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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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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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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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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...
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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.
10) Reckless fortune
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Fortunes of Lost Lake volume 2
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Berkley Romance
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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.
11) Unbridled cowboy
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Four corners ranch volume 1
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"Cowboy Sawyer Garrett has no intention of settling down. But when he becomes a single dad to tiny baby June, stepping up to the responsibility is nonnegotiable. And so is finding a woman to be a mother to his infant daughter. So he decides to do it the way the pioneers did: by putting out an ad for a mail-order bride. Evelyn Moore can't believe she's agreed to uproot her city life to marry a stranger in Oregon. But having escaped one near-disastrous...
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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Chief Red Claw's Comanche renegades, supplied with Springfield rifles by a greedy gunrunning outfit, are terrorizing settlers, burning, looting and killing. In desperation, the army rehires former trail scout Clay Coleman, a man they once booted out. On the trail, Clay rescues a mail order bride from a Comanche war party, then catches up with his old saddle partner Shoshone Sam. Together, the two scouts match their wits and guns against Comanche warriors...
13) Till death
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"If anyone can get a shipment of brides to the church on time, it's Bo Creel and Scratch Morton. But this time, they'll have to cross hell and high water to escort four marriage-bound beauties to a remote gold mining town in Alaska. The brides-to-be include a dangerously attractive widow, her sweet-hearted niece, and two of their friends. The road blocks to the altar include a lecherous saloon owner, a lovesick sailor, and a gang of hired guns. And...
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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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A bright future awaits the women of courage and faith who boldly chase their dreams across the wide-open Montana Territory, prepared to embrace adventure and forge their own destinies... When French immigrant Zoe de Fleur is forced out of her position as a household cook for a high society New Yorker, the pretty and talented chef seizes an unexpected chance to head west for a new beginning. She pursues what she thinks is a prestigious job in the frontier's...
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Forge
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"'Your husband is a landowner,' they told her. 'Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees. 'You will be able to go to school.' Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams for this new life are shattered, first by a husband who...
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Berkley Prime Crime
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"Lizzie Hale thought mail-order brides existed only between the pages of the historical romances she stocks in her bookstore, Love Under the Covers. But when not one, but two local men introduce her to their respective new wives, she's forced to reevaluate that notion. Lizzie is surprised when Al Little, the owner of the local hardware store, asks Lizzie and her aunt Charmaine to help Svetlana, his new bride straight from Russia, to settle into Tinker's...
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"Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are mighty proud of themselves. They managed to deliver five mail-order brides to the New Mexico mining town of Silverhill in one piece. The town is so grateful, they want to make Bo their marshal and Scratch his deputy. Since they don't have another cargo of brides to escort, Bo and Scratch are happy to accept the jobs - and even happier to attend the weddings of the fine young women they brought here ... As it turns...
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