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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The four McBride brothers have their worlds turned upside down when their precocious younger sister secretly places an advertisement for a mail-order bride. Kit McBride knows that Buck's Creek, Montana, is no place to find a wife. Between him and his three brothers-plus little Junebug-they manage all right on their own, thank you very much. But unbeknownst to Kit, his sister is sick to death of cleaning, cooking, and mending for her big brothers,...
Author
Series
Kiss quotient novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
4) Faith
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Author
Series
Outlaw mail order brides volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 escaping the psychiatric hospital in which she was wrongfully detained, Tally only wants someone to protect her and the little...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When they agree to escort five mail order brides to San Angelo, Texas, Ace and Chance Jensen must defend the ladies against a defrauded outlaw, a crazy ex-husband, Comanche kidnappers, and a clan of woman-hungry backwoodsmen.
Author
Series
Blue willow brides volume 3
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Sparks fly when a free-spirited young woman agrees to be a mail-order bride in order to escape the drudgery of farm life--and gets more than she bargained for.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The McBride brothers are in for another matrimonial surprise when an enterprising woman answers their little sister's mail order bride advertisement in this laugh-out-loud historical romance. As the oldest of the McBride siblings, Morgan had to be protector and shepherd since Ma died and Pa ran off. It hasn't always been easy, especially when his heart longs to roam on the trail. But now that his brother Kit is married and settled, the time is right...
11) Glory
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Author
Series
Amish mail-order bride novels volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Prepare for a double dose of romance and fun in this first installment of the Amish Mail-Order Bride series when two sets of twins find love"--
Identical brothers Zeb and Zeke Bontrager 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 Zeke's bad decisions, hidden debts, and tendency to avoid responsibility threaten their good standing in the Birch Creek Amish...
16) Heartbreak Creek
Author
Series
Runaway brides (Kaki Warner) volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Author
Series
Blue willow brides volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Set in 1880s Colorado, a mail order bride is full of doubts when another mail order bride arrives to marry the same man.
18) A time to love
Author
Series
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"After her long-awaited wedding day ends in disaster, Linda Forrest wonders whether she will ever be happy again. Seeing Blake Barrett's ad for a mail order bride gives her hope that, with God's help, she may still find a time to love." - Back cover.
Author
Series
Blue willow brides volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
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. His mother, however, is not. When she begins a campaign to sabotage...
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