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Already, a nimbus of legend surrounds the story: In late 2004, Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson delivered to his publisher three finished manuscripts -- the opening salvos in a rumored 10-part suspense narrative. Like a latter-day Sjöwall-Wahlöö, the husband-and-wife detective novelists whose Martin Beck decology (1965-75) engaged Olof Palme-era political unrest, Larsson sought to explore and explode the moral... (more)

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by Patricia McCormick

From Congress to the BrothelLinda Smith

From Congress to the Brothel

by Linda Smith

A journey of hope, healing, and restoration.

A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery

A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery

by E. Benjamin Skinner

To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard. As Samantha Power and Philip Gourevitch did for genocide, Skinner has now done for modern-day slavery. With years of reporting in such places as Haiti, Sudan,... (more)

Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

by Diablo Cody

Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV’s The Late Show to be the pick of "Dave’s Book Club 2006," Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper. At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. She soon managed to find inspiration from a most unlikely source— amateur night at the seedy Skyway ... (more)

A Heritage of Shadows

by Madeline Brent

Hannah MacLeod, the brisk narrator of Brent's latest gothic melodrama, is an 18-year-old "waiter girl" in 1890s Montmartre, living in chaste, dignified poverty - and keeping mum (even to the reader) about her shadowy English/French past. Then, in trouble with the local police (though entirely innocent), Hannah must flee - so she reluctantly accepts the position she just recently declined: as French tutor to the... (more)

Sex Slaves: The Trafficking of Women in Asia

Sex Slaves: The Trafficking of Women in Asia

by Louise Brown

The Asian sex trade is often assumed to cater predominantly to foreigners. Sex Slaves turns that belief on its head to show that while western sex tourists have played a vital part in the growth of the industry, the primary customers of Asia’s indentured sex workers and of its child prostitutes are overwhelmingly Asian men. Here are the voices of some of the world’s most silent and abused women—women who have... (more)

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The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson