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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Can a marriage in name only give her the new life she needs? There’s no future in Chicago for Eleanor Fitzpatrick and her sister--but out West, she can have a fresh start as a sheriff’s mail-order match. She’ll be a good mother to Matt Baynes’s orphaned niece and nephew…but will she be a good wife? She’s never known an honorable man, and trusting Matt is a daily struggle. Yet as the children bond--and begin matchmaking--her resolve is...
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Internet love connections and mail-order brides rarely ever work out, and John should have known. Having never been lucky in love and tired of waiting for the perfect woman to come along, John decides to take his chances and orders a mail-order bride from Russia. At first, things seem perfect even though Nadia doesn't speak much English. But when Nadia's 'cousins' unexpectedly arrive to celebrate her birthday, John is drawn into their web of corruption...
Author
Series
An Amish mail-order bride novel volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the town of Birch Creek where the only danger is getting swept off your feet, Katharine Miller hides the secrets of her past . . . until she meets Ezra Bontrager and is forced to face the greatest risk of all--opening her heart to true love After fleeing her hometown, Katharine finds peace and anonymity while working at Stoll's Inn and keeping to herself. As long as her guard is up, she can protect herself and others from her past, with the hope...
4) 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...
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief. Rather than believing he processes emotions differently due to being autistic, he concludes that he's defective and decides to avoid romantic relationships. So his mother, driven to desperation, takes matters into her own hands and returns to...
Author
Series
Patterson-Cannon family saga volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Available digitally for the first time ever, Duncan s Bride is a classic novel of romantic suspense from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Linda Howard It's been seven years since rancher Reese Duncan's first wife left him high and dry, and he's been trying to rebuild his life ever since. What he needs is a dependable mate someone uncomplicated with whom he can start a family and who will help out around the ranch. At first glance, city...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Historical
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A marriage to save them both? Among the responses Cassandra Hamilton receives to her advertizement as a mail-order bride, one stands outJack McColton's. The last time she saw him, she was a carefree girl, but tragedy has made her a cautious woman. Jack is mesmerized by his new brideCassandra might bear the scars of recent events, but she's even more beautiful than he remembers. They both have pasts that are hard to forget, but under the cloak of night,...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
USA TODAY bestselling authors Jillian Hart and Janet Tronstad will capture your heart with stories that celebrate the joys and excitement when you combine Christmas with mail-order weddings. Enjoy three romances of adventure and faith in one great bundle! A little girl longs for a new mother for Christmas so she convinces her single father to advertise for a mail-order wife, whose arrival offers them the chance to forge a real family. A would-be bride...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Fixing a family wasn’t the plan… But a father and son need her help. Hazel O’Brien is eager to settle in Iowa and start her mail-order marriage--but her chosen match has picked another bride! Scrambling for a way to support herself, Hazel is forced to take the job no one else in town wants: nanny to six-year-old menace Louie Murphy. Chasing after the pint-size troublemaker is not the future Hazel imagined, but she may be just what Louie and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Eight young women who are brought from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" in the early twentieth century and struggle to adapt to their new husbands, language, and culture and raise children who reject their heritage and history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Beautifully written, enduring stories of love. JODI THOMAS , New York Times bestselling author When the West was wild And man's law favored the few These extraordinary women could be found ..... in the heart of an outlaw. He may be a wanted man, but all outlaw Jack Bowdre ever desired was a second chance. Now he's on his way to jail, completely unaware that his unexpected and unexpectedly beautiful traveling companion is none other than Nora Kane...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
It all started with an ad in a mail-order bride catalogue ... Mary-Jo has traveled halfway across the country to meet her match, arriving just in time ... for his funeral. Returning home seems like her only option. Then her would-be brother-in-law proposes a more daring idea. An enchanting tale about a superstitious woman who is down on her luck, a needy boy whose luck has run out, and a lonely man. Readers will delight in this story, where faith...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Julianne Maxwell Is a Bride Without a Groom. Stranded in Seattle after her intended married another, the mail-order bride can't return to the troubled life she fled from. She has little choice but to marry the handsome logger who steps in to rescue her. And though Caleb Hansen is gentle and kind, Julianne can't trust him with the truth about her past. Caleb understands that Julianne needs a home, and he needs a mother for his orphaned infant nephew....
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When the West was wild And man's law favored the few These extraordinary women could be found ... in the heart of an outlaw. Former outlaw Clay Colby is abuzz with his mail order bride's expected arrival. He's fought long and hard to drag Devil's Crossing out of lawlessness ... so when his homestead is set ablaze by a bitter rival, he's heartbroken. There's no woman in the world who'd stand by him now. But Tally Shannon is no ordinary woman. After...
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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...
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After the disaster of his first marriage, Haydon Bowen has no intention of marrying again. Unfortunately, his brother has some intentions of his own, and plans to see to it that Haydon finds happiness once more. So he answers a "groom wanted" advertisement--in Haydon's name--and sends Haydon to meet his new bride at the stagecoach stop! For beautiful, cultured Rainelle Devonwood, any dangers she may face in the Idaho Territories are preferable to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Big Sky Brides Find a Family--and Love--This Christmas Christmas Hearts by Jillian Hart Thirteen-year-old Amelia longs for a new ma. Little George needs a father's guidance. For their children's sake, Cole Matheson and Mercy Jacobs agree on a businesslike marriage. But though Cole tries to keep his distance, Mercy offers the very thing he's stopped believing in -- the chance to forge a real family. Mistletoe Kiss in Dry Creek by Janet Tronstad "Passable...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
'So beautiful. You make it impossible to think.' He pulled her against him and found her mouth. 'You don't know how long I've wanted to do this.' When he let her up for air, she whispered as though she couldn't trust her voice, 'Is this another Texas custom?' 'Absolutely,' he growled. 'Welcome to Texas.' Rancher Cooper Thorne thinks his life is finally on an even keel-until Delta Dandridge steps off the stagecoach and claims she's his mail order bride....
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Irresistible romance meets thrilling suspense in this novella from USA Today best-selling novelist Colleen Coble. At the turn of the 20th century, Elli Korpela boarded The Baltic as a mail order bride. But the threat she thought she was escaping somehow followed her to America ... Escaping a forced engagement, Elli sought refuge in an arranged, mail-order marriage. Her betrothed is a Texan named Nathan White. As she glimpses her future husband and...
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