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2013., General, Harlequin Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "A Royal Groom.... Prince Stefano Giorgio Paolo is the kind of man most women only dream of marrying. And now the very handsome--and very eligible--bachelor has arrived in America to search for a bride. A Bride Not-To-Be... Hope Jordan's prince has finally come--but there's no happy ending in sight. Her royal suitor needs a wealthy wife to save his country from ruin. And Hope has nothing to offer Stefano--except her love. A Dutiful Marriage?... Hope Jordan is the first woman to capture Stefano's heart--but can he give up his kingdom for love? For Hope?"--OverDrive.
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By Hoang, Helen2019., Jove Call No: Fic Hoa Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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 Vietnam to find him the perfect mail-order bride. As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. When the opportunity to marry an American arises, she leaps at it, thinking that it could be the break her family needs. Seducing Khai, however, doesn't go as planned. Esme's lessons in love seem to be working...but only on herself. She's hopelessly smitten with a man who believes he can never return her affection. Esme must convince Khai that there is more than one way to love. And Khai must figure out the inner workings of his heart before Esme goes home and is an ocean away"--
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c2011., General, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Ots Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In six unforgettable, incantatory sections, the novel traces their new lives as "icture brides": the arduous voyage by boat, where the girls trade photos of their husbands and imagine uncertain futures in an unknown land ... their arrival in San Francisco and the tremulous first nights with their new husbands ... backbreaking toil as migrant workers in the fields and in the homes of white women ... the struggle to learn a new language and culture ... giving birth and raising children who come to reject their heritage . . . and, finally, the arrival of war, and the agonizing prospect of their internment.
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c2011., General, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: In six unforgettable, incantatory sections, the novel traces their new lives as "icture brides": the arduous voyage by boat, where the girls trade photos of their husbands and imagine uncertain futures in an unknown land ... their arrival in San Francisco and the tremulous first nights with their new husbands ... backbreaking toil as migrant workers in the fields and in the homes of white women ... the struggle to learn a new language and culture ... giving birth and raising children who come to reject their heritage . . . and, finally, the arrival of war, and the agonizing prospect of their internment.
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[2012]., [Distributed by] MPI Media Group, : [Distributed by] MPI Media Group Call No: SC DVD Fic Decoy Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When the world's media descend on the remote Scottish Island where a Hollywood actress is attempting to get married, a local girl is hired as a decoy bride to put the paparazzi off the scent.
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[2021]., William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: MYS Fic Swa Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A new bride's idyllic honeymoon becomes a nightmare when a man from a recent one-night stand shows up in this electrifying psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of Eight Perfect Murders"--
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Call No: Bio L865p1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Pat is a survivor of the London Blitz, a war bride, and a world traveller.
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Call No: Bio L865p2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Pat is a survivor of the London Blitz, a war bride, and a world traveller.
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(2005, p1940)., General, Distributed by Warner Home Video, : Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Philadelphia S Edition: Two-disc special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A sophisticated screwball comedy, rife with smart dialogue, the Philadelphia Story centers on the society event of the season: the second marriage of icy, judgmental, moneyed socialite Tracy Lord to nouveau riche George Kittredge. Her first husband, suave and devilish C.K. Dexter Haven, complicates matters by finagling wedding invitations for incognito reporter Mike Connor and his photographer Liz Imbrie, to do a tell-all exposé. But Haven's motives for giving the tabloid access to Tracy's big day may not be as mercenary and mean-spirited as they first appear.
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2015., Books We Love Ltd. Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Finny Donelly is not lady-like, in fact she isnœt a lady at all, she was born in White Chapel, the slums of 1858 London. When Devon Dowell, an adventure seeking lord stumbles upon her he figures she is sure to teach his overbearing, society climbing stepmother a lesson about meddling in his affairs. He couldnœt be more wrong. When Finny collaborates with Lord Dowellœs sister to win his love he gets more adventure than he bargains for. Can the scrawny girl in rags really be his dream lady?.
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-- 7 brides for 7 brothers.2004., General, 102, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Seven B Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does Milly discover that Adam has six other brothers all living with him in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading a story, Adam develops an idea that will create the solution to his brothers' loneliness - kidnap the women they want!
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2015., Adult, St. Martin's Paperbacks Call No: SC Fic Eno Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Scandalous Highlanders novel Volume: 4Summary Note: When a mad lass in trousers shoots at him, Munro Bear MacLawry isn't sure what impresses him more-the girl's sure aim or her irresistibly tempting curves. Catriona MacColl has fled to the Highlands with her half-sister to escape an unwanted wedding, and wants no part of him, nor any man. But he can't abandon the flame-haired, sharp-tongued wildcat now that he's discovered her-not when she fits so perfectly in his arms.
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2015., Sourcebooks, Inc Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Bachelors of Battle Creek.Summary Note: "So beautiful. You make it impossible to think." He pulled her against him and found her mouth. "You don't know how long I've wanted to do this."When he let her up for air, she whispered as though she couldn't trust her voice, "Is this another Texas custom?""Absolutely," he growled. "Welcome to Texas."Rancher Cooper Thorne thinks his life is finally on an even keel â until Delta Dandridge steps off the stagecoach and claims she's his mail order bride. Brash and quick-witted, the meddling Southern Belle is everything Cooper thought he never wanted...and everything his heart is telling him he needs.But Cooper swore long ago that he'd never marry, and he aims to keep his word, especially now that the demons from his past have returned to threaten everything â and everyone â he holds dear...
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-- Corpse bride.[2005]., General, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Tim Edition: Full screen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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 wife.
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c2008., McArthur & Company Call No: Fic Nic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This is a tense, gripping novel about forbidden love. Set in Paris and Canada in the winter of 1946. While playing in the woods, children discover a severed finger and soon the corpse of a man who is the victim of a terrible crime. The murder connects the past: it's linked with the fate of the young Frenchwoman Adele who, during the war, fell in love with a German soldier and was branded a collaborator. In Canada, she hopes to forget her dark secret. But then the past rears its head - with a deadly consequence.
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c2010., Ballantine Books Call No: Fic How Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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..