Oh, Axie
Summary: Deadly storms have ravaged Mina's homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curses them with death and despair. In an attempt to appease him, each year a beautiful maiden is thrown into the sea to serve as the Sea God's bride, in the hopes that one day the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OHJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "If anyone can get a shipment of brides to the church on time, its Bo Creel and Scratch Morton. But this time, theyll have to cross hell and high water to escort four marriage-bound beauties to a remote gold mining town in Alaska. The brides-to-be include a dangerously attractive widow, her sweet-hearted niece, and two of their friends. The roadblocks to the altar include a lecherous saloon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHLagonegro, Melissa.
Summary: The Disney princesses are getting married! From Belle's gown to Tiana and Naveen's first kiss to Ariel and Eric's collosal cake, young readers will love sharing in the wedding-day magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN LAGVan Meter, Crissy
Summary: "Winter Island, off the coast of Southern California. Evangeline grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of marijuana, Winter Wonderland. Tomorrow Evie is getting married-- but on the eve of the wedding a dead whale becomes lodged in the bay; the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother shows up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANQuick, Amanda
Summary: "Being Madame Ariadne, Psychic Dream Consultant, wasn't Prudence Ryland's ideal gig, but it paid well which was reason enough to do the work--until she realizes that her latest client intends to kill her. It doesn't seem likely that rumored crime boss Luther Pell or his associate, Jack Wingate, believe her claims of being a target of a ruthless vendetta. So no one is more shocked than Prudence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC QUIRubel, Nicole.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC RubelMori, Kaoru
Summary: "The Halgals enter talks of marriage with another clan, but first, Azel and the other men must be tested to see if they are worthy. They face off against their prospective brides in a horse-riding competition, and whoever retrieves an arrow and makes it to the finish line first will hold the future of both clans in their hands!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BRIMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: Does the perfect wedding make the perfect marriage? As three very different women meet in their local knitting store, they find strength in friendship to help them through their problems. After adopting a daughter, Lydia hoped her life would be complete, but traumatic memories from her daughter's past threaten to ruin their happiness. And Lauren has always yearned for marriage and a family of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACClark, Carol Higgins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAMoyes, Jojo
Summary: The year is 1946, and all over the world young women are crossing the seas in the thousdands en route to the men they married in wartime, and an unknown future. In Sydney, Australia, four women join six-hundred and fifty other brides on an extraordinary voyage to England--aboard HMS Victoria, which also carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers and men. Rules of honor,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2006
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Summary: "Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things. Finding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NYX Publishing 2021
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Summary: Readers rabid for the sweet historical romances of Tracie Peterson and Tamara Alexander will flock to best-selling author Kim Vogel Sawyer's prairie-set heartwarmer of high society cast-off and the western town that welcomes her. Abigail Brantley grew up in affluence and knows exactly how to behave in high society. But when she is cast from the social registers due to her father's illegal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAWHedlund, Jody
Summary: Unemployed and struggling with grief, Zoe Hart leaves England on a bride ship to British Columbia. Her brother fled there when falsely accused of a drastic crime. Pastor Abe Merivale discovers an abandoned native baby during a visit to Victoria, and is forced to choose between the strict rules of his bishop and listening to God's nudges to care for his people. To protect Zoe from an unsavory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEDDavidson, MaryJanice.
Summary: Like any bride-to-be, Queen Betsy is just a bit flustered by all the wedding preparations she's juggling. In addition to the requisite friends and family, her burgeoning houseguest list includes a ghost and a werewolf! Meanwhile, King Eric has perfected his talent for vanishing whenever flowers or gowns are discussed. But it's not just cold feet that make the undead groom and most of the guests...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAVGibson, S. T.
Summary: "A dizzying nightmare of a romance that will leave you aching, angry and ultimately hopeful." --Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the WolfA deliciously dark retelling of Dracula, A Dowry of Blood is a saga of obsession, desire and the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love.Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBChurchill, Amanda
Summary: In 1999 Texas, Lia Cope, when her grandmother Mineko moves in, connects with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry, and when Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Young King Solomon longs for peace and true love, while his promised bride, a shepherdess named Arielah, hopes that Solomon can ignore his distractions and give himself completely to just one woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ANDBunting, Eve
Summary: One by one, Miss Brindle Cow encounters a group of animals who are late for a wedding and agrees to carry them there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whispering Coyote 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Bunting 2003McClure, Marcia Lynn
Summary: "Jilly enjoys flirting with Jack Taylor and believes they will marry one day. When Boone Ramsey asks Jilly's grandfather for permission to marry her, her guardian quickly consents. Knowing Jack is not the marrying kind, Grandpa gives Jilly an out--she doesn't have to marry Boone if Jack will marry her"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCHoang, Helen
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HoaCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P HOACarcaterra, Lorenzo
Summary: "When a crime on a beautiful Italian island stumps the police, locals locals turn to the nosy, elderly widow Nonna Maria in this transporting mystery from author Lorenzo Carcaterra. Nonna Maria has lived in Ischia, a little island in the Gulf of Naples, her entire life. Recognizable by the widow's black she's worn every day for decades, Maria always has pasta on the stove and espresso in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARGarlock, Dorothy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARHedlund, Jody
Summary: "In 1862, Arabella Lawrence fled past mistakes on a bride ship. Vying for her hand are two very different men who disagree on how the natives should be treated during a smallpox outbreak. Intent on helping a young girl abandoned by her tribe, seeking what's right may cost her everything"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2020