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1) Sold
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
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2 CHILDREN FOR SALE The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs and broken dreams. It could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices. For struggling reporter Ellis Reed, the gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family's dark past. He snaps a photograph of the children, not meant for publication. But when it leads to his big break, the consequences...
3) SOLD
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A narrative, feature film adaptation of the globally acclaimed novel by Patricia McCormick. Based on true stories, SOLD is the story of Lakshmi who journeys from a pastoral, rural village in Nepal to a gritty brothel/prison called Happiness House in Kolkata, India. Through one extraordinary girl’s story, SOLD illustrates the brutality of child trafficking, which affects millions of children around the world every year. Globally the average age of...
4) Sold
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Follow real estate investor Paul Baird of 1-800-BUY-HOUSES as he leads you through nine important steps to successfully sell your home for cash. Paul will give you the inside information other investors don't want you to know. Step by step, he will take you through the process of identifying the most common pitfalls that make cash offers fall through.
Learn how to:
• Know what a legitimate cash buyer looks like and why it matters.
• Identify...
5) Sold
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Victor has put away his guns and violent ways for tiaras and princess parties. Little does he know that he'll soon be back to his old ways?Sixteen year old Abbey Jenkins has gone missing and the police are no where near to solving the mystery of her disappearance. So out of sheer desperation, Gates sends Abbey's parents to the one man who might be able to bring their daughter back.It takes convincing. After all, he's a family man now. But London knows...
6) Sold
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Maria's a beautiful woman who is married to Javier; a criminal and powerful man in the community. They live a luxurious lifestyle in a fabulous beach house in Mazatlán, Mexico. After waking up from a coma, caused by a horrific car accident, Maria is diagnosed with Amnesia. Struggling to remember her life, the family doctor puts Maria on an experimental medication to help with her memory loss, but she is told she may never recall her past life.
After...
7) Sold
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Sold is an adaption of the Award-winning novel by Patricia McCormick about a young girl from Nepal who is trafficked to a brothel in India where she plots her escape. Sold is a global entry point into the issue of modern day slavery.
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 4
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When slave owner Simon Fourchet asks Benjamin January to investigate sabotage, arson, and murder on his plantation, January is reluctant to do any favors for the savage man who owned him until he was seven. But he knows too well that plantation justice means that if the true culprit is not found, every slave on Mon Triomphe will suffer. Abandoning his Parisian French for the African patois of the field hand, cutting cane until his bones ache and his...
11) Sold on love
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"She's a high-fashion realtor; he's a low-maintenance mechanic. What on earth could they have in common? Dressed in designer labels and cruising around town in her red Mercedes, workaholic realtor Harper Wilson presents the picture of success in charming Maple Falls. But Harper's carefully cultivated image is resting on a shaky foundation. With a sudden drought in sales, she's starting to see her professional dreams - along with her posh lifestyle...
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USA Today–Bestselling Author: An aspiring businesswoman is bedded and betrayed by a Greek billionaire in this "exceptionally emotional romance" (RT Book Reviews, Top Pick).
Stefan Ziakas might be her wealthy, ruthless father's most hated business rival, but he's the only man who has ever made Selene Antaxos feel beautiful. So, needing to make a new life for herself beyond her family's Greek island, Selene apprehensively...
Stefan Ziakas might be her wealthy, ruthless father's most hated business rival, but he's the only man who has ever made Selene Antaxos feel beautiful. So, needing to make a new life for herself beyond her family's Greek island, Selene apprehensively...
13) Soldier
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Talon saga volume 3
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Ember stands with Riley and his band of rogue dragons, instead of becoming an assassin for Talon. Meanwhile, she's lost contact with her twin brother Dante, as well as with Garret, a former-enemy soldier who challenged her beliefs about her human side.
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"In her first novel for over a decade, Claire Kilroy takes readers deep into the early days of motherhood. Exploring the clash of fierce love for a new life with a seismic change in identity, Kilroy vividly explores the raw, tumultuous emotions of a new mother, as the narrator, Soldier's, marriage strains and she struggles with questions of equality, autonomy and creativity"--
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Sold for Silver, first published in 1958, is the autobiographical account of Singaporean Chinese Janet Lim. The book covers her early childhood in China to the end of World War II. Janet Lim, an 'ordinary' person, lived in a time and had experiences that were anything but ordinary however: sold into domestic slavery as a child, living in Singapore when it was captured by the Japanese in 1942, aboard a ship that was bombed and sunk and then adrift...
17) Soldiers' pay
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A wounded veteran returns home from World War I to find the life he left behind dramatically changed.
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Chloe Miller and her fellow band members must sort out their lives as they become a hit in the local community. Accustomed only to being scorned and marginalized, Chloe suddenly has to decide who her real friends are, and who's just along for the ride. Now her generosity gets her in more trouble than ever. And all too soon after a talent scout from Nashville discovers the trio, their explosive musical ministry begins to encounter conflicts with family...
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More women have served in Iraq and Afghanistan than in any other conflict in our nation's history, and today they compose about 15 percent of the armed services. Soldier Girls follows the experiences of three women in the Indiana National Guard -- one a young college student, one a single mother, and one a grandmother -- who chose to enlist for different reasons, never expecting they would go to war. Though quite far apart in age and in their political...
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As World War II draws closer and closer to Guernsey, Vivienne de la Mare knows that there will be sacrifices to be made. Not just for herself, but for her two young daughters and for her mother-in-law, for whom she cares while her husband is away fighting. What she does not expect is that she will fall in love with one of the enigmatic German soldiers who take up residence in the house next door to her home. As their relationship intensifies, so do...
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