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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A seamstress in Gana, Afi Tekple is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claims is inappropriate. But Afi is not prepared for the shift her life takes when she comes to live in Accra, Ghana's gleaming capital, where she has days of nothing to do...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
How do you find lasting love in today's world? For documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe, swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr. Wrongs, to her eccentric mother Cath's dismay. For Zoe's childhood friend and neighbor Kaz, the answer is to follow his parents' example and opt for an arranged (or "assisted") marriage to a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan. As Zoe films his hopeful journey from London to Lahore to marry...
43) Ayesha at last
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Berkley trade edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn't want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid who is just as smart and handsome as he is...
45) Hello, Dolly
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c1969
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Musical set in the 1890's about a professional matchmaker who meets her match.
46) The Proposal
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
High-powered book editor Maggie is everyone's worst nightmare: ruthless, driven, and tactless. When she finds herself faced with deportation back to Canada, she coerces her much younger assistant into marrying her. However, when the government becomes suspicious, they embark upon a charade in order to make the marriage seem legitimate.
47) Marry me
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A betrayed pop star, slated to marry her pop star fiancée on stage, instead marries a stranger from the audience, a high school math teacher. Against the odds, their sham relationship develops into something real, but can their love survive the limelight?
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
281 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"All Amanda Jett©♭ Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father, and while her mother and stepfather were loving parents, the situation was sometimes chaotic. At school, she was bullied mercilessly, and at the age of fourteen, she entered a counselling program for alcohol addiction and was successful. While still a teenager, she met the love of her life. They were wed at 20, and the first of three children followed...
49) Lady Macbeth
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rural England, 1865. Katherine is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family are cold and unforgiving. When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband's estate, a force is unleashed inside her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
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