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65) Potch & Polly
Author
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
Lively Potch pursues the girl of his dreams, the darling Polly Pumpernickel.
67) The Twin Bargain
Publisher
Harlequin Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After her babysitter's injured, Amber Flemings surprised when the womans grandson offers to help care for her twins while she attends nursing school...until he proposes a bargain. He will watch the girls, if she will use her nursing skills to care for his grandmother. But can they keep the arrangement strictly professional?
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
After achieving her dream of becoming a teacher in her small farm town of Concord, Wisconsin, in 1857, seventeen-year-old Caroline Quiner, who will become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, begins a courtship with Charles Ingalls, a bachelor farmer who aspires to move west.
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Their pretend relationship ... is becoming all too real. Irrepressible Sadie Stolzfus refuses to wed someone who doesn't understand her. To avoid an arranged marriage, she finds the perfect pretend beau in handsome but heartbroken Isaac Hostettler. Spending time with the unconventional Sadie is helping Isaac avoid matchmaking pressure--and helping him handle a difficult loss. But can they really be sure their convenient courtship isn't the real thing?"--Back...
Author
Series
Courtship wars volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Two years ago, lively beauty Eleanor Pierce spied her dashing betrothed, Damon Stafford, Viscount Wrexham, with his former mistress and furiously ended their engagement. Now the charming rake is back in London, meddling in Eleanor's affairs, bent on thwarting her new suitor. Determined to stop another man from wooing and winning the woman he loves, Damon knows that claiming Eleanor's heart is all that matters. But this scandalously bold beauty means...
Author
Series
Great illustrated classics volume G224-52
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife". So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's perfect comedy of manners - one of the most popular novels of all time - that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Indians called the great white wolf the Lightning Warrior because of the swiftness with which he can parry and attack. There is a bounty for the head of the Lightning Warrior, but no one is able to capture him. That is, until the red-haired, blue-eyed giant of a man known only as Cobalt comes to town. Struck by the charm of Sylvia Baird, Cobalt announces his intention to marry her. Sylvia's father disapproves, as does her friend, Tom Chalmers....
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"This retelling of one of Shakespeare's most popular and widely performed romantic comedies follows the fortunes and misfortunes of several young lovers against a background of playful, forest-dwelling fairies."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 1817 Kent, England, eighteen-year-old Imogene Chively's father has chosen Ernest Steeple as her future husband, but his younger brother, Benjamin, wins her heart while she is giving him drawing lessons, all while someone seeks to do them harm.
1817 Kent, England. Imogene Chively's father has chosen Ernest Steeple as her future husband. But his younger brother, Benjamin, wins her heart while she is giving him drawing lessons. When a series of accidents...
76) Tapestry of love
Author
Series
New directions (Linda Byler) volume 2
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Susan Lapp is back in Lancaster and ready to begin a serious relationship with Levi Yoder. After all the ups and downs of her time out west, it's good to be back in the familiar routines of church, family, and working at the market and housecleaning. Nothing stays simple for long, though, and Susan finds herself trying to help her sister Kate navigate her complicated and painful marriage that is taking a toll on their entire family. As Susan and...
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Pretend suitor... or her most suitable match? Eliza Keim has no interest in getting married. But with her stepfather pressuring her to court, Eliza begrudgingly agrees to walk out with blueberry farmer Jonas Kanagy. She has no idea his true intention is only to protect his brother from getting his heart broken. Yet making their in-name-only courtship look real is surprisingly easy. Might this practical arrangement end up backfiring in the best possible...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Molly Pohlig's The Unsuitable is a fierce blend of Gothic ghost story and Victorian novel of manners that's also pitch perfect for our current cultural moment. Iseult Wince is a Victorian woman perilously close to spinsterhood whose distinctly unpleasant father is trying to marry her off. She is awkward, plain, and most pertinently, believes that her mother, who died in childbirth, lives in the scar on her neck. Iseult's father parades a host of unsuitable...
Author
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Annie and Fannie are twins and the youngest of twelve siblings. They're in the little Amish school's Christmas play, which they must practice for regularly, but what they're really passionate about is horses. Oh, what they would give to have a horse of their own to ride and groom and care for. It's all they can think about. Well, that and the way their older sister Anna is swooning over Isaac, a sixteen-year-old boy who goes to the hymn singings on...
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The woman who never made a match of her own is making matches for everyone else in this hilarious comedy of manners from the author of Mr. Malcolms List. Sophronia Lattimore had her romantic dreams destroyed years ago and is resigned to her role as chaperone for her cousin. Still, she cannot sit idly by when she becomes aware that a gentleman is about to propose to the wrong woman. She sends him an anonymous letter that is soon the talk of the town,...