The Kill

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A penetrating study of a beautiful and recklessly sensual woman, in the money-mad world of 19th century Paris

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Beautiful but evil, Renee abandoned herself to the drug of erotic sensation just as Nana abandoned’ herself to the love of gold.

Thirsting for new pleasures, when she looked upon her precocious young stepson, Renee felt “the fatal summons experienced by one looking over a precipice, an unknown joyance, hot with crime, more’ violent than all she had already drained, the last that remained in her cup. ”

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Too Fast We Live

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Lust, Violence And Greed In The Deep South

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She Could Break Any Man

Andy Douglas knew Bradley, the Florida fruit baron, would stop at nothing to gain control of his orange grove. So when Bradley’s daughter Marcia made a play for him, Andy resisted.

But Marcia was a woman who knew how to break a man — completely. And when she asked Andy to take her to a Miami luxury hotel, he could give only one answer — even if it meant losing everything he cared about.

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