Yuma Public Library

"Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief. Rather than believing he processes emotions differently due to being autistic, he concludes that he's defective and decides to avoid romantic relationships. So his mother, driven to desperation, takes matters into her own hands and returns to...

Patience Smith only intends to war Lenore's wedding dress for a few minutes, but when a kidnapper snatches Patience away in a case of mistaken identity, she finds herself lost in the mountains of Colorado.

Kat and Nell Sinclair are headed west - away from the manicured lawns of Maine to the booming mine town of Cripple Creek, Colorado, to start new lives for themselves as mail-order brides. Romantic dreamer Nell imagines an exciting and love-filled future, while pragmatic Kat resigns herself to marriage as a duty. But when the ladies disembark at the train depot neither fianc ǎwaits them, leaving the sisters unexpectedly alone in the wild, frontier...

Alone on the range, cowboy Slim Jim Watkins meets a Pony Express rider returning a mail order bride and finds himself a pardner with whom he can share conversation.

"On the 1880s Kansas prairie, Silas and Kate both harbor resentment over their previous failed mail-order engagements, but when a young boy loses his mother and needs their help, they must attempt to move beyond past hurts and find healing together"--

In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.