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A girl from Flint

2010
Tasha, raised by a drug-addicted mother in New York, has learned to use her beauty to hustle men for their money, but the stakes are raised when she moves to Flint, Michigan, to become one of the Manolo Mamis, and when tragedy strikes she is forced to decide between loyalty and love.

The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders

1989
Follows the adventures of Moll Flanders from her birth in Newgate Prison to her position of wealth and stature in seventeenth century England and move to the American colonies.

In my skin

a memoir
2006
Kate Holden recounts her descent into heroin addiction and prostitution, describing how she managed to fight her addictions and demons to reclaim her life and find happiness once again.

Teen prostitution

1992
Discusses the nature and causes of teen prostitution.

Some girls

my life in a Harem
2010
Jillian Lauren, NYU theater school dropout, describes how she went to an audition that led her to spend eighteen months living in a palace in Brunei as part of Prince Jefri Bolkiah's harem.

Maggie, a girl of the streets, and other New York writings

2005
Maggie Johnson dreams of escaping New York's Bowery and her alcoholic family. After her younger brother dies she runs off with a bartender only to find herself abandoned when he finds someone else. Offers a stark image of urban American life at the end of the nineteenth century.

Bowery girl

2006
Two orphaned teenage girls in New York's tenements in 1883 realize that their dream of saving enough money to move to Brooklyn across the newly-built bridge may be achieved if they learn new trades at a nearby settlement house, rather than continuing their lives of prostitution and stealing.

Moll Flanders

1996
Follows the heroine's adventures from seventeenth-century England to the American colonies.

The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders

2005
Presents Daniel Defoe's eighteenth-century novel about a woman born in Newgate prison who becomes an infamous prostitute and thief in both England and the American colonies.

Moll Flanders

2002
Moll Flanders, born in Newgate Prison, pursues a life of adventure that eventually leads her to a position of wealth and stature in bustling eighteenth-century London.

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