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c2012., Adult, House of Anansi Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: When Dr. Brinkley arrives in the tiny Mexican border town of Corazón de la Fuente claiming to have a cure for male impotence, he builds a giant radio tower to broadcast his services. The town's fortunes change overnight, though not all for the good. Corazón attracts the attention of the criminal-minded while the doctor attracts the affections of the town's most beautiful citizen. But an unlikely group of townspeople bands together to fight back.
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By Keith, Ellen2018., Adult, Patrick Crean Editions, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Kei Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Amsterdam, May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labour camp or--for a chance at survival--to join the camp brothel. On the other side of the barbed wire, SS officer Karl Muller arrives at the camp hoping to live up to his father's expectations of wartime glory. But faced with a brutal routine of overseeing executions and punishments, he longs for an escape. When he encounters the newly arrived Marijke, this meeting changes their lives forever. Woven into the narrative across space and time is Luciano Wagner's ordeal in 1977 Buenos Aires, during the heat of the Argentine Dirty War. In his struggle to endure military captivity, he searches for ways to resist from a prison cell he may never leave."--From publisher.
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c2013., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Man Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In order to escape brutal poverty Hanna Lundmark flees her home in Sweden to work as a cook on a ship bound for Australia. On board she falls in love and marries the ship's mate who dies tragically on the voyage. Griefstricken, Hanna jumps ship at the African port town of Lourenço Marques in Mozambique, where a series of events leads to her becoming the owner of a brothel. However, racial tensions in the town are high between the white settlers and native Africans and life for Hanna is not easy.
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c2012., General, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic Des Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Love, war, and commerce converge in this lush, epic story of a woman who follows her love to Paris, only to find herself marooned, pregnant, and penniless. Set around France's Second Empire, where absinthe, prostitution, vast wealth, and cataclysmic social upheaval abound, this novel delicately explores the contrary requirements of a woman's survival--and her determination to recover the daughter she gave away.
