Louisa: 1139 books

Christmas with the Regency Lords and Ladies is Always Unexpected—So Let the Revels Begin Mr. Hunt’s Christmas Caller – After his anticipated betrothal falls apart, Matthias Hunt wants nothing to do with Christmas festivities. Yet, when quiet, demure Constance Blackwell unexpectedly gives...

Step through the portal and enter the world of Faerie. What if you followed a path through a city park, and found yourself in another land? What if the archway you just passed is really a portal to Faerie? What if the guardian of an opening into our world has perished, and left the doorway...

For sharp-tongued food critic Miranda Wake, the chance to spend a month in Adam Temple's kitchen to write an exposé is a journalistic dream come true. Surely Miranda can find a way to cut the hotshot chef down to size once she learns what really goes on at his trendy Manhattan restaurant. But she...

To and fro, like a wild creature in its cage, paced that handsome woman, with bent head, locked hands, and restless steps. Some mental storm, swift and sudden as a tempest of the tropics, had swept over her and left its marks behind. As if in anger at the beauty now proved powerless, all ornaments...

This beautifully illustrated collection includes five classic masterpieces. Readers set out with timid Mole as he explores the world, learning about courage and friendship through a series of misadventures with Rat, Toad, and Badger in The Wind in the Willows. From the River Bank, tumble down the...

The room fronted the west, but a black cloud, barred with red, robbed the hour of twilight's tranquil charm. Shadows haunted it, lurking in corners like spies set there to watch the man who stood among them mute and motionless as if himself a shadow. His eye turned often to the window with a glance both...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Set ten years after ‘Little Men’, ‘Jo’s Boys’ is the final novel in the unofficial series that follows the ups and downs of the March family. The Plumfield boys – including rebellious Dan, sailor...

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg,...

As authors may be supposed to know better than anyone else what they intended to do when writing a book, I beg leave to say that there is no moral to this story. Rose is not designed for a model girl, and the Sequel was simply written in fulfillment of a promise, hoping to afford some amusement, and perhaps here and there a helpful hint, to other roses getting ready to bloom.

Sixty years ago, up among the New Hampshire hills, lived Farmer Bassett, with a house full of sturdy sons and daughters growing up about him. They were poor in money, but rich in land and love, for the wide acres of wood, corn, and pasture land fed, warmed, and clothed the flock, while mutual patience, affection, and courage made the old farm-house a very happy home.

Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, reindeer, snow, Christmas trees, egg nog and more. At the same time, it represents Christianity's most important event, the birth of the baby Jesus. Instantly, well known Christmas carols ring in your...

Beautiful Meg, tomboy Jo, shy Beth and headstrong Amy are the March sisters four young ladies growing up in America during the Civil War. Their father is away in the army and the three eldest girls must work to help their mother. Meg dreams of owning a luxurious home, while Jo wants to become a famous...

The story of an ambitious woman who wants to achieve financial success at the cost of her relative's integrity. A narrative that shows that true love can conquer all has been presented here. From the beginning the story is captivating and entertaining!

This brilliant work by Alcott is testament to her modernistic attitudes. Life of Rose the protagonist her relationships with her male cousins as well as her independence and feminism have been presented here. Rich and rather sheltered she faces the same peer pressure temptations and problems with friends and romance. With simple narration and realistic plot this masterpiece is worth reading.