Johnstone, 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 JOHYamazaki, Kore
Summary: "Chise and her classmates at the College are forging new bonds and friendships, but while they look to the future, the past still has a powerful grip on the older generation--and the futures some of those elder alchemists are working toward aren't bright ones. Oblivious to the things taking place in the shadows, Chise and her friends head for the Scottish highlands on a training trip... only to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ANCOh, 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 OHMcClure, 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 MCCOh, Axie
Summary: This enthralling feminist retelling of the classic Korean folktale "The Tale of Shim Cheong" is perfect for fans of Wintersong, Uprooted, and Miyazaki's Spirited Away.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OHFuller, Kathleen
Summary: "Margaret Yoder can't seem to catch a break. Even though she's dedicated to her Amish faith, her wild Rumspringa won't stay in the past, and her mother keeps pressuring her to get married. To placate her mother and get away from former "friends," she decides to return to Birch Creek to visit family - and pretend to find a husband. Like Margaret, Owen Bontrager isn't looking for a spouse,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FULMoyes, 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: "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 VANNewsome, Haley
Summary: Based on the hit webcomic, Unfamiliar Volume 2 continues the exciting witchy adventures of Planchette and her new friends, Pinyon, Sun, and Babs. More magical mayhem ensues as Planchette and her new witch friends try to help a ghost bride rest in peace. Join them as they work together to handle a blackmailing Faerie King, a possible new romance, and an overnight camping trip in a profoundly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The sun is shining, and every detail is perfect as the wedding of the year gets underway at the charming Bluebird Inn. All eyes are on the bride-- until she turns heel, hijacks a Ducati, and speeds out of town! Now a down-on-her-luck B&B owner who needs a little help finding her own bluebird of happiness. A big city cop with small-town roots pulls over the girl he could never have. A jilted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WEDGibson, S. T.
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: "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 GIBJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "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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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Johnstone 2018Swanson, Peter
Summary: Abigail Baskin fell in love with millionaire Bruce Lamb: stable, level-headed, kind. He's a refreshing twist from her previous relationships. When she has a drunken, anonymous one-night stand on her bachelorette weekend, Abigail puts the incident out of her mind. When the stranger reappears, Abigail's future life and happiness are turned upside down. He insists that their passionate night was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SWASummary: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FLOLagonegro, 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 LAGMcClure, Marcia Lynn
Summary: "Genieva Bankmans and Brevan McLean had agreed to a marriage of convenience when she responded to his advertisement for a wife. Yet even as their attraction to each other becomes stronger, secrets concerning the McLean family and land threaten their relationship and endanger their lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCYates, Maisey
Summary: "Cowboy Sawyer Garrett has no intention of settling down. But when he becomes a single dad to tiny baby June, stepping up to the responsibility is nonnegotiable. And so is finding a woman to be a mother to his infant daughter. So he decides to do it the way the pioneers did: by putting out an ad for a mail-order bride. Evelyn Moore can't believe she's agreed to uproot her city life to marry a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: "'Your husband is a landowner,' they told her. 'Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees. 'You will be able to go to school.' Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC YIHoward, Linda
Summary: 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 seriously criminal when Carrie is brutally murdered and everyone involved with the ceremony is accusing one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOWGarlock, 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, 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEDHoang, 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