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Author
Pub. Date
2011
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.
2) Hope
Author
Series
Brides of the West volume 3
Language
English
Description
The best-selling Brides of the West series continues with book 3, Hope. Federal agent Dan Sullivan shelves his retirement to infiltrate a band of payroll thieves. But he didn't expect to meet stubborn mail-order bride Hope Kallahan, who gets kidnapped by the gang and held for ransom, or that she would be a veritable magnet for danger. As she intimidates hardened criminals into cleaning house and talks Dan into rescuing her, Dan believes God had a...
3) Patience
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the continuing story of mail-order brides in the successful Brides of the West series, Patience is abducted in a case of mistaken identity. But everything changes when she escapes her kidnapper and stumbles onto a gold mine. Can Patience make her fortune without losing her heart to Sheriff Jay Longer? Copeland's readers will delight in this rollicking story of romance and danger.
4) Glory
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Series
Language
English
Description
A sheltered mountain girl, Glory is forced to build a life on her own after her Poppy dies. With a bagful of gold and no change of clothes, she sets out in search of a new life. Far too naive for the cold world before her, she ends up on the run from a greedy uncle who wants her gold-and who will kill her to get it. She manages to latch on to a wagonneer named Jackson and a group of teenage mail order brides. In her travels and adventures, Glory grows...
5) Summer moon
Author
Language
English
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Description
RANCHER SEEKING WIFE
A newspaper ad is the desperately needed answer to Kate Whittington's prayers. Abandoned by her mother--the town tramp, raised in a bleak Maine orphanage, and a spinster without prospects, Kate dreams of a home and family of her own. Unfortunately, when she arrives to begin her new life, the man she believes she married by proxy denies placing the ad. He denies ever corresponding with or marrying her. Worse, he's a Texas Ranger...
6) Tempest
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When Regan Carmichael, his mail-order bride, arrives, widower Dr. Colton Lee, who is in need of someone to care for his daughter, gets more than he expected in this independent beauty who makes him believe in second chances.
Author
Series
Gulf Coast chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A fiesty young Frenchwoman gets more than she bargained for when she flees to the New World as a mail-order bride"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bo Creel and Scratch Morton aren't the settling down types. They're 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 young, or so Scratch tells Bo. But when they save the life of Cyrus Keegan--the owner of a matrimonial agency--they receive an unexpected proposal that's hard to resist. Keegan needs to deliver five mail order brides to a mining town in New...
10) Undercover bride
Author
Series
Undercover Ladies volume 2
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (320 pages)
Language
English
Description
Pinkerton detective Maggie Cartwright is tasked with going undercover as a mail order bride. Her "fiancé" is widower Garrett Thomas, aka the suspected Whistle-Stop Bandit. No sooner does Maggie arrive in Arizona Territory when she's confronted with an early wedding date-the clock is ticking on her detective work or she may end up a criminal's wife! As the day of the wedding draws near, Maggie begins to panic. The problem is that the more she...
Author
Series
Mountain dreams volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Leah Townsend, a recently orphaned heiress, flees Richmond after discovering her fiancé's plot to kill her after their wedding. Looking for a safe place to hide, she accepts a newspaper marriage proposal from a God-fearing young rancher in the Montana Territory. But when Leah arrives at the mountain ranch, she learns her intended husband was killed by a grizzly, leaving behind a bitter older brother and a spunky younger sister. Gideon Bryant's first...
12) Till death
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If anyone can get a shipment of brides to the church on time, its 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 roadblocks to the altar include a lecherous saloon owner, a lovesick sailor, and a gang of hired guns. And...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Caroline Fyffe
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Well-educated daughter of a lawyer, Trudy Bauer arrives at the St. Louis based Mail-Order Brides of the West agency full of excitement for an adventure of a lifetime. She befriends the agency's maid, Evie Davenport, and the two form a strong and lasting friendship. They vow to stay in contact through letters when Evie takes hold of her destiny and arranges a marriage on the sly. Each brave young woman is ready to face whatever an unknown groom...
15) Duncan's bride
Author
Series
Duncan and Evangeline volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
327 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
17) Montana bride
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Dell mass market edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
19) Married in black
Author
Publisher
Crossings Book Club
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Longing for a new start, Virginia takes a chance on a tall Texan seeking a mail-order bride"--Cover
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