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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
To escape from a planned arranged marriage, teenaged Cat Hunter disguises herself as a boy and stows away on a smuggler's airship where she discovers a world of excitement and adventure.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Princess Rory Thorne must use the fairy blessings gifted to her at birth to change the multiverse--or possibly destroy it. How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse is a feminist reimagining of familiar fairytale tropes and a story of resistance and self-determination--how small acts of rebellion can lead a princess to not just save herself, but change the course of history.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To Leila Abid s traditional Indian parents, finding a husband is as easy as match, meet, marry. Yes, she wants to marry, but after 26 years of singledom, even Leila is starting to get nervous. And to make matters worse, her parents are panicking, the neighbors are talking, and she s wondering, are her expectations just too high? But for Leila, a marriage of arrangement clashes with her lifelong dreams of a Bollywood romance, where real love happens...
46) Our wayward fate
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ali is simultaneously swept up in a whirlwind romance and down a rabbit hole of family secrets when another Taiwanese family moves into tiny, predominantly-white, Plainhart, Indiana.
Author
Series
Trapped romances volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When her grandfather decrees that she marry Ivor Chalfont to forge a powerful alliance between two warring families, Ariadne Fairfax, who is in love with another, becomes trapped in a marriage of convenience with a man who vows to prove that he is the one she should love.
48) Tidewater bride
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Virginia Colony's most eligible woman is busy matchmaking for a ship of brides, though she has no interest in finding her own mate. Will she reconsider when new revelations about the colony's most eligible landowner come to light?"--
1634. There are too many men and far too few women in James Towne. Selah Hopewell already has her hands full assisting her father in the family's shop. She has no wish to wed-- but she's put in charge of an incoming...
Author
Series
Regency vows volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Regency Vows series that is 'sure to delight Bridgerton fans' (USA TODAY) returns with this story about a viscount and his irascible new wife who hopes to chase her husband from their shared home so that she can finally get some peace and quiet--only to find that his company is not as onerous as she thought. Viscount Penvale has been working for years to buy back his ancestral home, Trethwick Abbey, from his estranged uncle. And so he's thrilled...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"On the run from an arranged marriage, Princess Annabella of Monesta dons the guise of a hitchhiking cowgirl. But when she finds herself drenched, alone, and hungry, she has no choice but to trust the tall Texas horse whisperer who offers her a ride..." --P. [4] of cover.
51) The loner
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tanner Everett spends most of his time jet-setting around the world. But that hasn't stopped innocent Stasie Bolton, the daughter of a neighboring rancher, from falling head-over-heels for the jet-setting playboy. So Stasie is secretly thrilled when her father proposes linking the properties in matrimony...which means Tanner will be hers, for good. Despite his globetrotting ways, Tanner can't help but be enthralled by the quiet girl next door. But...
52) The emerald sea
Author
Series
Glittering Court volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"Tamsin Wright is unstoppable. She must become the Glittering Court's diamond: the girl with the highest test scores, the most glamorous wardrobe, and the greatest opportunities to match with an elite suitor in the New World. Training alongside other girls in the Glittering Court, Tamsin immerses herself completely in lessons about etiquette, history, and music--everything a high-society wife would need to know. Once she's married, she'll be able...
Author
Series
Traitor's trilogy (Erin Beaty) volume 2
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Training completed, and comfortably situated as the royal tutor, the spy Sage Fowler only longs to be reunited with her betrothed: Captain Alex Quinn. As a way to be near to him again, she accepts a secret mission only to continuously clash with Quinn's gruff demeanor, until they are separated and she ends up in enemy territory.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2019 Orange Book Prize, The Impatients is a powerful novel about three women living in Cameroon who have grown impatient with the unrelenting oppression-patriarchy, polygamy, and the perpetual cry for patience-that dominates their lives"--
Author
Series
Montgomery brothers volume 9
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two people who have spent most of their lives being rivals...Learn a little something about following their hearts...Carter Montgomery broke the family mold when he went to culinary school. Now a successful restauranteur, he's at a crossroads: should he continue on his successful path or look for a new challenge? What he needs is time alone to think things through. But his matchmaking family has other ideas...Emery Monaghan's no-good fiancé has...
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Escaping from an arranged marriage, sixteen-year-old Khadija finds an unlikely ally in a poor young glassmaker's apprentice, and as a deadly revolution exploits forbidden magic, threatening their friendship, they must choose what kind of world they want to live in.
57) Cake eater
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the year 3070, App sensation, style icon, and social influencer Marie Antoinette arrives in Versailles to marry Louis-Auguste and together, after witnessing people outside of their gilded world suffering and starving, risk everything to set things right.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1929 Seattle, grifter Dolly White applies for a job as a minder to the wealthy Fiona Earnshow, to keep her out of trouble until she can marry the man her father selected. But Dolly is working with powerful magic to protect the shifters in Seattle from a powerful, misogynistic scion.
Author
Series
Barbara Devane novels volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set against the intrigues of the French court in the early 1700's and the South Sea Bubble venture, this is the story of a headstrong young woman who is determined to marry a man clearly not right for her, a man whose romantic and sexual past will come back to haunt the girl he marries.
Author
Series
Adrian X Isolde volume 1
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In order to end a years-long war between vampires and mortals, Isolde must wed vampire king Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev. But surviving the vampire court doesn't prove to be nearly as difficult as resisting the intense attraction between her and Adrian"--
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