Sometimes being a mail order bride means uncovering secrets you'd rather leave hidden…Belle Reid ran away from her old life only to find her new one lacking. Her abusive husband is gone, but his memory still haunts her. The women of Angel's Reach are like family, but she needs more. She wants a real family. A husband, children… love.She longs for children to nurture… to give what she never had. But when she answers an ad for a mail order bride, she gets the surpris...

Being a mail order bride is not easy, especially when you're an Indian.Alice Baker was born Indian, but she was abandoned as an infant.She was raised by a white family but could never disguise her Indian heritage.Never fitting in has taken its toll.When an opportunity arises that might finally bring her the answers she's been searching for, she takes it.There's just one catch.

A history of courage and collective action inside the most powerful newsrooms in AmericaIn 1971, Susan Smith, a young researcher at Reader’s Digest, dared to imagine herself as an editor. Her ambition was swiftly dismissed by a hiring manager who told her, “Single girls just don’t do well in this job.” Crushed—and then furious—Smith sought out Harriet Rabb, the attorney who had successfully sued Newsweek for sex discrimination just a year earlier....

Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production, distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions have significant consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously.In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food crime. Through discussions of food safety, food fraud, food insecurity, agricultural labou...

The biggest regret a mail order bride can have is saying no to love…Velma Ivy never thought she'd love an outlaw.Or consider becoming a mail order bride.But Morgan isn't the man he used to be.He's done his time and is ready to prove he's changed.When he asks Velma to marry him, she wants to say yes, but she bows to the pressure from her Angel's Reach friends.And sends him a goodbye letter instead...

FROM THE STAR OF THE PHENOMENAL NETFLIX SHOW, ADOLESCENCE, COMES A POWERFUL MEMOIR, PACKED WITH INSPIRING STORIES AND HARD-EARNED WISDOM FOR LIFE'S MOST CHALLENGING MOMENTS.“I wanted to write this book for that person who feels like the world doesn’t understand what life is like for them. I want to be honest about where I have been and how I have got to where I am. Because we can’t be what we can’t see.” – Ashley WaltersFrom Adolescence and Top Boy to So So...

Seeds of Sustainability is a groundbreaking analysis of agricultural development and transitions toward more sustainable management in one region. An invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, and students alike, it examines new approaches to make agricultural landscapes healthier for both the environment and people.The Yaqui Valley is the birthplace of the Green Revolution and one of the most intensive agricultural regions of the world, using irrigation, fertilize...

Some mail-order brides have secrets... sometimes, so do their husbands.Cadence Fairbanks was supposed to be a mail-order bride, until things went wrong.She'd left her old life behind her and tried to start over, but the man she was supposed to marry is back.He wants a second chance.Cadence doesn't know if she loves him anymore.Or does she?Austin Wilkes has to prove himself t...

Sometimes the best gunslingers are angels...Estelle Eaton's been married before.She learned long ago that she shouldn't trust men …Especially as a mail order bride.But this time, things will be different. Estelle's going to the West.Her past is gone. She has a clean slate. A new husband.When her wagon train is attacked by bandits, Estelle's wagon is left behind.She and four ...

Evelyn Fry's own father sold her to clear his poker debts. Abused, neglected, and looked down on, Evelyn's new life is worse than her old one.She escapes the only way she can—by answering an ad for a mail order bride.Frank Cannon isn't what she expected. A one-armed rancher and with two small children.Sullen and moody, Frank won't touch her. Won't hold her. Won't even look her in the eye. All because of his past.Until one day, everything changes…

When Sylvia left home to marry a man she'd never met, she took solace in the fact she'd never be alone. And what is shocking is that this stranger is no stranger at all. Glenn is the last man Sylvia wants to marry. He is her first love. He is the man she is still in love with ever since the day he left her for a job on the paddlewheel steamboat.But no other man will deal with her drooping face and physical limitations. For better or worse, she and Glenn are in this together. Glenn ...

Sometimes a mail order bride needs to be saved… and sometimes she has to do the saving.Everything went wrong for Robert.Alone and desperate, he needed a companion. Someone to fill the dark void in his life.He wasn't searching for love, only friendship. He had no idea he would soon find both.Clara was facing her own desperate struggles.A divorced woman with a secret that made her unwanted by most men.The o...