The Judge's Bride


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Rachel held the letter in her hand as she watched the banker come up the lane. He was taking the farm. Wasn't it enough she'd been widowed 2 years ago. Worse, good meaning townspeople wanted her to disperse her ten children to families who needed them. She had to keep her family together. The letter from the judge in Montana. Her only hope of keeping her family together was to go west to Montana as a mail order bride.Judge Solomon Taggart groaned at having to referee a dispute between the two feuding families. That even their children were at each other made him doubt the wisdom of sending that letter to the widow in Minnesota. She had children. She didn't say how many, and he hadn't asked. He grabbed his rifle and swung up in the saddle, praying there'd be no bloodshed. And then he prayed he'd been wise to send that letter.




A Bride's Edition


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Isabella’s an Italian beauty that’s determined to make a go of it in this new wild country called America. She and her brother take a boat and make their way to Texas. Texas! She doesn’t plan to deceive the man who hired her by penning a letter to him under the guise of a mail order bride and she prays he will forgive her. Luke Turner love his job, managing a magazine he owns with his best friend. He loves his life. He’s not lonely, but he’s definitely alone and it hits home when he watches his best friend Dylan with his new wife. Luckily, a beautiful Italian belle has made her way to their town and has agreed to work in the magazine’s office. His wonders if his head will be turned when he gets correspondence from an interested lady?




God of Covenant - Bible Study Book


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A 10-session Bible study that examines Genesis 12-50 to discover how God orchestrates everything for His glory and the good of His people.




The Bride Wore Blue


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Vivian Sinclair leaves Maine behind to move to Cripple Creek, Colorado, where her sisters live, but she finds it difficult to leave the mistakes of her past behind, especially when the only job that she can find is in a brothel.




Sixty Acres and a Bride


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Sensational debut Historical Romance Finds Love on the Texas Range With nothing to their names, young widow Rosa Garner and her mother-in-law return to Texas and the family ranch. Only now the county is demanding back taxes and the women have only three months to pay. Though facing eviction, Rosa can't keep herself from falling in love with the countryside and the wonderful extended family who want only her best. Learning the American customs is not easy, however, and this beautiful young widow can't help but catch wandering eyes. Where some offer help with dangerous strings attached, only one man seems honorable. But when Weston Garner, still grieving his own lost love, is unprepared to give his heart, to what lengths will Rosa go to save her future?




The Ghost Bride


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Now a Netflix Mandarin original drama! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Tiger, a Reese’s Book Club pick Yangsze Choo’s stunning debut, The Ghost Bride, is a startlingly original novel infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, and unexpected supernatural twists. Li Lan, the daughter of a respectable Chinese family in colonial Malaysia, hopes for a favorable marriage, but her father has lost his fortune, and she has few suitors. Instead, the wealthy Lim family urges her to become a “ghost bride” for their son, who has recently died under mysterious circumstances. Rarely practiced, a traditional ghost marriage is used to placate a restless spirit. Such a union would guarantee Li Lan a home for the rest of her days, but at what price? Night after night, Li Lan is drawn into the shadowy parallel world of the Chinese afterlife, where she must uncover the Lim family’s darkest secrets—and the truth about her own family. Reminiscent of Lisa See’s Peony in Love and Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter, The Ghost Bride is a wondrous coming-of-age story and from a remarkable new voice in fiction.




A School for Brides


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In the early 1800s, in a remote corner of England with almost no eligible young men, the eight students at the Winthrop Hopkins Female Academy uncover a mystery while learning all the skills necessary to become a good wife.




The Bride-To-Be Book


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A journal of memories from the proposal to I Do! by Amy K. Rosenthal.




The Search for a Bride


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With a paradigm shift in social systems, the concept of an arranged marriage seems to be losing its sheen and becoming difficult especially when you belong to one part of the country and work in another region. This is the story of a young man who finds it difficult to search for a bride. He faces a lot of expected as well as unexpected challenges during his search. He interacts with a lot of women and learns a different lesson each time. He travels multiple times from one city to another in search of his elusive bride. He puts so much effort, wastes so much energy, money and time during this eventful journey that he realizes that it would have been better to fall in love with someone instead of going through this tedious process of an arranged marriage. As he gets older and frustrated, the moot question is ‘will he get a bride as per his expectation?’. Will he marry a Manglik or a non-Manglik girl? Will that girl be from Delhi, Mumbai or some other part of the country?




Ethnicity and the Mixed Marriage Crisis in Ezra 9-10


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Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2010.