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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Storied matchmaker and Nantucket resident Dabney Kimball has her own life and match turned upside down when her true love of twenty-seven years prior returns to the island.
"48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man - call it meddlesome,...
Author
Series
Lizzie searches for love volume 3
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Questions and indecision as well as answers and certainty enter Lizzie's life as she must decide whether to join the Amish church, to marry Stephen, and to continue teaching. Based on the true experiences of the author's extended family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When it comes to quilting, Maggie Newcomb is all thumbs. And nobody rubs it in more than Emma Jean Stoddard. But Maggie swallows her ire for one simple reason--she has a crush on Emma Jean's handsome son, Colby, and doesn't want to ruin her chances. So she works hard to become the best quilter in Maintown. Her plan seems to be working--that is, until Tamara Brennan comes to town. Tamara is wealthy and poised as well as beautiful, and immediately turns...
Author
Series
Lizzie searches for love volume 2
Publisher
Good Books
Language
English
Description
Will Lizzie Glick, a high-spirited Amish teenager, give up her dream of teaching school so that her wish for a family and a marriage can come true? Based on the true experiences of the author's extended family.
6) Jackie & me
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A historical novel depicting a na�ive, career-girl version of Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings"--
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After a string of unsuccessful relationships, Jamie Snyder is content to live the single life with her cat, MacGyver, but MacGyver has mischievous intentions to set Jamie up with her neighbor, David.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of 18th-century drawing-room intrigues.
Author
Series
Nantucket legacy volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
Six long years ago, Captain Reynolds Macy sailed away from his bride, looking forward to the day when he would return to Nantucket Island with a ship's hold full of whale oil. But when that momentous day finally arrives, Ren soon discovers that everything has changed in his absence. Everything. "Is nothing on this island as it appears to be?" he whispers in despair.
10) Amish weddings
Author
Series
Neighbors of Lancaster County volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rose Lehman is faced with a choice when the handsome army buddy of her future brother-in-law visits Lancaster County, making the bishop's son Reuben Byler seem boring in comparison.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
While his life seems perfectly good as it is, Cardell, a young coyote, learns to tolerate, and even like, the coyote that is courting his mother.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A retelling of "Pride and Prejudice" set in modern-day Pakistan finds a practical-minded teacher from a family of sisters evaluating her resolve never to marry after encountering a brusque but compelling man during a series of lavish wedding parties.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A miracle; an exquisite story exquisitely told . . . If you love Jane Austen, or Hamilton , or fiction--of any era--that transports and transforms in equal measure, look no further." --A.J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window From the prizewinning author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr. Lincoln , the page-turning and surprising story of a young Abraham Lincoln and the two people who loved him best: a young,...
14) Adoring Addie
Author
Series
The courtships of Lancaster County volume 2
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Set in Lancaster County, Addie and Jonathan struggle to continue their relationship against both sets of parents' wishes. Will love finally mend the feud between their two families, or will their forbidden courtship drive everyone further apart?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eight Winthrop Hopkins Female Academy students manage to uncover a mystery while learning all the skills necessary to snare a husband in a remote corner of England where there are virtually no eligible men.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
320 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After achieving her dream of becoming a teacher in her small farm town of Concord, Wisconsin, in 1857, seventeen-year-old Caroline Quiner, who will become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, begins a courtship with Charles Ingalls, a bachelor farmer who aspires to move west.
17) The betrayed
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
292 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After fleeing Coroa and leaving the memory of her beloved Silas behind, Hollis is unsteadily adjusting to life in Isolte. The Eastoffe family's affection is a balm on her weary spirit, though Etan, a surly cousin with a deep distaste for Coroans, threatens to upset the uneasy peace she's found. While tensions at home ratchet up, disquiet in the kingdom of Isolte is reaching a fever pitch. The Eastoffes may have the power to unseat a tyrannical king--but...
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"London, 1815 Olivia Wilde has resigned herself to never finding a love match. Her father has insisted she marry a man with a title, if only to increase his own standing and reputation in society. But the men her father deems acceptable are, at best, boring and uninspiring, and at worse, are as brutish as her father, and are only looking to increase their own diminishing coffers. With her future looking dismal, Olivia decides to enjoy the last few...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rosalind Newbury is counting down the days until her wedding to the Duke of Marlow, a man she has only met twice. The marriage is more an agreement between two families and less a romantic connection between two hearts, but Rosalind becoming a duchess will elevate her family's status to dizzying heights. And the duke is a kind man who will care for Rosalind, even if he doesn't love her. She only has three weeks before her life changes forever, and...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The crisp fragrance of pine trees and the warm spice of fresh cookies aren't the only blessings that Christmas brings, and no one knows more about happy homecomings than three couples who are celebrating the greatest gift of all ..." -- Back cover.
"Buggies, Trains, and Automobiles : Called home by family, John Miller and Ellie Coblentz are each looking for a way north from Pinecraft, Florida. With few options, they decide sharing the burden of...