marriage

Princess Eadlyn has no intention of falling in love with any of the suitors who have come to the palace vying for her affection. But she's surprised by the feelings she begins to develop, and she finds herself facing a decision that is more and important and more difficult than any she's had to make before.

Thirty-five girls are part of the Selection, when the royalty takes suitors for their son, Prince Maxon. These girls will be treated to balls, gowns, jewels--the life of luxury--in order to win the Prince's favor. For America Singer, however, the Selection offers only anxiety. She loves Aspen, even though he is a caste below her. Then, America meets Prince Maxon, and all her plans are ruined.

Princess Eadlyn attempts to choose a prince during her Selection, an event at which suitors compete for her hand, but she worries that she will not be able to make a choice that meets both her own expectations and those of her parents.

In the early 1800s, in a remote corner of England with almost no eligible young men, the eight students at the Winthrop Hopkins Female Academy uncover a mystery while learning all the skills necessary to become a good wife.

Khai Diep has autism and believes he is incapable of having "big" feelings such as love or grief. Rather than attribute this loss of emotion to the autism, he instead considers himself defective and shuts himself off to romantic relationships. His mother then travels back to Vietnam to find him a mail-order bride. She meets Esme Tran, a mixed-race girl who thinks marrying an American man might be the only way to help her family. But as she attempts to teach Khai about the lessons of how to feel love, she feels her own feelings for the man growing, finally realizing that she's in love with a man who can't reciprocate. Khai, for his part, must learn how to unlock his inner emotion or else run the risk of losing Esme forever.

"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.

"Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought"--OCLC.

A gifted poet, Countee Cullen wrote some of the outstanding works of the 1920s.

"Twilight must infiltrate the prestigious Eden Academy to get close to his target Donovan Desmond, but has he ruined his daughter Anya's chances with his outburst during the admissions interview? Perhaps the truly impossible mission this time is making sure Anya both becomes an exemplary student and befriends Donovan's arrogant son Damian!"--Back cover.

Presents the script of the late nineteenth-century drama that examines the human struggle against the humiliating constraints of social conformity.