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02365aam a2200373Ki 4500 001 2B4AAB72BBB811EC8D59041432ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220414010012 008 210824s2022 azu 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2021914905 020 $a 9781684631179 020 $a 1684631173 035 $a (OCoLC)1264715680 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d KI2 $d OCLCO $d LIV $d OCLCF $d JIU $d SILO 100 1 $a Hadlock, Jody. 245 14 $a The lives of Diamond Bessie / $c Jody Hadlock. 264 1 $a [Phoenix, Arizona] : $b SparkPress, $c 2022. 300 $a 317 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "Diamonds aren't always a girls best friend. Pregnant out of wedlock, sixteen-year-old Annie Moore is sent to live at a convent for fallen women. When the nuns take her baby, Annie escapes, determined to find a way to be reunited with her daughter. But few rights or opportunities are available to a woman in the 1860s, and after failing to find a respectable job, she resorts to prostitution in order to survive. As a highly sought-after demi-mondaine, Annie--now Bessie--garners many expensive gifts from her admirers and eventually meets and marries the son of a wealthy jeweler, a traveling salesman with a gambling problem. With her marriage, she believes her dream of returning to proper society has finally come true. She's proven wrong when she suffers the ultimate betrayal at the hands of the man she thought her salvation. But Bessie doesn't let her story end there. Inspired by a true story and set against the backdrop of the burgeoning women's rights movement, The Lives of Diamond Bessie is a haunting tale of betrayal and redemption that explores whether seeking revenge is worth the price you might pay." --page [4] of cover. 650 0 $a Teenage pregnancy $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Prostitutes $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Betrayal $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women's rights $y 19th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sex role $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 5 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032850.0 952 $l CCPB522 $d 20220901010051.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220630010714.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20220602024048.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20220414010526.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2B4AAB72BBB811EC8D59041432ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search