Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...

Better known for her novels „Little Women" and „Little Men", Louisa May Alcott continued the story of her feisty protagonist Jo in this final novel chronicling the adventures and misadventures of the March family. It is the only Alcott novel that has not had a film adaption. Originally published in 1886, two years before Ms. Alcott's death, Jo's boys follows the lives of the young men readers came to love and cherish in its prequel. In it, we...

In 1905, while pursuing her dreams of becoming an artist, the twelve-year-old daughter of the Cape Light lighthouse keeper learns the value of family, home, and friendship.

In Cape Light, Christmas brings unexpected gifts that will never be forgotten as a wounded soldier returns home from the war in Afghanistan and a fiercely independent woman and mother finds the tables turned on her and her old friend.

Thomas Kinkade's novel, the first in a trilogy, invites you to a small New England town that will stir your soul just as his paintings have stirred your imagination. Visit Cape Light and meet the delightful townsfolk whose lives are intertwined by faith, community and love. Most people in Cape Light are a happy sort. But one person who has not been enchanted by this picturesque village is Emily's sister, Jessica, who has come to help care for their...