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61) The healing jar
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Series
Language
English
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"Lenore Lapp is an Amish schoolteacher in her late twenties still living at home with her parents and grandparents. She thought love had passed her by until she meets Jesse Smucker, a widower with a baby daughter. She quickly falls in love with them both and accepts Jesse's proposal of marriage, but Jesse breaks off their engagement when he realizes he can't marry only for convenience. Resigned to living single, Lenore throws herself into caring...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in fifteenth-century China.
"According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1862, Mercy joins a bride ship to escape a bleak future in London and becomes the assistant to ship's surgeon Joseph, but despite their forbidden feelings for each other, Joseph has no intention of settling down.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--
65) The loner
Author
Series
Long tall Texans volume 53
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Tanner Everett spends most of his time jet-setting around the world. But that hasn't stopped innocent Stasie Bolton, the daughter of a neighboring rancher, from falling head-over-heels for the jet-setting playboy. So Stasie is secretly thrilled when her father proposes linking the properties in matrimony...which means Tanner will be hers, for good. Despite his globetrotting ways, Tanner can't help but be enthralled by the quiet girl next door. But...
66) Matched
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her, so when Xander appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate--until Ky Markham's face appears for an instant before the screen fades to black.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Her happiness shattered by her movie director boyfriend's announcement that he intends to reconnect with a woman from his past, travel columnist Annie Adams impulsively marries a charming chef and attempts to restart her life in rural Massachusetts.
Author
Publisher
Mango Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
293 p.
Language
English
Description
Light on the Other Side of Divorce: Discovering the New You is for people who have separated/divorced from their partners who want to feel excited about who they are now, more emboldened and less overwhelmed. The book is a comprehensive, inspirational resource for healing and thriving after divorce.
71) Someone to wed
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Series
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
383 pages : illustration ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When heiress Wren Heyden offers Alexander Westcott, the new Earl of Riverdale, a marriage of convenience, he proposes a proper courtship in hopes that at least a friendship will develop between them.
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Language
English
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Description
"From "America's librarian" and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotionally riveting debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads. George and Lizzie have radically different understandings of what love and marriage should be. George grew up in a warm and loving family--his father an orthodontist, his mother a stay-at-home mom--while Lizzie grew up as the only child of two famous psychologists, who viewed her more as an in-house...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When a believed-perfect couple is found dead of an apparent double suicide, former FBI forensic psychologist Christopher Lash is hired by the matchmaking company that introduced the pair to each other to perform a discreet investigation.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husband's successes as a novelist, and his secretive nature that established Lisey's supernatural belief systems.
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Forced into a marriage of convenience with Evan Sterling, the Duke of Rothschild, to save her sister, American heiress August Crenshaw pulls every stunt in the book to make him call off the wedding.
78) Heart echoes
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
ix, 351 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teal Morgan-Adams must face her past when her daughter searches for her biological father in spite of a loving stepfather and she is forced to return to her parents' home in Cedar Pointe, Oregon.
79) The Eden Test
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Adam Sternbergh brings his wit, humor, and a Hitchcockian sense of dread to What Have We Done, a chilling, surprising, and wholly entertaining portrait of a marriage on the brink. Seven Days. Seven Questions. Forever Changed. That's how The Eden Test, a week-long getaway, advertises itself for couples in trouble. And that's what Daisy, a talented actress, has signed up for, in the hopes of saving her marriage. It's a tall order, seeing as her husband...
Author
Publisher
Voice
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young widow profiles the seemingly idyllic life she shared with her husband and young daughter, her devastation over the pulmonary embolism that abruptly ended her husband's life, and her shocked discovery that he had been unfaithful to her throughout their marriage.