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1) Honolulu
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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Best-selling author Alan Brennert blends history and fiction to showcase Hawaii's dynamic past in this captivating novel. Set in the 1920s and 1930s, Honolulu explores the stark contrast between the image of the glamorous Hawaiian paradise portrayed to the mainland and the harsh reality of life on the island. With characters as vivid and richly descriptive as the history of Hawaii itself, this novel is sure to enthrall listeners.
2) Tempest
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Old West series volume 3
Language
English
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Dr. Colton Lee, a physician in the Wyoming Territory, discovers that his mail-order bride is not only a competent and independent frontierswoman, but a good shot as well
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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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English
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"When the world is brought to a standstill in the early days of a global pandemic, Etta Wilmont finds herself suddenly stranded in Kansas City. Desperate to secure a roof over her head, Etta crosses paths with Henry Logan, a lonely older man in need of a caretaker. His invitation for Etta to stay with him seems to be the solution to both their problems--and maybe the spontaneous adventure Etta's life has been missing. As Etta and Henry settle into...
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Colorado cowboys (Jody Hedlund) volume 1
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English
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"When Greta Nilsson heads west to save her ailing sister, bandits hold up her stagecoach. Upon arrival, she learns that the man who ordered her as a mail order bride has died. Wyatt McQuaid is struggling with his new ranch and agrees to marry Greta after a bargain with the mayor. Can this union born of desperation survive?"--Provided by publisher
10) Texas bride
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Miranda Wentworth never imagined becoming a mail-order bride. Now it's her only hope of finding a home where she and her two younger brothers can escape the brutality of a Chicago orphanage. But Miranda has one gigantic concern: her husband-to-be, Jake Creed, knows nothing about the brothers she's bringing along.
11) Heartbreak Ceek
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2012, ©2011
Language
English
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Edwina Ladoux answers an ad for a mail-order bride and journeys with her half-sister, Prudence, to the tiny town of Heartbreak Creek, Colo., to meet her new husband, widower Declan Brodie. The two soon fall in love. However, things turn deadly when Lone Tree, an Arapaho with a grudge against Declan, decides to get his revenge via Edwina
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English
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In 1862, Mercy escapes a bleak future in London and joins a bride ship. Wealthy and titled, Joseph becomes the ship's surgeon to avoid the pain of losing his family. He has no intention of settling down, but when Mercy becomes his assistant, they must fight against a forbidden love
1862. After facing desperate heartache and loss in the London slums, Mercy agrees to join a bride ship, the Tynemouth. Wealthy and titled, Joseph takes to the sea as the...
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Bride ships volume 3
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English
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Unemployed and struggling with grief, Zoe Hart leaves England on a bride ship to British Columbia. Her brother fled there when falsely accused of a drastic crime. Pastor Abe Merivale discovers an abandoned native baby during a visit to Victoria, and is forced to choose between the strict rules of his bishop and listening to God's nudges to care for his people. To protect Zoe from an unsavory marriage, he offers his own hand instead. They hastily marry,...
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Runaway brides (Amy Sandas) volume 2
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English
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Courtney Adams never questioned the future her parents laid out for her...until the day she was to marry one of Boston's elite. Desperate, she flees the church in a flurry of bridal finery and trades her pearls for a train ticket to Montana--only to be mistaken for a surly cowboy's mail order bride! Dean Lawton doesn't want a wife--especially not some fancy Eastern lady he believes his brother "ordered" behind his back. Yet one mistake leads to another,...
15) Unbridled cowboy
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Four corners ranch volume 1
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English
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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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English
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"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...
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English
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"For Clara Bixby, brokering mail-order brides is a golden business opportunity--and a desperately needed chance to start again. If she can help New York women find husbands in a far-off Nebraska town, she can build an independent new life away from her own loss and grief. Clara's ambitions are shared by two other women, who are also willing to take any risk. Quiet immigrant Elsa hopes to escape her life of servitude and at last shape her own destiny....
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Outlaw mail order brides volume 3
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English
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"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 Dunbar is nothing like the bride Tait was expecting. She's rough and tumble...and hiding an ulterior motive. Dangerous...
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English
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Historical and modern romance stories intertwined to tell the story of Kenworthy, California -- once a Gold Rush town and now a ghost town
1902. Arriving at Kenworthy, California, mail-order-bride Juniper Cohen was met by the pounding of the gold mine, the rowdiness of its prospectors, and her greatest surprise of all: the love of the kind man who awaited her. When the mine proves empty of profit Juniper's husband vanishes, and the pioneers flee...
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Amish mail-order bride novels volume 1
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English
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"Prepare for a double dose of romance and fun in this first installment of the Amish Mail-Order Bride series when two sets of twins find love"--
Identical brothers Zeb and Zeke Bontrager have their hands full with a new horse farm, a half-finished ranch house, and a wild colt, thanks to Zeke's hasty business dealings. Now Zeke's bad decisions, hidden debts, and tendency to avoid responsibility threaten their good standing in the Birch Creek Amish...
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