From the late Middle Ages to The Marriage of Figaro to Mel Gibson's Braveheart, the ultimate symbol of feudal barbarism has been thedroit de cuissage, or right of a feudal lord to sleep with the bride
Everyone knew the earl of Penhollow needed a wife, so one thunderous night the villagers gathered together to ask the ocean to deliver a bride to the bachelor lord . . . The Sea Brought Him A Wife Wh
Desperate to find a bride with a large dowry to restore his estate, Raimond Le Veq decides to let his mother choose his wife, and she selects Sable Fontaine, a former slave who shattered his trust and
Kathleen O'Malley Stallworth a mail order bride? Not likely! But the Lord works in mysterious ways. Her parents and siblings died in the great Chicago fire; her husband was killed by a mugger; now her
The Rouge of the North is the story of Yindi, a beautiful young bride who marries the blind, bedridden son of a rich and noble family. Captive to household ritual, to the strategies and contempt of h
Fairy tales and their exaggerated characters, from the "evil stepmother" to the "virginal bride," have been a resonant chord throughout Western culture, providing provocative challenges to and mirror
It is no act of love that Regan experiences the night she takes her sister's place in the marriage bed, a counterfeit bride to sate the lust of her twin's new husband. Come morning, her sister, carryi
Mimi and Mandy decide to play haunted house, so Mimi is the Bride of Dracula and Mandy is a ghost, but when the lights go out they receive a great big, real scare
Orphaned at thirteen, a mail-order bride at fourteen, widowed at sixteen, Sarah Kennedy has learned to depend upon no one but herself--reserving all her love for her younger brother Conner, and for t
When Kelly Palamino's wife leaves him for his best friend, he becomes left-handed, color-blind, and his toilet begins to talk, but he really sails off the edge when he spots a beautiful bride just bef
A bride scorned Highborn country heiress Mallory Edwards was dutifully fulfilling family obligations when she exchanged marriage vows with a dashing gentleman she barely knew. But the charming beast,
In the spring of 1962, Captain Nathaniel Sylvester and his young bride, Grissel Brinley, stepped from their boat onto the narrow shore along Gardiner's Creek. Nearby, in a clearing, stood a sturdy hou
This Signet Classic edition, published complete from the original manuscripts, includes The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel, The Upturned Face, and The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky.
Charming story of Peter Rabbit and his bride as they start their new life together in the Old Briar-Patch. Set in large, easy-to-read type, enhanced with 8 new illustrations.
Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back a
Like a pagan god, Rolfe the Relentless rode into Castle Aelfgar to claim it as his prize--and Lady Alice as his bride.??Lauded for his bravery in France, in England he was the hated enemy.??Once ensco
Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. L
In The Chill a distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the
Two inspiring journeys.Two unforgettable women.One amazing story. BROOME, AUSTRALIA, 1893.It's the wild and passionate heyday of the pearling industry, and when young English bride Olivia Hennessy mee
Lurking in the caves of eastern New Mexico, Falke, a thousand-year-old vampire, chooses his next bride: Melissa Roanhorse, an Albuquerque teenager. To regain his granddaughter’s life, Michael Roanhors
When Lisa St. Claire, the beautiful young bride of a Boston police detective, vanishes mysteriously, Spense joins the search for the missing woman, following a perilous trail that leads him to a socio
The adventure begins when Jim Moore announces to his bride of two months that they will build a boat and sail to the South Pacific. Circumnavigating the world in a 36-foot sloop isn't generally regard
When they travel to Anthropos to search for their missing uncle and his bride, the cousins become part of a fierce battle between Gaal and the evil sorcerer who seeks to destroy him.
From the gruff, sword-toting swashbucklers of the Middle Ages to modern adventure epics like The Princess Bride, the aura surrounding the sword is one that is both romantic and pragmatic. Thoughts of
Murder is hardly the best way for Lord Peter and his bride, the famous mystery writer Harriet Vane, to start their honeymoon. It all begins when the former owner of their newly acquired estate is fou
The bride-to-be will find everything from basic bridal sewing to the art of customizing and combining patterns to design that one-of-a-kind gown that compliments image and body type. It covers select
In 1914, Sana, a young Japanese woman, gives up her hopes of marrying the man she loves to help her impoverished family by traveling to Hawaii as a "picture bride"
The Dove...She'd been bought for a strip of land, then abandoned: a bartered bride, married by proxy, determined to wreak revenge.??As innocent Sara Bishop she'd paid dearly for freedom from her cruel
Anna Reardon escapes her shameful past in Boston by becoming the mail-order bride of Karl Lindstrom and finds hall her strength and courage tested as she struggles to build a new life for herself in t
In 1807, at the height of the slave trade, Ajeemah and his son, Atu, are snatched by slave traders from their home in Africa while en route to deliver a dowry to Atu's bride-to-be. Ajeemah and Atu are
An unforgettable story of love, acceptance, and tradition. When Maude Chambliss first arrives at Retreat, the seasonal home of her husband's aristocratic family, she is a nineteen-year-old bride fres
This collection highlights the elaborate dresses and military uniforms typical of a well-to-do planter family of the Civil War era. Includes a pair of southern belles, one of them a bride, each with 5
Blood SongTerry C. Johnston Frontier Scout Seamus Donegan is heading for Montana Territory with his new bride when war erupts in the Black Hills of Dakota. Sitting bull and Crazy horse have defied the
Carrie Montgomery had grown up with seven adoring older brothers, and she was used to getting her way rather easily. Joshua Greene was only looking for a hardworking, practical mail-order bride to hel
With her sapphire eyes and silken dark hair, Princess Eleanor was a bewitching beauty made for a man's pleasure.??Once a child bride, but widowed at a tender age, she swore never to marry again and to
The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wr
Star Boy was the son of Morning Star and an earthly bride. He was banished from the Sky World for this mother's disobedience and bore a mysterious scar on his face, the symbol of the Sun's disapprova
Betrayal had ruined Banner Coleman's wedding day and on her wedding night she was a jilted bride. Now old seeds of greed and desire are harvesting a scandal - and Banner's affair with an old family f
