Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women (which tops today’s Buffet) and its sequels Little Men and Jo’s Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott’s childhood experiences with her three sisters. The sisters learn the hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children’s novel today. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist. She died in Boston.

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Little Women (Illustrated)

Literature & Fiction > Classics

Little Women (Illustrated)

Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy manage to lead interesting lives despite Father’s absence at war and the family’s lack of money. Whether they’re putting on a play or forming a secret society, their gaiety is infectious. Written from Louisa May Alcott’s own experiences, this remarkable novel has been treasured for generations.

Shopping for a Billionaire 1

Romantic Comedy

Shopping for a Billionaire 1

When mystery shopper Shannon Jacoby meets billionaire Declan McCormick with her hand down a toilet in the men’s room of one of his stores, it’s love at first flush in this hilarious new romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Julia Kent. Part 1 of a 4-part series.

Face the Winter Naked

Fiction > Historical

Face the Winter Naked

Daniel Tomelin, a battle-worn veteran haunted by the carnage of the First World War, deserts his family in the Great Depression and goes on the road to seek relief from his soul-shaking trauma. He’s too proud to return and face his loving wife without a job, but LaDaisy is determined to care for their family alone, if that’s what it takes. After leaving his loved ones to cope with a hell he helped create, does Daniel dare show his face again? Sometimes LaDaisy feels like killing him.

The Key (The True Reign Series)

Young Adult > Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Key (The True Reign Series)

Within these pages lie kingdoms with castles and princes who fall in love with fair maidens, but make no mistake, this is no fairytale.

His father’s kingdom is on the brink of upheaval and at the center of it all is an ordinary girl who could be the key to its undoing. When faced with the ultimate choice, will he choose the girl he’s falling in love with or the kingdom he has sworn to protect?

An ordinary girl with an extraordinary past. All she wants is to be free. What she doesn’t realize is that freedom comes with a price she can’t afford to pay. She’s forced to accept the proposal of a prince she despises, even though her heart belongs to someone else…his brother.

Seventeen-year-old Rema lives in a brutal kingdom where travel between regions is forbidden, people are starving, and looking at someone the wrong way can mean death. Nineteen-year-old Darmik is the king’s son and Commander of the King’s Army. He spends his days roving the island, doing his father’s bidding and trying to maintain control over the people. When a chance encounter throws Rema and Darmik together, they share an instantaneous connection, but any sort of relationship between them is strictly forbidden.

Man of Steel (Cold Cases Book 1)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Man of Steel (Cold Cases Book 1)

When twenty-something journalist Joe Jonas is sent to cover a press conference in Texas he figures it’s just another crackpot JFK assassination conspiracy theory. But as he’s half-assing through the legwork he stumbles across something that makes him realize this one might be for real. It gets even better when Abby Reno, a saucy reporter from Austin, insists on working on the story with him.

As Jonas and Reno circle closer to the plot they come to realize that the protectors of the secrets are still on the job and they don’t take prisoners. The bodies pile up while the reporters look over their shoulders wondering if the story of the century is worth their lives.

Some Wildflower In My Heart

Christian Fiction

Some Wildflower In My Heart

Margaret Tuttle’s story is one of love unsought, for she had been perfectly content with the well-ordered and conveniently predictable life she had arranged for herself.But something dark lurks beneath the surface of her placid and uncluttered being, something dusty with neglect, yet painful to the touch. Birdie Freeman is everything Margaret is not: homely, humble, and generous. It is Birdie who manages, through nothing but acts of love, to dredge up Margaret’s memories of things better left buried. Then Margaret discovers that Birdie harbors secrets of her own.

The 30-Day Leadership Management Course

Business & Money > Management & Leadership

The 30-Day Leadership Management Course

The 30-Day Leadership Management Course is simply a practical guide to better leadership, specifically for today’s extremely competitive job market. Leaders are not born; they are trained through systematic steps. Take your first step today!

Each day The 30-Day Leadership Management Course helps you build the necessary skill sets and philosophies to be the leader you need to become and have always wanted to become.

Today’s leaders are looking for practical advice that makes sense in any setting! This is exactly what is provided in this 30-day course. What you will read in this book:

  • Why your core values matter
  • Why followers are great leaders
  • How to become a better problem solver
  • How to make the right decisions
  • Learn how to set priorities
  • Obtain real work/ life balance
  • Create a culture that breeds leaders

The Aromatherapy & Essential Oils Handbook

Alternative Medicine > Aromatherapy

The Aromatherapy & Essential Oils Handbook

If you want to learn about essential oils and aromatherapy, then this is the book you’ve been looking for. This book discusses essential oils and their practical applications in terms that are easy to understand. Buy this book and learn how to unlock the healing powers of essential oils today.

The topics covered in this book include:

  • An introduction to essential oils and their safety.
  • A discussion of what aromatherapy is and how it can help you.
  • 10 helpful tips for newcomers to the world of aromatherapy. These tips are good reminders for seasoned vets as well.
  • What you need to know about the various grades of essential oil and why there’s only one grade you should buy.
  • The chemistry of essential oils. What essential oils are made of and why they’re so good for you.
  • The various ways essential oils are used (includes topical application, consumption and a number of forms of diffusion).
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Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire

Fiction > Historical

Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire

Divorced and down on his luck, Gaius Petreius Ruso has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. In a moment of weakness, after a straight thirtysix-hour shift at the army hospital, he succumbs to compassion and rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla, from the hands of her abusive owner.

Now he has a new problem: a slave who won’t talk and can’t cook, and drags trouble in her wake. Before he knows it, Ruso is caught in the middle of an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar. Now Ruso must summon all his forensic knowledge to find a killer who may be after him next.

With a gift for comic timing and historical detail, Ruth Downie has conjured an ancient world as raucous and real as our own.

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

Parenting & Relationships

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents?

In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question, isolating and analyzing the many ways in which children reshape their parents’ lives, whether it’s their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self. She argues that changes in the last half century have radically altered the roles of today’s mothers and fathers, making their mandates at once more complex and far less clear.

Recruiting from a wide variety of sources—in history, sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, and anthropology—she dissects both the timeless strains of parenting and the ones that are brand new, and then brings her research to life in the homes of ordinary parents around the country. The result is an unforgettable series of family portraits, starting with parents of young children and progressing to parents of teens. Through lively and accessible storytelling, Senior follows these mothers and fathers as they wrestle with some of parenthood’s deepest vexations—and luxuriate in some of its finest rewards.

Flat-Out Love

Romantic Comedy

Flat-Out Love

He was tall, at least six feet, with dirty blond hair that hung over his eyes. His T-shirt read Nietzsche Is My Homeboy.

So, that was Matt.  Who Julie Seagle likes. A lot.  But there is also Finn.  Who she flat out loves.

Complicated? Awkward?  Completely.

But really, how was this freshly-minted Boston transplant and newbie college freshman supposed to know that she would end up living with the family of an old friend of her mother’s? This was all supposed to be temporary.  Julie wasn’t supposed to be important to the Watkins family, or to fall in love with one of the brothers.  Especially the one she’s never quite met. But what does that really matter?  Finn gets her, like no one ever has before. They have connection.

But here’s the thing about love, in all its twisty, bumpy permutations—it always throws you a few curves.  And no one ever escapes unscathed.

Chump Change (A Leo Waterman Mystery)

Mystery > Private Investigators

Chump Change (A Leo Waterman Mystery)

Sometimes it’s the things you don’t do that come back to haunt you, just as surely as some questions are best left unanswered.

When “Leo” is the last word a stranger speaks, the Seattle private eye launches himself into a search for answers. Not only does the dead man have a connection to Leo’s past, but he was also worth millions—and some very dangerous people know it. Before long, Leo is caught between warring factions in a high-stakes game of mayhem and murder, and his search for answers becomes a quest for justice. Turns out, finding the truth is far more painful than Leo ever imagined, and the price for uncovering it just might be his life.

War Brides

Historical Fiction

War Brides

With war threatening to spread from Europe to England, the sleepy village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. The tightening vice of rationing curtails every comfort. Men leave to fight and die. And five women forge an unlikely bond of friendship that will change their lives forever.

Alice Osbourne, the stolid daughter of the late vicar, is reeling from the news that Richard Fairfax broke their engagement to marry Evangeline Fontaine, an American girl from the Deep South. Evangeline’s arrival causes a stir in the village—but not the chaos that would ensue if they knew her motives for being there. Scrappy Elsie Pigeon is among the poor of London who see the evacuations as a chance to escape a life of destitution. Another new arrival is Tanni Zayman, a young Jewish girl who fled the horrors of Europe and now waits with her newborn son, certain that the rest of her family is safe and bound to show up any day. And then there’s Frances Falconleigh, a madcap, fearless debutante whose father is determined to keep her in the countryside and out of the papers.

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