From incorporating family rituals and cultural traditions into your wedding to booking a "heritage honeymoon," Viva el Amor is the only book that the Latina bride-to-be will need to plan a fabulous f
Award-winning author Mary Jo Putney captivated the hearts of readers everywhere with her breathtaking hardcover debut, The Wild Child. Now, in her spectacular new novel The China Bride, she has create
Hileman (Oregon California Trails Association and Casper College) recounts her work recording every remaining mark on Independence Rock and the nearby Devil's Gate. She discusses the history, mystery,
Lesson #1: Never Tempt a Lady Become a bride? Never! Lady Marianne Shelton has come to London to experience life, and marriage is not part of her plan. To finance her independent future, the pretty
Hakeem Jinnah enjoys an ordinary life of working the Vancouver Tribune's crime beat, flirting with women, seeking interested investors in a mail-order-bride scheme, and driving around in his sattelite
From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Princess Bride (he also wrote the novel), and the bestselling author of Adventures in the Screen Trade comes a garrulo
The return of a beloved classic,from the bestselling author of The Princess Bride!Once upon a time, the gondoliers of Venice possessed the finest voices in all the world. But, alas, few remember those
Adaptations of 16 of the renowned Russian-born French painter's finest stained glass works, among them I and the Village, The Cellist, Bride and Groom with Eiffel Tower, Equestrienne, The Green Violin
Following the tradition of Daisy Bates in the Desert and In Patagonia, Alice Thomson conjures up a country of unimaginable strangeness and beauty.In 1855, Charles Todd and his impetuous young bride Al
In 1918, the Spanish flu killed up to 40 million people across the planet. From the remotest villages in Arctic climates to crowded U.S. cities to the battlefields of Europe, there were plague houses
Rockets roar into space--bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites--from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Spa
In this sixth installment in the popular Mail Order Bride series, Dorianne DeFeo is a lovely, loyal daughter to widower Franco DeFeo, who works on the docks in Brooklyn. When Franco catches two fellow
The Rules of Engagement: Choose a bride from this year's debutantes. Decide on a proper settlement. Send an announcement to The Times. Inform the bride of her good fortune. Rules of Respecta
He would take her as his bride...but could she give her heart in return? When Egan MacBain takes beautiful Glenda MacKay as his bride, it appears that he's done so for the noblest of reasons. In trut
When Arriman the Awful, the handsome wizard of the North, announces a contest to choose his bride, every witch in town is a flutter. The meanest, most powerful witch will wed the wizard. But little Be
From Shana Abe, author of The Truelove Bride and A Kiss at Midnight, comes this exquisitely emotional, beautifully written novel about two warring clans on a Scottish isle united by a fragile pact...
What obituaries tell us about our culture, past and present "Within the short period of a year she was a bride, a beloved wife and companion, a mother, a corpse," reported The National Intelligencer
Shocked to discover he has inherited a title and bride, new marquis Duncan MacTavish is offended by the woman he is to marry and entranced by the beautiful Sabrina, whose station in life makes it furt
Otherwise Engaged is Suzanne Finnamore's wickedly funny account of an intelligent, rational woman's transformation into the harpy of anxieties that is the bride-to-be. When Michael pops the question,
Russia has fascinated outsiders for centuries, and according to Alicia Chudo, it is high time this borscht stopped. In this hilarious send up of Russian literature and history, Chudo takes no prisoner
Teenage bride Tamar is thrust into a world of abuse and disillusionment, and she must decide if she will let her new husband Er corrupt her or embrace the god of the Hebrews to avoid despair.
In this fifth installment of the bestselling Mail Order Bride series, two young couples seek freedom and love amidst slavery-rich Charleston, South Carolina. When nineteen-year-old Benjamin arrives fr
Saint Birgitta of Sweden (canonised in 1391) is one of the most important female figures of medieval Europe. She participated vigorously in its political life, attempting through her writings to end
In The Sackett Brand, Louis L’Amour spins the story of a courageous man who must face overwhelming odds to track down a killer.Tell Sackett and his bride, Ange, came to Arizona to build a home and sta
Group Activities Barhopping Scavenger Hunt Take the bride-to-be out to one or more bars dressed in an inexpensive white veil and T-shirt on which individually wrapped Lifesavers have been sewn. Give
Beloved characters from the Bride series spice up this courtship. A resolute inn owner and a renowned womanizer join forces to find a mystical lamp-and discover that their tempestuous relationship is
She came to the Highlands an innocent bride, but one man's love and two nations' enmity would make her a woman....In her unforgettable novel Kilgannon, Kathleen Givens brought to vivid life the tempes
So Rhoda Brook, the abandoned mistress of Farmer Lodge, is jealous to discover details of his new bride in 'The Withered Arm', the title story in this selection of Hardy's finest short stories. Hardy'
Stretched almost to the limit by the capricious demands of a Boston Brahmin bride-to-be, caterer and minister's wife, Faith Fairchild, faces real tragedy when she discovers the body of an elderly fri
They call her the Langlinais Bride—though she's seen her husband only one time . . . on their wedding day, twelve years ago.For years, naive, convent-bred Juliana dreaded being summoned to the side of
Brenn Owens, the new Earl of Merton, has come to London to choose a bride. The broad-shouldered war hero has his pick of the season's debutantes, but once he gazes upon Tess Hamlin, he knows he won't
An anthology of four charming romances that transcend the barriers of time and space features Lynn Kurland's "And the Groom Wore Tulle," "The Con and the Crusader" by Maggie Shayne, "A Bride Most Comm
While perhaps best known for his Lives, Plutarch also wrote philosophical dialogues that constitute a major intellectual legacy from the first century A.D. This collection presents two important short
To help her snare the indifferent clansman she hopes to marry, Seana, a medieval Scottish maiden, enlists the help of the brawny rake, Colin Mac Brodie, who soon resolves to have her as his own bride.
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
