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Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A bride most begrudging (2005): a British lady who is taken to the colonies against her will as a "tobacco bride." The colonial farmer who "wins" her realizes he has gotten more than he bargained for in the ensuing battle of wills.
Courting trouble (2007): In 1890s Texas, being a single woman at 30meant you were practically a spinster. Tired of leaving it up to providence, Essie takes matters into her own hands, casting her sights on the towns remaining...
162) To Marry is Madness
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abandoned by her family because of a well-kept secret, Miss Charity Oakley plans to live out her spinsterhood alone in her family's country house. But when her mysterious illness begins to worsen, she wonders just how long she will live at all. When Mr. Sidney Delamar, a presumed madman and mischief-maker finds his way to town, Charity does all she can to avoid him. What she didn’t expect, however, was to find him begging for refuge at her door....
Author
Publisher
Hallmark Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Angie Lopez, a widowed mom, works hard at Singleton's Jewelers. Sam Singleton, her often-irritating boss, hardly does anything besides work. He doesn't spend time with friends and family, even around the holidays. That's why Angie's the one who winds up taking care of him when a head injury leaves him with amnesia. As Sam attempts to remember who he is, he learns about the luxurious but empty life he leads... and he's not impressed. Meanwhile, Angie...
164) The thirst
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 11
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Harry Hole returns in the eleventh installment of the best-selling, electrifying crime fiction series that includes The Bat, The Snowman, and, most recently, Police. In Police--the last novel featuring Jo Nesb'̜s hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective--a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him. Now, in The Thirst, the story continues as Harry is inextricably drawn back into the Oslo...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
Niagara Falls, 1851. Julia Barrett is ready to make a fresh start with Adam Wolcott-- even if it means putting her dream of traveling west with the Mormons on hold. But when Adam's return is overshadowed by the unexpected arrival of a young orphan girl in desperate need of help, Julia is drawn into a dangerous mystery that will threaten all she holds dear.
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Hunter's 'A Search for Refuge' tells of Nash Banfield, hiding from society in a market town, and Lady Margaretta Fortescue, on the run from a mysterious threat and needing refuge. Camden's 'Summer of Dreams' follows the daughter of an army general, determined never to marry a man in uniform, and a West Point cadet just as determined to change her mind. Dykes's 'Up from the Sea' follows the romance between the daughter of a Southern lumber baron who...
168) Many rivers to cross
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Bushrod Gentry is a right restless man, a bullwhip-crackin', tough-brawlin' trapper passing through Barren River, Kentucky, and heading for the pelts and promise of the Northwest Territory. He'll never get there if Mary Stuart Cherne has her way. It's marryin' season, the preacher is making his annual visit to Barren River and Mary has her heart and rifle barrel set on buckskinned bachelor Bushrod.
169) The love letter
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
1998, c1995
Language
English
Description
Intelligent, sexy, and fortyish, Helen MacFarquhar is a woman in control of her life and everyone in it-until an anonymous love letter falls into her hands one summer morning. Helen has been leading a blissful existence as the proprietor of a small bookstore in a quaint New England seaside town. She beguiles her customers into buying the titles she recommends, and flirts shamelessly with nearly every one of the town's eccentric residents. But Helen's...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times--a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored" --
Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother's disappearance fourteen...
171) A man's heart
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Jules broke off her wedding to Cruz practically at the altar. Not just once, but twice. Now the man Jules loves best can't stand the sight of her. Only for Pop could Jules have made such a sacrifice. And now Pop is gone, leaving Jules with his struggling Washington State potato farm; with a sister excluded from his will; and with a heart wounded by the sacrifice she has made on behalf of her father. It looks like strengthening her relationship with...
Author
Series
Guardian volume 3
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Kristi Hartinger has come to terms with her life as a single, thirty-something woman. She was in love ... once. But following her boyfriend's tragic death, no one else could capture her heart. And nothing else could fill that void, though the serenity of the ocean came close. Two years ago, Kristi left the craziness of her Wall Street career behind and embraced a simpler life on her family's private island off the coast of Maine. As a resident of...
173) My life in ruins
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Georgia came to Greece to follow a man. Cast aside, she finds herself alone and adrift in this foreign land. Eventually, her passion for history leads her to a job as a tour guide. But Georgia is bored, and has lost her 'kefi' (Greek for mojo) to boot. When Poupi replaces her regular driver at the last minute, Georgia thinks that her luck has just hit rock bottom. Thankfully, Georgia's latest batch of tourists is a more lively bunch than she's anticipated,...
174) Nightwalker
Author
Publisher
Mira Publications
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Jessy Sparhawk has seen firsthand how gambling can ruin people's lives. One night, desperate for money, she places the bet that will change her life forever. Just as she's collecting her winnings, a man stumbles through the crowd, a knife protruding from his back, and crashes into her, pinning her to the craps table.
Author
Series
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Stranded in Salt Lake City over the holidays, high-powered, highly pampered Tara Mollagen is rescued by Benjamin Whitmore--a tall, handsome Mormon visiting his sister for Christmas. For being a nice guy, Ben is rewarded with one aggravating situation after another until he takes matters into his own hands and Tara into his arms.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Revolves around the friendship between bright-eyed, naive and demure Shirley Feeney and brassy, tough-talking, street smart Laverne De Fazio. The duo date an array of questionable men, tolerate their dippy, loony neighbors Lenny and Squiggy, and forever try to 'make all their dreams come true.'
178) Nice to come home to
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Edition
1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-six-year-old Prudence Whistler's vision of what her adult life should be shatters when she loses her job and is dumped by her boyfriend, but she learns there is much more in store for her when her true friends rally around, helping her find a more fulfilling path.
Author
Series
Arrangement volume 4
Publisher
Phase Publishing
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
Life had never been particularly kind to Annie Ramsey. She was poor, uneducated, and without any prospects except misery and pain at the hands of her brother, or whomever he decides she ought to marry. Duncan Bray could not resist the urge to help the young woman he found in the wintery chill of Yorkshire, feeling driven to save her from the dismal life she lived.
180) Kaydie
Author
Series
Montana skies volume 2
Publisher
Whitaker House
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by her marriage to an abusive man, Kaydie Kraemer is determined never to fall in love again, and it will take the grace of God to change her mind--the same grace that works in the heart of Jonah Dickenson, a confirmed bachelor, and awakens in him an attraction to her"--Provided by publisher.
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