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If there is one thing that seventeen-year-old Rain knows and knows well, it is survival. Caring for her little brother, Walker, who is "Touched," and losing the rest of her family to the same disease, Rain has long had to fend for herself on the bleak, dangerous streets of Earth City. When she looks to the stars, Rain sees escape and the only possible cure for Walker. And when a darkly handsome and mysterious captain named Johnny offers her passage...
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Gina escapes a hellacious life by doing the unthinkable, selling the use of her womb to the hightest bidder among rich, childless couples from more affluent areas of Chicago. She even accommodates their "special" requests ranging from participating in forbidden fetishes to more complicated liaisons. Gina uses them to amass a fortune, then sets out to fulfill her own dream, one that is shattered in an instant when a freakish accident steals a gift...
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"La belleza de Milena también fue su perdición. Convertida en esclava sexual desde la adolescencia, intenta huir cuando muere su protector, un magnate de la comunicación que sufre un fallo cardiaco mientras hace el amor con ella. En su angustiosa fuga, se cruza con los Azules, un trío de justicieros formado por el periodista Tomás Arizmendi, la política Amelia Navarro y el especialista en alta seguridad Jaime Lemus. Ellos desean liberarla, pero...
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"Luis Zapata, con El vampiro de la colonia Roma, volvió visible y le dio voz pública al mundo gay en México. La hipotética presencia de una grabadora, de un interlocutor (o de un "lector"), sirve de pauta para un largo monólogo a través del cual desfilan momentos de una vida en los bajos fondos y submundos de la ciudad de México. La adolescencia prematura, la presión social, la homosexualidad, la prostitución, la enfermedad y el hastío son...
85) Rent boy
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McNally editions volume 13
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"It's New York City, 1981, and everyone wants to be at the Emerson Club, from Cindy Crawford to Cindy Adams; from Famous Roger, one-time lion of the talk shows, to Sandy Miller, the "downtown" writer with the tattoos and the leather; from Lauren Hutton to the art star who does the thing with the broken plates. Everyone, that is, except Danny. Danny just works there, waiting tables to put himself through architecture school, turning tricks on the side....
86) Ride or die
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"This novel is based on real-life experiences and events in small town Nova Scotia and Toronto. The story recounts how a 15-year-old Black girl finds herself beaten, emotionally abused, sold to a pimp, and working in the sex trade. 15-year-old Kanika lives a sheltered life with her aunt in Guysborough, a small town in Nova Scotia. But that all changes when her best friend disappears after hanging out with some older boys. While trying to find out...
87) Cambio de reglas
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Richter volume 1
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Como empleada de MacBain Security and Solutions, Claire Kelly ciertamente puede defenderse. Armada con un conjunto impresionante de habilidades encubiertas, está más que preparada para abordar cualquier trabajo que se le presente... excepto uno que involucre a Cooper Lockman. Cooper y Claire solían trabajar juntos antes de que sus sentimientos por ella lo enviaran a Europa por seis largos años. Pero ahora ha vuelto y está decidido a ignorar el...
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