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Publisher
The Marriage Brokers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A SUITABLE GIRL follows three young Indian women struggling to maintain their identities and follow their dreams amid intense pressure to get married. Documenting the arranged marriage and matchmaking process in verite for over four years, the film examines the women's complex relationship with marriage, family, and society.
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Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ophelia, who can travel through mirrors, is betrothed to an influential member of a faraway clan, she journeys to the towering city of Citaceleste, where she realizes she has become a pawn in a dangerous political game.
4) Roar
Author
Series
Stormheart volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Raised to rule, despite not having the abilities her ancestors did, Aurora becomes betrothed to a prince who possesses the magic needed to keep the kingdom safe.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anjali Bose's prospects don't look great. Born into a traditional lower-middle‑class family, she lives in a backwater town with only an arranged marriage on the horizon. But her ambition, charm, and fluency in language do not go unnoticed by her charismatic and influential expat teacher Peter Champion. And champion her he does, both to powerful people who can help her along the way and to Anjali herself, stirring in her a desire to take charge...
6) Ixcanul
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Mayan
Description
In Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for a seventeen-year-old Kaqchikel girl by her parents.
Author
Series
Weekday brides volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Blake needs a wife in order to keep his inheritance and offers Samantha ten million dollars for a one year marriage contract. It was a marriage contract the planned for everything ... except falling in love"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. In the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Cathedral. She has produced a monster of stick and snow who will do her bidding-- and exact her revenge. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, fled to the human world and lives in the woods. When she is chased through the streets by the hag Bogdana, Suren is saved by Prince Oak, the heir to Elfhame-- and the boy...
Author
Series
Glittering Court volume 3
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Tamsin Wright will do anything to reach the Glittering Court's top ranks and, even after a shipwreck exposes her to new cultures and beliefs, holds tight to the secret that would unravel everything if uncovered.
10) One heart to win
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Tiffany reluctantly travels to 1880s Montana Territory to end a family feud, a journey during which a train robbery and a case of mistaken identity lands her in her alluring fiance's ranch home.
11) Sweet land
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Set in post-World War I Minnesota, a German woman arrives to meet the man she is to marry but the anti-German climate in the town creates obstacles for them.
13) Meet the Patels
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ravi Patel, early thirty years old gets help from his family to start looking for a wife in the traditional Indian way.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Miriam, sixteen, is chosen for marriage by someone other than the boy she loves and begins to question her entire life in New Jerusalem, a desert compound safe from the world's evils.
Miriam lives in New Jerusalem, a haven in the desert far away from the sins and depravity of the outside world. Under the eye of its founder and leader, Daniel, Miriam knows she is safe. Cared for. So when God calls for a Matrimony, she's thrilled; she knows that Caleb,...
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Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Channi was not born a monster. But when her own father offers her in sacrifice to the Demon Witch, she is forever changed. Cursed with a serpent s face, Channi is the exact opposite of her beautiful sister, Vanna the only person in the village who looks at Channi and doesn t see a monster. The only person she loves and trusts. Now seventeen, Vanna is to be married off in a vulgar contest that will enrich the coffers of the village leaders. Only Channi,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian -- born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness -- is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations -- looking, listening, touching, and asking -- something a man can never do with a female...
Author
Series
Star-touched queen volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Treated with scorn and fear in her father's kingdom because of a formidable horoscope, 16-year-old Maya commits herself to her education only to land in an arranged marriage that culminates in her sudden elevation to the throne, a situation that is threatened by dark secrets and Otherworldly magic.
Author
Series
Castles in their bones volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old triplets Princesses Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz, each with her own secret skill and wish, begin arranged marriages to princes of neighboring nations to fulfill their mother's intention to reign over the continent.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When the Earl of Rule proposes marriage to her sister Lizzie, Horatia offers herself instead. Her sister is already in love with someone else, and Horatia is willing to sacrifice herself for her family's happiness. Everyone knows she's no beauty, but she'll do her best to keep out of the Earl's way and make him a good wife. And then the Earl's archenemy, Sir Robert, sets out to ruin her reputation.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since she is in love with her girlfriend Ariana--but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and a world of tradition and arranged marriages, and she must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own path.
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