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Kiss quotient novels volume 2
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English
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"From the critically acclaimed author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart... Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions--like grief. And love. He thinks he's defective. His family knows better--that his autism means he just processes emotions...
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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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.
4) Patience
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Series
Brides of the West volume 6
Language
English
Description
Wanted: Women with religious upbringing, high morals, and a strong sense of adventure, willing to marry decent, God-fearing men. Applicants may apply by mail. Must allow at least two months for an answer.
Patience Smith only intends to wear Lenore's wedding dress for a few minutes, but when a kidnapper snatches Patience in a case of mistaken identity, her life takes an unexpected turn. Lost in the mountains of Colorado, Patience manages...
Patience Smith only intends to wear Lenore's wedding dress for a few minutes, but when a kidnapper snatches Patience in a case of mistaken identity, her life takes an unexpected turn. Lost in the mountains of Colorado, Patience manages...
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English
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"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...
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Bride ships volume 3
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English
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"In 1863, Upon discovering an abandoned baby, Pastor Abe Merivale cares for the infant along with Zoe Hart, one of the newly arrived bride-ship women. With mounting pressure to find the baby a home, they hastily marry - but soon realize their marriage of convenience is not so convenient after all"--Provided by publisher.
7) Faith
Author
Series
Brides of the West volume 1
Language
English
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After Faith answers an ad for a mail-order bride, she is summoned by a wealthy Texas rancher, but when she arrives she immediately locks horns with her intended husband and his mother, and a wedding looks unlikely.
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English
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"Upon arriving in Kenworthy, California, mail-order bride Juniper Cohen is met by the pounding of the gold mine, an untamable landscape, and her greatest surprise of all: the kind and loving man who awaits her. But when the mine proves empty of profit, and when Juniper's husband, John, vanishes, Juniper is left to fend for herself and her young daughter in the dwindling boomtown that is now her home. Juniper pens letters to her husband but fears she...
Author
Series
Bride ships volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Arabella Lawrence fled on a bride ship wearing the scars of past mistakes. Now in British Columbia, two men vying for her hand disagree on how the natives should be treated during a smallpox outbreak. Intent on helping a girl abandoned by her tribe, will Arabella have the wisdom to make the right decision, or will seeking what's right cost her everything?
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English
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The future stretches out in front of Sarah Dobbs like the pure blue Texas sky. Leaving the past behind in Philadelphia, mail-order bride Sarah arrives in San Antonio ready to greet her groom, Austin Canfield, a man she has never met but whose letters have won her heart from afar. But there is one problem--he has died. And Sarah cannot go back East. As Sarah tries to reconcile herself to a future that is drastically changed, Austin's brother, Clay,...
11) Healing Hearts
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English
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Wyoming territory, 1800s As the only doctor in the frontier town of Savage Wells, Gideon knows his prospects for a bride are limited. The womenfolk in town are either too young, too old, or already spoken for. So, being a practical man, he decides to take advantage of the matchmaking service of the day—mail-order brides—and sends away for a woman with nursing experience. When Miriam steps off the train in Savage Wells, she sees a bright
...12) A bride in store
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English
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"It is 1881 when a mail-order bride arrives in a small Kansas town, but her groom is away. What will she do when sparks begin to fly with her future husband's best friend?"--
13) Mail-order bride
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English
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Caroline Myers had been eighteen when she'd first discovered how potent her grandfather's recipe for "tea" was. So, when her two maiden aunts suggested a vacation in Alaska, Caroline was sure they'd overindulged in the family brew. Why go now -- especially right after she'd just been jilted by her fiancé? But Caroline didn't know that her well-meaning relatives had cooked up a scheme. They thought that becoming a mail-order bride for rugged Alaskan...
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Blue willow brides volume 1
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English
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When Catharine Olsen leaves Holland for America as a mail-order bride, she brings along some extra baggage: two sisters, her mother's set of Blue Willow china, and a tragic past. When she arrives in Cheyenne, Wyoming, she promptly marries Peter Andersen and dreams of starting life over in this rugged land. Peter is kind and patient with Catharine and accommodating to her sisters, but his mother is not. When she begins a campaign to sabotage Peter's...
Author
Series
Blue willow brides volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
In 1880s Colorado, mail order bride Greta Olsen is filled with doubts when another mail order bride arrives to marry the same man--Jess Gifford, a merchant in the busy mining town of Central City--who did not order either of them.
16) Glory
Author
Series
Brides of the West volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wanted: Women with religious upbringing, high morals, and a strong sense of adventure, willing to marry decent, God-fearing men. Applicants may apply by mail. Must allow at least two months for an answer.
On the run from a no-good scoundrel, Glory reluctantly joins a wagon train of mail-order brides heading for Denver City. But her backwoods upbringing and fierce independence put her at odds with the other girls—and with the rules Jackson...
On the run from a no-good scoundrel, Glory reluctantly joins a wagon train of mail-order brides heading for Denver City. But her backwoods upbringing and fierce independence put her at odds with the other girls—and with the rules Jackson...
17) Mail order bride
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A con woman tries to start her life over on the right track by moving to another state and assuming her deceased friend's identity, until her past threatens to destroy her future.
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English
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Kathleen O'Malley Stallworth a mail order bride? Not likely! But the Lord works in mysterious ways. Her parents and siblings died in the great Chicago fire; her husband was killed by a mugger; now her fabulously wealthy in-laws have taken her daughter Megan from her, claiming she's not fit to be a mother. In a newspaper ad for a mail order bride, Kathleen sees a chance to seek revenge on the Stallworth family. Instead, her westward adventure transforms...
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"It's been years, but Luke Davis is back--older and wiser--and still alone. Returning as Lookout's new town marshal, Luke is determined to face the past and move on. But when he discovers that the woman who betrayed him is now a widow, all his plans fall at his feet. Rachel has carried her guilty shame for eleven years. Her marriage to James Hamilton was not what Luke or the town thought it to be. Now James is dead, and Luke is back. Could they possibly...
20) Summer moon
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English
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RANCHER SEEKING WIFE
A newspaper ad is the desperately needed answer to Kate Whittington's prayers. Abandoned by her mother--the town tramp, raised in a bleak Maine orphanage, and a spinster without prospects, Kate dreams of a home and family of her own. Unfortunately, when she arrives to begin her new life, the man she believes she married by proxy denies placing the ad. He denies ever corresponding with or marrying her. Worse, he's a Texas Ranger...
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