Ok -2 issues. What happened was all my books were automatically syncing to my Kindle for Mac application, and after I changed a setting they stopped syncing. So the books that I was selecting to download were already downloaded, and did not have the download option.
But... Oddly enough, after I synced them, I checked for the download option - saw it was there, and then went back to browsing the web. Checking about 3 hours later I noticed that all 10 new books were automatically downloaded. Strange... - that never happened before. I would always have to select each one individually to download them. Works for me! Less work for me to do.
Thanks again both of you for responding