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Author
Series
Texas boardinghouse brides volume 2
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"After a mail-order bride debacle, both Shannon O'Neil and Leah Bennett find themselves stranded in Texas. There are only two options available to them: get a job or find another man to marry. The Corbett brothers, Garrett and Mark, try to atone for the mess they created when they ordered their cousin three mail-order brides by hosting Saturday socials for the town's eligible singles. Will Shannon, the Irish immigrant, be wooed out of her timidity...
42) A bride at last
Author
Series
Unexpected brides volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"On the 1880s Kansas prairie, Silas and Kate both harbor resentment over their previous failed mail-order engagements, but when a young boy loses his mother and needs their help, they must attempt to move beyond past hurts and find healing together"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Margaret Yoder can't seem to catch a break. Even though she's dedicated to her Amish faith, her wild Rumspringa won't stay in the past, and her mother keeps pressuring her to get married. To placate her mother and get away from former "friends," she decides to return to Birch Creek to visit family - and pretend to find a husband. Like Margaret, Owen Bontrager isn't looking for a spouse, something that's hard to avoid in Birch Creek, where an ad for...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary...
Author
Language
English
Description
"April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly...
46) A bride for Noah
Author
Series
Seattle brides volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Penniless and desperate for an adventure, Evie Lawrence moves to the Oregon Territory in 1851, intending to build a restaurant in one of the new settlements there.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a serial killer claims his fourth victim, FBI Special Agent Brad Raines contacts the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, a psychiatric hospital for gifted but troubled individuals. As he profiles the killer, who taunts authorities by leaving bridal veils at his crime scenes, Raines is assisted by Paradise, a young schizophrenic with the ability to experience the victims' final moments. Events start getting extremely personal to Raines when...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Johnny Paynter flees Denver to escape being hanged for a murder he didn't commit. At his brother's ranch in Texas, where he thought he could take refuge, he finds his brother, Mark, dead at the hands of rogue bandits. Taking advantage of his strong resemblance to his brother, Johnny assumes Mark's identity. Johnny soon discovers that Mark has been corresponding with a widow named Sally in St. Louis, and she is en route to be a mail-order bride to...
50) Mail order bride
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Seeking a new beginning, a con artist poses as her dead friend, who was betrothed to a rancher.
Author
Publisher
Ulverscroft
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Anton Kozlov has escaped Russia and made a new life for himself on Battle Mountain in Nevada. When he's asked to do a favor for a US Cavalry officer - retrieve a mail-order bride from a stage station - it sounds easy enough... until he learns that the stage has broken down near a notorious nest of outlaws. Though he succeeds in rescuing Lucy, the way back to Devil's Canyon is fraught with danger - and upon their arrival, there's further trouble in...
52) The player
Author
Series
Wedding pact volume 2
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As divorce attorney Blair Hansen's wedding approaches, she finds herself remembering her law school boyfriend, the only man she's ever loved, and regretting what might have been. Then a twist of fate lands Garrett Lowry back in her life, making her question everything. Garrett is a divorce attorney who's ready to settle down, but can't find a woman who suits him nearly as well as the one he loved and lost. As destiny keeps throwing them together,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After three months in a mail-order marriage, Hannah Wentworth McMurtry is a widow -- pregnant, alone, and near death in the Wyoming wilderness. Though she is saved by Flint Creed, a man with a face cut from stone, she still grieves the husband who died on their journey west. Hannah needs a husband, but does she dare marry another stranger? Flint Creed has also lost someone he loved -- when the woman he hoped to marry chose his younger brother instead....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In Sunken Cathedral, Kate Walbert tells the stories of four women living in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, more or less now. Two, Marie and Simone, friends for decades, are widows in their seventies, yet robust, engaged, appetiteful, even ready to find love again. They were immigrants, survivors of World War II in Europe, and now are living alone in the houses where they raised their children. Elizabeth is Marie's tenant, the mother of a 13 year...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
Author
Series
Amish mail-order bride novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Identical brothers Zeb and Zeke Bontrager aren't looking for love. They have their hands full with a new horse farm, a half-finished ranch house, and a wild colt, thanks to Zeke's hasty business dealings. Now Zeb must contend with Zeke's bad decisions, hidden debts, and tendency to avoid responsibility, which threaten their good standing in the Birch Creek Amish community. When a newspaper ad prompts Darla King to travel to Birch Creek in search...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand.
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Looking forward to a quiet life and a full stomach, mail-order bride Rebecca Rice is pleased to marry her shopkeeper intended, Mr. Fordham, until the justice of the peace calls him Thaddeus, not Theodore--proceeded by the title Deputy. When the newlyweds realize they've married the wrong partners with similar names, an annulment seems in order--and fast, since Rebecca's true intended is impatient to claim her as his own, not to mention Rebecca would...
59) Savage lands
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Clare Clark has become a rising star in historical fiction. Elisabeth is among twenty-three girls who set sail from France for the new colony of Louisiana to be married to strangers. Although she has little hope for happiness in her new life, she finds herself passionately in love with her new husband, Jean-Claude, a charismatic and ruthlessly ambitious soldier. But betrayal is as much a part of the new world as the old, and when Elisabeth finds herself...
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