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<title>The Double Standard Sporting House</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/nancy-bernhard/the_double_standard_sporting_house.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/nancy-bernhard/the_double_standard_sporting_house_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="The Double Standard Sporting House" alt ="The Double Standard Sporting House"/></a><br//><B>For fans of Ariel Lawhon's <I>The Frozen River</I>, debut historical fiction about a brothel nurse in nineteenth-century New York City who fights brutality in the sex trade and pioneers treatments for survivors of sexual violence.</B><BR>A high-class brothel that entertains New York's most powerful men, the Double Standard Sporting House funds a free clinic for women. When the Tammany Hall criminal syndicate takes over the city in 1868 and starts kidnapping girls, the house's owner Nell "Doc" Hastings cannot stay quiet&#8212;especially after sixteen-year-old Vivie arrives at the clinic bruised and bleeding. <BR> <BR>Resolving to seek justice for Vivie and girls like her, Doc builds an unlikely alliance with religious reformers, a rare honest ward cop, and an alluring newspaper publisher she can't seem to keep away from. Even with their help, Doc will have to use her sharpest tools&#8212;secrets, guile, and a surgical blade&#8212;to prevent a dark turn in the sex trade.<BR>...]]></description>
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