marriage

Celeste, a member of The Movement, where polygamy is the norm and women are often married off to much older men, is repulsed by her community's practices and struggles to find a way to break free of their rigid rules and expectations without bringing shame to her family.

Presents the text of Shakespeare's classic play about a creditor who demands a pound of flesh in payment for a defaulted debt and a lover who must solve a riddle to win the woman of his dreams.

In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.

Seventeen-year-old Lori is convinced that marrying Rick right after graduation is what she most wants in the world and that participating in the simulated marriage unit of their Consumer Economics class will only help them start their marriage on the right foot.

In 1384 England, seventeen-year-old Evangeline, ward and cousin of King Richard II, tries to escape from an arranged marriage, dreaming of a life outside Berkhamsted Castle, where she might be free to marry for love and not politics, but when she runs away and joins a small band of servants on their way back to their home village, she finds herself embroiled in a tangled web that threatens England's monarch.

"Twenty years have passed since America Singer and Prince Maxon fell in love, and their daughter is the first princess to hold a selection of her own"--Provided by publisher.

"The divorce has just become final, and Richard is already engaged to someone. One woman is determined to change that situation--no matter what it takes. Soon a tangle of lies binds her life with those of Richard and his new fianc?. A tangle of lies--that hide some dangerous truths."--OCLC.

"Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife, Mary, spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never even met their young daughter. And he will never again see his friend and fellow soldier who didn't make it back home. But on Christmas, the one day Mary is not at his bedside, Eden's re-ordered consciousness comes flickering alive. As he begins to find a way to communicate, some troubling truths about his marriage and about his life before he went to war, com to the surface."--Provided by publisher.

Presents two novellas in which a prince and a guard are fighting to win the love of sixteen-year-old America Singer. Presented in Spanish.

"Karluk has left home to become a man. For four months, he's off to learn falconry from Amir's brothers, living with them at their winter camp. As his training commences, what will Karluk learn about himself, and Amir, in the process?"--Publisher marketing.