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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.
2) Caraval
Author
Series
Caraval volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Believing that she will never be allowed to participate in the annual Caraval performance when her ruthless father arranges her marriage, Scarlett receives the invitation she has always dreamed of before her sister, Tella, is kidnapped by the show's mastermind organizer.
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophie wants to escape and when Gabe arrives she claims to be married to his older brother, but Gabe is attracted to Sophie.
Author
Series
Flame in the mist volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long known her place. She may be an accomplished alchemist, whose cunning rivals that of her twin brother Kenshin, but because she is not a boy, her future has always been out of her hands.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Jane Eyre and Rebecca--The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea in which a young woman follows her new husband to his remote home on the Icelandic coast in the 1680s, where she faces dark secrets surrounding the death of his first wife amidst a foreboding landscape and the superstitions of the local villagers.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn't want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid, who is just as smart and handsome as he...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Desperate to escape his mother's matchmaking, Vincent Hunt, Viscount Darleigh, flees to a remote country village. But even there, another marital trap is sprung. So when Miss Sophia Fry's intervention on his behalf finds her unceremoniously booted from her guardian's home, Vincent is compelled to act. He may have been blinded in battle, but he can see a solution to both their problems: marriage. At first, quiet, unassuming Sophia rejects Vincent's...
9) Lady be bad
Author
Series
The Duke's daughters volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
NAMED ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST ROMANCES OF THE MONTH!
Once upon a time, a duke had five daughters who never made a stir. They practiced their French, their pianoforte, and their dancing...until one ran off with the dancing instructor, and the rest were left to face the scandal.
Lady Eleanor, the Duke of Marymount's eldest daughter, knows the burden is hers: she must marry well to restore the family name. So a loveless
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Coming to America on a scholarship, Mili Rathod, who has been bound by marriage since she was four years old to a man she has never met, is drawn into the world of her husband's playboy filmmaker brother who has been sent across the world to keep an eye on her.
Author
Series
Amish fairytale volume 1
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Adam Herschberger, who is known simply as The Beast, offers her a deal--marry him and her family can keep their farm--Annabell Beiler, to be a dutiful Amish daughter, agrees to his proposal and vows to break through his icy reserve.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death, seventeen-year-olds Sahar and Nasrin love each other in secret until Nasrin's parents announce their daughter's arranged marriage and Sahar proposes a drastic solution.
14) The caged graves
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Returning to her hometown of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1867 to marry a man she has never met, seventeen-year-old Verity Boone gets caught up in the a mystery surrounding the graves of her mother and aunt and a dangerous hunt for Revolutionary-era gold.
15) The woodlanders
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Love and the erratic heart are at the center of Hardy's story. Set in the beautiful Blackmoor Vale, The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-to-do Grace Melbury is challenged by the arrival of the dashing and dissolute doctor, Edred Fitzpiers. When the mysterious Felice Charmond further complicates the romantic entanglements, marital choice and class mobility become inextricably linked.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Princess Annika has lived a life of comfort -- but no amount of luxuries can change the fact that her life isn't her own to control. The king, once her loving father, has gone cold, and Annika will soon be forced into a loveless marriage for political gain. Miles away, small comforts are few and far between for Lennox. He has devoted his life to the Dahrainian army, hoping to one day help them reclaim the throne that was stolen from them. For Lennox,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Zoya Sahni has a great education, a fulfilling job and a loving family (for the most part). But she is not the perfect Indian girl. She's overweight, spunky and dark-skinned in a world that prizes the slim, obedient and fair. At 26 she is hurtling toward her expiration date in Mumbai's arranged marriage super-mart, but when her auntie's matchmaking radar hones in on the Holy Grail of suitors--just as Zoya gets a dream job offer in New York City--the...
Author
Series
Weekday brides volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blake Harrison: Rich, titled, and charming...and in need of a wife by Wednesday. Blake turns to Sam Elliot, who isn't the businessman he expected. Instead, Blake is faced with Samantha Elliot, beautiful and feisty with a voice men call 1-900 numbers to hear.
20) Evanly bodies
Author
Series
Constable Evans mysteries volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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