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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"--
2) Patience
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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.
Patience Smith only intends to wear Lenore's wedding dress for a few minutes, but when a kidnapper snatches Patience in a case of mistaken identity, her life takes an unexpected turn. Lost in the mountains of Colorado, Patience manages...
Patience Smith only intends to wear Lenore's wedding dress for a few minutes, but when a kidnapper snatches Patience in a case of mistaken identity, her life takes an unexpected turn. Lost in the mountains of Colorado, Patience manages...
3) Ruth
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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.
Spunky, young Ruth Priggish is on the run from a seventy-year-old suitor. Faced with the prospect of marriage to the persistent old codger, Ruth throws caution to the wind and decides to head for Wyoming Territory, where freedom and independence...
Spunky, young Ruth Priggish is on the run from a seventy-year-old suitor. Faced with the prospect of marriage to the persistent old codger, Ruth throws caution to the wind and decides to head for Wyoming Territory, where freedom and independence...
4) Glory
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
On the run from a no-good scoundrel, Glory reluctantly joins a wagon train of mail-order brides heading for Denver City. But her backwoods upbringing and fierce independence put her at odds with the other girls—and with the rules Jackson...
On the run from a no-good scoundrel, Glory reluctantly joins a wagon train of mail-order brides heading for Denver City. But her backwoods upbringing and fierce independence put her at odds with the other girls—and with the rules Jackson...
5) Hope
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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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.
Mail-order bride Hope Kallahan is not amused when her stagecoach is waylaid by a bunch of bumbling outlaws. The feisty beauty is puzzled by the oddball in the group—the disarmingly kind Grunt Lawson. She doesn't know that Grunt is really...
Mail-order bride Hope Kallahan is not amused when her stagecoach is waylaid by a bunch of bumbling outlaws. The feisty beauty is puzzled by the oddball in the group—the disarmingly kind Grunt Lawson. She doesn't know that Grunt is really...
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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...
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After she is rescued from an abandoned wagon on the Oregon trail, Hetty Wentworth becomes a mail-order bride for a handsome man in the Montana territory, but just as she is settling in to her new life, her husband's best friend tries to ruin her one chance at happiness.
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Red River of the North volume 6
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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She Had Told Him She Was Headed for Blessing. Why Would He Not Take Her There? The Bjorklund family has received word that Augusta Bjorklund is on her way from Norway to join them in North Dakota. When the train arrives in the town of Blessing with no Augusta aboard, the worried family hopes she will be on the train in the morning. But only her trunk arrives, so Bridget Bjorklund insists that Hjelmer, Augusta's brother, go find her. Augusta, after...
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Welcome to the peaceful little town of Doubtful, Wyoming, which has more than its fair share of kill-crazy gunslicks, back-shooters, and flat-out dirty desperadoes. It also has a sheriff named Cotton Pickens, who tries his best to keep law and order without getting his head blown off before breakfast.Doubtful's Got A New Deputy. . .For The MomentCotton Pickens got where he is by virtue of a quick draw and slow wit. He knows the difference between...
10) A bride at last
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Unexpected brides volume 3
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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"--
12) June
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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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.
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2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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The author of When the Emperor Was Divine presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early 20th century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage and the prospect of wartime internment.
14) Mojave
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"Micah Bishop is rescued in the Mohave Desert and hired to escort two dozen brides to the mining town of Calico, but he soon finds that things are not as they seem"--
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Have brides will travel volume 1
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Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are drifters who keep one eye on the horizon and one finger on the trigger. When they save the life of Cyrus Keegan, they receive a proposal that's hard to resist. Keegan needs to deliver five mail order brides to a mining town in New Mexico Territory. All Scratch and Bo have to do is get these gals to the church on time -- and alive. The job seems easy enough. But their prospects look bad when the journey includes Mexican...
16) Faith
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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A whimsical historical romance series that follows three sisters as they become mail-order brides.
17) A bride in store
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"It is 1881 when a mail-order bride arrives in a small Kansas town, but her groom is away. What will she do when sparks begin to fly with her future husband's best friend?"--
18) Tempest
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"Regan Carmichael--an independent spirit equally at home in denims and dresses--travels to Wyoming to be the mail-order bride for Dr. Colton Lee--a widower who insists he only wants someone to care for his daughter. Despite family disapproval and an unseen enemy, Colt will soon risk all to make this marriage a true union"--
19) Winter kill
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It was a favor to a dead friend: Frank Morgan is shepherding a group of mail-order brides to a brawling Alaska boom town called Skagway. A bushwhacking, a storm-racked sea voyage and an anything-but-friendly reception isn't enough to stop Morgan and his blushing brides. But a beautiful woman has a lucrative plot on her mind--in the wild, wild north where men are mad with greed and loneliness.
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"Upon arriving in Kenworthy, California, mail-order bride Juniper Cohen is met by the pounding of the gold mine, an untamable landscape, and her greatest surprise of all: the kind and loving man who awaits her. But when the mine proves empty of profit, and when Juniper's husband, John, vanishes, Juniper is left to fend for herself and her young daughter in the dwindling boomtown that is now her home. Juniper pens letters to her husband but fears she...
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