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Author
Series
Awakening volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In a world nearly destroyed by gods, Calista must choose: follow her intuition to safety or follow her heart to her downfall.
Author
Series
Girls of paper and fire series volume 2
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After escaping their oppressive lives in the Hidden Palace, Lei and Wren attempt to gain support for her quest to overthrow the monarchy, but an evil plot to eliminate the rebel uprising is taking shape, fueled by dark magic and vengeance.
Author
Series
Girls of paper and fire series volume 1
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Lei, seventeen, is stolen from her home to become one of nine Paper Girls, the Demon King's concubines, she proves to be more fire than paper.
Author
Publisher
HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A novel inspired by the life of Qing dynasty courtesan Sai Jinhua follows the experiences of an orphan whose world transforms when she becomes an emissary's concubine during the late-nineteenth-century clashes between China and imperialist Europe.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being tasked with her first major project for the master perfumer, Radha travels to India, enlisting the help of her sisters and the courtesans of Agra, but discovers that the son she gave up years earlier is heading to locate her in Paris--threatening her marriage and carefully managed world.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1662, Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen, is on her deathbed. She entrusts an ancient pearl, rumored to have magic power, to her faithful cavalier William Craven for safekeeping. In his grief, William orders the construction of Ashdown Estate in her memory and places the pearl at its center. One hundred and fifty years later, notorious courtesan Lavinia Flyte hears the maids at Ashdown House whisper of a hidden treasure, and bears...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the international bestselling author of Rebel Queen and Nefertiti comes a captivating novel about the infamous Mata Hari, exotic dancer, adored courtesan, and, possibly, relentless spy. Paris, 1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom...or death. Alone and despondent, Mata Hari is as confused as the rest of the world about the charges she's been arrested on: treason leading to the deaths of thousands of French...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When April Vogt's boss tells her about the discoveries in a cramped, decrepit ninth arrondissement apartment, the Sotheby's continental furniture specialist does not hear the words "dust" or "rats" or "shuttered for seventy years." She hears Paris. She hears escape. Once in France, April quickly learns the apartment is not merely some rich hoarder's repository. Beneath the dust and cobwebs and stale perfumed air is a goldmine and not because of the...
Author
Series
Daughters of La Lune volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Possession. Power. Passion. New York Times bestselling novelist M. J. Rose creates her most provocative and magical spellbinder yet in this gothic novel set against the lavish spectacle of 1890s Belle Epoque Paris. Sandrine Salome flees New York for her grandmother's Paris mansion to escape her dangerous husband, but what she finds there is even more menacing. The house, famous for its lavish art collection and elegant salons, is mysteriously closed...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"A lush, engrossing tale of love, deception and scandal in the 18th century French court of King Louis XV. Against the tumult of 18th century France, King Louis XV has tired of courtly intrigues and becomes a connoisseur of innocence. On the grounds of the Palace of Versailles lies Deer Park, a hunting ground that also offers another pleasure: a mansion where his young mistresses are housed. But when these girls first arrive at Deer Park, it is under...
Author
Publisher
Blue Box Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Nilo-Saharan
Description
"Paris, 1942. Suzanne Belperron is known as one of the most innovative jewelers of her time. Elsa Schiaparelli and the Duchess of Windsor are just two of her many illustrious clients. What no one knows is that Suzanne and her dear friend, American socialite Dixie Osgood, have been helping transport hundreds of Jewish families out of France since the war began. But now, the war has come to Suzanne’s front door—the Nazis have arrested her business...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, Lahore's infamous walled inner city, where women still pass down the profession of courtesan to their daughters. But he still remembers the day he was abducted from the home he shared with his motherand sister there, at the direction of his powerful father, who wanted to give him a chance at a respectable life. Now Wajid, once more dictating his fate from afar, has sent Faraz back to Lahore,...
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