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  <title><![CDATA[A Bride Most Begrudging]]></title>
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  <default_description>When Lady Constance Morrow finds herself held against her will aboard a ship bound for the American colonies-a ship filled with &quot;tobacco brides&quot; and felons-she is quite sure that as soon as she arrives she will find a reasonable man who will believe her father is an earl and send her back on the next ship to England. Instead she meets Drew O'Connor, a determined Colonial farmer who is nearly as headstrong as she is. Drew wins Constance as his bride but soon realizes he has taken on much more than he bargained for</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">7</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2005</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>A Bride Most Begrudging</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Deeanne Gist]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a book club selection...a book that I had heard about over and over again. In a few words it is clean historical romantic fiction. A gripper and a page turner it is not. Just a nice easy read.<br/><br/>The story is about Lady Constance Morrow who has gone to say farewell to her uncle who ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41758526">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28719127">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[08/05/08<br/>TITLE/AUTHOR:  A BRIDE MOST BEGRUDGING by Deeanne Gist<br/>RATING: currently reading <br/>GENRE/PUB DATE/# OF PGS:  Inspirational Fiction/2005/347 pgs<br/>SERIES/STAND ALONE: Stand Alone <br/>TIME/PLACE:   1643/UK &amp; Virginia<br/>CHARACTERS: Lady Constance Morrow/daughter of an Ear...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28719127">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Feb 09 12:39:57 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 09 12:45:23 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great romance.  The whole book makes your even your toes tickle, but it is completely clean!  The romance is the best kind, it is in the conversation and in their actions. <br/><br/>I have read other Christian romances that laid the whole religion thing on way to thick, but this was just...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45848663">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51705476">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 06 11:51:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 06 11:54:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has you hooked at the beginning, slows down a little in the middle, but the end is exciting.  Definately worth the read.  In fact I find myself thinking about what life would have been like in early Jamestown...]]></body>
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    <review id="68791145">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Aug 24 23:52:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[fabulous book! Had just the right amount of humor, love, excitment and history rolling into one. Constance is the daughter of an Earl, but when she goes to bid her felon uncle farewell to the America's, she's kidnapped and taken too as one of the tobacco brides, but for a higher price.She is sold, b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68791145">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54101621">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Apr 27 03:24:56 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 27 03:45:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm almost ashamed to admit that I read this entire book.  It was recommended to me by a friend, and I really kind of enjoyed it. (Did I admit to that?) It is a &quot;historical fiction/christian romance&quot; (which I did not even know had its own genre) about a noble lady that ends up as a &quot;t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54101621">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43610900">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 19 13:44:41 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 19 14:00:34 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read &quot;The Measure of a Lady&quot; by the same author and enjoyed it, so I decided to read this one also.  It was the first book written by the author, though the two books are unrelated other than both being historical romances.  I thought this one flowed a bit better than her second bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43610900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36543925">
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  <date_added>Thu Oct 30 05:54:53 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 30 06:02:19 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for Book Club and I thought it was ok, except for a few things.  It just kept going and going, one crazy crisis after another.  Plus sometimes the main characters seemed dense to me.  I just felt like I was on a roller coaster of problems the whole time, instead of really concentrat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36543925">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74800825">
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 17 00:23:38 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 17 00:23:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Much better than expected <br/>I got this book in a book-swapping-deal. Afterwards I found out, that the novel was awarded with a Christian literature award and grew a little apprehensive. For when I read a novel, I do it solely for fun and not for being &quot;instructed&quot; or preached to.  Then...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74800825">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56626493">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 19 10:52:18 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 19 11:00:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very few books do I give a full 5 stars. I would really like to give this book a 3 1/2 star rating.  This was a good read...but not necessarily a very light read...there's a surprise near the end.  There was a short part about 3/4 of the way in (about a chapter long) where I felt the book should hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56626493">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75516128">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stephanie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wrapped around this romantic plot, is a intriguing look into colonial life during the early settlement years.  The interaction between Constance, an intelligent young woman from England's upper class, and Drew, a hardened tobacco farmer in rural Virginia, reminds me a lot of a Jane Austin novel.  Lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75516128">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My friend lent this to me and I read it in two days.  I found myself laughing a great deal at things that the characters said (such as when the leading lady dubs a turtle &quot;Governor Hopkins&quot; and then tries to behead him.  Gov. Hopkins had just forced her to get married and she wasn't happy ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72189712">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61820062">
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    <body><![CDATA[Again, I really enjoyed Deeanne Gist's first novel. The heroine is a English lady kidnapped onto a ship to be sold as a tobacco bride in the Virginia colony. And she writes, and invents, creative mathematical story problems about regular everyday life (spiders crawling around the cabin, etc.) How ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61820062">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73959722">
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    <name><![CDATA[Brenda]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, so I didn't even know there was a genre like this. Historical Fiction/Christian Romance? I LOVED the Historical Fiction part. It's so fun to read about how people lived without the luxuries in life and the challenges and dangers of frontier living. The Christian Romance part was good too. It's a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73959722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46322915">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jun 17 19:45:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[     My friend Jenn let me borrow this book.  I took it on vacation and really enjoyed it.  It was a fun read.  It was about a purchased bride.  I found this to be very interesting, because apparently this was something that did happen in those days, purchasing a bride?  (That is just so crazy).  Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46322915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13914381">
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    <name><![CDATA[Becky]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Mar 07 15:12:35 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmm...where do I begin with this book?  It was very entertaining.  I can definitely give it that.<br/><br/>The best part of the book, for me personally, was the use of mathematics as a form of flirtation.  I found that unique twist both creative and endearing.  There was something special about t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13914381">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9143028">
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    <body><![CDATA[I would say only read this book if you're really desparate for clean historical romantic fiction. it's pretty groan-inducingly bad--as in, paragraphs and even pages skipped bad. it's set in Virginia early colonial days. I enjoyed hearing a little bit about the daily life of that time, and Native Ame...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9143028">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great book by Deeanne Gist. I read these three books (Measure of a Lady and Bride in the Bargain) in reverse order but since they do not share characters it didn't end up mattering.  This book takes place in the early colonial days when women were brought to the New World to finish out priso...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64557891">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess I'd give this one 2.5 stars. It was kind of a fun little romance, but then the writing style was kind of annoying, particularly how the author had the 3-year old speak. It also got way too cheesy and dramatic for me and I got tired of all the little prayers thrown in there - not because I ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63964101">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an enjoyable book with some sweet characters. I was shocked to learn about some of the practices that happened in colonial America (buying brides with tobacco) and some of the mind-sets the people had. It was interesting to learn about, because I definitely don't know much about America bef...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75805778">more...</a>]]></body>
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