhwa, 2020). Sumida la región en una trampa de bajo crecimiento, alta desigualdad y alta violencia, como lo explica el Plan de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), en Orozco et al (2021), el desafío de recuperación...
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Angels of Pattaya offers an insightful collection of interviews with a number of prostitutes working in Thailand. The women are given a rare opportunity to tell their story in their own words. The women reveal how they became involved in the business, their hopes for the future and what they think of their "customers". Some are from the poorest rural provinces of Thailand, others come from relatively well-to-do families in the cities. Some are in...
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For all of the worry warts out there, ignorance is not the solution. The individuals that you are morbidly afraid will attempt to use the information in this book to abuse and exploit women are in stark reality not even able to read it because they have never had a high enough level of literacy to do so.
A woman ultimately has only two dimensions, anxiety and maternal instinct, and if intensified one dimension has the power to completely neutralize...
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The average age of entry into prostitution in America is 13 years old. Forced into a life they never chose, manipulated, abused and tortured at the hands of the pimps who control them, our country's children are sold on the streets, on the internet and at truck stops across America every night. They aren't bad kids who made bad choices. They are victims of child sex trafficking. They come from our neighborhoods, our schools, our churches, and sometimes...
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Bonita is a 34-year-old former prostitute from Pennsylvania trying to fight back against the demons in her life. Now being held at the county jail awaiting trial in her connection to the homicide of one of her millionaire clients, she is chosen as the guest speaker to share her story with the in-house support group led by the jails part-time counselor. Hear Bonita's story of loyalty, survival, and her search for hope in a hopeless place.
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En el año 1927 Albert Londres viajó de incógnito a la Argentina para llevar adelante una investigación sobre la trata de blancas. El camino de Buenos Aires, fruto de esa investigación, es mucho más que una crónica ocurrente o el relato de un viaje por el "paraíso de los rufianes": constituye un testimonio polémico sobre la Argentina y un precioso documento sobre el circuito internacional del hampa.
Albert Londres nació en 1884, en Vichy,...
19) The Sex Economy
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The discourse surrounding prostitution is increasingly one of sexual commerce, transaction and commercial exchange. The “sex economy” and the consumer demand for it is often discussed both as a legitimate economic business, in which women have control, and as employment comparable to other forms of low-paid work. So much so, that in some countries it is being seen as a service that should be regulated and given a labour-rights framework.
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Marta Elisa de León fue al infierno y volvió. El infierno era la mentira, la ambigüedad, el consumismo, la poca autoestima, la obsesión por la imagen, el trastorno emocional en suma: la vida como prostituta. Iniciada como por juego, lúdica al principio, luego angustiosa, convertida en cautividad. Siete años después, la autora revive aquella vida oculta en un libro sin equivalencia con los de su género: no busca el morbo ni el escándalo, no...
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