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Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Chaperones, suitors, and arranged marriages aren't only reserved for the heroines of a Jane Austen novel. They're just another walk in the park for this leading lady, who is on a mission to find her leading lad. From the brilliant comics Yes, I'm Hot in This, Huda Fahmy tells the hilarious story of how she met and married her husband. Navigating mismatched suitors, gossiping aunties, and societal expectations for Muslim women, That Can Be Arranged...
Author
Series
Regency vows volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Viscount Penvale has been working for years to buy back his ancestral home, Trethwick Abbey, from his estranged uncle. And so he's thrilled when his uncle announces that he is ready to sell but with one major caveat -- Penvale must marry his uncle's ward, Jane Spencer. When the two meet in London, neither is terribly impressed. Penvale finds Jane headstrong and sharp-tongued. Jane finds him cold and aloof. Nevertheless, they agree to a marriage in...
Author
Language
English
Description
Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel's salvation is their maid Adelle's belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle's daughter. But Rachel's life is not...
164) The tree bride
Author
Publisher
Theia
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to reconcile with her estranged husband, Tara Chatterjee relates the story of an East Bengali ancestor who married a tree at the age of five and who grew up to be a nationalist freedom fighter against the British Raj.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The roguish, yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa, steals his ship the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal, kidnapping the governor's daughter, Elizabeth. In a gallant attempt to rescue her and recapture the Black Pearl, Elizabeth's childhood friend Will Turner joins forces with Jack. What Will doesn't know is that a cursed treasure has doomed Barbossa and his...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1661 France, seventeen-year-old Henriette of England must navigate her arranged marriage to Louis XIV's brother while keeping her magical abilities a careful secret from all at the Sun King's court. Includes historical note.
Paris, 1661. Exiled in France, Henriette of England wishes she could use her magic to gain entry at the court Louis XIV, the Sun King. Instead she must hide her magical talents, and accept an arranged marriage to the French...
168) How to wed a baron
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Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
He is but a pawn in someone else's game. With no choice but to do the prince regent's bidding, Justin Wilde must marry--marry!--a woman not of his own choosing. And for the man notoriously referred to as the Bad Baron, marriage is the last thing he wishes to consider. Especially when the bride has the beauty of an angel but the devil's own temper.... Stunned to find herself married to a stranger, Alina vows to uncover the reason behind their forced...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After a synthetic hormone in beef kills fifty million American women, seventeen-year-old Avie struggles for a normal life in a world where teenaged girls are a valuable commodity, but when her father contracts her to marry a rich, older man, Avie decides to run away with her childhood friend and revolutionary, Yates.
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Though Miyo managed to escape Usui after Kiyoka came to her aid, the Gifted Communion continues to gain power and influence against Japan. Forseeing that Usui and his organization will make another attempt to capture Miyo, Crown Princes Takaihito proposes that she and Kiyoka shelter with him in the Imperial Palace. But as Miyo adjusts to her new surroundings, she is taken aback by her feelings for Kiyoka, which have only intensified since her rescue....
Author
Series
Adrian x Isolde volume 1
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"In order to end a years-long war between vampires and mortals, Isolde must wed vampire king Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev. But surviving the vampire court doesn't prove to be nearly as difficult as resisting the intense attraction between her and Adrian"--
173) A bride's story: 2
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2011-
Language
English
Description
As she and her husband adjust to their arranged marriage, Amir strives to find her role as she settles into a new life and a new home in a society quick to define that role for her.
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Charming, wealthy and wickedly handsome, Oliver 'Beau' Blackthorn has it all...except revenge on the enemy he can't forget. Now the opportunity for retribution has fallen into his hands. But his success hinges on Lady Chelsea Mills-Beckman--the one woman with the power to distract him from his quest. Desperate to escape her family's control, Lady Chelsea seizes the chance to run off with the notorious eldest Blackthorn brother, knowing she's only...
175) A bride's story: 6
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2011-
Language
English
Description
As she and her husband adjust to their arranged marriage, Amir strives to find her role as she settles into a new life and a new home in a society quick to define that role for her.
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Series
Language
English
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Overview: "I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known-and I will be Queen of England." Thus, bestselling author Philippa Gregory introduces one of her most unforgettable heroines: Katherine of Aragon. Known to history as the Queen who was pushed off her throne by Anne Boleyn, here is a Katherine the world has forgotten: the enchanting princess that all England loved. First married to Henry VIII's...
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