HE MAY BE HER ONLY HOPE.
SHE MAY BE HIS LAST CHANCE.
Miranda Wentworth never imagined becoming a mail-order bride. Now marriage to a stranger is her only hope of finding a home where she and her two younger brothers can escape the brutality of the Chicago orphanage where they live. With any [...]

"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER
A DESPERATE DECEPTION
THE PROMISE OF FOREVER
When Karl Norwood's mail-order bride meets an untimely demise on the way to the Montana Territory, Hetty Wentworth steps in to take her place. Hetty has no idea how she's going to pretend to be all the things she i[...]

A new life, a second chance
Inheriting a practically derelict sheep ranch in Montana wouldn't be considered a windfall for most people. But for Harriet Allistair, it was perfect. The exact challenge to prove to her family and herself that she wasn't a failure, that she could be someone.
And [...]

"New York Times" bestselling author Joan Johnston is known for her vivid characterization, compelling stories and powerful, appealing men. Here are two classic stories that prove she's earned the acclaim
THE VIRGIN GROOM
He was every kid's idol, every man's envy, every woman's fantasy. And [...]

"The Virgin Groom"
He was every kid's idol, every man's envy, every woman's fantasy. And then Mac Macready's fiancee dumped him, and his future was looking mighty uncertain. The most shocking thing of all was that the only woman who could save him was notorious Jewel Whitelaw....
"The Substit[...]

"New York Times" bestselling author Joan Johnston has delighted millions of readers with her heartwarming tales set in the American West...
Hope
Hope Butler is about to watch the man of her dreams, Jake Whitelaw, marry another woman--unless she finds Faith
Faith has always been more conc[...]

Winner of four major awards, this updated edition of Joan Jacobs Brumberg's Fasting Girls, presents a history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century. Here is a tableau of female self-denial: medieval martyrs who used starvation to demonstrate religious devotion, "wonders[...]

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"Stress. It is everywhere around us. Even worse, it gets inside us: sapping our energy, undermining our health, and making us more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn's renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this groundbreaking book sh[...]

Examines the instinctual and mental sources of hate, greed, aggression, love, guilt, and reparation and probes the natural human desire for balance between positive and destructive forces[...]