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Language
English
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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...
2) Inheritance
Author
Series
Lost bride trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Midnight sons volume 1
Language
English
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Hard Luck, Alaska. Location: north of the Arctic Circle. Population: 150 (mostly men!) But the three O'Halloran brothers, who run a bush-plane charter service called Midnight Sons, are heading a campaign to bring women to town. Sawyer O'Halloran, the middle brother, isn't entirely in favor of this scheme. But he considers himself immune to any woman -- even the lovely Abbey Sutherland. She's arriving in Alaska within days. However, there's a complication......
Author
Series
Kiss quotient novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief. Rather than believing he processes emotions differently due to being autistic, he concludes that he's defective and decides to avoid romantic relationships. So his mother, driven to desperation, takes matters into her own hands and returns to...
5) Syrian bride
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Arabic
Description
Shot on location in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the Syrian bride is a powerful film about physical, mental and emotional borders and the courage it takes to cross them.
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award
Children's Awards: Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award
Description
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
Author
Series
Blossom street novels volume 11
Language
English
Description
"Wedding bells are ringing in the community that gathers around Seattle's charming knitting shop, A Good Yarn. Lauren Elliott has waited years for her boyfriend, Todd, to propose. Knowing she can't put her future on hold, Lauren prepares to make a bold choice. Newly married to her second husband, Max, Bethanne Scranton is blissfully in love, but her cunning ex will do anything to win her back. Lydia Goetz, too, is wonderfully happy with her husband,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Winter Island, off the coast of Southern California. Evangeline grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of marijuana, Winter Wonderland. Tomorrow Evie is getting married-- but on the eve of the wedding a dead whale becomes lodged in the bay; the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother shows up out of the blue."--Provided by publisher.
13) Bride Flight
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Nederlands
Description
Bride Flight is a lavish romantic drama that charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-WWII Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, the shy but sensual farm girl, Marjorie, who dreams of a big family, and Esther, a Holocaust survivor who aspires to be a fashion designer, become fast friends during the long flight taking them to their waiting husbands, who have already settled in Christchurch.
Publisher
Poh Kim Video Pte. Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Korean
Description
In ancient times, Kim Shin is an unbeatable general in wars, but the young King is jealous of Kim Shin and kills him. Kim Shin becomes Dokkaebi, possessing an immortal life. At first, he thinks that he is blessed, but he realizes that he is cursed. Closer to the present day, Kim Shin has waited 900 years for a human bride to end his immortal life. One night, he saves a dying pregnant woman who is destined to die. Meanwhile, the Grim Reaper is unable...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"'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...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Freya Scott's wedding to Matthew is the first of eight in her calendar this year. As someone who prides herself on being meticulously organized, Freya is intent on making it the perfect day to remember. When Matthew calls things off only hours before they walk down the aisle, the heartbroken Freya does not want to attend a summer of other peoples' nuptials. Her friends devise a series of challenges for Freya to complete at each event, designed to...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Victor has messed up his vows during a wedding rehearsal, and is traveling through the woods, reciting his vows. He stops to rest in the woods, and while practicing. He finally gets them right and ceremoniously puts the wedding ring on a finger-shaped stick in the ground and says his wedding vows. The stick turns out to be a rotted finger belonging to a murdered girl who has returned as a zombie and insists that she is now Victor's lawfully wedded...
Author
Series
McKettrick romances volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
After his father declares that the first of his sons to marry and produce a child will inherit his ranch, Rafe McKettrick finds himself beguiled by Emmeline Harding, his mail-order bride, despite the secrets he senses she hides.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job -- usually. But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, a diva whose tantrums are just about as crazy as her demands. But the unpleasant task at hand turns serously criminal when Carrie is brutally murdered and everyone involved with the ceremony is accusing one another of doing the deed." -- Dust jacket..
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