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Wyoming Territory, 1876
As the only doctor in the frontier town of Savage Wells, Gideon MacNamara knows his prospects for a bride are limited. The womenfolk in town are either too young, too old, or already spoken for. So, being a practical man, he decides to take advantage of the matchmaking service of the day—mail-order brides—and sends away for a woman with nursing experience.
When Miriam steps off the stagecoach in Savage...
As the only doctor in the frontier town of Savage Wells, Gideon MacNamara knows his prospects for a bride are limited. The womenfolk in town are either too young, too old, or already spoken for. So, being a practical man, he decides to take advantage of the matchmaking service of the day—mail-order brides—and sends away for a woman with nursing experience.
When Miriam steps off the stagecoach in Savage...
2) June
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Brides of the West volume 2
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English
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June leaves Michigan to become the mail-order bride of a young pastor in Washington State, but it is not long after her arrival that she becomes caught up in the conflict between those who support her intended groom's plans to built an elaborate tabernacle, and those who would prefer to use the funds to support the local orphanage.
3) Hope
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Brides of the West volume 3
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English
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In the 1872 West, mail-order bride Hope Kallahan finds that God's plan for her is not what she expected when her stagecoach is attacked by a group of less-than-swift outlaws, one of whom is actually a government agent about to figure largely in her life.
4) Patience
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Brides of the West volume 6
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English
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Wanted: Women with religious upbringing, high morals, and a strong sense of adventure, willing to marry decent, God-fearing men. Applicants may apply by mail. Must allow at least two months for an answer.
Patience Smith only intends to wear Lenore's wedding dress for a few minutes, but when a kidnapper snatches Patience in a case of mistaken identity, her life takes an unexpected turn. Lost in the mountains of Colorado, Patience manages...
Patience Smith only intends to wear Lenore's wedding dress for a few minutes, but when a kidnapper snatches Patience in a case of mistaken identity, her life takes an unexpected turn. Lost in the mountains of Colorado, Patience manages...
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The future stretches out in front of Sarah Dobbs like the pure blue Texas sky. Leaving the past behind in Philadelphia, mail-order bride Sarah arrives in San Antonio ready to greet her groom, Austin Canfield, a man she has never met but whose letters have won her heart from afar. But there is one problem--he has died. And Sarah cannot go back East. As Sarah tries to reconcile herself to a future that is drastically changed, Austin's brother, Clay,...
6) Glory
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Brides of the West volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Wanted: Women with religious upbringing, high morals, and a strong sense of adventure, willing to marry decent, God-fearing men. Applicants may apply by mail. Must allow at least two months for an answer.
On the run from a no-good scoundrel, Glory reluctantly joins a wagon train of mail-order brides heading for Denver City. But her backwoods upbringing and fierce independence put her at odds with the other girls—and with the rules Jackson...
On the run from a no-good scoundrel, Glory reluctantly joins a wagon train of mail-order brides heading for Denver City. But her backwoods upbringing and fierce independence put her at odds with the other girls—and with the rules Jackson...
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Kathleen O'Malley Stallworth a mail order bride? Not likely! But the Lord works in mysterious ways. Her parents and siblings died in the great Chicago fire; her husband was killed by a mugger; now her fabulously wealthy in-laws have taken her daughter Megan from her, claiming she's not fit to be a mother. In a newspaper ad for a mail order bride, Kathleen sees a chance to seek revenge on the Stallworth family. Instead, her westward adventure transforms...
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Blue willow brides volume 1
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When Catharine Olsen leaves Holland for America as a mail-order bride, she brings along some extra baggage: two sisters, her mother's set of Blue Willow china, and a tragic past. When she arrives in Cheyenne, Wyoming, she promptly marries Peter Andersen and dreams of starting life over in this rugged land. Peter is kind and patient with Catharine and accommodating to her sisters, but his mother is not. When she begins a campaign to sabotage Peter's...
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Susannah, left alone and without any means of support when her parents die, agrees to marry her pastor's brother, Jesse, and move to the untamed frontier of the Dakota Territory where her new husband's confidence in her and unwavering faith in Godsustains her until she can finally begin to see all the good things God has planned for her.
12) Summer moon
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RANCHER SEEKING WIFE
A newspaper ad is the desperately needed answer to Kate Whittington's prayers. Abandoned by her mother--the town tramp, raised in a bleak Maine orphanage, and a spinster without prospects, Kate dreams of a home and family of her own. Unfortunately, when she arrives to begin her new life, the man she believes she married by proxy denies placing the ad. He denies ever corresponding with or marrying her. Worse, he's a Texas Ranger...
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Unexpected brides volume 1
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English
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"After three failed attempts, Everett Cline is not happy when another--uninvited--mail-order bride steps off the train in his Kansas farming community. But is she the wife he's been waiting for?"--
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Blue willow brides volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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In 1880s Colorado, mail order bride Greta Olsen is filled with doubts when another mail order bride arrives to marry the same man--Jess Gifford, a merchant in the busy mining town of Central City--who did not order either of them.
15) Winter kill
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The last gunfighter series volume 21
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English
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William Johnstone's bestselling The Last Gunfighter novels have become a new classic in frontier adventure. Now, Frank Morgan, the last of a dying breed, sets off from the Pacific Northwest for Alaska—and into a raging blizzard of violence and death.
A Hail Of Lead. . ..
It was a favor to a dead friend: Frank Morgan is shepherding a group of mail-order brides to a brawling Alaska boomtown called Skagway. A bushwhacking, a...
A Hail Of Lead. . ..
It was a favor to a dead friend: Frank Morgan is shepherding a group of mail-order brides to a brawling Alaska boomtown called Skagway. A bushwhacking, a...
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Blue willow brides volume 3
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Free spirit Anna Olsen is a mail-order bride, but she and her husband have very different personalities and need to find a way to compromise if they want to find harmony in their marriage.
17) Faith
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Brides of the West volume 1
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After Faith answers an ad for a mail-order bride, she is summoned by a wealthy Texas rancher, but when she arrives she immediately locks horns with her intended husband and his mother, and a wedding looks unlikely.
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2011
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
19) Mojave
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"Micah Bishop is rescued in the Mohave Desert and hired to escort two dozen brides to the mining town of Calico, but he soon finds that things are not as they seem"--
20) A bride at last
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Unexpected brides volume 3
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English
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"On the 1880s Kansas prairie, Silas and Kate both harbor resentment over their previous failed mail-order engagements, but when a young boy loses his mother and needs their help, they must attempt to move beyond past hurts and find healing together"--
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