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Marrying the duke volume 2
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The penniless orphan of a disreputable earl, Lady Charlene Blanchard thrives on the adventure of picking the pockets of unsavory gentlemen to survive. But due to her extraordinary beauty and prized bloodlines, she is hand-chosen as a potential bride for the Duke of Baynton, who is on the hunt for a suitable wife to provide heirs. All Char has to do is act the part she was born to play and charm a duke she’s never laid eyes on into proposing. Except...
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After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years-from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding-that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale...
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Elemental masters volume 8
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Fledgling Water Master Mari Prothero rebels against her expected arranged marriage at age eighteen until she learns that her family's magical heritage is actually protected by these unions.
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Consortium rebellion volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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A space princess on the run and a notorious outlaw soldier become unlikely allies in this imaginative, sexy space opera adventure--the first in an exciting science fiction trilogy. When her father arranges for her to wed a noble from House Rockhurst, a man she neither wants nor loves, Ada seizes control of her own destiny. The spirited princess flees before the betrothal ceremony and disappears among the stars. Ada eluded her father's forces for two...
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Weathermages of Mystral volume 1
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After three long years of war, starkly handsome, Wynter Atrialan, will have his vengeance on Summerlea's king by taking one of the man's beautiful, beloved daughters as his bride. But though peace is finally at hand, Wynter's battle with the Ice Heart, the dread power he embraced to avenge his brother's death, rages on. Khamsin Coruscate, Princess of Summerlea and summoner of Storms, has spent her life exiled to the shadows of her father's palace....
6) Legendary
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Caraval volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
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474 pages : map ; 21 cm
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Un coraz̤n al que proteger. Una deuda que saldar. Un juego en el que vencer. Tras verse arrastrada al mundo m̀gico de Caraval, Donatella Dragna por fin ha escapado de su padre y librado a su hermana Scarlett de un funesto matrimonio concertado. Las chicas deber̕an estar celebr̀ndolo, pero Tella sigue sin poder disfrutar de la libertad. Desesperada, hizo un trato con un misterioso criminal, y ahora le debe algo que nadie ha logrado averiguar hasta...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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427 pages ; 21 cm
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Con una lengua afilada y un temperamento indisciplinado, Salvia no es precisamente lo que se espera de una dama, lo que no le supone ningún problema. Cuando la consideran no apta para el matrimonio, tiene que aprender de la mano de una casamentera, junto a otras jóvenes damas, cómo ser la jovencita perfecta. El único fin es que acabe contrayendo matrimonio en una alianza política. Pero Salvia sabe que tiene que estar siempre alerta, así...
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2023.
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225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be married. The couple soon moves to San Jose, California, with an infant and Sungho's overbearing mother-in-law. Adrift in a new country, Insuk grieves the loss of her past and her divided homeland, finding herself drawn into an illicit relationship that sets into motion a dramatic saga and echoes for generations to come. From the Gwangju Massacre to the...
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[2023]
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267 pages ; 22 cm.
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Aspiring baker seventeen-year-old Fatima navigates the challenges of parental and communal expectations in her strict Muslim community while staying true to her dreams.
Seventeen-year-old Fatima Tate, aspiring baker (100% against her conservative parents' wishes), leads a pretty normal life in long drives with BFF Zaynab, weekly services at the mosque, big family parties, soup kitchen volunteering (the best way to perfect her flaky dough recipe!),...
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Colorado cowboys (Jody Hedlund) volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
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"When Greta Nilsson heads west to save her ailing sister, bandits hold up her stagecoach. Upon arrival, she learns that the man who ordered her as a mail order bride has died. Wyatt McQuaid is struggling with his new ranch and agrees to marry Greta after a bargain with the mayor. Can this union born of desperation survive?"--Provided by publisher
12) Marriage on the street corners of Tehran: a novel based on the true stories of temporary marriage
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Pub. Date
2016
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319 p.
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Married off at the age of twelve, Ateesh finds the courage to escape her abusive arranged marriage, only to find herself trapped in the oppressive but socially accepted practice of temporary marriage. Here is her touching and tragic story of strength and survival.
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2020.
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Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. The brutal life of a pirate is about survival: don't trust, don't stick out, don't feel. When the pirates prepare to sell their unsuspecting passengers into slavery, Flora is drawn to the Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, who is en route to a dreaded arranged marriage with her own casket in tow. The pair set into motion a wild escape...
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To most townsfolk, he's known simply as The Beast. Annabelle Beiler has little interest in gossip, but she's heard about Adam Herschberger's scars and his gruff, solitary ways. Though he sounds like a character from one of Belle's treasured books, the man is real and, it turns out, just as unreasonable as the rumors claim. When a buggy accident wipes out the last of her daed's money, forcing him to sell their farm, Adam buys it. Then he offers Belle...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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177 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
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"After her older sister refuses to go on an arranged marriage meeting with Takane Saibara, the heir to a vast business fortune, high schooler Hana Nonomura agrees to be her stand-in to save face for the family. But when Takane and Hana pair up, get ready for some sparks to fly between these two utter opposites! The meeting between Takane and Hana ends in an explosive manner, and Hana in convinced that she'll never have to see that awful Takane again....
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Cursed Princess Club volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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273 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"Gwendolyn, the youngest of the King's three daughters, is living proof that princesses don't always have it all. She isn't like a typical fairy-tale princess, or other princesses in the Pastel Kingdom. Gwendolyn, with her big heart and love of baking, isn't particularly attractive. Unlike her sisters who have woodland creatures do their hair and makeup, or have flowers blossom wherever they sleep, Gwendolyn is a bit...different. So when her father...
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