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Set in a small Wisconsin farming and manufacturing town still crumbling a decade after the depression of the 1890s, A Reliable Wife tells the story of Ralph Truitt, a wealthy businessman who advertises for "a reliable wife" in newspapers across America. The woman he chooses, Catherine Land, describes herself as "a simple, honest woman," but in truth she is both complex and devious-not the missionary's daughter she claims to be in her letter to Truitt...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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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.
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Outlaw mail order brides volume 3
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English
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When the West was wild and man's law favored the few, these extraordinary women could be found...in the heart of an outlaw.
When three young children show up on outlaw Tait Trinity's doorstep, he knows he can't help them-a wanted man has no business raising kids. And yet he can't bring himself to turn them away. At a loss, he sends for the mail order bride he'd been writing to, hoping the demure dressmaker will be the answer to his prayers.
Melanie...
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Match made in Texas volume 1
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Welcome to Two-Time Texas: Where tempers burn hot, Love runs deep, And a single marriage can unite a feuding town...or tear it apart for good! In the wild and untamed West, time is set by the local jeweler...but Two-Time Texas has two: two feuding jewelers and two wildly conflicting time zones. Meg Lockwood's marriage was supposed to unite the families and finally bring peace. But when she's left at the altar by her no-good fiancé, Meg's dreams of...
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Outlaw mail order brides volume 2
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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...his mail order bride.
It's too bad Nora doesn't know Jack is her groom-to-be. All she sees is...
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JOHNSTONE. WHERE IT'S NEVER QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
In this rollicking new series, the Johnstones cordially invite you to the biggest, baddest event of the season-one that gives a whole new meaning to "shotgun wedding" . . .
Here come the brides. And the bullets . . .
Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are lifelong drifters who keep one eye on the horizon, one finger on the trigger, and one foot out the door. Roaming the West is what keeps them...
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Texas dreams volume 1
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The future stretches out in front of Sarah Dobbs like the pure blue Texas sky. Leaving the past behind in Philadelphia, mail-order bride Sarah arrives in San Antonio ready to greet her groom, Austin Canfield, a man she has never met but whose letters have won her heart from afar. But there is one problem--he has died. And Sarah cannot go back East. As Sarah tries to reconcile herself to a future that is drastically changed, Austin's brother, Clay,...
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Those Jensen boys volume 4
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William W. Johnstone.
Keeping the West Wild.
Those Jensen boys, Ace and Chance, know how to ride the savage land. But when they agree to lead a wagon full of women across Texas, they're just asking for trouble-times five . . .
FIVE MAIL-ORDER BRIDES
A prostitute. A virgin. A tomboy. A woman on the run. And a bank robber's girlfriend. These five brides-to-be are ready to get hitched in San Angelo, Texas-and it's Ace and Chance's job to get them...
10) Keeping guard
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Operation K-9 brothers volume 2
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Finding the future they deserve will mean leaving the past behind…
Navy SEAL Noah Alba is on extended leave after a terrible mistake resulted in the loss of his K-9 partner. He arrives in Asheville, North Carolina, hoping to get his head on straight before he returns overseas. When an old friend recruits him to train service dogs for veterans, he doesn’t feel ready. Still, rambunctious rescue dog Lucky is awfully hard to resist—as is the drop-dead...
11) Bride wanted
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Thorndike/Chivers
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When Alaskan Chase Goodwin advertises for a bride on a billboard, Lesley Campbell responds.
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Cavensham heiresses volume 3
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One of Book Riot's "9 Not-To-Be-Missed Romances Hitting the Shelves this Summer" Can a woman who's down on her luck find love with a dashing Duke-to-be? Find out in The Luck of the Bride, the next Regency romance in the Cavensham Heiresses series from Janna MacGregor. She's leaving nothing up to chance. Not even love...March Lawson is an orphan who, for the past eight years, has struggled to raise her siblings on a meager allowance. Most women March's...
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Lone star brides volume 1
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"In the first of the LONE STAR BRIDES series, featuring 1890s Denver, Colorado, and Texas, Marty and Jake agreed to a marriage of convenience only. But when love starts to soften their hearts, will they come to a different arrangement?"-- Publisher.
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Outlaw mail order brides volume 4
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When he meets prison inmate Adeline Jancy through correspondence and then in person, outlaw and ex-preacher Ridge Steele realizes she is the woman for him, but then her past catches up with her, threatening to destroy their future together.
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April 1906: Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant who answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. Then a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. Sophie discovers hidden ties to two other women. The fates of these three women intertwine on the eve of the devastating San Francisco earthquake, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and, ultimately,...
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Heather Wells mysteries volume 5
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Heather Wells is used to having her cake and eating it too, but this time she may be out of luck. Her cake's gone missing - along with the wedding planner she's hired for her upcoming nuptials to hunky P.I. Cooper Cartwright. But Heather's got even bigger problems: a pretty freshman has turned up dead after an all-night back-to-school rager, and every student in the dorm where Heather works is a possible suspect.
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Abigail Baskin never thought she'd fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. But right before the wedding, Abigail has a drunken one-night stand on her bachelorette weekend. She puts the incident out of her mind, and now believes she wants to be with Bruce for the rest of her life. Then the mysterious stranger suddenly appears--and Abigail's future life and happiness are turned upside down. He insists that their passionate night was...
19) Reckless fortune
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Fortunes of Lost Lake volume 2
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Berkley Romance
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English
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Dared by his sister to participate in a mail-order bride contest, Alaskan bush pilot Bowie Fortune doesn't back down from a challenge until he meets Autumn McCall who, making him want the last thing he knows he shouldn't, intends to win the contest by any means necessary.
20) Inheritance
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Lost bride trilogy volume 1
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English
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"Inheritance is the first in The Lost Bride Trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts--a tale of tragedies, loves found and lost, and a family haunted for generations. 1806: Astrid Poole sits in her bridal clothes, overwhelmed with happiness. But before her marriage can be consummated, she is murdered, and the circle of gold torn from her finger. Her last words are a promise to Collin never to leave him... Graphic designer Sonya...
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