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Little Women
It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the "girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.
QUIRKS
In this groundbreaking book, Fortune 500 innovation guru and creativity instructor Bryan Mattimore takes readers on a journey through time to explore the unique personality quirks, and crazy ideas of history's greats. Beginning each of QUIRKS 40 chapter with a surprising but TRUE personality quirk from one of history's greatest minds, Mattimore then uses artificial intelligence to create a fun and entertaining read by dimensionalizing this true personality quirk in a variety of creative formats including, songs, poems, ads , essays and even jokes.
The Corporate Hippie
The Corporate Hippie is about a paradigm shift that is happening in corporate America. It's time for conscious leaders to be activating their hearts, trusting their intuition, and building teams that celebrate the individual's uniqueness. These concepts aren’t New Age; they are a way of living and working in an environment that fosters growth, celebrates your uniqueness, and provides a safe space for you to be you and those around you to be their authentic selves while bringing in love, harmony, and joy to the workplace. AND Money......
Karma Under Fire

Two societies collide: the trendy, upscale, ultra-hip universe of Atlanta and the alluring, bound-by-tradition world of old India!

Pressured by her challenging mother, Harlow Kennedy, an aspiring jewelry maker, agrees to marry politically ambitious pretty-boy Addison Whitmore. The match will elevate Harlow's non-existent social standing and guarantee financial security for life. The wedding is scheduled to take place as soon as Harlow returns from her BFF's wedding in India.

On the other side of the world, the parents of Tej Mayur, the "it" chef of Atlanta's hottest new Indian restaurant, are fretting about their son's unmarried status. They summon him home.

When Harlow meets Tej on a flight from Atlanta to Delhi, sparks fly. Unfortunately, Tej's nuptials are already being arranged by his privileged East Indian family, and Harlow is not Indian. After touching down at Indira Gandhi International, they flee one another's company--or so they think.

Karma Under Fire transports readers across the globe, and like Mississippi Masala and Crazy Rich Asians, at its core it's a vibrant heartwarming story about two young people's search for love while they navigate the uncertain path between passion and tradition.

Sora Searches For A Song
As the symphony floated above, Sora searched deep inside for a song. But nothing came. Melodies tickled across Sora’s toes, legs, and back as the little cricket searched in vain. Then a stern voice pierced the song, and the music stopped. “Someone’s not singing.” Discover one little cricket’s beautiful pursuit of inspiration. Listeners are invited to stretch, balance, jump, and move along with the creatures in this delightful story of perseverance and celebrating your own unique voice. An enchanting sound-enhanced resource perfect for kindergarten and first-grade classrooms, dance teachers, and families at home.
French Holiday
One (crumbling) French castle. Two enemies-at-first-sight. The holiday of a lifetime. Merry DeLuca has a problem-a big problem. Her sister just married her best friend and the only man she's ever loved. Her life is rapidly spiraling down the drain and she doesn't have an escape plan. So when Merry is offered a three-month holiday living in a romantic castle in the French countryside she leaps at the chance. Merry knows her French holiday will fix everything-there will be mouthwatering pastries, delicious (meaningless) flirtations, and languid strolls through vineyards at sunset. Her holiday will be perfect. At least, Merry believes that until she arrives and finds Noah Wright-the best man at her sister's wedding and the worst man she's ever known-staying in her castle. Famous travel documentarian by day and arrogant devil by night, Noah refuses to leave the castle. Which means that Merry and Noah are stuck together in France, in a crumbling castle, in a holiday where nothing goes right. Not for Merry and not for Noah. So they strike a truce-they'll live as cohabitating friends for three-months, and then they'll amicably part ways, never to see each other again. But the thing about friendship? Sometimes secrets are uncovered. Mysteries revealed. Hearts laid bare. And friendship can start to feel a lot like caring. A lot like love. It can even make you wish that the holiday never has to end.
Trust Your Intuition
A delicate combination of stories, inspiration, self-help, and insight. This book reminds the reader to look inside for the answer. Don’t give your power away and ask what everybody else thinks, trust yourself. Know that your ‘gut’ is real, and accurate.
Mastering Resilience
In this practical and groundbreaking book, Dr. Lorry Leigh Belhumeur, known by her clients, students, and colleagues as Dr. Resilience, delivers the precise 8-ingredient recipe for transforming adversity into resilience, purpose, and success. Are you ready to break free from limiting thoughts and habits that keep you stuck? Based on her life experience and 30 years of work with children, teachers, therapists, parents, and caregivers, Dr. Lorry knows that adversity is transformable. In fact, she believes that people who’ve experienced the greatest childhood adversity are often the ones called to be cycle breakers and leaders for the next generation. This book will give anyone who senses there is more to life, more to contribute, more to enjoy- the strategies and tools to thrive- to become super resilient and to empower others to do the same.
The Paradox of Debt

Wall Street Journal Bestseller
USA Today Bestseller
Amazon Bestseller

When we talk about debt and its impact on our economy, we almost always mean “government debt.” However, this is only a small part of the picture: individuals, private firms, and households owe trillions, and these private debts are vital to understanding the economy.

In this iconoclastic book, Richard Vague examines the assets, liabilities, and incomes of the entire country, private and public sector, to reveal its net worth. His holistic analysis shows that the real factor that drives both financial crises and spiraling inequality—but also, paradoxically, economic growth—is ever rising private debt. The paradox is that while debt is essential and our economy relies on it, it also brings instability unless it is periodically deleveraged—and that is very hard to do. It can, however, be carefully managed, and Vague ends the book by showing how to do so in policy areas ranging from trade and housing to financial policy and student debt.

Underpinned by pioneering data analysis and the author’s lifetime of experience in the financial world, this book is essential for anyone who wants to understand the deep, underlying dynamics of the American economy.

Underjungle
It's like you can better learn how to be a fish through this book. It's going to be a beautiful finished book, but also the learned and lived experience of an author who's spent hours upon hours working underwater. 

- Collaborating with the Explorers Club and Oceans Future Society, Bedside Reading! 

- Manhattan Bookstore event, Franklin Park Reading Series, Brooklyn Book Fest, Explorers Club event, Oceana Gala, SF, Hawaii bookstore, Kauai Book Festival, Diving Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA) New Orleans.

Child Bride
In the segregated South of the mid-1900s, fourteen-year-old Nell bears witness to a world that embraces the oppression of women. Married off when she turns sixteen, she journeys from the South to the city of Boston, where she must quickly learn first how to be a wife to a controlling and emotionally abusive husband, and then a mother.

After giving birth to three children, Nell’s body begins to fail her. Her husband, concerned for her health, pulls away from her physically. But this void of intimacy drives Nell into the arms of another man, Charles— an encounter that leads to another pregnancy, and another unanticipated adventure for Nell.
A Delightful Little Book On Aging
All around us, older women flourish in industry, entertainment, and politics. Do they know something that we don’t, or are we all just trying to figure it out? For so many of us, our hearts and minds still feel that we are twenty-something young women who can take on the world. But in our bodies, the flexibility and strength that were once taken for granted are far from how we remember them. Every day we have to rise above the creaky joints and achy knees to earn the opportunity of moving through the world with a modicum of grace. Yet we do rise, because it’s a privilege to grow old, and every single day is a gift. Peter Pan’s mantra was “never grow up”; our collective mantra should be “never stop growing.” This collection of user-friendly stories, essays, and philosophies invites readers to celebrate whatever age they are with a sense of joy and purpose and with a spirit of gratitude.
Ice Out
Francesca Bodin’s near perfect life is upended when a snowmobiling accident lands her, her husband Ben, and their four-year-old daughter in frozen lake. When he gets out, leaving them to die, she realizes her life isn’t as perfect as she thought it was.

Francesca Bodin has a near-perfect life as an accomplished music teacher and professional flutist living in the Vermont countryside with her husband Ben, and their four-year old daughter, Addie. This ends suddenly when a snowmobiling accident traps the three of them in a frozen lake. Ben, after escaping onto the ice, leaves her and Addie to die.

Francesca believes she sees their dog pull Addie from the lake and drag her into the nearby woods. Desperate to help her daughter, she crawls from the icy waters and follows them. Once she enters the forest, however, she finds herself trapped in a sinister, dream-like world where night never ends, where Addie’s whereabouts remain hidden from her, and where she encounters a group of women who, like Francesca, have been left to die and now seek to unleash their revenge on those who have harmed them. When they have Ben in their sights, Francesca realizes that if she is ever to escape this nightmare and save her daughter, she must first save the husband who abandoned them.

While Francesca’s pilgrimage through this bleak landscape is on the surface a desperate attempt to find her daughter and reestablish her life as it was before the accident, it ultimately becomes an allegorical journey that takes her from despair to hope, from grief to acceptance, and from bitterness to forgiveness.
Making the Rounds
What was it like to survive an illegal abortion, come out as a lesbian, and train to become a doctor in the late 1960s and early ’70s—before Roe v. Wade, before Title IX, and in a largely homophobic nation? In this unflinching and riveting coming-of-age memoir, Patricia Grayhall chronicles her journey from believing she is the only lesbian in Arizona to dipping her toes into dating in San Francisco, attending medical school in Salt Lake City as one of only five women in a class of one hundred, and completing an internship as the only woman in her cohort in Boston. Battling sexism in a male-dominated profession, she plunges into a life that is never boring—and certainly never without passion. Tossed around in the rough seas of medical training, chronically exhausted and emotionally drained, Patricia chafes against the toxic masculinity of the culture of medicine and yearns for the same care and support her male colleagues receive from their wives and girlfriends. But while the sexual revolution and women’s movement in 1970s Boston celebrate female eroticism, they provide few models for moving beyond desire and sustaining a healthy relationship with a woman—Patricia soon discovers that maintaining a loving, stable relationship is not easy. This book, named one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best 100 Indie Books of 2022, is the story of how Patricia navigates these stormy seas without signposts to reach the shores she seeks—often battered, but never broken.
Cheating Death
For the first time outside his private clinic, medical practitioner and pioneer Dr. Rand McClain shares what you can start doing today to increase longevity and better your health—at home or at your doctor’s office.

In this golden age of medical discovery, cutting-edge treatments are emerging that increase longevity, stave off disease, and enhance our appearance and quality of life—our “healthspan.” But chances are, these advances are not readily available at most doctor’s offices, in stores, or easy to find online.

Dr. Rand McClain takes a fresh approach to genetics, natural aging, and proactive medical treatments. He is the founder and head of the renowned Regenerative and Sports Medicine Clinic in Santa Monica, a leading practitioner of alternative and cutting-edge treatments. In Cheating Death, McClain shares the best drugs and supplements, treatment methods, and devices—approaches that are backed by extensive research as well as Dr. McClain’s own work with his patients—including:  

  • Little-known treatments that can reverse the effects of new and old injuries 
  • Emergent diagnostic and screening technologies that detect early onset disease sooner
  • Breakthrough methods (some DIY) to slow down or reverse aging in the body
  • Steps you can take now to enhance gene expression and side-step your “sins of the past” and poor family genetics
 Best of all, McClain shows how you can get access to these therapies and jumpstart your body’s regenerative processes—everything from stabilizing mood swings, relieving depression and anxiety, extending hormone balance and sexual function, improving muscle strength and stamina, relieving debilitating pain, and restoring a youthful appearance. 

Bolstered with research and recovery stories from real people, Cheating Death gives readers the tools to live healthier, longer lives.
I Wish I'd Known
In her groundbreaking new book, I Wish I’d Known, Sarah uses wisdom from her own lived experience to guide readers through a transformational journey. Each chapter begins with a story from Sarah’s life about how she was able to release the traumas of her past and manifest a life of peace, joy and abundance. After each inspiring story, Sarah’s readers are empowered with new tools to break the cycle of their own traumas, so that they can attract the abundant life they both desire and deserve. Readers will leave this book clear in their purpose and confident in their ability to manifest wealth, love, and happiness.
Praesidium
Kathryn Bek gets the chance of a lifetime: a job in New York City. Believing she is recruited for her marketing prowess, she is excited by the prospect of her new job; but all is not what it seems. Before long, Kathryn and her new team are thrown into a world of mystery, murder, and magic. As the team untangles webs of lies, she finds that her past may be the key to protecting her, and the world's, future. Praesidium can simply be described as "Good people with mad skills working to bring hope to a dark world."
Let Your Inner Golden Sparkle Shine
When you wish things were different, sure, you could stomp and pout... but what about crossing your hands over your heart and breathing it out? In this new children's book, author Sarah Vie takes you on a journey guided by the light of her inner child that will help support your kids as they face life's everyday challenges. Little Vie is an adventurous girl who is not afraid of a little dirt! In her adventures, she experiences all kinds of new things like talent shows, a new little sibling, big scary storms and more. When things get tough on the outside, Little Vie chooses to dig deep inside herself to hear the "thump thump thump" of her heart so that her inner golden sparkle shines so bright! It's through this conscious connection to our inner light that Little Vie can overcome ANY obstacle with grace, and glittery rain boots - of course! Looking into the magic mirror on the back will help children remember where that light shines the brightest.
21 Days to the Big Idea
From Bryan Mattimore, innovation guru to Fortune 500 companies, comes a book for aspiring entrepreneurs, corporate “intrapreneurs,” and anyone else looking to create the next breakthrough idea. For the past twenty-five years, Bryan Mattimore has helped Fortune 500 companies create over $3 billion in new innovations using his unique creative-thinking exercises. In 21 DAYS TO A BIG IDEA: CREATING BREAKTHROUGH BUSINESS CONCEPTS, Mattimore takes readers through a disciplined creative process to create original and practical new business concepts. By investing less than an hour a day for twenty-one days, you will: 1) learn a new toolkit of creative thinking strategies and problem-solving techniques that can be used for solving a wide variety of both personal and professional challenges, and 2) generate more than a dozen new concepts from which to choose the highest potential/winning ideas! Entertaining and easy-to-follow, 21 DAYS TO A BIG IDEA is a must-read if you're looking to create "the next big thing!"
The Birth Mother
On a business trip, a high-powered 56-year-old American entrepreneur visits his partners in China. After their meeting, his Asian mentor invites him to an orphanage, a trip that will change the course of his family’s life forever. Without hesitation, he and his wife fall in love with Anglo/Asian twin girls and become their adoptive parents The children grow up in a world of twists and turns with multiple coincidences and synchronicity. Their journey takes them from China to Europe to America and back to China where their unusual birth mother enters their lives. This powerful story is filled with drama at every turn as the daughters face internal and external challenges. The Birth Mother is a story filled with love, pathos, tragedy, and triumph. Listen, laugh, cry, and learn. It’s a tale you will never forget.

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We are currently working with Amazon to make our app available on Kindle fire, but unfortunately for now you can only access your book through our www.glose.com website on this device, so you cannot read your redeemed book on a Kindle device. But if you have an iOS or Android phone/tablet, you can install one of our native apps and read on this device. Any book you open on your phone or tablet will stay available for offline reading in the application!
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Any book you open on your phone or tablet will stay available for offline reading in the application.
If you have a normal e-ink Nook then I am sorry you cannot read your free book there. Indeed, this Nook does not support third party apps like Glose, the reading app that has been selected for this special offer.
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Unfortunately, a book you redeem or purchase on Glose cannot be sent to an e-reader at this point, whether it's a Kindle, Nook, or Kobo. That is due to the specific formats these devices require for the files they distribute. I am sorry we cannot accommodate you that way.
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You can download our apps by visiting one of these links on your device:
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