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Author
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
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ernestine O'Reilly comes from Ireland to Texas as a mail-order bride, but when she meets the man she is supposed to marry, she ends up deciding to be a cowboy instead.
Author
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Reese Duncan lost half his ranch and all his dreams to his ex-wife, so when it came time for a family he did the logical thing: he advertised for a bride. She had to be willing to work, to bear his children and to settle for lovemaking in place of love. It sounded perfect--until Madelyn Patterson arrived. One look and he had to have her. Never mind that she was New York and nightlife to his own plain-spoken Montana ways. She was willing to herd cattle,...
Author
Publisher
Robert Hale, an imprint of the Crowood Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Anton Kozlov, a mountain man who wanted no part of trouble, had escaped Russia and made a life for himself living on and near Battle Mountain in Nevada. Anton is asked to do a 'favor' for a US Cavalry officer--to retrieve a mail order bride from a stage station and return her to the cavalryman. It sounds easy enough until Anton learns that the stage has broken down near a notorious nest of outlaws. Anton manages to rescue Lucy, the cavalry officer's...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mail-order bride: Gold River, Alaska, isn't your average town. After being jilted by her fianč, Caroline Myers ends up there--thanks to her matchmaking aunts, who send her on what appears to be a vacation. But Caroline didn't know that her well-meaning relatives had cooked up a scheme. Not surprisingly, they have something different in mind. Something that involves spending a snowy Christmas in ruggedly handsome Paul Trevor's home--as his Mail-Order...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the critically acclaimed author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart... Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions--like grief. And love. He thinks he's defective. His family knows better--that his autism means he just processes emotions...
10) Zandy's bride
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Zandy Allen invites his mail-order bride Hannah into his life on the ranch. He only wants an heir, but she wants a home and roots. He often mistreats his wife, until Hannah takes a stand, and Zandy must change to keep her.
11) Skylark
Author
Series
Sarah Plain and Tall volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sarah came to the prairie from Maine to marry Papa. But that summer, a drought turned the land dry and brown. Fires swept across the fields and coyotes came to the well in search of water. So Sarah took Anna and Caleb back east, where they would be safe. Papa stayed behind. He would not leave his land. Maine was beautiful, but Anna missed home, and Papa. And as the weeks went by, she began to wonder what would happen if the rains never came. Would...
12) Savage lands
Author
Publisher
Mariner
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In 1704 the French colony of Louisiana needs wives for the struggling settlers and Elisabeth and twenty-three other girls are dispatched to satisfy the request. The skeptical bride soon falls in love with her charismatic and ruthlessly ambitious soldier-husband, Jean-Claude, a passion which is shared by an abandoned cabin boy, Auguste, who has also fallen under the spell of the dashing Jean-Claude. When in time Jean-Claude betrays them both, the two...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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
Chapel Springs volume 2
Publisher
Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"With the success of her Operation Marriage Revival, life is good for Claire Bennett. That is, until the mayor's brother blabs a secret: Claire's nineteen-year-old son, Wes, has married a Brazilian mail-order bride -- one who is eight years older than him. When Claire tries to welcome her new daughter-in-law, she's ridiculed, rebuffed, and rejected. Loving this girl is like hugging a prickly cactus. Will Claire and her family survive her son's marriage?...
Author
Language
English
Description
When a young Korean girl known as Regret leaves her homeland for a better life in Hawaii, as a "picture bride," she expects to find prosperity and a chance at education. But the rich husband she is promised turns out to be a poor plantation worker with drinking and gambling problems, and the girl now known as Jin is forced to seek her own path. Joining with her fellow picture brides to start a business, Jin must shed her naieveté and overcome prejudice...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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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