Family & Relationships

Stories of Successful Marriages

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Walter Besant


A collection of short stories by celebrated authors on the subject of successful marriages. Pieces originally appeared in other publications…

The Christmas Hirelings

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


It is the Christmas season once again and things are, well, boring for the adults at Penlyon Castle. "...if somehow or other I had a pa…

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue

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Laura Lee Hope


This book follows the adventures of Bunny Brown, a 6-year old lively little boy, and his Sister Sue, a happy 5-year old little girl. You wil…

Our Little English Cousin (Version 2)

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Blanche Mcmanus


Find out about the life of Edith, a little English child living at the turn of the last century. This is a fictionalised account of her dai…

Little Miss Grasshopper

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Johanna Spyri


The Feland family go on a holiday in Switzerland. While there, their impulsive younger daughter gets into a scrape that teaches the whole fa…

Un enfant gâté

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Zénaïde Fleuriot


Un jeune garçon élevé par sa marraine est … fort gâté. Son tuteur légal le recueille chez lui, dans…

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

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Anthony Trollope


Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sist…

The Rover Boys Out West

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Arthur M. Winfield


Despite the title, the Rover Brothers spend several chapters -- over half the book -- back East, against arch-nemeses Josiah Crabtree and th…

The Diary of a Provincial Lady


E. M. Delafield


“Notice, and am gratified by, large clump of crocuses near the front gate. Should like to make whimsical and charming reference to these and…

Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms

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Harriet Lummis Smith


Pollyanna marries sweetheart Jimmy Pendleton, and together they move to start their married life in Boston. The book follows their many adve…

Brother Jacob

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George Eliot


Brother Jacob is a short story by George Eliot, in which she explores the relationship between the selfish, self-centered and ambitious Davi…

Little Meg's Children

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Hesba Stretton


This is the touching and endearing story of Little Meg and her trials and difficulties as she does her best to look after 'her children' aft…

The Girls of Gardenville

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Carroll Watson Rankin


It is pleasant to have another book about a group of merry, natural girls, who have the attractions of innocence and youthful faults. "…

Neighbors

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Florence Morse Kingsley


The final story featuring the inhabitants of the growing township of Innisfield: Mrs Philura Pettibone’s story reaches its long-awaited conc…

On Our Selection

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Steele Rudd


The humorous account of Dad and Dave and the rest of the Rudd clan as they attempt to carve a farming 'selection' out of the Australian wild…

A Son of the Middle Border

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Hamlin Garland


In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not know quite the like of Mr. Garland's story of his life, and I should rank …

The Wishing Horse of Oz

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Ruth Plumly Thompson


Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to bec…

The Pennycomequicks

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Sabine Baring-Gould


The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English family in the late 19th century, scattered to the winds, scar…

Der Trotzkopf

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Emmy Von Rhoden


Die 15-jährige Ilse Macket lebt auf dem Gut Moosdorf in Pommern und wächst nach dem Tod der Mutter wild und ohne jede Erziehung au…

The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation

Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)


Annie Fellows Johnston


In this delightful story ”The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation” by Annie Fellows Johnston the Little Colonel, Lloyd Sherman. together wit…

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