Deeanne Gist
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Series
Brides series (Deeanne Gist) volume 5
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English
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Anna Ivey's journey west with Asa Mercer's girls is an escape from the griefs of her past. She's not supposed to be a bride, though, just a cook for the girls. But when they land, she's handed to Joe Denton and the two find themselves in a knotty situation. She refuses to wed him and he's about to lose his land. With only a few months left, can Joe convince this provoking--but beguiling--easterner to be his bride?
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English
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From the day she arrives at the Biltmore, Tillie Reese is dazzled - by the riches of the Vanderbilts and by Mack Danvers, a mountain man turned footman. When Tillie is enlisted to help tame Mack's rugged behavior by tutoring him in the ways of refined society, the resulting sparks threaten Tillie's efforts to be chosen as Edith Vanderbilt's lady's maid. But the stakes rise even higher when Mack and Tillie become entangled in a cover-up at the town...
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Series
Brides series (Deeanne Gist) volume 3
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English
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Tired of Waiting for a Match-Made-in-Heaven, She'll Settle for One Made in Texas Whether it's riding bikes, catching snakes, or sliding down banisters, Essie Spreckelmeyer just can't quite make herself into the ideal woman her hometown--and her mother--expect her to be. It's going to take an extraordinary man to appreciate her joy and spontaneity--or so says her doting oil-man father. Unfortunately such a man doesn't appear to reside in Corsicana,...
4) Beguiled
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English
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When novelists Deeanne Gist and J. Mark Bertrand first met in a Houston critique group, they never expected where friendship would take them. She wrote romance; he wrote crime novels. But growing respect for each other's work culminated in the decision to try blending their talents into this wonderfully engaging story merging romance and mystery. Rylee Monroe walks dogs in old-money Charleston, a part of the city recently targeted by a daring thief....
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"When a glassworker's strike threatened Louis Tiffany's dream of creating his stained glass mosaic chapel, he hand-picked art student Flossie Jayne to help complete the task. As an independent "New Woman" she races to complete the Tiffany chapel and make a name for herself in the art world--and learns some important lessons about life and love"--
7) Fair play
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A lady doctor and a Texas Ranger meet at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Despite their difference of opinion on the role of women, they fight for the underprivileged children in the nineteenth Ward.
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Series
Brides series (Deeanne Gist) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Rachel van Buren arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with two wishes: to protect her younger siblings and to return east as soon as possible. Both goals prove more difficult than she could imagine as her brother and sister are lured by the city's dangerous freedom and a missionary-turned-gambler stakes a claim on her heart. Rachel won't give up without a fight though, and soon all will learn an eloquent but humorous lesson about what truly makes a...
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Deutsch
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North Carolina, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts: Als die junge Tillie Reese ihre Stelle in Biltmore House antritt, ist sie von dem Luxus fasziniert, der sie dort umgibt. Und von Mack Danvers, einem alles andere als angepassten jungen Mann aus den Bergen, der anfängt, im Haushalt der Familie Vanderbilt zu arbeiten. Als Tillie den Auftrag bekommt, Mack Benehmen beizubringen, funkt es zwischen den beiden. Doch ist die junge Frau bereit, sich von ihrem Lebenstraum...
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Series
Brides series (Deeanne Gist) volume 4
Language
English
Description
A Texas-Sized Tale of Unexpected Love... Essie Spreckelmeyer is the last woman anyone in Corsicana, Texas, expected to see with a man on her arm. Independent and outspoken, she's known more for riding bicycles in outrageous bloomers than for catching a man's eye. And the last man who seems willing to give her a second glance is Tony Morgan, newly hired at Spreckelmeyer's oil company. The disinherited son of an oil baron, Tony wants most to restore...
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Deutsch
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Texas, 1904: Die junge Telefonistin Georgie Gail ist stolz auf ihre Unabhängigkeit und darauf, dass sie sich in der Männerwelt ihres kleinen Ortes behaupten kann. Deshalb ärgert sie sich gleich doppelt, als die Telefongesellschaft ihr einen Techniker vor die Nase setzt, der ihr auf die Finger schauen soll.
Doch der gutaussehende Luke Palmer ist alles andere als ein erfahrener Telefonist. In Wirklichkeit ist er ein Gesetzeshüter, der auf der Spur...
Author
Series
Brides series (Deeanne Gist) volume 1
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When Lady Constance Morrow finds herself held against her will aboard a ship bound for the American colonies--a ship filled with "tobacco brides" and felons--she is quite sure that as soon as she arrives she will find a reasonable man who will believe her father is an earl and send her back on the next ship to England. Instead she meets Drew O'Connor, a determined Colonial farmer who is nearly as headstrong as she is. Drew wins Constance as his bride...