Crowley County Combined Library

When successful corporate mogul Edward Lewis meets independent and carefree Vivian Ward, their two lives are worlds apart. But Vivian's energetic spirit challenges Edward's no-nonsense, business-minded approach to life, sparking an immediate attraction. He teaches her the finer things in life-- she teaches him that love could be the best investment he ever made.

Booth is filled with a collection of lonely souls looking for one last shot at happiness in what seems the most unlikely place on earth. Two of these souls, homicide cops Eliza Ochoa and Ike Horner, are on the scene of a body dump in a downtown park. Homicide cops Ike Horner and Eliza Ochoa are on the scene of a body dump in a riverfront park, crouching over the freezing corpse of yet another working girl--cut up in all the most delicate places. Soon...

"When Harvard Medical School student Alexa Albert conducted a public-health study at the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada, the only state in America where prostitution is legal, neither she nor the women of the brothel could have predicted the result. Having worked with homeless prostitutes at a drop-in center in New York City's Times Square, Albert was intimate with the human devastation caused by the sex trade and curious to see if Nevada's brothels...

Sarah Gilchrist fled London and a troubled past to join the University of Edinburgh's medical school in 1892, the first year it admitted women. Determined to become a doctor despite the misgivings of her family and society, Sarah quickly finds plenty of barriers at school itself; professors who refuse to teach their new pupils, male students determined to force out their female counterparts, and-- perhaps worst of all-- female peers who will do anything...

Jerri Blank is a forty-seven-year-old ex-con who returns to her childhood home after spending thirty-two years working the streets and in prison. Upon her arrival, she discovers her father is in a self-induced coma. Hoping to wake him, Jerri decides to turn her life around by picking it up exactly where she left off--as a high school freshman. But for a former boozer, user and loser, hanging with the in-crowd is going to be harder than turning tricks...

"Sexy, shrewd Norma Wallace ran the last of the legendary houses of prostitution in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Two years before her death in 1974, she began to tape-record her memories - the salacious stories of a smart, glamorous, powerful woman whose scandalous life made front-page headlines, and whose husbands and lovers ran the gamut from movie stars to gangsters to the boy next door, thirty-nine years her junior, who became her fifth...

Henry Chester, a puritanical and tyrannical Victorian artist, finds the perfect model in nine-year-old Effie, until, ten years later, Effie, a childlike, biddable, and sedated perfect wife, awakens as an illicit love affair draws her into a dark and dangerous world of blackmail, revenge, and intrigue.

Brought into being by the lamentations of three Caribbean slave women, a powerful deity begins a search to discover herself and inhabits the minds of three women throughout history.

Kate is an innocent country girl who is seduced by a rake and abandoned, with little recourse but to become a woman "in the life." Beautiful and appealing, she snares the heart of young Lawrence Randsome, scion of an old, distinguished New Orleans family. Meanwhile, his mother, transplanted Boston blueblood, bluestocking and suffragette Julia Randsome, has discovered that her husband Charles owns whorehouses in the District, and their marriage is...