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Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The bride bargain. "Stranded along the Oregon Trail and alone except for her widowed aunt, Clara Fields faces a daunting situation. Yet a storekeeper's bargain - a house in trade for a wife - offers a quick release from the hardship. Or does it? Clara soon discovers that her easy redemption brings new problems of its own in the form of a stubborn suitor and troubled hearts."--Page 4 of cover.
The bride backfire. "Opal Speck thinks she's saving a...
1262) Dominicana
Author
Publisher
Editorial Siete Cuentos / Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"El último día de 1964, la quinceañera Ana Canción se casa con Juan Ruiz, un hombre veinte años mayor que ella, en el campo dominicano. Al día siguiente se vuelve Ana Ruiz, una esposa confinada a un apartamento de un cuarto en Washington Heights. Juan la engaña, abusa y controla, hasta le prohíbe aprender inglés. Después de un intento fallido de fuga, Ana se entera de que está embarazada. Su madre y su esposo comparan su embarazo a ganar...
1263) The Husbands
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There's only one problem - she's not married. She's never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they've been together for years. As Lauren tries to puzzle out how she could be married to someone she can't remember meeting, Michael goes to the attic to change...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The comics in Happily Ever After & Everything In Between may be inspired by Debbie Tung's marriage to her extrovert husband, but any couple can relate to increasingly relaxed anniversaries, slowly seeing more of each other's weird sides, or the punishment for taking care of your sick loved one (catching whatever they had). Happily Ever After humorously captures what everyday love looks like-both the sweet moments and the mundane-making it a fitting...
Author
Series
Bridgerton ; 9
Publisher
ASA
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Sob a batuta de uma matriarca formidável, os Bridgerton são mais do que uma família, eles são uma força da natureza. Ao longo de oito romances, leitores de todo o mundo riram à gargalhada, emocionaram-se, choraram e apaixonaram-se por estes oito irmãos, pelos seus tios e tias, sogras, sobrinhos e amigos (sem esquecer o cão obeso). De tal forma que, no final, todos os leitores ansiaram por mais. E perguntaram à autora... E agora? O que acontece...
1267) La aventura
Author
Publisher
Plaza Janés/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S. A. U
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Rose McCarthy es la legendaria directora de la revista Mode. Tras la muerte de su esposo, ha estrechado la relación con sus cuatro hijas. Todas tienen carreras de éxito: Athena es una conocida chef televisiva; Venetia es diseñadora de moda; Olivia, jueza de un tribunal superior; y Nadia, la más joven, es diseñadora de interiores en París. Nadia considera que su vida es perfecta: está casada con el aclamado autor Nicolas Bateau, que la adora...
1268) Stealing home
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
"Benjamin and Marilyn Dunne, Bobo, Annie, Suzie. Here, in this tremendously moving novel, is an American family today, riding out a kind of crisis of feelings and identity that is particular to our time. We see them, the Dunnes, through the eyes of the young husband, Benjamin-in his mid-thirties-whose apparently solid and agreeable life is beginning to unravel. His marriage is coming apart. His wife, Marilyn, suddenly and deeply wants more than her...
1269) Four novels
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Where angels fear to tread: On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and decides to stay. Furious, her dead husband's family send Lilia's brother-in-law to Italy to prevent a misalliance, but he arrives too late. Lilia had already married the Italian and becomes pregnant again.
The longest journey: Rickie...
1270) La señora March
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Virginia Feito, una Highsmith del siglo XXI, evoca a la inolvidable Sra. March, un ama de casa del Upper East Side cuya vida se ve destrozada por la última novela de su marido. En este asombroso debut, la venerable pero chismosa escena literaria de Nueva York se tuerce en una casa de diversión claustrofóbica de paranoia, horror y humor perversamente oscuro. La última novela de George March es un éxito. Nadie está más orgulloso que la señora...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"A Week in October is a thriller for those who usually prefer a good love story. Clara Griffin, the beautiful wife of a successful Chilean architect, courageously confronts a life-threatening illness while recording her thoughts and experiences in her journal in the guise of a novel. What develops is a thinly veiled version of her own life, her disappointment with their cold marriage, her reminiscences of childhood, and the death that seems to surround...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The author of The Kiss tells the story of two women whose lives intersect in turn-of-the-century Shanghai; a Chinese girl named Mai, and her Western niece, Alice. 50,000 first printing. In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves in The Binding Chair; or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society, a stunning story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home and the need to escape it. Set in alluring Shanghai...
1273) Red string
Author
Series
Red string ; 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
1274) Un revés inesperado
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Los miembros de la familia Delaney se quieren con locura...es solo que a veces se asesinarían. Para todos los que los conocen, los Delaney son una familia envidiable. Incluso después de todos estos años, los padres, Stan y Joy, siguen teniendo una química evidente y continúan arrasando en las pistas de tenis. Y ahora que han vendido su exitosa academia tienen todo el tiempo del mundo para relajarse y disfrutar de la vida. Sus cuatro hijos nunca...
1275) Miel de verano
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Una emocionante novela sobre cómo el amor verdadero siempre encuentra una segunda oportunidad. Ebba Lindqvist tenía una vida perfecta, un programa de éxito en la radio y varios best sellers publicados que la convirtieron en una gurú de las relaciones. Hasta que su amargo y sonado divorcio hizo que todo saltara por los aires. De un día para otro, Ebba perdió su vida familiar de ensueño y también su prestigio profesional. A fin de cuentas,...
1276) Saga: Book 3
Author
Series
Saga. Book ; 3
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"At long last, it's finally time for the third massive hardcover collection of SAGA, the critically acclaimed sci-fi/fantasy series from the multiple Eisner Award-winning team of artist Fiona Staples and writer Brian K. Vaughan. Collecting 18 of the most shocking and impactful issues from the epic tale of Hazel and her star-crossed parents, this deluxe edition features a striking, all-new original cover from Fiona Staples, as well as exclusive, never-before-seen...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Leather Library Corporation
Pub. Date
[1918?]
Language
English
Description
Without benefit of clergy: John Holden, an English man works for the government in India. While in India, Holden falls in love with a young Indian girl named Ameera, and he purchases her from her mother.
The man who would be king: Two British adventurers, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, arrive at Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan, and set themselves up as kings.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers. Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives--or before they are found out. Relying on the island for sustenance and answers--bladderwrack, rosehips, tenacious...
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In order to support Prince Leo, Chris agrees to officially take his hand in marriage. But the other nobles are not fans of the union, and to mollify them Chris gets sent to a boarding school to become more 'ladylike.' Unfortunately for her, her fellow classmates are young ladies intent on marrying the prince themselves! Chris might be hot stuff on the battlefield, but is she prepared for this kind of warfare?"--
1280) Saga: Vol. 11
Author
Series
Saga ; 11
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new allegiances in the universe's never-ending war. Romeo & Juliet meets Star Wars in this genre-blending, sci-fi/fantasy space opera about star crossed lovers from enemy worlds. An epic for mature readers, Saga follows new parents Marko and Alana as they risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war. A multiple award winning, critically...
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