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1) Texas rain
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Readers' Choice Award winner Jodi Thomas pens a touching, passionate tale about never giving up on love. Texas Ranger Travis McMurray prefers chasing outlaws to being cooped up in domestic life. But all that changes when he meets Rainey, a stunning beauty who steals not only his heart-but his horse. On the run from an arranged marriage, Rainey wants to start a new life in the West-but will Travis be able to track her down before she disappears for...
Author
Series
Book of Ivy volume 1
Publisher
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In an apocalyptic future where girls from the losing faction are forcibly married to boys of the winning faction, sixteen-year-old Ivy is tasked to kill her fiancé Bishop, although when she finally meets him, he is not the monster she has been led to believe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Mike Hammer steals a ride on a train upstate to Killington. But he is welcomed by a nasty surprise: he is accused by police of raping and murdering a young woman near the freight yards. Roughed up by the cops and facing a murder charge, Hammer's future looks bleak. Only a beautiful blonde, Melba Charles--daughter of powerful Senator Charles--might possibly save him...if he pays the price. But why would Melba help save a man she has never met? And,...
Author
Publisher
The Liberty Alliance
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
The author recounts the gripping true story of her life : abused and abandoned by her English mother and Iraqi father, forced into an arranged Muslim marriage, betrayed and broken by all the people who ever promised to love and protect her. Yet she survived it all and lived to tell her story.
6) Wither
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
7) Cruel beauty
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill him, seventeen-year-old Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and move to the castle to be his wife.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"From the international bestselling author of The Children's Train comes a heartrending coming-of-age novel, set in 1960s Sicily and based on a true story, of how a young Sicilian girl defied centuries-old tradition to win the right to control her own life"--
10) The boundless
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"After enduring deception at the hands of one prince, Selah never imagined she'd find love with Torden of Norge. Or that she'd be banished from his court as a traitor and a spy, unsure when or if they'll see each other again. That heartbreak pales in comparison to her crew's--her friends'--betrayal. The Beholder's true mission was a secret they didn't trust Selah to keep: transporting weapons to rebels fighting against the Imperiya Yotne's brutal...
12) Legacy
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Series
Formats
Description
Princess Alera of Hytanica resents that she is duty-bound to wed Steldor, the arrogant and hot-tempered suitor her father has chosen as successor to the throne, but the more she learns of palace intrigue and ancient feuds, the less sure she is of right and wrong.
13) A distant shore
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
"She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both their lives forever. Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring secret agent with the FBI and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. She's an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage with a dangerous...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
A gripping account of Rebecca Musser's struggle to escape the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints led by Rulon Jeffs and his son, Warren, and her subsequent decision to take the witness stand against the new prophet of the FLDS in order to protect her little sisters and other young girls from being forced to marry at shockingly young ages.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In this shocking, timely, and inspirational memoir, Elissa Wall details her life growing up in the polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints religious sect, being forced into an unwanted marriage at the age of 14, and her courage to testify against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023, 2022.
Description
"Before she is Potiphar's wife, Zuleika is the daughter of a king and the wife of a prince. She rules the isle of Crete alongside her mother in the absence of their seafaring husbands. But when tragedy nearly destroys Crete, Zuleika must sacrifice her future to save the Minoan people she loves. Zuleika's father believes his robust trade with Egypt will ensure Pharaoh's obligation to marry his daughter, including a bride price hefty enough to save...
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