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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 QUISummary: In Regency England, seven couples navigate society's gauntley ... Charity and Luke are strangers who were forced to marry. Adelaide and Walter share a love of music and disdain for elitism. Caroline and Henry are thrown together by three orphans. Helen and Isaac harbor his unlikely secret. Esther is empowered to choose between two men. Sophia is determined not to choose a man like Nash. Jamie...
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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 REGRoberts, Nora
Summary: When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses of the past. In the present she finds portraits of brides. And when she has visions of an antique mirror, she is drawn to it,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2024
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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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEDMcClure, 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 MCCFuller, 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 FULHoang, 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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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HoaCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P HOAMyers, B. R.
Summary: November 1816: Restless but naive Emeline Fitzpatrick is desperate to escape her stifling life in foggy Halifax. Her guardian is lining up repugnant suitors, but Emeline has her eyes set on a lieutenant in the British Navy. She just needs to persuade him to propose, or her one chance at happiness will be gone forever. But when Emeline's hopes end in scandal, she finds herself with only one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: 1806. Astrid Poole is murdered on her wedding day. Her last words - a promise to her husband never to leave him. After finding her fiancé in a compromising position with her cousin, Sonya MacTavish needs an escape. When a lawyer turns up on her doorstep out of the blue with news that she has inherited a beautiful Victorian house, Sonya thinks maybe this is just the change of scene she needs....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROBDeveraux, Jude
Summary: "When the world is brought to a standstill in the early days of a global pandemic, Etta Wilmont finds herself suddenly stranded in Kansas City. Desperate to secure a roof over her head, Etta crosses paths with Henry Logan, a lonely older man in need of a caretaker. As Etta and Henry settle into a companionable living arrangement, Etta indulges in Henry's library. The historical accounts of life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEVSummary: 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 WEDMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Mail-order bride: Gold River, Alaska, isn't your average town. After being jilted by her fiancé, Caroline Myers ends up there--thanks to her matchmaking aunts, who send her on what appears to be a vacation. But Caroline didn't know that her well-meaning relatives had cooked up a scheme. Not surprisingly, they have something different in mind. Something that involves spending a snowy Christmas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACBrownley, Margaret.
Summary: In the wild and untamed West, time is set by the local jeweler ... but Two-Time Texas has two: two feuding jewelers and two wildly conflicting time zones. Meg Lockwood's marriage was supposed to unite the families and finally bring peace. But when she's left at the altar by her no-good fiance, Meg's dreams of dragging her quarrelsome neighbors into a ceasefire are dashed. Hired to defend the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRORoberts, Nora
Summary: In need of an escape from her ex-fiance's betrayal, and the lucky recipient of a surprise inheritance, Sonya MacTavish leaves behind her life in the city and moves to a Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine. The house is beautiful but comes with surprises - footsteps in the night, doors slamming, music playing - and in her dreams Sonya sees glimpses of the past and the brides who once lived...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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Summary: "Inheritance is the first in The Lost Bride Trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts--a tale of tragedies, loves found and lost, and a family haunted for generations. 1806: Astrid Poole sits in her bridal clothes, overwhelmed with happiness. But before her marriage can be consummated, she is murdered, and the circle of gold torn from her finger. Her last words are a promise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC ROBPhillips, Susan Elizabeth.
Summary: In this hilariously heartwarming sequel to Call Me Irresistible, Lucy Jorik, the daughter of the former president of the U.S., jilts her soon-to-be husband at the altar and makes a run for it on the back of a stranger's motorcycle, finally embarking on the adventure she has been waiting for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PHIBarry, Amy
Summary: "The four McBride brothers have their worlds turned upside down when their precocious younger sister secretly places an advertisement for a mail-order bride. Kit McBride knows that Buck's Creek, Montana, is no place to find a wife. Between him and his three brothers-plus little Junebug-they manage all right on their own, thank you very much. But unbeknownst to Kit, his sister is sick to death...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARGibson, Rachel
Summary: Leaving your fianc©♭ at the altar on live television is a disaster. Lexie Kowalsky thought she was ready to get married in front of millions of people, but at the last minute she fled the set of television's hottest reality show, Gettin' Hitched. Wearing a poofy white dress and a pair of five-inch sparkly shoes, Lexie hopped a float plane for Sandspit, Canada. She figured no one would find her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBCopeland, Lori.
Summary: Penniless and desperate for an adventure, Evie Lawrence moves to the Oregon Territory in 1851, intending to build a restaurant in one of the new settlements there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COPCopeland, Lori
Summary: The peacemaker : Bull-headed Wynne Elliot has one goal in mind: to track down Cass Claxton and shoot him dead for leaving her at the altar and running off with her money. But when Cass's brother Cole shows up, Wynne finds herself on an unexpected adventure, and she just might lose her heart. Beloved author Lori Copeland takes readers back in time to an era when cowboys were heroes and the rules...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiloh Run Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COPRoberts, Nora
Summary: "Inheritance is the first in The Lost Bride Trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts--a tale of tragedies, loves found and lost, and a family haunted for generations. 1806: Astrid Poole sits in her bridal clothes, overwhelmed with happiness. But before her marriage can be consummated, she is murdered, and the circle of gold torn from her finger. Her last words are a promise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBRoberts, Nora
Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts continues the hauntingly spectacular Lost Bride Trilogy with book two, The Mirror. When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC ROBBrendan, Maggie
Summary: Set in 1880s Colorado, a mail order bride is full of doubts when another mail order bride arrives to marry the same man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREGibson, Rachel
Summary: "Lexie Kowalsky, a runaway bride from a reality TV show, hops a float plane for Sandspit, British Columbia. Sharing her flight is Sean Knox, new star of the Seattle Chinooks, the hockey team her father coaches. Sean knows this could spell trouble for his career, but the chemistry is too strong to ignore"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018