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"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...
2) Hope
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English
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Hope Kallahan falls in love with one of the outlaws who robbed her stagecoach, not knowing he is really an undercover government agent.
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Blue Willow brides volume 2
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English
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Set in 1880s Colorado, a mail order bride is full of doubts when another mail order bride arrives to marry the same man.
4) Patience
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English
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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.
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Covenant Communications, Inc
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English
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"Dorothy Bednar is living a life she despises. Forced to work as a double-dealing saloon girl, Dorothy has finally had enough. The next train out of town is her ticket to freedom, and Dorothy jumps aboard without a thought for where she's going--until she meets a kind woman aboard the train. Her fellow passenger was originally traveling to Colorado to marry a man she'd never met, but her cold feet offer Dorothy the perfect opportunity to set up roots...
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Bride ships volume 1
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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.
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2014
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English
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Jane Middlebourne needs a way out. In 1891, life in New York is unforgiving for a young woman with no prospects. So when Jane discovers an ad for a mail-order bride needed in Bitter Springs, Wyoming, she responds with a hopeful heart. Rancher Morgan Longstreet wants a wife and partner at Morning Star who will work beside him and stand by him. His first impression is that Jane is not that woman. But she sets out to prove him wrong ...
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Outlaw mail order brides volume 1
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English
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Former outlaw Clay Colby is abuzz with his mail order bride's expected arrival. He's fought long and hard to drag Devil's Crossing out of lawlessness ... so when his homestead is set ablaze by a bitter rival, he's heartbroken. There's no woman in the world who'd stand by him now. But Tally Shannon is no ordinary woman. After escaping the psychiatric hospital in which she was wrongfully detained, Tally only wants someone to protect her and the little...
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2018
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English
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"When those Jensen boys agree to lead a wagon of five mail-order brides across Texas, they're just asking for trouble. Pursued by a crazy ex-husband, an outlaw boyfriend, a creepy, woman-hungry clan of backwoodsmen, and a fierce, deadly band of Comanche kidnappers, it is one hard journey that could get them all killed"--
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Blue Willow brides volume 1
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English
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When Catharine Olsen leaves Holland for Wyoming as a mail-order bride, she brings some extra baggage with her: two sisters, her mother's set of Blue Willow china, and a tragic past. As she steps off the train, Peter Andersen is glad to see that she is everything her letters showed her to be. But he is a bit perturbed by her unexpected companions. How will he support them all? And what other secrets might Catharine be keeping from him? Filled with...
12) Faith
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Wanted: Women with religious upbringing, high morals, and a strong sense of adventure, willing to marry decent, God-fearing men. Applicants may apply by mail. Must allow at least two months for an answer. With the matrimonial prospects in her little Michigan town virtually nonexistent, nineteen-year-old Faith, along with her two sisters, Hope and June, answers an ad for mail-order brides. Before she knows it, shes on her way to Deliverance, Texas...
13) A bride at last
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"On the 1880s Kansas prairie, Silas and Kate both harbor resentment over their previous failed mail-order engagements, but when a young boy loses his mother and needs their help, they must attempt to move beyond past hurts and find healing together"--
14) Winter kill
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2010.
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English
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Frank Morgan, the last of a dying breed, sets off from the Pacific Northwest for Alaska---and into a raging blizzard of violence and death.
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2011.
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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.
16) June
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Lori Copeland continues her historical romance series, Brides of the West, with book 2, "June." As June leaves her Michigan home to become the mail-order bride of a Washington State preacher, readers will learn the important lesson that God is ever faithful, even when we don't understand his plan or purpose in our lives. "June" delivers a lighthearted, entertaining story along with strong moral values and a Christian worldview.Mail-order bride June...
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Dell
Pub. Date
1992.
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English
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Having lost her beloved husband, a whaling captain, to a watery grave, Molly Gallagher refuses to risk more heartbreak. Determined to keep her headstrong son from following in his fathers footsteps, she agrees to become the mail-order bride of a Montana country doctor. She tells her new husband that she can never give her love to another man; what she doesnt tell him is that she has a young daughter and a rebellious teenage son. Mollys...
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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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[Sarah plain and tall series] volume 1-3
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Harper Audio
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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Presents the three stories about mail-order bride Sarah and her life on the prairie with her new husband Jacob and stepchildren Anna and Caleb.
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