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Lisa from Bennett Martin Library discusses these books:
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott
Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era by Hollis Clayson
The Murder of Helen Jewett by Patricia Cline Cohen
City of Eros by Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Nell Kimball: Her Life as an American Madam by Nell Kimball
The Nye County Brothel Wars by Jeanie Kasindorf
Whiskey and Wild Women: an Amusing Account of the Saloons and Bawds of the Old West by Cy Martin
The Story of Chicago May by Nuala O'Faolain
Soiled Doves by Anne Seagraves