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1) Till death
Author
Series
Have brides will travel volume 3
Language
English
Description
"If anyone can get a shipment of brides to the church on time, its Bo Creel and Scratch Morton. But this time, they'll have to cross hell and high water to escort four marriage-bound beauties to a remote gold mining town in Alaska. The roadblocks to the altar include a lecherous saloon owner, a lovesick sailor, and a gang of hired guns. And that's just for starters. The real trouble begins when they reach the Alaskan boomtown. Before anyone starts...
Author
Language
English
Description
"April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly...
3) Inheritance
Author
Series
Lost bride trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Graphic designer Sonya MacTavish is stunned to learn that her late father had a twin he never knew about--and that her newly discovered uncle, Collin Poole, has left her almost everything he owned, including a majestic Victorian house on the Maine coast, which the will stipulates she must live in it for at least three years. Her engagement recently broken, she sets off to find out why the boys were separated at birth-and why it was all kept secret...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, the bride emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback ... with a vengeance. Having been gunned down by her former boss and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight. She didn't start this deadly series of events, but she is determined to finish the business.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The year is 1946, and all over the world young women are crossing the seas in their thousands en route to the men they married in wartime, and an unknown future. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other brides on an extraordinary voyage to England -- aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers and men. Rules of honor, duty, and separation are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are mighty proud. They managed to deliver five mail-order brides to the New Mexico mining town of Silverhill in one piece. The town is so grateful, they want to make Bo their marshal and Scratch his deputy. Bo and Scratch are happy to accept the job--and even happier to attend the weddings of the fine young women they brought here... Cecelia has two young suitors--a well-off rancher and a low-born miner--but one of them...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (69 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mad scientest tries to harness atomic energy into the creation of super beings. Together with his sidekick slave, Lobo, he finds a willing bride for his monster in the person of a nosey girl reporter. Good eventually defeats evil in a hysterical chase through the marshes as the mad doctor is eaten alive by his own monster.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment [Distributor]
Pub. Date
℗♭2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Bride continues on her deadly pursuit of her former partners in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, who, in a furious assault, attempted to murder her and her unborn child on her wedding day. As the Bride faces off against allies-turned-nemeses Budd and Elle, she flashes back to the day of her deadly wedding. We learn how she was recruited and trained and about her relationship with Squad leader Bill.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this retelling of the Korean legend The tale of Shim Cheong, sixteen-year-old Mina is swept away to the Spirit Realm, where, assisted by a motley crew of demons, gods, and lesser spirits, she sets out to awaken the sleeping Sea God and save her homeland and family from deadly storms.
Author
Series
Under suspicion volume 3
Language
English
Description
Five years ago Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college sweetheart in a lavish ceremony at The Grand Victoria Hotel in Palm Beach. Then, with their guests and families on site, Amanda disappeared. In present-day New York City, Laurie Moran realizes a missing bride is the perfect cold case for her investigative television series, Under Suspicion. She and her team set out to recreate the night of the disappearance at the Florida resort...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does Milly discover that Adam has six other brothers all living with him in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading a story, Adam develops an idea that will create the solution to his brothers' loneliness -- kidnap...
13) The little bride
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a sixteen-year-old Russian Jewish mail-order bride who finds herself stranded in the prairies of South Dakota married to a man twice her age and falling in love with her nineteen-year-old step-son.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
149 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Colin begins by walking you through the planning, ordering, and arranging necessary for a memorable wedding that everyone will enjoy. He covers all the details from flowers to dresses, registry to reception, with tips on how to tactfully negotiate the guest list and how to make your wedding a personal expression of your identity as a couple. Colin goes on to demonstrate how to let the momentum of your wonderful wedding celebration set the tone for...
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Agatha's former husband James is engaged to be married to a beautiful, young woman and Agatha has been kindly invited to the wedding. To take her mind off this, Agatha decides she has fallen for Sylvan, a Frenchman she met at James' engagement party. To distract her still further she decides upon a holiday and flies to Istanbul, where unfortunately she bumps into James and his fiance not once but twice -- convincing him she is stalking them. So when...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Private Detective Agatha Raisin learns that her friend and one-time lover Charles Fraith is to be married to a mysterious socialite, Miss Mary Brown-Field, she sees it as her duty to find out what she can about the woman. Coming up empty, Agatha--out of selfless concern for Charles, of course--does the only sensible thing she can think of: she crashes their wedding, which ends in a public altercation. Nursing a hangover the next morning, she...
Publisher
Diamond Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (3.75 hrs.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The farmer's wife (silent film): This first film version of Eden Phillpotts' play "The Farmer's WIfe" involves a recently widowed farmer's search for a new bride. Every candidate proves insufficent until he realizes that his perfect mate has been under his own nose all along, his faithful housekeeper.
The manxman (Hitchcock's last silent film): a lawyer and a fisherman who fall in love with the same woman. She marries one, but she loves the other....
18) Sweet land
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xiv, 337 p., [8] pgs. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In April of 1846, Sarah Graves was twenty-one and in love with a young man who played the violin. But she was torn. Her mother, father, and eight siblings were about to disappear over the western horizon forever, bound for California. Sarah could not bear to see them go out of her life, and so days before the planned departure she married the young man with the violin, and the two of them threw their lot in with the rest of Sarah's family. On April...
Author
Series
Unfamiliar volume 2
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the hit webcomic, Unfamiliar Volume 2 continues the exciting witchy adventures of Planchette and her new friends, Pinyon, Sun, and Babs. More magical mayhem ensues as Planchette and her new witch friends try to help a ghost bride rest in peace. Join them as they work together to handle a blackmailing Faerie King, a possible new romance, and an overnight camping trip in a profoundly evil forest. Unfamiliar is bursting with offbeat charm, a...
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